Week One Lesson One term three :-)

Today you should have produced a number of thumbnail sketches. We have done these before. It is a process we use to make decisions that make sense visually.

You are using your selfie and the ideas and visual marks, and gestures in german wood cut printmaking as your 'muse'.

Thumbnail sketch just refers to a sketch being a little sketch. It's an ideas sketch, helps you plan and reflect on your idea visually.

Some of you had me draw the start of an idea on a piece of paper for you, while i talked it through, and added annotations to that idea as a starting point. I do not mind if you use that idea, but it should only be a start to your page.

You should consider the following when you are planning these ideas:

- balance of positive and negative space
- the point of what you are trying to say with your work... be clear with what that is
- are you going to use a word or quote to emphasise this?
- are there visually interesting things happening that you could make more of in your work - beauty in your mistakes.

On Friday you should have:

1 finished page of thumbnail sketches which includes 6 - 8 ideas
1 final idea that you are going to make into a print.
1 page of emotion-based mark making

Everything documented on your blog.

Term three week one

Choices:

This first week is about getting to know 4 different movements of Art from a visual point of view. That means, you look at them and you can see what of the four movements of art they belong to.

We are also wanting to see some drawing from you, with an emphasis on looking after your page and setting it out nicely.

Eventually, you are going to decide which of these 4 movements of Art you will use as a focus. each one comes with a contrasting movement that you will then be directed to use (one choice, one given).

Why we are making art? To demonstrate your understanding of at least one of the school values - Commitment, Achievement, Resilience, Respect.

Keep this in your mind for week 2 as well. Which school value are you going to focus on?

Below is a sample of amazing sketch book pages. have a look, and consider what it is you are doing with your page.

Mark making

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. 

Drawing selfies, being comfortable with selfies and using them for art...

Oooo this is hard! We have done this each year from 2015 - now and it is really obvious that using a selfie to make Art is harder than it seems with self-consciousness taken into account.

Self portraits in Art - pretty much since Cave Art this has likely happened. Though there are more examples of rich pompous people paying an artist for a favourable portrait, rather than the artists portrait, it has been a 'thing' for a long, long time in Art history.

On Wednesday, when everyone is back from camp, we are going to run through this:




When I was at Art school a million years ago, Woodcut printmaking was my 'thing'.

Below are two examples of work I did around the idea of self portrait (the ugly colours rather unfortunately reflect my terrible dress sense at the time...)

Let's discuss all of this further on Monday.

I'm really pleased to see the drawing work that happened today with the selfies already:

 

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.

Click on image for link to page

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) 

New google site - use it!

Please bookmark this. Under senior, there is a drop down list of all of the course outlines and when you click on senior for the page, you will find the lines for our classes.

The tracking sheet is in your line, use it and keep it updated or keep you teacher updated.

Posting a Progress Blog for German Expressionist Printmaking

You all have this document shared to your Year 10 Art folder on your google drive. That is your own copy. This is the structure for your blog post that you are writing today!

You need your work and a chromebook. There are 5 macs as well, but it might be easier to use a chromebook or even your phone.

When your post is done, if you have work to finish off to fill in the gaps, then that is what you need to do.

How to make something useful into something desirable (like an art work!)

Useful things generally fall into the Utilitarian category.

Notes to clear up today's lesson:

Objects of Art are objects of desire. You want them because you like them, connect with them. It is the opposite of utilitarian.

You know about them because of marketing, reputation of the artist or even the marketer, and because you emotively connect in some way too. Art at it's purest form is Kantianistic.

Kantianisim values each person and their abilities as important in their own way. No one is less important or valuable than another, but they are different. An action that hurts one person in saving the life of a lot of people is not acceptable.

An art work is valuable because it is made by a person. Therefore it falls into Kantianistic.

An art work is something an artist (which can be an individual or group) has interacted with in some way.

1) It has a title
2) The artist is celebrated (you are encouraged to care about where it came from to be in front of you as art)
3) The artist has had some form of interaction with the object - even if it is just to tell you it is Art.
4) It is presented as valuable, usually with a price tag that suggests you would have to want to spend that money, not that you need to spend that money (lots).

When Kodie presented that bottle of spray and called it "Dettol", their group initially put a $2.99 price tag on it and their interaction was limited.

When we changed it "Green Liquid in a Translucent Bottle" By Rowena Clemence $10,000, I change it's role from utilitarian to kantianistic in nature.

I make is sound like it has a deeper meaning, which means I may connect with someone else at that meaning level.

I don't have the same context to present here, but below is a similar explanation:

 random photo of messy art sink area

"Green Liquid in a Translucent Bottle"
2017
Rowena Clemence
$10,000

The top one is a random snap. the bottom one is a more careful placement, with some editing and it is presented nicely.

