Portraiture: Printmaking
Inspired by: Mary Cassatt
Surreal Journey Postcards
Inspired by: Rene Magritte
Pop-Up Homes and Habitat: Mixed Media
Inspired by: Do-Ho Suh
Studio Reflection:
Throughout our second unit of “Relationships” we participated in three studios that allowed us to express different types of relationships we experience in our lives. As written by author Molly Bang, "our earliest and strongest association is with bodies" (p. 71). This concept is displayed in our first studio when we created a form of portraiture. In our portraits we also incorporated printmaking, a craft inspired by the works of artist Mary Cassatt. My artwork’s combination of portraiture and printmaking added further artistic expression to the relationship I imagine my loving grandparents have continued in heaven after their passing. This studio is simple enough for students of any age, but also leaves room for students to creatively express the meaning and value of relationships in their life. As mentioned in Pink, "cultivating a design sensibility can make our small planet a better place for us all” (p. 86). This better place is represented by the expression of our relationships that make our small planet our own.
The surreal works of Rene Magritte inspired the next studio completed in our unit where we created surreal postcards. For my postcards above I chose the background images of a wall with mirrors, and a display of pink paints and flowers. The rest of the images on my postcards are images my classmates selected from their own pile of images for me, that I then glued on in an arrangement I saw fit. Afterwards, we added in a fun correspondence to the other side of our “postcard”, displaying our thought process on the ending collage. This studio is a great way to build artistic relationships between students, and eventually develop a comfortable artist community .
The final studio we completed in our unit of “Relationships” was a mixed-media project inspired by the work of artist Do-Ho Suh. Through our mixed-media studio we created pop-up homes that represented our relationship, or interpretation of home. While I’m sure the architect of my home in Chicago would be offended, I attempted to recreate the home I left for college. This studio not only represents my relationships with my family and my city, but also shows how strong those relationships have remained over time and distance. This studio is great for a classroom of students to display knowledge of geographical areas, as well as to artistically express their personal meaning and relationship of the word “home”.
Resources:
Pink, D. H. (2006). A Whole New Mind (p. 86). New York, NY: Penguin Group.
Bang, M. (1991). Picture This How Pictures Work (p. 71). Boston, MA: Bullfinch
Press/Little, Brown and Company.
Throughout our second unit of “Relationships” we participated in three studios that allowed us to express different types of relationships we experience in our lives. As written by author Molly Bang, "our earliest and strongest association is with bodies" (p. 71). This concept is displayed in our first studio when we created a form of portraiture. In our portraits we also incorporated printmaking, a craft inspired by the works of artist Mary Cassatt. My artwork’s combination of portraiture and printmaking added further artistic expression to the relationship I imagine my loving grandparents have continued in heaven after their passing. This studio is simple enough for students of any age, but also leaves room for students to creatively express the meaning and value of relationships in their life. As mentioned in Pink, "cultivating a design sensibility can make our small planet a better place for us all” (p. 86). This better place is represented by the expression of our relationships that make our small planet our own.
The surreal works of Rene Magritte inspired the next studio completed in our unit where we created surreal postcards. For my postcards above I chose the background images of a wall with mirrors, and a display of pink paints and flowers. The rest of the images on my postcards are images my classmates selected from their own pile of images for me, that I then glued on in an arrangement I saw fit. Afterwards, we added in a fun correspondence to the other side of our “postcard”, displaying our thought process on the ending collage. This studio is a great way to build artistic relationships between students, and eventually develop a comfortable artist community .
The final studio we completed in our unit of “Relationships” was a mixed-media project inspired by the work of artist Do-Ho Suh. Through our mixed-media studio we created pop-up homes that represented our relationship, or interpretation of home. While I’m sure the architect of my home in Chicago would be offended, I attempted to recreate the home I left for college. This studio not only represents my relationships with my family and my city, but also shows how strong those relationships have remained over time and distance. This studio is great for a classroom of students to display knowledge of geographical areas, as well as to artistically express their personal meaning and relationship of the word “home”.
Resources:
Pink, D. H. (2006). A Whole New Mind (p. 86). New York, NY: Penguin Group.
Bang, M. (1991). Picture This How Pictures Work (p. 71). Boston, MA: Bullfinch
Press/Little, Brown and Company.