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http://futureshipwreck.com/2007/11/rui-tenreiro-illustrator-of-quiet-woodland-scenes/
http://www.theculturefront.com/
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Spotlight_Iconography

CONCEPT: IDENTITY

–Noun
1.
The state or fact of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions: The identity of the fingerprints on the gun with those on file provided evidence that he was the killer.
2.
The condition of being oneself or itself, and not another: He doubted his own identity.
3.
Condition or character as to whom a person or what a thing is: a case of mistaken identity.
4.
The state or fact of being the same one as described.
5.
The sense of self, providing sameness and continuity in personality over time and sometimes disturbed in mental illnesses, as schizophrenia.

Assignment:
Taking the concept proposed this week, we will work on it under three different scopes:
a. Likeness: make two self-portraits of yourselves. This shall have to be “hand made” and the resemblance clear. You may choose the techniques to work with, but each self-portrait shall have to be done with different media.
b. Transformation and distortion: make one cartoon, a parody of yourselves, in whatever media you feel like using.
c. Abstraction: find a way to describe yourselves in an abstract way. This may be using collage, drawings, photographs, and objects….


As we have said before, all work should be handed in the most professional way possible.

DEADLINE:
April 13th

Spotlight_ Louise Bourgeois

Though her beginnings were as an engraver and painter, by the 1940s she had turned her attention to sculptural work, for which she is now recognized as a twentieth-century leader. Greatly influenced by the influx of European Surrealist artists who immigrated to the United States after World War II, Bourgeois’s early sculpture was composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood. By the 1960s she began to execute her work in rubber, bronze, and stone, and the pieces themselves became larger, more referential to what has become the dominant theme of her work—her childhood. She has famously stated “My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.” Deeply symbolic, her work uses her relationship with her parents and the role sexuality played in her early family life as a vocabulary in which to understand and remake that history. The anthropomorphic shapes her pieces take—the female and male bodies are continually referenced and remade—are charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two.

Spotlight_ Rineke Dijstra

“…Often, one group will lead the artist in another direction, bringing her to an unlikely but related subject. For example, the images of new mothers led directly to the images of bullfighters. Says the artist: The matadors came out covered in blood and exhausted - very similar to the mothers…I did not intend to do the men like that, all macho and the women as mothers - it just evolved from the experience…women make this extreme physical effort…while the men search for it as a kind of adventure. But still, both are exhausting and life-threatening actions. Recently the artist has turned her attention to video and sound installations that incorporate images of teenagers responding to popular dance music.”

Spotlight_ Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

The Palace of Projects
The installation displays and examines a seemingly commonly known and even trivial truth: the world consists of a multitude of projects, realized ones, half-realized ones, and not realized at all. Everything that we see around us, in the world surrounding us, everything that we discover in the past, that which possibly could comprise the future - all of this is a limitless world of projects.

CONCEPT: SKIN

MARCH 9th

skin

–noun

1.

the external covering or integument of an animal body, esp. when soft and flexible.

2.

such an integument stripped from the body of an animal, esp. a small animal; pelt: a beaver skin.

3.

the tanned or treated pelt or hide of an animal, esp. when used in apparel and accessories; leather (usually used in combination): pigskin; calfskin.

4.

any integumentary covering, casing, outer coating, or surface layer, as an investing membrane, the rind or peel of fruit, or a film on liquid: a skin of thin ice; the aluminum skin of an airplane.

5.

Jewelry.

a.the outermost layer of a pearl.

b.the outermost layer of a diamond as found: often different in color and refraction from the inner part of the stone.

6.

Nautical.

a.the shell or ceiling of a hull.

b.the outer, exposed part of a furled sail.

7.

Metallurgy. an outer layer of a metal piece having characteristics differing from those of the interior.

Assignment:
Design an object based on the concept proposed intended for production in whatever media you feel appropriate. The object need not be rendered as the main focus of this stage is:
a. Meaning: find your personal interpretation to the concept.
b. Experiment: find the best way to transmit the idea through prototypes, sketches, and references.
c. Presentation: show your work in a creative yet organized and comprehensive way.

DEADLINE: March 16th

Spotlight_ Cindy Sherman

Conceptual portraits always using herself as the model.

Spotlight_ Elizabeth Peyton

Best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends and boyfriends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy.

Spotlight_ Warhol

Spotlight_Vik Muniz

Works with very different materials, here shown peanut butter and jelly paintings, pasta, bean soup and collage junk.

CONCEPT: ICONS

ICONS
MARCH 2nd

Icon

/ikon/

• Noun
1 (also ikon) a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically on wood, venerated in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.
2 a person regarded with particular admiration or as a representative symbol.
3 Computing a symbol or graphic representation on a VDU screen of a program, option, or window.

— ORIGIN Greek eikon ‘image’.



Assignment:
Create an image based on the concept proppossed intended for graphic representation in whatever media you feel appropriate.

DEADLINE:
March 9th