Task:
build from things that linger: Collage Construction Fusion
study] Abstract Art Language [how/why it communicates
premise: art has an experiential quality.
Looking is not passive-
artists creating with intentionality have a goal:
readability & intelligibility.
Object making is such that neither artist nor viewer can
see anything that has not been seen before. Meaning
is drawn from the common fund of daily visual enterprise and adventure.
Abstraction references both the artists' memory and the viewers'
recollection of having seen the same thing. When art shares a common
(idea) (experience) (view) what thet have in common is what the art
communicates.
Imagine (ideas)
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| Slipping into Darkness (poured acrylic, paper pulp, burlap, recycled paper, thread) |
Imagine (experience)
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| Testing The Water (poured acrylic, paper pulp, burlap, recycled paper, thread) |
fusion exercises:
Dream Vacation
materials: rag paper, vellum scraps with random markings, acrylic
paint a rectangle/square on rag paper then place vellum on wet surface
HellHound on My Tail
materials: rag and tracing paper, acrylic, oil stick
begin as above replacing vellum with tracing paper
add color by pouring paint behind the tracing paper so it's more
beneath the surface of the piece than on top.
drawing exercise:
Charm City (work in progress)
materials: rag and tracing paper, graphite, charcoal, acrylic
flatten the cityscape to translate the surrounding
neighborhoods using linear rhythms and geometric shapes
to establish relationships across the field to create movement
as if walking down a street.
