Year 9 semester two 2020 Hannah Hoch and photography

Welcome to semester two with Whaea Rowena. I really enjoyed our class today and thought I would take some time to clarify a few points today and make sure we had something rewindable from the day. 

Our Learning outcome was to make sure we had a basic understanding of Photomontage and what it was. We got so immersed in doing the work, I'm not sure we actually got back to that!

You possibly all know what a collage is:

Here is the definition I found online for it:

a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.

• the art of making collages.
• a collection or combination of various things.

  "a collage of musical genres"

Here is an example of COLLAGE. 

Photomontage is just the same in many ways, but you limit yourself (place a constraint) to printed media (materials for art). 

"Photo" indicates its mostly photographic printed media, but you can incorporate a few other bits and pieces and have it still considered a photomontage artwork; book pages, newspaper images. 

Here are some more examples of Hannah Hoch's photomontage work:

"Da-Dandy" 1919 by Hannah Hoch

"Die Braut" 1927 by Hannah Hoch

1930, "Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman’s Head)" by Hannah Hoch

The second thing I wanted to go back over, because I feel like it was too brief, is that we always make our files for art from within our art folder on google. That means they are 'born' there! This art folder 9Art-2 is shared directly to me, so I can always see your progress. It will look something like this:

or 

If you haven't made your google doc poster from today in that folder, can you please move it there before Tuesday. 

On the google site over the weekend, I will put up a screencastify going back over the way we made the poster today. It would be fantastic if they were all finished by Tuesday, as I want you to get them up on your blog, with an explanation in that first 20 minutes of class so you can get straight into the practical work. 

Year 9 manga pasifika doodle turns into a painting

Working from what we have from lockdown to turn it into our actual outcome by the end of teh semester.

Those of you who have posted your lockdown work on your blog, it looks fantastic and gives us a great base to work from. those of you who made a start but were too scared to go further, we have that opportunity now. those of you who haven't had a go at this, you have a starting point on my site. We start today. 

Starting point one: The beginning:

You need to have a go at some of the zen doodle techniques. You can use pencil.

Starting point two: using a string and developing your own ideas

You are able to start on some of your own ideas. use a string that is Art nouveau based (whiplash). Add horizontal and vertical lines to create structure and 'tie' the image to the edges of your picture frame.

Use the spaces and gaps you have to fill up with pattern; your own combinations of Pasifika patterns, Manga, Kowhawhai and Art nouveau. USE your research and my site to find these. 

Starting point three:

You have thumbnails and just don't know which one to use for your painting. Literally, CHOOSE one. what do you feel the best about? what is going to translate well into a painting?

Try adding areas of black or white space to calm your idea down. Rest areas help you read your image better. Zendoodle is super fun but full-on. That may help you 'like' on your images better if you can increase it's readability. 

Starting point four:

You have a coloured version of your final idea and we are ready to draw it up.

Draw CAREFULLY. The time you spend here matters in terms of a finished product:

From this:

Aili during lockdown Year 9 2020

To this:

Aili  during Art class Year 9 2020

Your next steps are around paint technique and colour theory.