SA121.SP2016.CAZ

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

calendar following Spring Break

Spring Break Monday MAR 07 through FRI MAR 11

8. twenty-five deconstructive analysis due

MON MAR 14 Lecture: Vanitas

WED MAR 16 Field Trip: EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART . Syracuse . NY

FRI MAR 18 Vanitas

9. thirty deconstructive analysis due

MON MAR 21 Vanitas

WED MAR 23 Field Trip: GOLDEN PAINT . New Berlin . NY

FRI MAR 25 Vanitas + slides

10. thirty-five deconstructive analysis due

MON MAR 28 Vanitas + slides

WED MAR 30 Serial Transformation Serial Transformation
Lecture: Final Project

FRI APR 01 Vanitas + slides
Last day to withdrawal from a class

11. forty deconstructive analysis due

MON APR 04 CRITIQUE: Vanitas + slides
Registration week begins

WED APR 06 Conference 1:1 with students about Final Project proposals

FRI APR 08 Begin Serial Transformation

12. forty-five deconstructive analysis due

MON APR 11 Serial Transformation work

WED APR 13 1:1 Conferences with all your work of the semester + sketch book

FRI APR 15 1:1 Conferences with all your work of the semester + sketch book

13. fifty deconstructive analysis due

#2 Student research Multi Media presentations

MON APR 18 1:1 conferences with all your work of the semester + sketch book Hannah, Taylor

WED APR 20 1:1 conferences with all your work of the semester + sketch book Cherie, Jasmine

FRI APR 22 1:1 conferences with all your work of the semester + sketch book Nicole, Jaleel, Alysse
SAT APR 23 College Fashion Show
En plein air weather permitting - wear appropriate clothing + bring container of H20
>> 2nd PAINTING PAPER DUE ON FRIDAY APRIL 22

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MON APR 25 Student Multi Media presentations 4 > Hannah, Taylor, Cherie, Elizabeth

WED APR 27 Student Multi Media presentations 3 > Jasmine, Nicole, Jaleel, Ruth

FRI APR 29 Student Multi Media presentations 3 > Katrina, Carly, Alysee

15.
MON MAY 02 Last day of classes / Reading Day - no class 1:1 Elizabeth Critique

TUESDAY MAY 03 through FRIDAY 06 = Final Exams
FINAL EXAM BLOCK FOR SA121.01 = Thursday, May 5 from 10:15 am - 12:15 pm

FRI MAY 06 Residence Halls close @ 7 PM

TUE MAY 10 Final Grades Due

SAT MAY 14 COMMENCEMENT

Depending on the nature of each assignment and the experience of the class, the calendar may be modified by the instructor. Students will be informed to any changes in advance of assignment due dates.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

serial themes follow us

Van Gogh . Two Cut Sunflowers . Aug - Sept. 1887

Van Gogh . 12 Sunflowers . 1888 . the artist painted it numerous times

Van Gogh "Twins", 1887

Van Gogh painted the sunflowers at a critical point in his life while living with Gauguin. He intended to 'decorate' the room with them. He painted many series of sunflowers. There are 3 paintings with fifteen sunflowers in the vase. Also a set of 2 paintings with twelve sun flowers in the vase. He first painted the twelve series. There is also a painting with 3 sunflowers in vase and one of 5 sunflowers in vase. The 5 sunflowers in vase was destroyed in the second world war by a fire on the 6th August 1945.
Vincent Van Gogh seemed to have quite a personal attachment to the sunflower. In the year before his death he wrote to his brother Theo, "It is a kind of a painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it.. You know the peony is Jeannis, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is somewhat my own." In many letters to his brother, he spoke glowingly of the richness of color that he saw in the Sunflowers, and his own desire to paint them before they quickly faded. (Quoted originally by Marc Eldo Tralbaut)

Monet . Water Lilies (The Clouds) . 1903

Water Lilies is a

series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production.

Monet . Water Lilies . 1917

Monet . Water Lilies at Sunset . 1919

Monet . Water Lilies . 1916

Monet's Water Lilies installed at Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris, France

Monet . Musée de l'Orangerie

Andy Warhol . Campbell Soup Cans . 1962

Andy Warhol . Marilyn diptych . serigraph . 1962

Warhol inspired . Gianni Versace jacket and leggings

Jasper Johns . Ballantine Ale . painted bronze . 1958-61

Jasper Johns . According to What . 1964

Jasper Johns .The Seasons (Spring) . encaustic on canvas . 1987

Jasper Johns . The Seasons (Summer), 1987 Encaustic

Johns' colored intaglio print

Jasper Johns . The Seasons (Winter ). encaustic on canvas . 1985

Cy Twombly . Untitled (Black Board painting) . 1970

Cy Twombly . Untitled (Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair), panel V Bassano in Teverina . 1985

Cy Twombly . Roses . 2008 - 2009

Cy Twombly . installation view

Pat Steir . The Brueghel Series (A Vanitas of Style) . 1985

Pat Steir . Yellow (Light) Tree Series . 1985

Pat Steir in action . Waterfalls . latest works

Jennifer Bartlett . In the Garden Series . 1980 - 1985

Jennifer Bartlett . In the Garden Series . water color

Jennifer Bartlett . Amagansett Diptych #2, 2007

Jennifer Bartlett . installation

Jennifer Bartlett . Installation view . MoMA

assignment

This is an opportunity to combine what you have completed in your outside paintings and what you have learned and developed in our assignments.

It is an opportunity to develop in a formal area of the visual language, painting application you want to refine.

Serial themes may comprise of

Subject matter
Paint application
Formal elements of design
Break down of the subject over time
Tracking the subject over time
Subject is expressed through various painting styles
Subject that the painter has a passion towards and wishes to explore thoroughly

Your subject matter may be placed on a single canvas or on a group of separate canvases.

However composed, a series will conceptually and visually 'hang together' as an exploration of subject matter, expressing the painter's evolution in concept and paint application and will express the painter's intentions, ideas and perceptions.

You must complete minimum of 6 in the series. You may make more.

Prior to delving into paint, you need to organize your thoughts.

Write a one page proposal about why you have chosen to paint, how you intend to interpret it, the size and quantity of panels.
Written proposals will be accompanied by 8 thumbnail drawings and copies (with details) of your art historical influences.

This is your FINAL PROJECT for the course and will be completed, discussed and critiqued on THUR. MAY 5th at 10:15 am - 12:15 pm

During our final critique, you will be presenting a deconstructive analysis of your final work.
Make sure to write down your thoughts in order to organize them and deliver them accurately and thoroughly to your audience.

speak about your inspirations that helped you evolve your work
speak about your theme and your choice of it and why you decided to use it as the basis for your series
speak about the overall composition of the work and why you ultimately chose it
speak about the formal elements of design including everything learned via: COLOR SPACE TEXTURE VALUE SCALE LINE WEIGHT BALANCE et al.
speak about other assignments in our class together that influenced you in the evolution of this work.

Monday, March 28, 2016

student work

Throughout the semester, students engage in weekly open paintings. The subject of these works may be in addition to what has been inspired with in-class assignments, or the discovery of a new painting application, medium or substrate.

In this way, students gain ownership of their works having completed them from the early concept through to finish finished paintings, outside of the project requirements. I conference with students independently, discussing the qualities and potentials of each work on a bi-weekly basis. This way, students become informed by other student practices as well as see the development of their own evolution through the term.