Whichever format you choose, you must first choose one of the following themes:
a) Art & Life - how have artists responded to life in their practice? (i.e. integrating art with life, responding to politics)
b) Experimentation - how have artists experimented with form, material, technique and/or ideas? (i.e. technique, media, breaking conventions, using narrative, etc.)
You must use at least 5 images (and no more than 8) to tell this story.
You will use supporting text (definitions, descriptions, headings and sub-headings) to provide depth to your story.
You must include the following in your outline
1 work from Week 7 (Wassily Kandinsky. “First Abstract Watercolour”)
1 work from Week 10 (Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm Number 30, 1950.)
1 work from Weeks 11 (33-13 Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962.)
at least 2 other related works (these can be related and do not have to be ones covered in class or even in the textbook)
references to relevant terminology and/or historical/cultural context
descriptions of relevant artworks (approx. 100-150 words)
introduction to your framing of the theme (approx. 150-250 words)
Captions for all images
List of sources or works cited where applicable
Make sure that the theme is clearly identified. Think about the balance of image and text. Focus on how the structure will develop your story (i.e. beginning, middle, end). Here are a few guiding questions to get you started:
How might you frame a story about artistic practice around the theme? How might you focus or narrow the theme in order to help select works?
What supporting material will you need?
What terms and historical/cultural context should be included to provide substance to the narrative?
Which artworks best express the ideas that I am bringing together in this narrative?
What 'things to consider' might help to frame the theme? (i.e. use the lecture outlines as a guide for how to make connections across time periods).
Key terms
:
week 7
modernity and Modernism
Primitivism
Expressionism
Fauvism
Abstraction
Die Brücke (The Bridge)
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
Cubism (Analytic and Synthetic)
Collage/papier collés
Assemblage
Futurism
week 8
Total Work of Art (
gesamtukunstwerk
)
International Expo of Modern and Decorative Arts, 1925
Neo-plasticism
De Stijl
Bauhaus
Functionalism
week 9
Dada
Cabaret Voltaire
Chance and Automatism
Photomontage
The Readymade
Biomorphic Abstraction
Surrealism
Psychoanalysis: Freud and the Unconscious
Harlem Renaissance
week 10
Abstract Expressionism: Action Painting and Color Field Painting
soak-stain technique
Gutai Group, Japan
Black Mountain College
Biomorphism
Combine paintings
Fluxus
week 11
Fluxus
Happenings
Pop Art
Silkscreening
Minimalism
Process Art/Post-Minimalism
The ‘dematerialization of art’