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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 |
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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 |
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T
9 |
Types of Content Begin
review of McEvilley assignment |
Assignments (due next class): |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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14* |
Reading day |
Assignments (due next class): |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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28 |
Pictionary Studio Session 1. Review types
of content master list 2. Begin your final Pictionary artwork |
Assignments (due next class): |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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18 |
Objective and Subjective
Seeing Project
work time |
Assignments (due next class): |
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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 |
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25 |
Critique Self-Portraits |
Assignments (due next class): |
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TH
27* |
Thanksgiving break |
Assignments (due next class): |
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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) |
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4 |
Artist Guest Lecture:
Billy Friebele |
Assignments (due next class): |
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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): |
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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) |
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Exam M
15, |
Critique Context Project 7
PM |
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