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Pictionary Project

Like the traditional Pictionary game you have been supplied with a single word, and as the artist, your challenge is to create an artwork that communicates the ‘essence’ of this word/idea to your audience (classmates). But unlike traditional Pictionary where players often fall back on illustrative (denotative), sign-language based solutions, your challenge will be to infuse your work with its meaning on as many levels as possible. Thus, your goal is not to make an artwork that can be most easily guessed (purely denotative meaning) but rather, one that arrives at its meaning through a combination of denotative and connotative approaches and by using as many aspects of visual meaning we have reviewed in class as possible. To this ends, please use our types of meaning handout as a reference.

Assignment Part 1. Explore (in writing) the meaning of your assigned word (2 pages)

The word you have been assigned is intentionally open-ended and therefore you need to consider the range of possible meanings and decide the specific way you will define and focus your artwork. Look up your word in multiple dictionaries and look up the definitions of related synonyms as a way to expand your understanding. 

Once you have an idea of how you want to define this word, write about all of your associations it brings to mind as a way of beginning to understand the qualities you will want your artwork to express.

Submit: Assignment part 1, prefaced by this assignment page should be printed for your notebook.

Assignment Part 2. Create the Final Artwork

Create an artwork in any media that visually ‘expresses’ the word you are assigned. Consider a wide range of ways to make your meaning. Go beyond denotative images and subject matter by considering all items on our master ‘types of content’ list.

Submit: Bring to class for review (if the project is digital email it as a jpeg) and include a photo of it in your assessment write up (assignment part 4)

Assignment Part 3. Self- Assessment (2 pages)

After hearing your classmates’ interpretation write a response and assessment addressing the following:

· What did they say? How was it different than your intentions?

· How do you account any differences between your intentions and their interpretations? Was it an aspect of the work that you didn’t account for? Was it due to personal associations? Did you make assumptions about the ways things mean that didn’t hold true (and why?)

· In hindsight, what would you have changed?

· What realizations about expressing oneself through art did this experience reveal?

Submit: Assignment part 4 pages including images of your pure form study and your final project should be printed for your notebook and placed after assignment part 1writing.