READING 7: Form – a review

The final reading is Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg, Bone, & Cayton. Art Fundamentals: Theory & Practice. form, p31-71. This reading is a review of the concepts covered this semester. Comments about the reading are due 12/1. Also, for more inspiration on our billboard project see this video that Jessica found at ripovisuals.

READING 6: Balance

The current assigned reading is David A. Lauer and Stephen Pentak, Design Basics, balance, pp90-107. Comments about this reading are due by 11/17.

Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

READING 5: Group 1

This is the blog for Group 1: Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century European Painters. Each group member should leave information on chosen artist and catalog as a comment on this blog.

Primavera, Sandro Botticelli 1485-87

READING 5: Group 2

This is the blog for Group 2: Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century European Painters. Each group member should leave information on chosen artist and catalog as a comment on this blog.

Las Meninas, Diego Velásquez 1656-57

READING 5: Group 3

This is the blog for Group 3: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century French Painters. Each group member should leave information on chosen artist and catalog as a comment on this blog.

Bonjour Monsieur Courbet, Gustave Courbet 1854

READING 5: Group 4

This is the blog for Group 4: Nineteenth Century American Painters. Each group member should leave information on your chosen artist and catalog as a comment on this blog.

The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake, Thomas Eakins 1873

Reading Bloopers

This is the blog where students can fix any bloopers on past reading comments. Be sure to identify which reading you are fixing.

Doug Aitkin: Fractured space in video

Here is the documentation of a 2007 video project by Doug Aitkin. It is a contemporary example related to Picasso’s idea of depicting the figure from various points of view. Here is the website for Aitkin’s project, Sleepwalkers (flash).

Picasso & Cubism

Here are some examples of work by Pablo Picasso to inspire our current project, Value and Fractured Space. In these paintings “Picasso depicts human figures by making use of several viewpoints, which became one of the characteristic features of cubism.” Click on images for more information and to enlarge. Note: if you are commenting on a reading, click on the correct reading in the right column.
For David Hockney’s fractured photographs of the 1980’s see the following: Mother | Photo Montage | Chair

READING 4: EMPHASIS

The fourth assigned reading is about emphasis. It is from David A. Lauer and Stephen Pentak, Design Basics, p56-69. Comments about the assigned reading are due by 10/20. Here is a video from kqed on Enrique Chagoya, whom I discussed in the emphasis lecture.