Project #5 The Figure in Architectural Space
Starting in class: Monday, October 16
Project due printed out: Wednesday, November 1
People and their environment are interdependent. The understanding of each draws meaning from the other. The intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic interpretations of an image are informed by extrinsic knowledge of people and places as much as the intrinsic aspects such as color, shape, or orientation.
Using Photoshop, create a mixed media collage using digital photos of the city and your surroundings, as well as figures. Focus on urban development, the city as an abstract resource, the figure in architectural space, the study of composition and positive and negative space. Also incorporate some of your on site cityscape sketches from the highline and figure drawings in the collage.
Project should be sized at 11×17 inches.
Skill Sets: Input/Output tool, Selection tool, Feathering, Layering of Masks, Blending Mode, Color Manipulation, Opacity
References/Artists: Edward Hopper, John Sloan and the Ashcan School, San Francisco Bay Area painters, Faith Ringgold, Mark Bradford, Romare Bearden, Lee Krasner, Eva Hesse, Jake Wallace.
Drawing and Observational Skill Sets: Organic vs. Manmade, Composition and Space, POV, one and two point perspective
Materials: Digital Photos, Photoshop (Laptop computers), charcoal and pencil drawings
