Project IX: Self Directed final project

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Project VI: Into Abstraction

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Material abstraction and Innovative painting applications Emphasizing formal elements and principles of design as subject matter Sigmar Polke Thomas Nowzakowski Lucy Mink Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.  Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials.  Born:  February 13, 1941, Olesnica, Poland   Died:  June 10, 2010, Cologne, Germany                             Thomas Nozkowksi   b. 1944 Lucy Mink  Interview with Lucy Mink Abstract Expressionists: Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock Franz Kline Franz Kline  Willem de Kooning   Willem de Kooning    Willem de Kooning Hans Hoffman  Hans Hoffman Helen Frankenthaler ...
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Project VIII: Serial Transformation

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Each day, we make use of serial transformations continually.  They help navigate ourselves through our environments in various ways.  In every day speech, transitional words link  to other words, phrases, ideas to content.  They assist readers to move from one concept to the next, sometimes building a more complex idea or something greater in their coherent relationships. This assignment does just that. We have already seen numerous painters work in this way.  Think back to J.M.Turner, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Jasper Johns, Takashi Murakami to name only a few. GOALS Within each serial transformation, your paintings should take on a new look at the same subject matter.   The trick is to decide what to paint.   Your ideas can morph into  one and other by way of: i. New color relationships ii. Or, into new lighting situations iii.  Or,  may exhibit different emotional qualities within th...
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