Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Monday, 7 February 2011
Future London?
TASK- By adapting an existing skyline or city scene or by creating your own new city from scratch, how do you see London in 3011, a thousand years from now?
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Cows on a beach
Pick areas out of the image and change the colour of the sky, the sand. Select an individual cow and enlarge to give the image an object in the foreground.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
John Stezaker "Marriage" and "Masks"
These are Collages by the artist John Stezaker which feature old Hollywood publicity stills sliced up and glued back together to create weird hybrid faces. Stezaker then moved on to make a body of works under the title "Masks" which feature a combination of portrait and landscape. Using old postcards he added an additional layer to these publicity shots, creating a pyschological terrain or window into the human face, which can be quite disconcerting to look at.
Although Stezaker used very low tech ways of producing these images with glue, scissors and collage materials. We are going to achieve the same effects through layering up different imagery virtually, sourcing our publicity shots form on line date bases and manipulating them digitally using photoshop, these are some of the results we have achieved so far.
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
From Paper to Digital Collage
Picasso, Gris, and Braque and a host of other young artists in the European avant garde began using small objects, pieces of newspaper, wallpaper and various other papers to make works of art just before World War I.
After the war these procedures were carried even farther by the Dadaists and Russian Formalists by including parts of photographs as well, making it a generously inclusive multi-medium.
Task - Research:
On the internet, find some examples of the materials they used in their collages.
Why do you think they began using these materials?
Have a look for some works by the artists mentioned,
Save some images that you like and try to say why you like them
Often pieces of diverse materials and media (such as tissue paper, newspaper, gum wrappers, tickets, fabric, stamps, bank notes, photographs, paint), were combined to make these collages. Dadaists making substantial use of photographs clipped from newspapers, magazines, and catalogues of the time. The term photocollage might be appropriate for such works.
Task - Practical:
From the collection of newspapers I have brought in, make a very simple collage, by juxtaposing at least two different layers of images.
These days, the cutting and pasting are often done digitally, so that the term digital collage is used. There is in fact a great deal of collage displayed on the Web, some of it digital and some scanned or photographed copies of work in traditional materials. Some artists use the Web as a marketing medium, posting up small teasers to induce purchase of the work, others offer larger images, as if the Web is their primary way of being seen, the Web is their gallery.
Shirin Kouladjie and Aleksandr Rodchenko
Using uploaded photographs, paper collage and digital images we will make a mixed media- collage of ourselves.
By using a portrait of yourself as the starting point combine other imagery to create a composition, expressing an idea, an interest, or a feeling.
Picasso, Gris, and Braque and a host of other young artists in the European avant garde began using small objects, pieces of newspaper, wallpaper and various other papers to make works of art just before World War I.
After the war these procedures were carried even farther by the Dadaists and Russian Formalists by including parts of photographs as well, making it a generously inclusive multi-medium.
Task - Research:
On the internet, find some examples of the materials they used in their collages.
Why do you think they began using these materials?
Have a look for some works by the artists mentioned,
Save some images that you like and try to say why you like them
Often pieces of diverse materials and media (such as tissue paper, newspaper, gum wrappers, tickets, fabric, stamps, bank notes, photographs, paint), were combined to make these collages. Dadaists making substantial use of photographs clipped from newspapers, magazines, and catalogues of the time. The term photocollage might be appropriate for such works.
Task - Practical:
From the collection of newspapers I have brought in, make a very simple collage, by juxtaposing at least two different layers of images.
These days, the cutting and pasting are often done digitally, so that the term digital collage is used. There is in fact a great deal of collage displayed on the Web, some of it digital and some scanned or photographed copies of work in traditional materials. Some artists use the Web as a marketing medium, posting up small teasers to induce purchase of the work, others offer larger images, as if the Web is their primary way of being seen, the Web is their gallery.
Shirin Kouladjie and Aleksandr Rodchenko
Using uploaded photographs, paper collage and digital images we will make a mixed media- collage of ourselves.
By using a portrait of yourself as the starting point combine other imagery to create a composition, expressing an idea, an interest, or a feeling.
What is Collage?
Collage is an art form in which the artist creates or takes a number
of items and places them together within the boundaries of paper,
frame or screen. The goal is to craft a message or feeling by the very
patterns, content and often unexpected interaction.
Brief:
of items and places them together within the boundaries of paper,
frame or screen. The goal is to craft a message or feeling by the very
patterns, content and often unexpected interaction.
Brief:
Write
a short definition of what collage means to you
Research
3 different examples of collage i.e.
A Dada collage, a 1950's Film Poster, a contemporary advertising campaign
Open
A new A4 file in photoshop
Manipulate, Cut and Crop a number of different found images sourced from the internet to create your own collage. It can be either a film poster, an art ‘for art’s sake’ collage, or an advertising campaign. Think of a name for a film (‘Robot Monsters‘), a theme for a collage (day dreaming), or a commodity (Orange Juice) for an advertising campaign. Create your own poster using a collage of found imagery. Look up examples to give you inspiration. Copy and paste all inspiration into a word document to gather background information for your project.
You need to make a poster showing skills you have developed in photo shop.
Don’t worry if you haven’t used this programme before, I will be coming round to help you.
Think of an idea for what you want to do, then start gathering ideas around this topic. We will then begin to add them to your photo shop file.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
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