Due:
Part 1: Wednesday, March 24:
Thumbnail sketches, color studies, and first stages of full-sized (6 x 8”) gouache paintings.
Part 2: Friday, April 2
Completion of both gouache paintings
Project:
Create a narrative diptych or triptych about this pandemic year.
Write a caption for each panel.
Your two or three panels will be part of a series that we will create as a class.
Context:
The series will be paired in a slideshow with the Chorus students’ performance of Sing Gently:
May we sing together, always
May our voice be soft
May our singing be music for others
And may it keep others aloft
Sing, sing gently, always
Sing, sing as one (as one)
May we stand (may we stand) together, always
May our voice be strong
May we hear the singing and
May we always sing along (along)
Sing, sing gently, always
Sing, sing as one (as one)
Singing gently as one
The lyrics speak about the importance of coming together and supporting each other - especially in this time of pandemic. The chorus students drew many parallels with their lives in quarantine and also with the cultural reckoning surrounding the BLM movement.
To learn more about the history of the virtual choir movement and this piece in particular, this is a great interview with the composer and developer, Eric Whitacre.
https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2020/07/17/interview-composer-conductor-eric-whitacre-talks-about-virtual-choir-6-sing-gently/
Diptychs, Triptychs, and Series
Diptych - Any object with two flat plates which form a pair, often attached by hinge.
Triptych - A work of art that is divided into three sections (or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open).
Max Beckmann painted six triptychs. Here are two:
Other famous triptychs
Narrative Series
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series (from The Phillips Collection, a museum in Washington, D.C.)
View, read as class, and watch short video interviews: Explore the lasting cultural, political, and societal impact of the Great Migration through the life and work of artist Jacob Lawrence. Browse all 60 panels from The Migration Series and delve into Jacob Lawrence's art and life through photographs, poetry, music, and the artist's own first hand accounts. Hear stories that show the Great Migration's impact from a wide range of perspectives, and share your own experience through words or images.
How are the panels in the series unified?
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Your assignment:
Theme: This Pandemic Year
Create a narrative diptych or triptych (bonus points!) about this pandemic year, and write a caption for each. Your two (or three) panels will be part of a series that we will create as a class.
Materials and dimensions:
Objectives:
Process:
Due:
Part 1: Wednesday, March 24:
Graded on:
Studio Habits of Mind
Specifically:
Part 1: Wednesday, March 24:
Thumbnail sketches, color studies, and first stages of full-sized (6 x 8”) gouache paintings.
Part 2: Friday, April 2
Completion of both gouache paintings
Project:
Create a narrative diptych or triptych about this pandemic year.
Write a caption for each panel.
Your two or three panels will be part of a series that we will create as a class.
Context:
The series will be paired in a slideshow with the Chorus students’ performance of Sing Gently:
May we sing together, always
May our voice be soft
May our singing be music for others
And may it keep others aloft
Sing, sing gently, always
Sing, sing as one (as one)
May we stand (may we stand) together, always
May our voice be strong
May we hear the singing and
May we always sing along (along)
Sing, sing gently, always
Sing, sing as one (as one)
Singing gently as one
The lyrics speak about the importance of coming together and supporting each other - especially in this time of pandemic. The chorus students drew many parallels with their lives in quarantine and also with the cultural reckoning surrounding the BLM movement.
To learn more about the history of the virtual choir movement and this piece in particular, this is a great interview with the composer and developer, Eric Whitacre.
https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2020/07/17/interview-composer-conductor-eric-whitacre-talks-about-virtual-choir-6-sing-gently/
Diptychs, Triptychs, and Series
Diptych - Any object with two flat plates which form a pair, often attached by hinge.
- The Crucifixion; The Last Judgement (c 1440 - 1441, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) by Jan van Eyck
Triptych - A work of art that is divided into three sections (or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open).
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 - 1500, oil on oak panel, Museo del Prado) by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 - 1516)
Max Beckmann painted six triptychs. Here are two:
- Departure (1932 - 1935, Museum of Modern Art, NYC)
- The Actors (1942, Harvard Art Museums)
Other famous triptychs
Narrative Series
Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series (from The Phillips Collection, a museum in Washington, D.C.)
View, read as class, and watch short video interviews: Explore the lasting cultural, political, and societal impact of the Great Migration through the life and work of artist Jacob Lawrence. Browse all 60 panels from The Migration Series and delve into Jacob Lawrence's art and life through photographs, poetry, music, and the artist's own first hand accounts. Hear stories that show the Great Migration's impact from a wide range of perspectives, and share your own experience through words or images.
How are the panels in the series unified?
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Your assignment:
Theme: This Pandemic Year
Create a narrative diptych or triptych (bonus points!) about this pandemic year, and write a caption for each. Your two (or three) panels will be part of a series that we will create as a class.
Materials and dimensions:
- Gouache on watercolor paper
- Each panel is to be a 6" x 8” design, landscape orientation (i.e. horizontal)
Objectives:
- The panels are meant to be viewed side by side; so design for connections between the multiple artworks.
- Unify the artworks through style and color.
- Apply your understanding of the Principles of Art to these compositions.
- Work on the panels side by side and concurrently.
Process:
- Study Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series. View and read the captions of the 60 panels to understand the story. watch short video interviews about the series and about individual panels.
- Think back over the past year, from first hearing the news about the pandemic until now. In your sketchbook, jot down memories, occurrences, events, and/or milestones from this pandemic year. Your notes can be single words, short phrases, bulleted lists, or detailed paragraphs.
- Select two (or three) of these moments/impressions/experiences; one from early in the year, and one from a more recent time. For each of the selections, write a sentence or two that captures the essence of that memory or gets to the heart of that moment/event/experience. These will be the captions for your two artworks.
- Make multiple thumbnail sketches (variations) for your two narrative artworks based on the captions. These sketches should be about 3” x 4”, in pencil, and block in the light, middle, and dark tones to establish strong compositions. Draft/compose the two images side by side, since they are meant to be viewed together as a pair/whole. Apply what you’ve learned about the Principles of Art, specifically Unity, Emphasis, Balance, Variety, and Movement.
- Make color studies of your best sketches, using watercolor or gouache.
- Enlarge the pair of images again, each to 6 x 8” on watercolor paper, and paint them in gouache. Paint them in the same style and with similar color schemes, to keep them unified.
Due:
Part 1: Wednesday, March 24:
- Thumbnail sketches, color studies, and first stages of full-sized (6 x 8”) gouache paintings.
- Completion of both gouache paintings
Graded on:
Studio Habits of Mind
Specifically:
- Expressiveness / Clarity of Meaning
- Composition: Application of Principles of Art
- Technical Quality