Horton Art Gallery &

Art history through your eyes:

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Follow Steps 1 through 6 thoroughly.. from tutorials to handing it in to your teacher.

1.Get familiar with Photoshop CS5 here. Before we move on, we need to see evidence (through images you manipulated) that prove you can effectively use layers, lasso and wand tools, cloning and other image adjustments. (5 images with 5 techniques, 3pts each... 15 marks)

2. Art Hunt and Analysis:
Visit a website for art historical research and images, such as the Artchive.* (more choices here). Analyze 1 art work that you find particularly moving or engaging.
* Do keep the specific link (Command+click on link to get actual address) and art work information.

(If you need more support for critiqing artworks, Use the document Understanding art as a guide.)

. (15 marks)

3. Photoshop Trickery Project:

As individuals, selecting one of these works, use Photoshop to convincingly include a picture of yourself within the found artwork to tell us something of yourself visually. The image that results might be dramatic, political, comedic, or autobiographical.

OR

Take a figure from a famous artwork and place him/her into a new and current context. E.g. Place Michelangelo’s God from the Creation of Adam into a scene where he is reaching for the a bottle of pop. The image the art figure is placed in should be a photo that you have taken. See examples at www.worth1000.com or for a humorous revisit to art history see Yasumasa Morimura's Art history project

  • Your design should also include the sophisticated use of layers.
  • You and a friend will help each other, though both of you must create your own image manipulation and corresponding web page.
  • Save a duplicate of the original image and the link to where you found it. Links can be captured by simply dragging and dropping to your desktop the little icon located next to the page's address.
  • You will be evaluated in three areas: technical competence and/or creativity zeal, aesthetic skills, and overall meaning and effectiveness of the new work.Formatting:

When completed, Saving your file:

  • Save your final design a s a .psd file, with all layers maintained.
  • Also, Save your image as a Medium quality .jpg (File/save for web...).

This will be handed in as a web site... see # 5 for details.

4. The Reflective Process:

1. In a paragraph or two, discuss the rationale for your decision to select the master work and why you included your image the way you had in this process.

2. Make a written report that is either:
a. an inventory on the strengths you gained from the process
b. a reflection on the overall experience
c. explain how might you use this process again, for enjoyment, to communicate, or to teach
d. write an artistic or poetic response or rant in response to the project. This statement should in someway expose your inner voice in a meaningful and relevant way.

Your final Jpeg and reflection will be handed in as a web site.. see next part...

5. Handing in the project

Follow the following steps very closely:

    Join our Google Classroom: SYME here, FIANDER here
  • hand in your .psd, .jpg and reflection there.
  • upload your Reflection too (Google Doc or Word file).

 


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