Today's Class- Today's topic was photography, a relatively recently created artistic medium with long ago roots. It begins with the camera obscura, a tool known around the world to many ancient peoples, but well developed in the baroque period. In the 19th century, modern chemistry knowledge allowed people to preserve the projected images in a more permanent form, thus inventing photography. I showed a few dozen slides of photo based work, ranging from the earliest experiments to the contemporary, covering the evolving technology and the many uses it is put to in art. For many people film has been replaced by digital technology, but the art part is pretty much the same.
I distributed a take home assignment, and we took a tour of Vaughn-Eames, checking out any studios and galleries that were open and seeing what kind of stuff goes on in an art building.
How to make this up- I gave out a handout with a list of 20 photos to be taken, on your own time. This is a portfolio exercise, but the plan is to share the results with the whole class.
For more details on the assignment, as well as student examples of each part, click here.
Homework- The photo assignment is a portfolio exercise, but I'd like to see them all by April 13, 2018, so we can share the results with the whole class. They can be printed on any kind of paper, and don't need to be mounted, but just label them so we can easily see which part of the assignment they are for.
The museum assignment is due on March 23, 2018.
This afternoon, Kean University announced they were cancelling all remaining classes today because of the weather. They waited until after we were done to announce this. I've had worse rides home from school, and I hope you all got home safely. Weather predictions for next week are better.
For next class 3/9/18- We go back to color, this time more expressive than the theoretical stuff we dealt with last time. Bring your 18" x 24" pad, watercolors, brushes, and a water container. You may use all the colors as they are in the kits, but if you think you may want to mix colors, be sure to have a palette.
