Warm/cool color scales

Color scales-Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna plus White
Objectives:
Paint opaquely
Push the development of color options, examine warm vs cool, light vs dark.
Be aware of your mixture, devise a recipe-quarters, thirds, parts, etc.-you decide- just know how to get to a desired color.

Next step:
Oil sketch- Bread and Water
Use your color scales as a reference to help determine range and as a tool to adapt what's observed with the goal to create a warm/cool oil sketch-
Paint warm in the darks and cool in the lights.
Often, lower key/darker colors feel cool and can even deaden a painting. (Warming up)  the shadow area helps create a more lively painted image- also, it helps avoid creating a dark void or flat mass within the painted image.

John Singer Sargent
https://metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/16.53/

Courbet
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gust/hd_gust.htm
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/larger-than-life-31654689/

Delacroix
https://www.eugenedelacroix.org/

Prompt Bread and Water narrative painting.

Chardin

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435888

https://www.artrenewal.org/artworks/still-life-with-grapes-and-pomegranates/jean-baptiste-simeon-chardin/28918

Color Palette

Considerations:

Organize your palette the same each time, location of paint on your palette will become intuitive and allow you to respond to the painted image, encouraging a continuous flow while in the process of making a painting. 

Your palette is inspired by the Zorn palette, modified by replacing Ivory black with a mixture of Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna. This allows for additional mixtures with the goal to examine an endless options of mixtures.

Concepts:

Tint/Shade-Light/Dark

Color Complements

Color Temperature

Use complementary colors to neutralize the chroma or darken-down your color choice- 

Also, color shades can be achieved by neutralizing and adding darker values like Rembrandt brown-

The goal is to achieve the lower key without suppressing the color.

https://gamblincolors.com/oil-painting/color/artist-grade-oil-colors/

Color scale assignment:

Create 1 x1 inch color scales of the modified Zorn palette- use the palette page as reference-

16 x 20 inch canvas

Goal: First, Make the color in your palette, then paint the scale-

Due for a grade-Wednesday at the beginning of class-

Paint opaquely when creating your color scales.

A limited palette requires exaggerated moments of color to create an effective illusion.

Lessons in Classical Painting- J. Aristides

Sources:

http://michaellynnadams.com/zorn-palette/

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/07/zorn-palette.html

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437964?

https://www.anderszorn.org/sortBy=Relevance&ft=zorn&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=4

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anders-Zorn

Links of interest:

http://char.txa.cornell.edu/

Sample assessment form- Please review

The same categories will be applied for Fall 2019!

Chwast at BU

Seymour Chwast: Works of War

March 28 – May 18, 2019

The Binghamton University Art Museum will open its spring exhibition at a reception on Thursday, April 4, 5:00-7:00 pm. Both the Main Gallery and the Susan M. Reifer '65 and Stanley J. Reifer '64 Mezzanine Gallery will feature artwork by renowned American graphic designer and illustrator, Seymour Chwast. The exhibition was curated and designed by Blazo Kovacevic, associate professor of art and design at Binghamton University. Although Chwast might be best known for his commercial work, the exhibition features large canvases, prints and drawings in which the artist expresses his concerns about the persistence of armed conflict and the proliferation of weapons of war. The artist will be present at the opening reception and will engage in a conversation with art director, critic and author, Steven Heller. Seymour Chwast: Works of War is accompanied by a catalogue, published by the Binghamton University Art Museum, which includes an introduction by the curator and an essay by Steven Heller.

In conjunction with Seymour Chwast: Works of War the Binghamton University Art Museum will host two programs. On Thursday, April 11, 7:30 pm, the Binghamton University Chamber Singers and Treble Chorus, directed by assistant professor of music William Culverhouse, will perform "Choral Commentary: A Program on Themes of Peace and Justice." The following two days, Friday-Saturday, April 12-13, the museum is offering a SUNY Conference: Technologies of Human Rights Representation. Organized by the Binghamton University Human Rights Institute, the full program can be found online at https://www.binghamton.edu/institutes/hri/index.

All events are free and open to the public.https://www.binghamton.edu/art-museum/read-more.html

The Museum Visit Paper:

The Museum Visit Paper:

The content of the paper should include:

Introduction:
Be brief and to the point, write tight and bright.
Explain your museum choice include what compelled and drove you to the work you selected!

Comprehensive content:
Explain and define the painting and movement, the contributors and any social trends relevant to that period!
Contextualize your report, use the 3 (Is) framework, address the Impact, Interest and Importance of the painting.

The formal elements:Use the formal elements http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/building_lessons/formal_analysis.html as a foundation for your discussion, especially when discussing the esthetic of the painting, include opinion if appropriate! (ie; discuss color, medium, surface tension, brush stroke, include emotional and technical impact if relevant).

Conclusion:
Wrap it up, your conclusion should be historically rooted but infused with opinion, and there's no shortage of opinion in this class, so let it come through in this statement!!! This can be forward looking, too. Evaluate if  there's something you could extract from this exercise and apply it to your next painting!

Refer to the MLA style guide for style and citations:
Use the MLA Style Guide as your citation reference and for other traditional formatting questions: 
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7^th edition or later is fine, published by the
Modern Language Association of America (MLA).
You can find copies in the library’s reference and circulating collections,
call number PN147 .G53 2009. Or use link: 
http://sunybroome.info/library/guides/mla-style-guide

Objectives: Organize a thoughtful statement based on the visit, research and critical thinking.
Craft a minimum 400 word statement- must be typed and printed.
Include a selfie of you and your selected work, in-turn the image should be used as a cover-page for the report.
Cover-page should include, report title, painting title (proper citation), your name, the class and the date.

Statement due May 18 at 1:00 pm.

Have fun and be informed!

Qualifying museums:
Johnson Museum
Arnot Museum
Metropolitan Museum

Pre approval-
Binghamton, or other

Value review

https://vimeo.com/227462986

Please review by 02/11 before class meets.

Rembrandt:
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/rembrandt-self-portrait-at-the-age-of-63

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rmbt/hd_rmbt.htm