Class 8 | Critique

Discussion

Group Critique (1 hour)

  1. Setup your work somewhere in the classroom.
  2. Present the following:
    • Creative Process Book with writing, assessment and work hour tally
    • 2 Monotony Line Networks (1 pencil, 1 ink)
    • 2 Variety Line Networks (1 pencil, 1 ink)
    • 1 Staccato Pattern drawing (pencil)
    • 1 Legato Pattern drawing (pencil)
    • 2 Rhythmic Relation drawings (ink)
    • Mores Code Pattern Grids (Part 1): 9 collages
    • Mores Code Pattern Grids (Part 2): 1 inked drawing
  3. Review  Assignment #2: Aural Topographies : Visualizing Sound
  4. Review Vocabulary: Line, Pattern, Repetition, Rhythm, Variety, Monotony, Grid, Unity (Harmony)
  5. Based on the project guidelines, anonymously choose 3 students that have successfully completed the project.
  6. Spend 10 minutes crafting a statement about 1 of the chosen artist’s work. Discuss the finished work using the vocabulary above.
  7. Present your statement to the class and include:
    • your name
    • what you are presenting (title and design problem)
    • which parts are successful and why
    • which parts are unsuccessful and why

Lab (1.5 Hours)

Written Review

  1. Write a 1-page review of one of your classmates successful Rhythmic Relations compositions.
  2. Take a few minutes to interview the artist and determine if your understanding and interpretation of the work is similar or completely different from the artist’s intentions. It’s okay if it’s different!
  3. Your review must include a detailed description of the goals of the assignment (in your own words!) and must use the design vocabulary we’ve studied thus far within a discussion of Concept, Form, Content.
    1. Concept: A comprehensive idea or generalization that brings diverse elements into a clear relationship.
    2. Form: The organization of elements in a composition arranged according to principles that will support the communication of the concept.
    3. Content: The expression, essential meaning, significance, or aesthetic value derived from the relationship between the concept and the form. Content refers to the sensory, subjective, psychological, or emotional properties of a composition, as opposed to our perception of its formal qualities.
  4. FOR EXAMPLE:
    1. Discuss how the Content of the Rhythmic Relations composition, whose Concept is to create a variety of repeated “sounds” or rhythmic patterns within a black and white “View From My Window” composition, communicates a rhythm similar to…. (the sound of a chorus of birds, the swell and crash of an ocean, a certain type of music, etc.)
    2. Describe how the Form (use of  line weight, line direction, pacing and spacing of line, figure-ground relationship, organic and geometric shapes, repetition of horizontal pattern, use of economy, etc.) successfully supports the Concept and explain how and why this allows the Content to be communicated.

Photo-shoot

  1. Please come and get your photo taken by the professor (for use in the next project)

Homework

  1. Finish your 1-page, well-written critique/review. The final piece should be typed and printed with your name, your classmates name, the title of the project, and the date at the top. Imagine this review will be printed in the New York Times!
  2. Materials needed next class: 9×12″ Bristol, pencils, eraser, ruler/T-square, tubes of black and white gouache, brushes, rag, palette, water container, drafting tape. (NEW supplies— see supply list!)
  3. WC Art Supply has ordered 18-color sets of gouache– please pick one of before next class, in case they run out. We will be using it the following week.
  4. No Class on Tuesday (Monday Schedule)
  5. Check this website on Thursday night for additional supplies.