UNIT 5: FINAL CHOICE PROJECT

UNIT 5: Narrative/Student Choice FINAL PROJECT

DUE: Wednesday, May 2^nd (Last Day of Class)

For your final, you will be devising your own painting using some of the skills you have learned so far in your studies, following one of these prompts. Your project must be informed or inspired by the work of 2 artists of your choosing. At least one must be a contemporary artist working today (still alive). You can research your artist using the library and perusing art books and art magazines, and by using online sources ( such as Met online collection or Guggenheim, all nationally recognized museum collections). You will be expected to site your sources.

In addition to the final piece(s),

·      You will also be writing a short artist statement, we will workshop these statements on April 25^th.

·      And writing a paragraph about each of your artists, describing their work, addressing what they do materially (how they use paint, and other materials if applicable)  what their work seems to be addressing,  how the inspire you,  and a few sentences of biographical information about each artist. These artist’s styles should be visible in some way in your final piece/pieces. Please print and put in sketchbooks.

·      You will have at least 1 color copy of your inspirational artists work, with name of artist, title, date, size and materials listed, printed to go along with your statement and your essays. Please put in sketchbooks.

Choose an option for your final project from below:

1.  Student Choice:

You will propose a painting project that is informed by some of the things we learned in class already, and if you’d like, expand it with something new you would like to try out or, some aspect of painting that you would like to develop further or practice. You must find 2 artists as inspiration for your project. You will use some of their material, compositional, and stylistic approaches in your own work. You are researching the way that the artist works and studying their approaches to inform and expand your own work.

2. Narrative:

Create a painting that tells a story of some kind.

This story need not be linear and clearly descriptive or illustrative: the story can be very vague and exist only in the suggestion and the way the composition is constructed. You will create your painting taking inspiration from 2 artists working with narrative. Use some of their logic and stylistic devices to make your narrative as strong and surprising as possible.

Choose a format for your final piece:

1.     A canvas with a minimum of 3ft x 3ft or any other size you are interested in

2.     A diptych with a minimum of 1.5 x 2.5 ft each panel (give or take, could also be square)

3.     Approach doing your painting on a flat surface that is not canvas- can be on a found object, a different material, panel, metal, glass, wood, plastic, etc- or, stretch material that is not canvas onto a stretcher frame. Minimum size requirements still apply here, however, if you have a wilder idea, we can discuss and approve

4.     Propose your own other option and we can discuss whether it fulfills the requirements