Learning Objectives
1. Students will demonstrate the ability to use research to help explore creative concepts.
2. Students will be able to expand their creative development.
Materials
Use any medium or combination of media: collage, charcoal, pencils, conte, pen and ink, wash, ballpoint, colored pencils, chalk pastels, oil sticks…
Sketchbook Mini-Assignments
1. Work and research. Include your research in your sketchbook.
2. Read Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration (theguardian).
Project
Explore a theme in 20 drawings through 1’x1’ drawings of a theme of your choice, done from observation. Explore expression, composition, space, tone, line, texture, shapes, light, color, surface, media, distortion, marks, gestures, approaches, styles, moods, techniques, strategies, processes, concepts, etc.
This series is designed to address the importance of drawing as a record of seeing, understanding, and responding to one’s experience of looking. The commitment to visual literacy is manifest in the innovation and exploration of a variety of media and mark-making and their structural and expressive roles. What interests you? What boils in your belly? What gives you a thrill and brings meaning to your work? What are your obsessions? As you explore a wide range of issues and concepts in your critical thinking, art theory, and studio classes what do you find out about yourself? What insights have you gained about your role as an artist in the greater social and cultural context?
Research
War: Fransisco de Goya, Otto Dix, Kathe Kollwitz, George Grosz, Jacques Louis David
Self-portrait: Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, Max Beckmann, Philip Akkerman, Suzanna Coffey
Bathers: Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Graham Nickson
The Nude: Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Paula Rego, Euan Uglow, Modigliani, Alan Feltus, John Currin, Eric Fishl, Philip Pearlstein
Still life: Georgio Morandi, William Bailey, Janet Fish, Jim Dine, Claudio Bravo
Narrative: Balthus, Munch, Ensor, Jerome Witkin, Leon Golub, Jack Malczewski, Stanley Spencer
Landscape: Rackstraw Downes, Wayne Thibeau, George Nick, John Moore
Check the work of Barry Nemett.