Hat - Art 115

Assignment Art 115
Professor Zeggert
Broome Community College
Spring 15

Hat:
Create a narrative style drawing of someone in a hat. Your investigation and statement of the subject should be more than just a person in a hat. The hat should explain and help define the subject’s character and/or persona. Keep in mind, when putting on the hat; the subject should reveal a new or different identity all together and it’s this identity or persona that should come through in the finished drawing.

Objectives:
The drawing should consist of visual information and environmental elements
that support and inform the idea.
Correct use of photo reference.
Create a complete picture dealing with the entire composition.

Requirements:
18 x 24 paper
Illuminate your subject with a single light source, (turn off the flash on the camera)
Must use 8.5 x 11 paper format photo reference, B&W,
Work life-size

Deadlines:
Photo reference-due next class for a grade
Final due at the end of class on 4/15, 4/16

Concepts covered in class that should be applied to the drawing:
Realize the entire value range
Achieve sculptural weight
When constructing the drawing, work in terms of general to specific
Remember, the finished drawing is the result successive sittings; this coincides with the concept of general to specific
When shooting the photo reference, your subject should fill the majority of the camera view-finder
Examine and consider an unusual point of view
Make sure you have a clear understanding of the concept you’re trying to achieve with the finished drawing
Let the drawing live as a drawn image
Confirm that the composition reflects the point of the picture

Self Portrait: You as an artist

Credits: from top
Burton Silverman
Sir Stanley Spence
Chuck Close
Gustave Coubet
Elizabeth Nourse
Philip Leslie Hale
Rembrandt in studio
Norman Rockwell
Avigdor-Arikha
Diego Velazquez
Johannes Vermeeer
Jeremy Lipking
Ceasor Santos
Rembrandt 1663

An American in London Paintings by MARC DENNIS

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/0f5226af8156a3db20b368997/files/London_Borchure_Attachment_PUB3g_w_prices_021715.pdf

Create an allegorical painting

The assignment:

Create an allegorical painting based a theme(s) below:
Industry/Environment
Beauty/Vanity
Abundance/Waste
Justice
Envy

.......or pitch an idea

Allegory defined: (Webster)

The expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence; also :  an instance (as in a story or painting) of such expression.

Allegories are similar to metaphors: in both the author/artist uses one subject to represent another, seemingly unrelated, subject. However, unlike metaphors, which are generally short and contained within a few lines or visual statements, an allegory extends its representation over the course of an entire story, novel, or poem or painting. (sourced)

Allegory National Gallery (London)

An allegory is the description of a subject in the guise of another subject. An allegorical painting might include figures emblematic of different emotional states of mind – for example envy or love – or personifying other abstract concepts, such as sight, glory, beauty, Revolution, or France. These are called allegorical figures. The interpretation of an allegory therefore depends first on the identification of such figures, but even then the meaning can remain elusive.

Allegorical subjects were frequently painted from the Renaissance until around 1800, although they were probably most often used in medals and engraved frontispieces to books. Single allegorical figures were also painted, sometimes in series, each figure representing, for example, one of the Liberal Arts or the Virtues.

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/allegory.html

Examples:

http://www.metmuseum.org/search-results?ft=allegory&x=0&y=0

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/search/allegory/3

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/harmen-steenwyck-still-life-an-allegory-of-the-vanities-of-human-life

Composition:
Use a defined compositional model such as, pyramid, rule of thirds, symmetrical, asymmetrical or a combination of several models. The model should advance the idea of the picture.

Thumbnails:
Due next class complete five solid thumbnails in the scale and proportion of the finished painting.

Size:
Use a large scale canvas.

Additional info.:
http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/trippack/center_selfguides/downloads/allegory_comparison.pdf

Class update

Please bring your final project to class today, we will not have a model.

Art 116 Painting Final

Art 115 04 70 Drawing Final