Text Image project

TEXT AND IMAGE
5-7 thumbnail sketches due before starting your final project
Due Tuesday, September 2, 2008.
Final project may be 3d, 2d or a drawing/painting
Due Monday, September 8th, 2008 at the beginning of class.

Artists to look at: Simon Evans, Christopher Wool, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, Margaret Kilgallen, Squeak Carnwath, Kerry James Marshall

Sketchbook homework
a. Spend some time documenting the text that you see in your everyday environment throughout the week. You can write down what you see or take photographs.
b. Make some drawings/collages in your sketchbook that reflect some of the words that you find. Rearrange them, create a new story around them, write a poem with them, draw or collect images that you feel connected to in some way. Transform the text in some manner. Bring your results into class to share. Go beyond the obvious. Consider poems (found or invented) snippets of conversations that you overhear, scientific information, statistics, historical documents, signage, menus, old letters, stories that you wrote as a child, advertisements, or political posters. (3 pages of sketchbook notes)

2. Research at least 2 of the artists whose work piques your interest. Look at several of their pieces, read their artist’s statements and research their lives. What inspires them? What do they look at or think about? Make notes in your sketchbook about your discoveries. (2 pages of notes in sketchbook)

3. Choose a piece of text that is especially compelling to you both aesthetically and conceptually. In your sketchbook, write about what resonates with you in it? Consider CONTENT. What does this text mean to you? What does it remind you of?

Process, methods and ideas
Your text must be a visible element in your painting/project.
You must thoughtfully integrate your text and images and show your thought process in your sketchbook.