[ART121] 2D Design

This blog is designed as a catalyst to support an introductory course in two-dimensional design with an emphasis on Art as a vehicle for creative expression. This class explores the nature of art and design in various aesthetic, formal, and psychological dimensions, involving the analysis of art objects for understanding, enjoyment, and life enhancement.

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John Cage’s 10 Rules for Students and Teachers

Borrowed from a colleague Colby Jennings.

1: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile. 2: General duties of a student - pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students. 3: General duties of a teacher - pull everything out of your students. 4: Consider everything an experiment. 5: Be self-disciplined - this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way. 6: Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make. 7: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things. 8: Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes. 9: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think. 10: “We’re breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.”

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Around 1967, or 68 Sister Corita Kent wrote up these rules that then became the rules for the entire art department at The Immaculate Heart College. It was popularized by John Cage, the avant grade composer, who wrote the 10th rule.

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The Element of Line

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Art in the Twenty-First Century — Art21

The only series on television in the U.S. to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists, Art in the Twenty-First Century is a Peabody Award-winning biennial program that allows viewers to observe the artists at work, watch as they transform inspiration into art, and hear how they struggle with both the physical and visual challenges of achieving their visions.

The only series on television in the U.S. to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists, Art in the Twenty-First Century is a Peabody Award-winning biennial program that allows viewers to observe the artists at work, watch as they transform inspiration into art, and hear how they struggle with both the physical and visual challenges of achieving their visions.

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IL LEE

IL LEE is best known for his pioneering work with ballpoint pen that he began more than 30 years ago and continues today. Lee’s recent oil on canvas work and new prints bring the viewer back to his early investigations of materials and process that began decades ago. Lee’s oeuvre offers a great breadth of approaches and media as he investigates drawing, the negative and its positive, line and form and of what is rendered and what is there but not rendered. Lee’s monolithic focus has created a universe at once cohesive and yet still expanding in all directions. Critically acclaimed and widely exhibited, Il Lee’s oil on canvas work and his ballpoint pen work on paper were recently exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In addition, large works by Il Lee were featured at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 2013. Il Lee’s innovative and historically grounded ballpoint pen works were the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the San Jose Museum of Art and solo exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, the Vilcek Foundation in New York, and the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas. His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of Art and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. His work is represented in major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Vilcek Foundation and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul.

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James Turrell's Roden Crater

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Tate glossary definition for site-specific: Refers to a work of art designed specifically for a particular location and that has an interrelationship with the location

As a site-specific work of art is designed for a specific location, if removed from that location it loses all or a substantial part of its meaning.

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White Cube São Paulo  

September – 1 November 2014                                   

Marking her third solo presentation at White Cube, this is Mehretu’s first major solo show in Brazil, further to her inclusion in the XVI Bienal de São Paulo in 2004.

This body of work evolved from the Mogamma series of 2012, which was informed by the Arab Spring revolution of the same year. Whilst those works utilised distinct architectural motifs as a metaphor for the unfolding socio-economic and political scenario, these recent paintings appear as a direct response to the aftermath of this event and are seemingly more contemplative and pared down.

https://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/julie_mehretu_sao_paulo_2014

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Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective

Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective comprises 105 of LeWitt’s large-scale wall drawings, spanning the artist’s career from 1969 to 2007. These occupy nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that have been installed—per LeWitt’s own specifications—over three stories of a historic mill b

Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective comprises 105 of LeWitt’s large-scale wall drawings, spanning the artist’s career from 1969 to 2007. These occupy nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that have been installed—per LeWitt’s own specifications.

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11 Artists<br>First Encounter with Art

A poem for a president, an exploding painting and a missed autograph: Meet 11 prominent artists – including Adonis, Marina Abramović, Pipilotti Rist and Paul Auster – who here share the story of how they entered the world of art.

A poem for a president, an exploding painting and a missed autograph: Meet 11 prominent artists – including Adonis, Marina Abramović, Pipilotti Rist and Paul Auster – who here share the story of how they entered the world of art.

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Features contemporary art, painting, sculpture, video, installations, photography and editions by established and emerging American and international artists.

For almost two decades, Trenton Doyle Hancock has been constructing his own fantastical narrative that continues to develop and inform his prolific artistic output. Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock’s work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between.

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Colors | Radiolab | WNYC Studios

Radiolab rips the rainbow a new one.

To what extent is color a physical thing in the physical world, and to what extent is it created in our minds? We start with Sir Isaac Newton, who was so eager to solve this very mystery, he stuck a knife in his eye to pinpoint the answer. 

Answer this Question:

To what extent is color a physical thing in the physical world, and to what extent is it created in our minds?

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Robert Mangold in

Art21 is a celebrated global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists. Art21 produces the Peabody Award-winning PBS-broadcast series,

Artist Robert Mangold, from his country studio in upstate New York, translates the most basic of formal elements—shape, line, and color—into paintings, prints, and drawings whose simplicity of form expresses complex ideas.

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unity.pdf

READING 2 - UNITY

Design theory describes unity as the way in which the different elements of a composition interact with one another. Please select and discuss 3 artworks included in this document and discuss how they used UNITY in your response.

Your response should be typed 12pt. font and single spaced. Please make reference to the reading and cite if necessary. Please do not forget to include your name, the course prefix, and ‘reading 2 response’ in the upper left hand corner of the artifact.

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This project asks you to create the most interesting and unique color compositions possible. The goal is to study how color is affected by pattern and context, see color relationships, and begin to work with complex grid structures. Making incremental changes can bring about large variety within a system. In this assignment we will focus on changes of color.

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Elements of Composition.jpg

Goal: To emphasize the subject/mood/action of an image and make it easily understood and aesthetically pleasing to the viewer.