Making Art: Chapter 2 (2nd half) - post for 10/31

1) Select a quote or phrase from one of the artist statements featured in Chapter 2 that you think is very different from how you think about making art, and describe how this idea is new and different to you.

2) What is the difference between denotation and connotation in terms of the interpretation of an artwork?

Making Art Chap. 2: respond for 10/24

met·a·phor

   [met-uh-fawr, -fer]

noun

something used, or regarded as being used, torepresent something else; emblem; symbol.

al·le·go·ry

   [al-uh-gawr-ee, -gohr-ee] 

noun, plural al·le·go·ries.

1.

a representation of an abstract or spiritualmeaning through concrete or material forms;figurative treatment of one subject under theguise of another.

2.

a symbolical narrative: the allegory of  PiersPlowman.

Questions – Respond to the following:

1) If one views Zaha Hadid's Roenthal Center for Contemporary Art as a building made up of stacked, floating, interlocking boxes, how is its form a metaphor for how Hadid felt the space should be used?

2) Respond to this sentence from Chapter 2; "Both artist and viewer are engaged in an exchange of meaning-making when works of art are successfully made and received."

3) If an artist statement is not to "explain" art to viewers, what other functions does it serve?

Kiki Smith, Rapture, 2001

Instructions for Wednesday 5/17

For next week's class, please remember to bring:

-Digital images to begin working on the David Hockney photo collage project. The digital images must be on a flash drive or saved in your Dropbox cloud.

-Your work for the midterm portfolio (mounted).

By Monday, send me your Typography assignment that we were going to look at in class this week. You can email this file to me. You may send the Illustrator file, or save it as a jpeg and send it to me. (To save as a jpeg, open your project in Illustrator, choose File>Export, select "jpeg" from the pulldown menu.)

David Hockney