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Sketchbooks: 3D DesignMasks Syllabus Compile Day 1 - Introduction: Mask design, purpose, use in ritual Day 2 - Media Center: Students find 5 examples of masks from around the world – explain how they are used and/or what they represent. A sixth mask is chosen for aesthetics. Students critique the sixth mask and give their aesthetic response. Day 3 - Cut and Paste: Students cut and paste the information they compiled from the media center neatly into their sketchbooks. Day 4 - Cut and paste Notes on Technique and review of composition principles. Conceptualize Day 5 - Compile Sketchbook due – 10pts. Sketches: Students sketch three possible masks using their compilations as inspiration. They will create a mask that could be used for a ritual either based on real rituals that they perform (ex. Playing video games, brushing their teeth) or rituals that they invent. Day 6, 7 - Sketches Create Day 8 - Conceptualize section of sketchbook due – 20pts. Demonstration: Making a plaster mold from your face. Day 9 - Plaster wrapping: Students will team up to make plaster casts of their faces. Day 10 - Plaster wrapping Demonstration: Pouring plaster into plaster molds. Pouring molds: Students pour wet plaster into the molds they created from their faces. Day 11- Plaster Wrapping Pouring Molds: Demonstration: throwing slabs for masks. Clay slabs for the mask Day 12 - Plaster Wrap Molds due – 10pts (progress grade – no late grades) Pouring Molds: Clay slabs Forming masks Day 13 - Plaster Forms due – 10pts. (progress grade – no late grades) Clay slabs Forming Masks Day 14 – 15 Forming Masks Day 16 - Make up for day on the wheel. Day 17 - Masks due for Bisque Firing – 50pts. Day 18 – 20 Glaze masks Day 20 - Masks due for Glaze Firing Critique Day 21- Review: The steps of a critique and why we critique Day 22 - Critique: Students will write a critique of one of the masks (other than their own). Day 23 - Critique due – 20pts. Final Glazed Mask due -30pts. Total Points Possible for the Project: 150 1st Quarter Sketchbooks Due: 10/27/10 · Ceramic Glazing notes 5pts. · Principles of Design 5pts. · 3Relief examples, pasted into sketchbook 10pts. (low, high, intaglio) with descriptions · Wheel Throwing instructions 10pts. · 3 examples of Art Nouveau pots and 2 examples of patterns With analysis of what makes them art nouveau and Aesthetic 10pts. Response with principles of design included in your analysis Of why you find it beautiful · 30 minutes of art nouveau sketches 10pts. Exploring personal concepts and compositions Total: 50pts.
Modernism/Art Nouveau Notes Art History · Life before the industrial revolution o Most families live in the Country o Hand made goods o Crafts passed down from father to son perfected over generations · Industrial Revolution o Victorian Era (the end of the 19th century) o Mass migration to the city o Life is difficult for most families § Child labor § Families are separated to work in the factories § Cities are dirty, polluted, and crowded § Pride of creating things with their hands is taken away along with their entire livelihood. · Art in the homes o Homes become sanctuary where families can come back together and escape the ugliness of the cities and factories o A lot of decoration in the homes – desire to bring nature back o Wrought iron is a commodity from the factories o Over embellishment to hide shoddy craftsmanship in the factories · Arts and Crafts Movement o Artists and thinkers like William Morris believe that design is the key to social reform o Common people deserve to have beauty in their lives o Assembly line has taken the dignity away from craftsmen o Form guilds § Artists, architects and designers § return to handmade, affordable, quality goods for common people § Return to simple, beautiful design with emphasis on form rather than decoration and embellishments. § Give the craftsman his livelihood back and along with it his dignity o Art for the people, by the people · Arts and Crafts in America o European arts and crafts, though beautiful, fails to create affordable goods for the common people o Gustav Stickley § American § Combines machine-made parts with finished, hand-made craftsmanship § Successfully creates furniture and other goods for the consumer class § His designs are still popular today · Art Nouveau o Belgium and France’s reaction to the industrial revolution o Did not see themselves as social reformers o Attempt to bring nature, in which they once dwelled, into their homes in the cities. o Highly influenced by Japanese art of which nature was a big part o Also much influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution which gave a sudden importance to small creatures, especially insects. o Motifs § Plant and animal life (especially insects) § Whiplash lines § Sinuous, curving lines and edges § Vines, flowers, grasses § Assymetry o Louis Comfort Tiffany § Designer known mostly for his stained glass utilitarian designs § Still sought out by collectors today o Posters and Prints § Aubrey Beardsley § Alphonse Mucha Female figures surrounded by Art Nouveau patterns and motifs
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