Can you depict a rural, idyllic scene using food? How about a run down urban street? A tower block of mighty white? Have a go using (cheap) food from the one pound shop or discards from supermarkets to construct your scene. Play with atmospheric lighting using side lights, reflectors and tracing paper to diffuse. Share your work on your blog and label 'art' and 'photography'.
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A fun way to look more closely at the natural environment (and rip it apart) to create images. Click here to see more images. An interesting interpretation of flags using food. This could be extended to a number of visual outcomes: http://www.thisismarvelous.com/i/52-National-Flags-Made-From-Each-Countrys-Traditional-Foods Can you guess them? Do you have a smartphone? Interested in photography? Try signing up to this site and get a free photography course and weekly challenges to complete:
http://photojojo.com/university/?src=ink361 The artist, Erwin Wurm takes normal, everyday objects/clothing and transforms them through performances called 'one-minute sculptures' which he photographs as humorous compositions. You could draw inspiration from his work for your SPARK challenge and make a photographic booklet.
Minimalism was an art movement that reduced the world into a series of simple shapes and forms that were often presented in galleries as isolated objects or paintings. Below are some examples by the artist Donald Judd: Photographers were also influenced by minimalism and attempted to create simple compositions made up of geometric shapes. Below are some examples by the photographer Lewis Baltz: Task:
Using Lewis Baltz as an influence, create a series of ten photographs. Consider the following: - takr simple compositions involving no more that 3-4 basic shapes I.e squares, rectangles, triangles and circles - do not photograph angles I.e always shoot (photograph) looking straight at the subject, not from an angle - try to zoom in slightly so that straight edges are vertical and not curved. In this task, you will be creating an imaginary portrait made up of different faces using images that you have taken and edit them together in Adobe Photoshop. You will be working in response to the artists John Stezaker, who uses cut up postcards and photos of classic celebrities and film star. You can see some of his work below: You will need to edit your photographs in Adobe Photoshop using layers and the move and marquee tool to cut out shapes and move them around. Your teacher will give you a demonstration. If you have not got your own images, use some of these below: Belowis an example of how you could experiment with your own surrealist portraits using Photoshop:
For your first photography assignment, please take a series of shots of each other outside in the playground and around the school but changing the orientation so that it looks as though you are defying gravity - see examples below. Photograph two contrasting sides to the capital and present in response to the following collage where the artist has used descriptive words made up of images. Those images can be from an environment that reflects the words I.e the word vandalised could be made up of images from graffiti. See example below. The influence for these photos is Gilbert and George but their subject themes might be too graphic to address with young children although their visual compositions and techniques are good to refer to.
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