Final Creative Assignment

Student Examples

Faith Mackriss Smile Mixed Media Animated GIF

Tran Rain Scroll Mixed Media Animated GIF

Elizabeth Lee With Good Gesture Animated GIF

Jerileen Ho Daily Ritual Animated GIF

Instructor's Example

Gesundheit 

For the final creative assignment you will be creating an animated gif from self-portraits that you have created over the course of the final weeks of class. This final gif should be emailed to me and posted onto your blog for extra credit. Final gif should utilize at least six different selfie-portraits.

1. Charcoal, water and brush
2. Sharpie and pen signature
3. Vik Muniz Copy 
4. Stencil 1
5. Stencil 2
6. Your Choice (mixed media-combine any of the above)

More Student Examples

AJ Yabut

Amy Chin

Michelle Quach

Mary Marinas

Sabrina O'gillie

Image link and info example

This is just an example of how I want images presented. Large resolution of no less than 600 pixels in the smallest dimension. Artist name, Title, Year completed, medium, and dimensions, as well as an active link to the source image (or information)

Deborah Oropallo

Woman Wonder, 2016

Photomontage, paint, paper and canvas

68 x 48 inches

Catherine Clark Gallery

All info should be up to date as well as all links active and also accurate.

Dorothea Lange, Man Beside Wheelbarrow, 1934, silver gelatin print

http://museumca.org/exhibit/dorothea-lange-california-photographs-oakland-international-airport

Pentti Sammallaht, Solovki, White Sea, Russia, 1992, silver gelatin print

http://joined-up-pictures.blogspot.com/2013/02/worth-look-pentti-sammallahti.html

Writing Assignment 1: 

Dorothea Lange contrast Pentti Sammallahti:

Compare two photographs within the Dorothea Lange exhibition with two photographs of the artist that Berger discusses in Chapter 1 of Shape of a Pocket; Pentti Sammallahti (4 photos total). You will need to research Sammallahti and find images that create an interesting comparison to Lange's photo from the Oakland Art Museum Exhibition. Images of Dorothea Lange’s that are not in the exhibition will not be accepted as viable comparisons.

Essays should focus on visible similarities between the subjects portrayed,  as well as the medium of black and white photography. These comments and observations should be based on visual concepts such as composition, contrast, lighting, perspective, etc. Essays should also include the visible differences between the two artists photographs in terms of light, composition and overall feeling or reception of the images. 

Objective: Comparative Analysis. To develop a vocabulary built from observations that discusses
the subjects in photographs and the context in which these images are developed and received. This vocabulary should be able to address the contrast and brightness of an image, how this effects the composition and space within an image, as well as the overall reception of its meaning. 

400 word minimum. Essays are to be posted on a blog site that you create on blogspot.com.  Blog pages should include

1.     Comparative essay

2.     4 Images discussed from both artists

3.     All info and web addresses of selected images.

The Kingdom / Room 1

In this Assignment students will work together in small groups to curate an Art Exhibition. First you will collectively select a theme that unifies the artworks in your exhibition. Then you will design an exhibition from the images and presentations that I have been showing in class as well as any other artworks we have seen in galleries or museums. You should arrange the images and their documentary information in a sequence that would reflect how someone might navigate through the gallery, similar to a catalogue of the exhibition.

Below is an example that I organized into three separate "rooms". I selected the theme "The Kingdom" and draw upon the thesis of how animals and our relationships with them have contributed  to the development of visual language as well as physically effecting numerous techniques and materials of several different media and artistic processes. 

Pablo Picasso

Bull, Plate III

1945

Lithograph

12 3/8" x 18 7/8"

http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/Picasso_Themes_and_Variations/picasso_themes_moma_2010_10.htm

Pablo Picasso

Bull, Plate IV

1945

Lithograph

12 3/8" x 18 7/8"

http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/Picasso_Themes_and_Variations/picasso_themes_moma_2010_10.htm

Robert Rauschenberg

Something or other

1955-59

Assemblage: Taxidermy Goat, Oil paint, collage, on panel, on ground(pedestal)

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/113012271872760341/

 Robert Rauschenberg

Something or other

1955-59

Assemblage: Taxidermy Goat, Oil paint, collage, on panel, on ground(pedestal)

http://www.theslideprojector.com/art1/art1lecturepresentations/lecture1-6.html

Robert Rauschenberg

Something or other

1955-59

Assemblage: Taxidermy Goat, Oil paint, collage, on panel, on ground(pedestal)

http://www.theslideprojector.com/art1/art1lecturepresentations/lecture1-6.html

Maria Lassnig

Sleeping with a Tiger, 1979

Oil on canvas
Dimensions unknown
No Website to link to image

Damien Hirst

Golden Calf

2008

Glass, gold, gold-plated stainless steel, silicone, calf and formaldehyde solution with Carrara marble plinth

157.1 x 138 x 66 in

http://www.damienhirst.com/the-golden-calf

Vija Celmins

Web #5 1999

22" x 25.5"

Charcoal on Paper

www.http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/93

The Kingdom / Room 2

Rachelle Agundes

Water Fire Fight  2012

44" X 54" 

Oil on Canvas

http://www.rachelleagundes.com

Paul Mullins

Weak Knees

2011

72" x 72"

Oil, acrylic and colored pencil and collage on canvas

http://www.marxzav.com/artist.php?id=17

Joseph Bueys 

Video Still of I Like America and America Likes Me

1959

Video - Black & White Vintage Television and VCR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5UXAqpSJDk

Joseph Beuys 

Video of I Like America and America Likes Me

1959

Video - Projection - Dimensions Variable

Vimeo: Joseph Beuys in America

The Kingdom / Room 3

"In each of these pictures there is at least one dog. That's clear and it might not be no more than a gimmick. Yet in fact the dogs offer a key for opening a door. No, a gate - for here everything is outside, outside and beyond"

Pentti Sammallahti 

Dog with Bag

 1992

Dimensions unknown

http://www.candacedwan.com/#New_York/Artists/Pentti_Sammallahti

In Berger's earlier book About Looking he dedicates one chapter to animals and our relationship to them throughout the development of human civilization. Many historians agree that it was our relationship to the dog that brought us of out of the Paleolithic Age and into the Neolithic age. It was our acceptance into the pack that assisted in developing community amongst our own species.

Pentti Sammallahti

White eyed dog with boy

1992

Dimensions unknown

http://www.candacedwan.com/#New_York/Artists/Pentti_Sammallahti

Walker Evans

A Sharecropper's Yard

Hale County, Alabama 1936

Silver Print

5 5/8" x 8 5/16"

http://www.leegallery.com/walker-evans/walker-evans-photography

The human role within the Animal Kingdom has traversed a complicated and complex path. Gradually escalating ourselves above our planetary relatives and neighbors through first a cohesive and integrated relationship of agriculture and animal husbandry, and then through the Industrial Revolution’s territorial progress and development, the Kingdom has shifted from a ecological system that caters to one species alone, leaving the other creatures and ‘members’ of this kingdom to exist within the margins of man-made environments (National Parks & Zoos, Industrialized Farming, etc.). As their ‘natural’ world shrinks our development of compartmentalized environments grows at a rapidly increasing rate, and along with it the excess residue of such environments.

Vik Muniz 

Pictures of Junk Series (Saturn Devouring one of his sons After Francisco De Goya)

2005

Digital C-Print

93.5" x 74.5"

http://www.renabranstengallery.com/Muniz_Saturn.html