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ART 105 Introduction to Visual Thinking  / F 2014  /  SCHEDULE AND ASSIGNMENTS

All assignments must be (printed) in your notebook the class it is due to get on-time credit

 

T2

Introduction

Review syllabus/ blackboard class documents/ notebooks/ how to use Bb / sending jpegs/ web images and artstor.

Assignments (due next class):

Reading Review Assignment for PDF # 1 with text PDF #1 excepts from Terry Barrett, Making Art: Form and Meaning and Kendal Buster, The Critique Handbook

 

TH 4

Meaning = Image, Form, and Context

1. Review reading including analysis of an artwork from the collection/gallery

2. Introduce McEvilley assignment assign categories

 

 Assignments (due next class):

McEvilley/ Types of Content Assignment with text: PDF #2 Thomas McEvilley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

 

T 9

Types of Content

Begin review of McEvilley assignment

 

Assignments (due next class):

 

TH 11

Types of Content

McEvilley review cont.

Assignments (due next class):

1. Rewrite Reading review of PDF #2 (submit by email the old and revised version in one word doc titled yourlastname_pdf2.doc)

2. Reading Review Assignment for PDF #3 (Buster on Meaning)

with text: PDF #3: On Meaning (in Art) by Kendall Buster and Paula Crawford

 

T 16

Defining Denotative and Connotative Meaning

Review of Buster reading (define Denotative/Connotative)

Assignments (due next class):

1. Rewrite Reading review of PDF #3 (submit by email the old and revised version in one word doc titled yourlastname_pdf3.doc)

 

TH 18

The Connotative Image

Review and discuss Denotative / Connotative slide presentation (see denote_connote.pdf in BlkBd )

Take photos in teams if time allows.

 

Assignments (due next class):

1. Complete Transparent and Opaque Image Studio Assignment

 

T 23

Critique Photos

Assignments (due next class):

1. Submit Notebook with all completed assignments and class notes (use assignment list as a table of contents)

 

TH 25

Types of Meaning Review

Review Types of Meaning master list with slide presentation (see Òmeaning.pdfÓ in BlkBd )

 

Assignments (due next class):

 Reading Review (PDF #4a) and Ad Analysis (PDF 4b) Assignment
with text: PDF #4a: Chap 1 from Practices of Looking AND PDF #4b: Tiffany ad analysis example  

 

T 30

Reading (Cultural) Images: Semiotics

Discuss readings and apply semiotic analysis to student provided images.

Assignments (due next class):

1. Rewrite Reading review of PDF 4a (submit by email the old and revised version in one word doc titled yourlastname_pdf4.doc)

2. Study for types of meaning test

 

TH 2

 

Reading Images: Ad Analysis AND TEST

1. Types of meaning test

2. Continue review of ads

3. Introduce Subvertisement Project

 

Assignments (due next class):

Complete part 1 (research) of Subvertisement Project

 

T 7

Reading Images: Subvertisement Collage Project

Photoshop basics (meet in MH lab)

 

Assignments (due next class):

Work on Subvertisement Project both collage (part 2) and self-assessment (part 3)

 

TH 9

Reading Images: Subvertisement Collage Project

Subvertisement Project work time (meet in MH lab)

 

Assignments (due next class):

Complete Subvertisement Project both collage (part 2) and self-assessment (part 3)

 

T 14*

Reading day

 

Assignments (due next class):

 

TH 16

Reading Images: Banksy and Culture Jamming

1. Screen subvertisements

2. Watch Exit Through the Giftshop (1.5 hours)

 

Assignments (due next class):

Complete Buster on Form Reading Review Assignment

with text: PDF #5, On Form and Content by K. Buster and P. Crawford

 

T 21

Form as Meaning

1. Review Buster reading

2. Identify formal elements in selected artworks in the school collection

3. Introduce 20 Lines Assignment

 

Assignments (due next class):

Complete 20 Lines Assignment

 

 

TH 23

Form as Meaning: Exploring Expressive Potential of Form

1. Share 20 lines (awards for the most beautiful, untraditional, fun line and bad ass)

2. Form Variations Collage Project  (in-class project in groups)

3. Introduce Pictionary Project (get your assigned words from Lisa)

 

Assignments (due next class):

 1. Complete part 1 of Pictionary Project: word research and proposal

 

T 28

Pictionary Studio Session

1. Review types of content master list

2. Begin your final Pictionary artwork

 

Assignments (due next class):

 

TH 30

Form as Meaning: Visual Analysis

Review form variation collages and visual analysis part of assignment including sample essay

 

Assignments (due next class):

1. Complete written part of Form Variations Collage Project  as per visual analysis sample
(Note: email to me on advising day for on time credit)

 

T 4*

Advising Day

Assignments (due next class):

1. Complete Pictionary Project artwork (just studio work, not part 3 assessment)

2. Submit Notebook with all completed assignments and class notes (use assignment list as a table of contents)

 

 

TH 6

 

Critique Pictionary Projects

 

Assignments (due next class):

1. Complete Pictionary Project part 3: assessment

2. Complete Reading Review Assignment for PDF #6 (Close, Giacometti, Horn)
with text PDF #6: Excerpts from Close, Giacometti, and Horn

 

T 11

 

Seeing as Meaning

1. Review Readings (PDF #6)

2. Begin Types of Seeing Drawing Assignment

 

Assignments (due next class):

Complete Types of Seeing Drawing Assignment  (including written reflection part)

 

TH 13

Objective and Subjective Seeing

Introduce Objective and Subjective Self-Portraits Assignment (w/ slide presentation)

 

Assignments (due next class):

Rewrite Reading review of PDF 6 (submit by email the old and revised version in one word doc titled yourlastname_pdf6.doc)

 

T 18

 

Objective and Subjective Seeing

Project work time

 

Assignments (due next class):

 

TH 20

 

Close and Giacometti Films

Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress and Alberto Giacometti, A Man Among Men

 

Assignments (due next class):

Complete Objective and Subjective Self-Portraits Assignment

 

T 25

 

Critique Self-Portraits

Assignments (due next class):

 

TH 27*

 

Thanksgiving break

Assignments (due next class):

 

T 2

Meaning as Context

Introduce Context Project w/ slide illustrations

 

Assignments (due next class):

Context Project Proposal (submit by email the old and revised version in one word doc titled yourlastname_contextproposal.doc)

 

TH 4

Artist Guest Lecture: Billy Friebele

 

Assignments (due next class):

 

T 9

Meaning as Context: Audience as Artist

Andy Goldsworthy / River and Tides (first 20 minutes) and Art 21 Interview w/Krzysztof Wodiczko (season 2), Judy Bacca, Mel Chin

Assignments (due next class):

 

TH 11

Meaning as Context

work time

Assignments (due next class):

Completed context project

Submit Notebook with all completed assignments and class notes (use assignment list as a table of contents)

 

Exam

M 15,

 

Critique Context Project

7 PM

 

 

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