Brief: In this task, you will be using photography to creatively represent the alphabet.
The following images should be used to spark ideas. Start by trying out some of the techniques used and then try to create your own personal response to the brief/challenge.
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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:
Designers often view letters as interesting shapes which they can play around with. Have a go at cutting out letters from the newspaper or a magazine and creating a pattern with them like in the following example: What other shapes could you create? Look at the following for inspiration:
I was not aware that chess was such a popular game with artists, but this Guardian article explains more about its attraction to some of the great artists of the 20th Century: It might make an interesting project to design large scale chess pieces in response to other artists or a shared theme.
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. A collage is a mixture of different pictures to make up a whole new scene. A collage can be on anything, but why not start with a collage about your family life. Choose a scene to depict such as family dinner time or a special event such as your last birthday. Using printed images found in magazines, newspapers and off the Internet, cut them up and recreate the scene. You can also add text using the headlines from newspapers to describe the situation or add dialogue/speech, or even a piece of poetry that conjures up the scene. Have a look at the video below for examples of how to create a collage at home: Examples of Collages |
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