Make a series of self-portraits using 9 10" sq. surfaces and assorted reflective objects. Drawings should explore public and private, representation and distortion/abstraction. One 9 square grid is assembled for the finished 'Portrait.’
Refrences:
Van Gogh
Jenny Saville
Kiki Smith
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Warhol
Marlene Dumas
Giacometti
Lucien Freud
Frida Kahlo
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Louise Bourgeois
Working in teams of 2-3, you will create 10 collaborative drawings using your choice of media, size and subject. Progress will be reviewed weekly, and you will have 45 mins. of class time each week to meet with your collaborator/s.
Artist's Collaborations
Robert Rauschenburg, Erased De Kooning Drawing, 1953
John Berger and Marisa Camino “How do we make these drawings together? One of us starts a drawing and sends it by post to the other who, if provoked, continues it, and sends it back. And so on. A few of the larger drawings we worked on more or less simultaneously, drawing on the floor of the same studio. We never discuss with words, only with charcoal, colours, etc. Both of us, when drawing alone, draw differently. Yet in the drawings we do together, it is often hard for us afterwards to be sure which of us did what. This is why we say – they are the drawings of a third person.”
Swoon and the Miss Rockaway Armada "The crew can be called many things: artists, musicians, builders, travelers, organizers, dreamers. Ask one of the people who help build and move these crafts for the purpose, though, and you’ll get many answers. But there are some things that we all agree on. We want to create: to invent a new sustainable way to travel, to demonstrate different ways of living and moving that are friendlier to the environment and to each other, to indulge in that essential urge to make something out of nothing. We want to meet people: to learn from new folks along the way, to teach what we know, to share our art, our music and our performance, and to make new friends. Finally, for adventure: to reclaim and reinvent the old American urge to strike out and discover the vast, mysterious land we inhabit and see it for ourselves." Click here for a slideshow of the Miss Rockaway Armada raft on the Hudson.
The Royal Art Lodge “The Royal Art Lodge's output is not unlike what future police sketch artists might create if they were trying to reproduce 20th-century culture from tattered artifacts and scans of petrified brain cells but without violating copyright” – Flick Harrison
John Currin and PULP "Pornography is simply the most familiar visual language through which we appreciate the disparity between the intensity of imagined experienced and the disappointment or disgust of its realization...The key to the project was John Currin, a young American painter who's work typically portrays seedy ageing playboys and improbably fulsome women in a hyper-realistic style. Rather than paint Cocker and his confreres, Currin art-directed scenarios in which the members of the band appeared alongside anonymous models, models chosen for their super-real characteristics - the too-amazing body, the too-perfect skin" - 'Living Dolls' by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, excerpted from New Statesman Magazine, 8 May 1998
