Assignment #4: Project Proposal

For this assignment, I plan to continue incorporating surrealism into my work. These two pieces will be about dreams, imagination, and the desire to escape reality.

I am going to use 3-D elements along with acrylic paint. (Like I used for my heart painting)

The first piece will be a box (made out of pieces of cardboard instead of drawn) with another world coming out of the box in the shape of smoke.

The second piece will be an old, distorted door which leads to dream world.
The door will be some kind of 3d element. Maybe cardboard or a thin type of wood.

Project #3

Project Proposal #3

For my next project I will be using the pages from a father daughter advice book for the background. These two pieces will be more personal because it will reflect upon my relationship with my dad, but also all father daughter relationships. In the two pieces there will be a father that has a tree as a head and a daughter that has an apple as a head. (to symbolize the saying "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" and also to incorporate surrealism)

Project #2

Sketchbook pages

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu

Before Viewing

The scale of an artwork can affect the distance the viewer stands to see the whole image.

Artists use strategies of erasure and concealment through building up layers.

Absence can be as compelling as presence because it can add a sense of mystery or wonder. Absence can be more interesting/compelling.

The process of drawing and painting can be additive and subtractive by layering. Layers can be added over top of what is already there, but the bottom layers disappear/subtract through layering. 

While Viewing

Mehretu's assistants help keep her organized and bring knowledge of their different art backgrounds (fine art, printmaking, furniture polishing)

Her paintings are very geometric and resemble architecture and maps.  They cause the viewer to see lines and shapes as art.

After Viewing

The size of Mehretu's paintings and the amount of people involved in the process relate to works of epic scale in the history of art.

Her work has many layers and parts are covered up as a new layer is added which relates to destruction and disintegration.

She can incorporate the ideas of a map of capitalism and economic development in relation to its location through the use of map and architecture qualities such as lines.

Magritte

Studio Act: Surrealist Technique

1.How do I feel about the overall studio work?

Definitely feel that is is experimental, not something I would use in my portfolio. I don't necessarily like how it turned out composition wise, but I'm happy with how I incorporated the theme of fearing disease.

2.What difficulties did you encounter?

It was difficult not having time to get my ideas organized in my head beforehand.

3. How did you overcome these difficulties?

I reminded myself that the purpose of the project was to experiment and not think too much.

4. What would you do differently?

I would plan out the composition and not have a bold black line for the heads.

Top Secret Plan

My work will be about the human mind: what we think, feel, and see (real or not). Overall, psychological and philosophical themes will be apparent in my art with an emphasis in dream-like images to display inner thoughts.

I plan to have personal and social themes using a combination of representational and non-representational.

I also plan to incorporate juxtaposition:
-abstract and realistic images to show reality vs. dreams or the inner thoughts of the human mind (because sometimes our mind plays tricks on us)

Concept Artist- Mel Bochner