| Two-Dimensional
Design |
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| Assignment |
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| Color
Shape and Value |
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“What
should Jesus look like in our 20th Century conception?” |
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| Description: |
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The
whole class will collaborate on a large portrait painting that will integrate
the use of basic elements of design (form) with an idea or question (content):
How should Jesus be imaged or represented in our own day? Each student will
be responsible for completing a section of the painting. |
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| Content: |
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We
will start with a discussion of Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ, and
with reading from David Morgan’s Icons of American Protestantism,
and Ted Prescott’s “We See Jesus”, from Image: journal
of the arts and religion. |
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We
will expand on the idea that we see Christ in people or in each other. We
can take photographs of each person in the class, posed like Sallman’s
Head of Christ, and composite them into a grid of images on top of the well
known portrait. The resulting image imitates a cubist style accumulation
of features derived from the twenty-one students in the class. |
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| Form: |
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With
the features arranged in a grid of 49 rectangles, each student will complete
two roughly one foot rectangular panels The photograph that results from
the compositing will also be divided into 49 three in rectangles. Each student
will enlarge their 3 inch rectangular portion to fit into the 9" x
12" panel. |
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Color Shapes: |
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The
colors in the photograph are to be simplified into solid color shapes. Eliminate
blending or gradation which creates a myriad of colors. Simplify the gradation
down to three or four solid color shapes that simulate the gradation, especially
when viewed from a distance. |
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| Color
into Value |
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Every
color fits into a value scale from black to white—purple being the
darkest a closest to black and yellow being the closest to white. Translate
the colors in your segment of the photograph into values from black to white
including greys.The resulting panes will approximate a black and white photograph
of the original image |
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Each
student makes her/his own black by mixing primary or secondary colors |
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