GSU ART1100 Assignments Latest 2022 February (Full)

ART1100 Art Appreciation

Assignment 1

Art Assignment #1: Drawing A Self-Portrait – Look and Record

 

Self-Portrait by Adrian Piper, 1981

Drawing A Self-Portrait –Look and Record

Artists have drawn themselves for thousands of years. Now you will, too! For reference and inspiration, check out this MoMA video on “Artists and Identity”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NICodKeadp0

What you will need:

•             A plain sheet of paper (unlined)

•             A drawing tool (pen, pencil, marker…)

•             A mirror, photograph of yourself, or digital camera.

•             30 minutes

Instructions:

•             You will draw yourself from observation, not imagination. Take a minimum of 30 minutes (set a timer)to look at yourself from the shoulders up and draw what you see. You can use a mirror or you can work from a photograph of yourself.

•             Draw details like eyelashes, shading on your face, hair, etc. Keep you pencil (or whatever you are drawing with) moving until you have drawn everything that you see.

•             Sign and date the front of the drawing so that it’s visible.

•             Scan or photograph the drawing andupload the image under “Art Assignment #1: Self-Portrait.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ART1100 Art Appreciation

Assignment 2

Art Assignment #2: Play with your Food Formula

 

Tom Friedman,“Loop,”all the strands from a one-pound box of spaghetti, cooked, dried and connected end-to-end, 1993-1995.

Play with your Food Formula

This week we learned about how to interpret a work of art to understand its underlying meaning(s), using a handy formula: Subject Matter + Medium + Form + Context = Meaning.

Using the Tom Friedman piece as inspiration (above), you will make a work of art out of food (yes, any food), then document it with a photograph and describe it using the formula above.

What you will need:

•             Food

•             A camera and good lighting

Instructions:

•             Make sure that your “Food Art” is the main subject of the photograph. Clear the background! Do not have any other distracting elements in the photo. This helps the viewer understand that the subject matter is the sculpture and not other distracting elements in the frame.

•             Lighting is important. It may be that a flash is the first light source that comes to mind when shooting a photo. Think about other light sources to help illuminate your artwork. A lamp or window nearby casting natural light, or even taking the shot outdoors can provide for a much more vivid photo than what a flash can provide. Also important is for the work not to be “backlit” Backlighting means that the background has more light in it than the subject and it makes your image too dark to see. Move your subject to a different angle to get it out of a frame that is “backlit.”

•             Describe the subject matter (what are we looking at?), the medium (what kind of food?), the form (how is it composed and/or positioned?), the context (in what circumstances was it created?), and the overall meaning (what do you intend this artwork to communicate?).

•             When you are finished, upload your project to Blackboard under “Art Assignment #2: Play with your Food.”

 

 

 

ART1100 Art Appreciation

Assignment 3

Art Assignment #3: Blind Contour Line Drawings of Your Hand

 

Blind Contour Line Drawings of Your Hand

A blind contour is a single, continuous line from which every hair, bump, fold, undulation, and wrinkle are observed and specifically recorded. Blind contour drawings produce interesting and distorted drawings. Valued or despised because of their strange disfigured and twisted images, their real value is in learning how to “see” and develop hand/eye coordination. The purpose of this assignment is to learn how to describe the contours of objects and shapes with line.

What you will need:

•             A plain sheet of paper (unlined)

•             A drawing tool – you can use any drawing material but an ink pen seems to work best

•             30 minutes

Instructions:

•             Take a minimum of 30 minutes (set a timer) to draw 5 blind contour drawings of your hand. Your hand can be posed in any position. Rotate your hand in between drawings.

•             Do not place your hand on the paper and trace your hand!

•             Concentrate your eye on the outer edge of your hand (usually near the top because it’s easier to pull across and downward) and place the pencil on a corresponding spot on the paper. Trace with your eyes around the contour or along edges within the hand, and as your eyes move up and down let your drawing instrument make a corresponding movement.

•             Never take your eyes off the subject nor lift the pencil from drawing pad. The value of these drawings is in your ability to see objects in new ways. The image will be distorted but the specific information observed increases drastically.

•             Sign and date the front of the drawing so that it’s visible.

•             Scan or photograph the drawing and upload the image under “Art Assignment #3: Blind Contour.”

 

 

 

ART1100 Art Appreciation

Assignment 4

Art Assignment #4: Handmade Color Wheel

 

Handmade Color Wheel

A color wheel is an arrangement of colors in a circular form that illustrates color relationships – it is therefore essential for understanding color theory. Looking over the variety of color wheels that were showcased in the Powerpoint and learning materials, you will make your own color wheel by hand.

 

What you will need:

•             A plain sheet of paper (unlined)

•             Drawing tools in at least the 12 primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. You can use whatever drawing or painting medium you would like, such as colored pencil, crayon, watercolor, acrylic paint, marker, ink…

•             A ruler or straight edge of some sort

•             Something to trace a perfect circle of at least 6” in diameter (a bowl, a compass, etc.)

Instructions:

•             Make a color wheel that includesprimary, secondary, and tertiary (in other words, intermediate colors like yellow-green) colors.

•             There must be at least 12 colors in the wheel, but you can make more.

•             You must write labelsfor each color, noting whether it isprimary, secondary, ortertiary.

•             Start by tracing the outer circle – it should be at least 6” in diameter.

•             Use a ruler to draw the dividing lines in pencil first so that your lines will be straight.

•             Sign and date the front of the drawing so that it’s visible.

•             Scan or photograph the drawing and upload the image under “Art Assignment #4: Color Wheel”