Class Notes Sept 18 2008

September 23, 2008  |  Uncategorized

Posters are fun stuff! Get to do a lot more funk than with a resume.

Look Deeper
Ask yourself why are you feeling/reacting.
How does your reaction relate to the structure, shape and color
Look at it in the abstract
Deprives us of subject matter we consider indispensable
You don’t have to be literal to express an item, or a feeling/emotion.
Leads us beyond the distractions of practical particulars: the obvious.  Think beyond the obvious!

Wassily Kandinsky 1910
Famous artist
We can find our lives reflected in abstractions.

Book: Picture This By Molly Bang
Red Triangle: Strength, Balance…
Little Red Riding Hood portrayed with shapes and colors
Vertical shapes: exciting, active, energy, upward movement, against gravity, rising up.
Diagonal shapes: motion, mountains, tension, falling, at the tipping point.
Triangle: Flat base = Stability
Color and placement: Triumph; objects in top half feel more “spiritual”
Heavier: objects in bottom half have more “pictorial weight.”
Separation – Center of attention
Sharp points: Knives, weapons


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