Installation Art

This is a genre of art that you could use to extend your concepts. Documenting this process would be specific to 1.3. You need to keep good documentation for 1.3 for this. By the end of next week, we will have an adjusted checklist on 1.3 suitable for installation with photography or painting or design.

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The thing that Installation Art is not necessarily, is collaborative art. Just because a group of people collaborate on a project, does not make it Installation Art. Installation Art is about making a space speak. Either giving that very specific space a meaning or using that specific space to tell it's story.

Concept is first and foremost, decorative qualities, not so much.

If this is a consideration for you, start with looking at Judy Chicago, Christo, Marcell Duchamp, Barbra Kruger, and teamlab. Your thoughts and ideas and reactions to these artists should be present on your blog.

Go back to your concept. how could it relate to a space? Is there one you are thinking of already?

Open your blog, open the tracking sheet for your class.
New post; Re-state your concept (always do this, so that it is the first thing you are considering as you work)

• Brainstorm appropriate spaces you have access to - around school, around home, that you could make "speak" with your work, OR that you could subvert. 
• Think about your work so far and record - are there three dimensional elements to it? Can you install imagery that adds to the voice of the space? 

If you are doing this properly, you should have notes and ideas, drawings that you can add to your post of ideas. 

Come to class ready to discuss your potential further progress from here. 

It is actually really easy to incorporate installation Art meaningfully into a folio for 1.4. We photographically document it.

Outcomes here would be:

• 2- 3 blog posts, which include research (use the same kind of format you used for art history 1.2, but on your own - could be a resubmission for 1.2 if you would like) 

Year 10 almost all of them are up there, I will get the rest :-)

Woodcut Selfies

Beautiful job, just finishing off. Moving onto watercolour and formal drawing techniques next week...

Tuesday 5th July 2016

So now you all need to get a little more creative with your work.

Link to new Pinterest page for inspiration today

I am away today so have left it to you to figure out the following:

• Your page of notes from week 6 (before camps went away) from my messy whiteboard notes that we did. YOUR ideas, not mine :-) 
• Thumbnail sketches - you should have 4 - 6 ideas that loosely, quickly and efficiently describe how to combine your selfie with words that explain your message, which is preferably one word, but may be more like a quote.
• Use this pinterest board to help inspire and move your ideas forward. Have a really good look and think about what you want to say in your work. search beyond it but within the realms of your topic (so not on trademe Izac and not for makeup tutorials girls and not on gaming sites boys)
• Absolutely stun me with your amazing ideas preferably as a post on your blog. I cannot wait to see what you come up with :-) 

Whiteboard notes from Week 5:

The notes in pink are not the 'only' things you can do, they are examples that we came up with in class. Please consider this when you are working.

The expectation is that you come up with one page of evidence that shows you have thought through all of this and potentially more (if you want to achieve at a higher curriculum level for example)



Some examples below are from a class last year who worked on a similar unit of work:


Kita - 2015


Kirsty 2015


One student writes lots the other does not. both have good ideas, one is able to be assessed a little more easily. Both are valid and very good.

Making marks from your selfie

Unity - Kotahitanga

Putting your progress so far together as a potential art work; 

• term two selfie, how can you incorporate this, 
• term two understanding of German Expressionism and woodcut technique, how can you best use this, 
• as well as your own personal expression? 

It is really important that you process your selfie as a graphic, black and white drawing that focusses on translating tone into MARK MAKING and texture, not shading. That might mean you interpret some areas a little differently to how they appear, or that you change tones into marks, or simplify them. It might mean you try one way of doing things and it does not work. That means try another way. Don't just quit. You also should be focussing on making this drawing NOT pretty. It is meant to be you considering how over-the-top and self-obsessed the idea of the selfie is. Make it ugly, make it creepy, make it a bit angsty, but let's not glorify it. 

From here, you should be moving onto our Pinterest site for German Expressionism and beginning some thumbnail sketches. We can go over how to manage these more carefully in class. 

German Expressionism Continued...

                              

Drawing for mark making understanding. Next step; working from selfies to make self portraits as woodcuts. Thank you, I have all but one selfie outstanding. Well done :-)

Term Two - when your paintings are done... :-)