IB 1 Projects 2011

Below is a list of the assignments we covered this year in IB 1. Please keep this as a record in your workbooks:

Media Blitz

Collage Piece

Culture Shock

Day of the Dead

Museum-Inspired Piece

EP & Culture

The Documentarian

The Borrower

Let's finish strong!

What I'm Working On

Hi There!

Arnie

Colored Pencils and Pastel on Arches Watercolor Paper

11" x 15"

Just wanted to share my latest piece - a pet portrait for a good friend's father who is a golf pro. Arnold Palmer Steiner is a Shih Tzu who is a beloved member of the family.
Enjoy, and let me know your thoughts -

Denner

Monday History

                                                Adolf the Superman: Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk
                                                        gelatin silver print, photomontage, 1932

This piece was used as an anti-Hitler poster in the 1932 election. It refers to the financial backing Hitler received from wealthy industrialists who feared Germany would vote for a Communist government. 

John Heartfield was a German artist whose politically charged photomontages were banned in his home country during the Nazi regime.

Heartfield was born in 1891 as Helmut Herzfeld. He changed his name in part as a way to protest World War I; he even feigned madness to avoid returning to the service. During the Weimar period he became a member of the Berlin DADA group. He used his collage work as a political medium, incorporating images from the political journals of the day. He edited "Der DADA" and organized the First International DADA Fair in Berlin in 1920.

Sharply critical of the Weimar Republic, Heartfield’s work was banned during the Third Reich, then rediscovered in the Democratic Republic in the late 1950s. Since then, his art has influenced generations of artists and graphic designers.

http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/art/art.html

Check out more of his work, write a brief description including some of his pieces discussing how you feel about his work.  Specifically, about how he was treated during the war, why you feel his work was so powerful, and whether or not you feel it deserved to be banned during this time.

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Alexandra Eldridge

I wish You Were Here

Oil & Collage on Board, 54" x 42"

Alexandra Eldridge presents these wonderfully layered paintings that tell a story with an huge emphasis on texture. I'm interested in your interpretations of this piece. What do you consider the intended message to be? How do you think she went about creating this illustration?

Answer these questions and check out more of her work - I want at least 5 examples from different categories. 

So what are you waiting for? 

Check This Out!

-Denner

Technical Tuesday

*On Wednesday...

 Gesso Transfer for Newspaper
This is another way to transfer an image. Check out this link for details on how to apply this technique in your workbook (this means try it out!).
Happy days are here again~!
-Den

Check This Out

You should all go to this and take notes! The show is up and looks fantastic - congratulations to all of the year 2 IB students for all of their hard work. The proof is in the pudding (so to speak) - awesome job!!!

Technical Tuesday

Tea Staining
Many artists manipulate their surfaces prior to drawing or painting on them in order to achieve a desired aesthetic. Above is one example - tea staining. I would like you to investigate how to tea stain paper and create a page in your workbook that shows the successful execution of this technique while doing something creative on top of it. Make sure that you give your paper time to dry prior to drawing on it, but consider media like graphite, ballpoint pen, crayons, colored pencils...basically, whatever you think might look cool. Have fun with this - I look forward to your results!
Keep your pencils sharp and your ideas fresh,
-Denner