Sunday, November 25, 2012

A little bit worried...

I am just a little bit worried since I will not be talking to the class before the final.

After grading the images this weekend from Aaron Siskand, I want to make sure that if you choose to turn in some Aaron Siskand images for the final you understand the assignment.

Some people seem to be confusing minimalism with abstract expressionism.  The Aaron Siskand images should be in the realm of abstract expressionism.

min·i·mal·ism n.
1. A school of painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. Also called minimal art, reductivism, rejective art.
2. Use of the fewest and barest essentials or elements, as in the arts, literature, or design.
 
abstract expressionism n.
A school of painting that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s, characterized by the view that art is nonrepresentational and chiefly improvisational.
 
 
 
 

2 comments:

  1. I do have a quick question. If we are planning on using an alphabet picture in our final, do we need to mat that as a 10x15 or do we need to make the mat fit the image, like with the panoramic?

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