Shattered Portrait Unit Developed by Ashley Molfino

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1 Shattered Portrait Unit Developed by Ashley Molfino

2 Project Summative Objective Students will create a shattered self-portrait using personal descriptive words, SAT words, and patterned backgrounds to create a composition reflecting contemporary art.

3 Flow Chart: 90 min mod Day 1: Micro lab 1: Practice Day 2: (take high contrast digital image of each student while they are working) Micro Lab 2: Brainstorm Micro Lab 3: Text Margaret Kilgallan Day 3: Define Contemporary Art Begin Project Digital Picture Start Drawing Day 4: Continue Drawing SAT Word/Text Sagmeister Swoon Day 5: Finish Drawing portion Complete Words Color, Text Orientation, Balance Day 6: Pattern Kehinde Wiley Day 7 Continue Pattern Finish Composition Day 8 Self Critique Group Critique Teacher Critique

4 Daily Objectives Students will demonstrate knowledge of line, shape, shadow and value in order to complete a celebrity and self portrait Students will incorporate text reflecting personal traits reflecting contemporary artists. Students will brainstorm texts that influence aesthetic responses and creative expression including: design, functional and stylistic considerations. Students will demonstrate an understanding of contemporary art in order to apply personal word patterns to a self portrait. Students will define the word contemporary art in order to get a better understanding of its meaning. Students will take the art elements into consideration to create a successful final composition. Students will critique contemporary artists using the method: Describe Analyze, Interpret, and Judge.

5 Contemporary Artist Exemplars Swoon Kehinde Wiley Stefan Sagmeister Margaret Kilgallen Swoon; Located on 14 th street and 6 th Ave, New York City Margaret Kilgallen: Installation view at UCLA / Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2000 Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

6 Vocabulary Contemporary Art Art Elements Color Shape Line Principles of Design Balance Rhythm Variety Artist Exemplars Margaret Kilgallen Swoon Stefan Sagmeister Kehinde Wiley

7 In groups of 4 students will select a portrait of a celebrity. Step 1: Cut the image in to four or more pieces, the pieces can be cut however you want. Step 2: Lay the piece on white paper and trace the shape. Day 1 Planning Micro Lab 1: Practice

8 Day 1 Continued.. Step 3: Add the facial features of the celebrity found within your shape with a pencil, measure! Step 4: When all group members are finished, cut out your pieces and glue them down to an 8.5 X 11 piece of paper.

9 Day 1: Final Product

10 Day 2 Planning Micro Lab 2: Brainstorming Students will answer the following questions in their journal. A SAT Packet is required for this. Which SAT word describes you the most and why? What current events have effected you? What global issues do you feel strongly about? What are your likes and dislikes? How does your family/outside of school life effect you?

11 Exemplar: Margaret Kilgallen Untitled: Installation at Deitch Projects New york, NY

12 Margaret Kilgallen Untitled: Installation at Deitch Projects New york, NY

13 Margaret Kilgallen

14 Students will explore the effect text and color order to depict personal descriptive words in their journal. Step 1: Students will select FOUR SAT words and draw the words in a journal. Each word will need a specific text (found in the text packet) and color pallet that will be descriptive of the word itself. Step 2: Write down the definition of the word next to each word creation. Step 3: Creative background! Step 4: Share the personal words chosen, and given an explanation of artistic decisions. Day 2 Micro Lab 3: Text

15 After all of that Preparing.. Students Finally Begin Final Project Students should have mastered the following in Micro Lab s 1-3: Text/Font and its relationship to Color SAT Vocabulary and definitions Spatial Relationships within pieces Value, Shape and Shadow

16 Drill:11/6/2008 In paragraph form Please answer the following question: Contemporary Art: Art dealing with current issues and themes. If your head were to explode, what words would come out? How do these words refer to contemporary art? Example: What current issues and themes effect you?

17 Contemporary Artists: Artists who create personally descriptive art (post WWII) dealing with current issues or themes. Our Artist Exemplars are: Margaret Kilgallen Swoon ( Caledonia Curry) Lou Reed Stefan Sagmeister In your journal: Define the word contemporary art in your own words. Use specific examples of how contemporary art relates to your surroundings. Do you ever see contemporary art?

18 Step 1: Portrait Students will utilize a digital photograph taken by the teacher as well as, a mirror in order to draw themselves from observation. Students will cut up the digital photograph into pieces and trace these pieces on large paper, and then fill in the piece with the corresponding facial features.

19 In this Portrait: the pieces have been cut using a variety of right, obtuse, and acute angles so that the image looks shattered. Examples

20 Step 2: Text Students will use both SAT Words and personal words descriptive of font and color in their final composition. Students refer to SAT Micro Lab # 3. Discuss: Overlapping techniques, Material use and properties, color, texture, font, and text orientation. Text Artist Exemplars: Kilgallan, Sagmeister, and Swoon. Sean Landers: Word Painting

21 Sagmeister How do these words emulate their meaning? How does the background of each of these words play a role in their description? Sagmeister; Trying To Look Good Limits My Life 2004

22 Sagmeister What emotion do you feel when looking at this image? Positive or Negative? Does the text/font fit the mood of this image? Stefan Sagmeister, poster for Lou Reed s Set the Twilight Reeling (1996)

23 Swoon: Streets of New York, NY Exemplar: Swoon

24 Step 2: Text Continued Pencil the words chosen in the composition around the drawn portrait pieces. Use different text orientation and font to create balance. Words bay be located in the background, or foreground of piece.

25 Step 5: Pattern Add Pattern to the surrounding areas. Patter can overlap descriptive words as well as portraiture. Here are some examples of a contemporary artist named Kehinde Wiley. Contemporary Art which is represented in the present day, but also can be referred to being current in any specified period of time Kehinde Wiley uses models found on the streets of NYC. Takes their photograph and works from it.

26 Kehinde Wiley 'Rubin Singleton' (2008) Le Roi à la chasse (2006)

27 Final reflection Students will complete a final reflection in their journal answering the following questions: To what extent did you solve the problem? What is contemporary art to you? How did you incorporate contemporary art into your final composition? What makes your piece successful? What would you have done differnetly?

28 Final Reflection Example

29 Reflect on your work, and a peer

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38 Closure Questions? Suggestions? Feedback