Term 2 Business and Enterprise Kete

Weeks 1 - 3 we are going to focus on some philosophy behind art and marketing and why.

weeks 4 - 7 we will work on production methods for art making

Weeks 8 - 10 you are in your business groups.

Today's lesson was all about what some ideas behind objects of desire and usefulness are. Art is generally an object of desire. You want to own it. But why?

On your blogs, in groups or separately (I do not mind) I have asked you to define the following in your own words. We did this already so if you need to catch up, here are our overall ideas we collected:

- Utilitarianism - useful, benefits the masses over the individual.
- Kantianism (named after philosopher Immanuel Kant) - values every individual's opinions and strengths. Harm to one is harm to all and unacceptable.
- Fine art - reputation raises the price, skill and technique are well honed, with years of practice and education
- Investment Art- you sell your work at  a lower level, with less of a name for yourself and the buyer is banking on you making a name for yourself, and the work appreciating in value. The artist doesn't generally get to capitalise on this however.
- Decor/Craft art - from mass production often, you will find a painting or print at a place like the warehouse. it goes with your couch cushions. You like how it looks and you buy it. The Artist may have been paid a commission to design the original piece, though not always... or you pick up pieces form craft markets by makers and pay smaller prices. skill and technique is not necessarily a factor (cheap and cheerful).

The first two we discussed already and they are on the term two page of the google site for year 9 as well.

On the same blog post:


We talked a little about this too, so if you were not here: a dealer gallery is one way of doing this. that means you have a 'dealer' and they exhibit and advertise/try and sell your work for you. they take a commission of about 30%, sometimes more! of your selling price when it does sell. It is in their best interests to get a good price and do a good job.

200 words is what I expect for the total sum of words

DO NOT copy and paste from google (I can tell).

Where to find your course work and your feedback for this class

On our google site:

https://sites.google.com/a/hornby.school.nz/visarts/
Book mark this if you haven't already.

If you hover over the NCEA Visual Art levels' 1 - 3 button, you get to see the course outlines drop down. you can select to see one of those there. 

Otherwise, if you want your class page, click on the blue tab directly. it takes you here:

You should all know what line you are in by now. Clicking on the correct line, will take you to your own class resources, including our shared google sheet, which also has your blog addresses on it. Because of the nature of google sites at this point, unless you have editing permissions for the whole page. you will only be able to VIEW this sheet from here. However, you do have it in your google drive in 'shared with me'. 

This is where all the feedback we have talked through in class should be recorded. It means you can always go back to it. Now that you know how to find it, I would like you to make sure you are always actively using it. 

Where to find your course work and feedback for your class this year:

On our google site:

https://sites.google.com/a/hornby.school.nz/visarts/
Book mark this if you haven't already.

If you hover over the NCEA Visual Art levels' 1 - 3 button, you get to see the course outlines drop down. you can select to see one of those there. 

Otherwise, if you want your class page, click on the blue tab directly. it takes you here:

You should all know what line you are in by now. Clicking on the correct line, will take you to your own class resources, including our shared google sheet, which also has your blog addresses on it. Because of the nature of google sites at this point, unless you have editing permissions for the whole page. you will only be able to VIEW this sheet from here. However, you do have it in your google drive in 'shared with me'. 

This is where all the feedback we have talked through in class should be recorded. It means you can always go back to it. Now that you know how to find it, I would like you to make sure you are always actively using it. 

Making sure you know where your feedback and checklists are kept:

On our google site:

https://sites.google.com/a/hornby.school.nz/visarts/
Book mark this if you haven't already.

If you hover over the NCEA Visual Arst levels' 1 - 3 button, you get to see the course outlines drop down. you can select to see one of those there. 

Otherwise, if you want your class page, click on the blue tab directly. it takes you here:

You should all know what line you are in by now. Clicking on the correct line, will take you to your own class resources, including our shared google sheet, which also has your blog addresses on it. Because of the nature of google sites at this point, unless you have editing permissions for the whole page. you will only be able to VIEW this sheet from here. However, you do have it in your google drive in 'shared with me'. 

This is where all the feedback we have talked through in class should be recorded. It means you can always go back to it. Now that you know how to find it, I would like you to make sure you are always actively using it. 

Recap for term one

This is what you should have done:

1) Research pages on Art Nouveau and Kowhaiwhai
2) Drawings of a leaf
3) Stylisation of a leaf (this is a process so there should be a number of drawings on the same page or two)
4) Zentangle drawings to help you extend your drawing and confidence with pattern and repetition
5) Final design on tracing paper
6) Transfer your design onto custom wood.

If you can tick all of this off, you are going great and on track.

If you cannot, what do you have to do and how are you going to go about it?

Commitment to your learning
Achieving the tasks set and raising your own expectations
Being resilient and taking it on the chin when you need to improve your game
Having some respect for me, your class and yourselves by doing the work like everyone else.