The Prince and the Magician

Create > Take a Hike

Create > Turn Over a Rock

AP Studio Art Summer Syllabus

Create > Artist’s Selfie (Style)

Create > Estranged Object

Create > Color Cutout Portrait

Create > Block Pattern Portrait

Create > Hidden Structure

Create > Hidden Structure

Goal:  Create a structure with concealed elements

Catalysts:  

animate, empathize, fantasize

Studio Activity:  

Design and make a three-dimensional construction that ‘opens up’ to reveal an interior structure.  

Be inspired by Talwst’s unexpected scenes hidden inside jewelry boxes > https://goo.gl/aKZJ4g

Ornate jewelry boxes set the stage for tiny painted scenes filled with nearly-microscopic human figurines. The boxes are meticulously crafted by Canadian-Trinidadian artist Talwst, who uses mixed media to explore the narrative of art history in combination with elements of contrasting cultures. Although his vintage boxes may cast an ancient light on the scene, the boxes encapsulate a present day cultural commentary through their arrangements.

Be further inspired by ‘ROA’ > https://goo.gl/QXvLof

Belgian artist ROA (previously) just opened his first solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in NYC titled Metazoa. The new series of mixed media works feature the artist’s familiar black and white depictions of animals painted on various cabinet-like furniture pieces that can be opened or shifted to reveal anatomical details. ROA often chooses to depict animals native to where he is working, specifically species that have been forced from their native habitats and now live on the outskirts of urban areas.

Semester Final > Google Photos Movie

Semester Final > Google Photos Movie
 
How to Make a Google Photos Movie > https://youtu.be/9jflrpJcoYE  

1.  Organize your photos into a new album 
      Use either the Google Photos app on your desktop or your device. 

• On the desktop Google Photos >
• Select the photos
• Click the +
• Add to album (name it Final or something)

• On your device’s Google Photos app >
• Select the photos
• Tap the +
• Add to album (name it Final or something)

  

2.  Create a Google Photos Movie

• On your device, open your new “Final” album
• Select all the photos in the album (there is a 50 photo limit)
• Tap the +
• Tap Movie

3. Edit your Google Photos Movie

• Choose a theme
• Choose a soundtrack
• Edit the order of the photos and add or delete photos
• *I recommend no title because it plays on the first two photos

4. Export & Share your Google Photos Video

• Tap the 3 dots and select Export
• Tap the share icon and share to our G+ Community
  

Doc > https://goo.gl/Uhykrn 
Blog > https://goo.gl/Mq7Lov

Create > Magnification

Create > Magnification

Goal:  Change the perceptual response to an object by making it larger

Catalysts:  

Distort, magnify, fantasize

Studio Activity:  

Select a subject for your sculpture that is normally quite small, such as a paper clip, nail clipper, wrist watch, electrical or mechanical parts, bugs, or other small creatures… Recreate the subject on a giant scale:  Make a soft sculpture by cutting fabrics and flexible materials, which are then sewn, stuffed, stitched, and decorated; or create a large rigid structure by using cardboard and tape and paper-mâché.

Be inspired by historically significant artist Claes Oldenburg > https://goo.gl/gqdJK2 > https://goo.gl/BjnkRr Claes Oldenburg is an American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Wikipedia

Create > Constellation

Create > Constellation

Goal:  Create a galactic-like sculpture composed of interconnected lines and nodes.

Catalysts:  

Repeat, connect, animate

Studio Activity:  

Using repeating small units (wood, straws, pvc, etc…) and different lengths of a wire or some binding mechanism, assemble a colorful 3-dimensional constellation.  Make it strong enough to stand on its own or hang and balance from above.  

Be inspired by architect Marc Fornes.  He and his studio created an interconnected pathway of tubular branches which appear like a large segment of bleached coral.  It is composed of over 4,600 strips of metal, each just a millimeter thick.  

Be inspired by Australian artist Corey Thomas.  He created Spinifex from local tree branches and other plant material.  

Ben Butler is fascinated by the complex structures that emerge from simple and delicate processes.  This phenomenon can be found in the elaborate systems produced by ant colonies to human cities, small quotidian actions accumulating into overpowering structures.  Ben assembled over 10,000 pieces of poplar wood into a matrix-like structure that coalesces into an unexpectedly mesmerizing array of grids.  

Check out New York artist Jason Hackenwerth, known for his organic and biological forms made from latex balloons.  The spiralling from is made from 10,000 balloons wove carefully into a 3-dimensional structure title Pisces from an interpretation of the legend of Aphrodite and Eros.

Create > Emotion Box

Create > Emotion Box

Goal:  Assemble found object to symbolize emotions.

Catalysts:  

Symbolism, connections, emotions  

Studio Activity:  

Find a box that has compartments such as a spice box, tackle box or sewing container or make a shallow compartmentalized box of cardboard or wood.  Within each compartment carefully arrange objects, images, textures, found objects, parts of mechanical devices, texts, poetry, calligraphy and collage pieces from magazines or newspapers.  Arrange, alter and combine the elements within each compartment to signify a human emotion.  For example a twisted ribbon might signify love or a relationship or pieces of broken mirror glued over a photograph m ight signify anxiety or a compartment painted blue with cotton balls glued on might signify peacefulness or a mouse trap with a snared gummy bear might signify accomplishment or a piece a drift would with rusted nails might signify serenity.

Artist Profile:

Be inspired by the works of Joseph Cornell > https://www.wikiart.org/en/joseph-cornell

The box is the central metaphor of Joseph Cornell’s life.  He made boxes to keep wonders in.  He used a multitude of found objects representing expansiveness and flight, penned inside cases expressing a simultaneous tension between freedom and constraint.

Be inspired by Artist Allison May Kiphuth > http://www.allisonmaykiphuth.com/

Allison captures scenes inspired by her emotional and physical attachment to her surroundings at home in Maine along the sea coast.  The imagery is a metaphor expressing those emotional and physical attachments to the natural environment.  Her mixed media dioramas are constructed from layered ink and watercolor illustrations assembled with pins and strings.

Visual Examples: