Advanced Placement 2-D Design Portfolio Summer Assignments 2016

Sketchbook Assignments: Required: You must complete an 8x10 sized sketchbook/journal this summer, or entries may be placed in protective sleeves in a three ring binder.

Reflect upon your old work. Tape or glue with a glue stick the work on a page or a photo of your work and write about:

your influences from artists or other people how you created it elements of art & principles of design the planning process What you think about it now? How does it make you feel? What could be improved upon if anything? Include at least 3 entries (worth a total of 30 points!)

BRAINSTORM:List/draw/ photograph any ideas, thoughts, or experiences you may

want to express through your chosen medium throughout the year and paste them on a page in your sketchbook. BE OBSERVANT OF YOUR LIFE! (At least 20 points.)

Critiquing other artists work. (at least 3 entries worth 25 points each TOTAL=

75 points) Find 3 different present day artworks (see attached list of contemporary photographers) created within your chosen medium that you find creative and interesting. Print out a copy or do a drawn study of it if you go to a museum and paste or tape in your sketchbook. Then critique the work using Feldman’s model of Art criticism: (use the vocabulary sheet attached)

1. Explain why you chose the work, how might this image influence your work as an artist.

2. Describe the elements of art used in the artwork.(see the elements on the Art Autopsy worksheet in this packet)

3. Analyze how the elements are organized into the principles of design to create unity.(See the principles on the Art Autopsy worksheet in this packet)

4. Interpret the image by explaining why you think the artist created this work? Why did they use the art elements and principles? Be specific, use details from the work to support your statements.

5. Evaluate: What is your opinion about the work? Compare it to another artist’s work that you have studied, and/or your own work.

Breadth Section Assignments: (you need 12 photos for your breadth section on the AP exam) Film: Choose 3 of the following assignments and shoot it using black and white film: (You will develop the film when school begins and make the prints in the darkroom during the first few classes.)

Exploring Perspectives: high vs. low viewpoint choose a natural object and a man-made object and explore it by changing the viewpoints on the two or more subjects of your choice. If you only have a 50 mm lens then choose large subjects.

Pattern: find repeating motifs in nature or that are manmade.

Old things, find objects which have an antique look to them, check out garage sales, attics and basements.

Glass, shoot objects made of glass

Hands with objects or doing something

Documentary photos: go to a social place or event and shoot, for example the zoo, play ground, carnival, fair, festival, downtown Annapolis, etc.

Chiaroscuro: using hard lighting shoot scenes that create the contrast that results from chiaroscuro

o chi·a·ro·scu·ro

1. The distribution of light and shade in a picture. 2. Painting, the use of deep variations in and subtle gradations of light and

shade, especially to enhance the delineation of character and for general dramatic effect: Rembrandt is a master of chiaroscuro.

Movement: experiment with moving subjects and slow shutter speeds to create interesting compositions.

Environmental Portraits: where the environment reflects or shows something interesting about the person or people.

Your Choice, design your own shooting assignment from your brainstorming list in your sketchbook

Digital: Choose 3 of the following assignments and shoot them using a digital camera or Photographers must shoot at least 24 images for each assignment they choose below. (You may shoot as much as you want, do not feel like you only have to do 24 shots!).

Fireworks, experiment with moving the camera and still shots during the fourth of July.

Times of day: find an interesting setting and shoot it at the different times of day Monet’s haystack paintings are a good example to look at and the

cathedral or water lilies.

Fashion Photography: Shoot a series of photographs which focus on the style of clothing the model is wearing. Also, consider the environment the model is in and how it may contrast or emphasize the clothing.

Find objects that could represent yourself and your friends or family. Organize them into a still life and use the studio lighting techniques to add interest to the still-life and express the interaction between the objects that represent the people in your life.

Portray your views on a contemporary issue such as: proliferation of nuclear arms, alcohol abuse, drugs, gun control, endangered species, capital punishment, terrorism, political intervention, poverty, moral, ethical issues, geriatric issues, minority issues, women’s issues, another issue that you find important that you would like to visually express your ideas. Look up the work of Dali, Diego Rivera, and Frida Khalo. Make a collage or photomontage expressing your point of view and incorporate text into the image. You may use images from the internet but they must be changed at least three times to make it your own work and unrecognizable as someone else’s work.

Antithesis(combining opposing factors) as a Fantasy Stimulus: Create three images using the following antithesis themes; Opposite Qualities(curved/straight, continuous/discontinuous, geometric/organic, opened/closed, concave/convex, simple, complex or one of your own) Opposite Life Forms (human/animal, animal/vegetable, young/old, living/dead, or your own) Opposite Realities (organic/inorganic, human/machine, rational/irrational, real/surreal) Opposite time frames (now/then, now/tomorrow, yesterday/today/tomorrow) Opposite Sensory Perceptions (hard/soft, smooth/prickly, or one you make up) Opposite Stabilities (order/chaos, attraction/repulsion, focused/unfocused, action/inaction or one you make up to fit this category) Photographers must have three collages using the above topics, painters must have three as well and they may be mixed media.

Dual portrait: Create a biographical portrait composed of two images which

depict two contrasting sides of your personality: you and your alter ego. Let one face depict the outside you, and the other another you, a secret personality or fantasy role model. Make the double portrait satirical, humorous or surreal. Some possibilities: combine your face with the Mona Lisa, or the face of a celebrity, or a mythological hero or heretic. Or make tow identical portraits but transform one of them by painting shapes and colors that signify a different psychological state of mind.

Go to this website http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a1 and

pick one of the human rights articles and set it up and photograph it.

Image Matrix: Use collage and mixed media for this experiment. Divide a sheet of paper in your sketchbook to make an irregular grid with a large box in the center, and 10 or more, smaller surrounding boxes. Glue a picture in the center panel which will serve as the reference, or trigger image, either in a symbolic or psychological way. Consider your composition a “Visual Meditation” of: A person, a place, an object, an experience, a sensation, an emotion, a dream, a fantasy, an art object. Combine collage and drawing to make a personal and aesthetic statement. Find images and photocopy them or cut them out from a magazine or newspaper or use your own images and work back into them with color pencil, ink, oil pastel or other materials.

Shooting History: Try to recreate a scene from history in several different ways

and shoot it or draw or paint it.

Street Photography: Go to the city and get candid shots of people and objects interacting with each other. Painters may create a painting from the photos.

Create your own, use one of your ideas from the Brainstorming you completed

in your sketchbook If you have any questions over the summer please e-mail me at gcartwright@aacps.org. Good Luck and have fun!

Contemporary Art Photographers

Edward Burtynsky Lynne Cohen John Divola Jason Engelund Mitch Epstein Angela Buenning Filo J. Bennett Fitts Andreas Gefeller Kristin Gordano David Graham Eirik Johnson Chris Jordan Didier Massard Philippe Mazaud Karin Apollonia Müller Alan Ostreicher Sarah Pickering David Underwood Michael Wolf

Other artists fitting in this group: Neeta Madahar,

Bill Jacobson and Isaac Layman.

Arranged Image and Conceptual PhotographersCaitlin Atkinson Julie Blackmon Eileen Cowin Peter Delory Todd Deutsch Chris Enos Lisa Folino Misha Gordin Michael Van Horn Bohnchang Koo Carolyn Krieg Les Krims Barbara Kruger Mario Lalich Jenny Lynn Lynette Miller Lori Nix Erwin Olaf Olivia Parker Suellen Parker Sandy Skoglund Amy Stein Grace Weston William Zuback

Other artists fitting in this group: Gonzalo Puch.

Documentary Photographers

Debbie Fleming Caffery Robert Dawson Jill Freedman David Goldblatt Fred Herzog Pieter Hugo Amanda Keller-Konya Rania Matar Bill Owens Eugene Richards Sebastian Salgado Guy Tillim

Travel Photographers

Adrienne Adam Anne-Françoise Antonetti Jeffrey Becom Linda Butler Broughton Coburn MacDuff Everton Carl De Keyzer Alan Klug Frank Lavelle Sean MacLeod Farah Mahbub Andrew Moore Lois Pierris David Samuel Robbins David Simchock Peter Steinhauer Bernice Williams Alternative and Platinum Process Photographers

Dick Arentz Gary Auerback Michael P. Berman Dan Burkholder John Paul Caponigro Mark Citret Tillman Crane Jose Miguel Ferreira Michael Frye Bob Herbst Elizabeth Holmes Bob Keefer David Michael Kennedy

Alternative and Platinum Process Photographers (continued)

Kerik Kouklis Sal Lopes Judith Monroe Michael Mutmansky Joan Myers Troy Paiva Luis González Palma Dianne Poinski Holly Roberts Susan Seubert Jack Spencer Maggie Taylor Larry Thomson Karen Vournakis

In this category, you'll find photographers using a variety of alternative processes, like hand coloring, Photoshop manipulation or altering the negative in some way. You will also find photographers using the Platinum printing process in a very traditional ways. Several artists listed in this category could also be listed in our traditional or contemporary lists.

Urban, Street and Industrial Photographers

Dave Beckerman Liza Hennessey Botkin Helen K. Garber Andrew Glickman Robert M. Johnson Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao Errol Sawyer Ken Slusher Roger Vail Harry Wilks

Primary Commercial Photographers

Tom Collicott Mel Curtis Joe Farace Lynn Goldsmith Geoff Graham Brian Harness Terry Husebye James Loftus Doug Plummer Steven Poe Andrew Prokos Doug Williams

General Fine Art Photography

Alan Adams Jorge Alcaide Geraldine Allen Jane Fulton Alt Jeff Alu John Barker Tony Blue Sheila Pree Bright Lawrie Brown Jerry Burchfield Al Camp Michael Carboy Keith Carter Juan Carlos Castro Martha Casanave Larry Chait Joanne Chilton Melvin Clark Diane Cook Courteney Coolidge D. R. Cowles Michael Creedon Isabella Darnell Robert Demar Gabriel Dinim Tanya Divjak David Donovan Mike Dowsett Rod Dresser Michael Eastman Jenny Ellerbe Mark Fields Thomas Finkenstadt Flor Garduño Jenny Gummersall Derek Harkness Tom Hricko Adam Jahiel Jackie Jasper Len Jenshel Michael Johnson Andy Katz

Steven Keller Reza Khatir Kim Kirkpatrick Ellen Land-Weber John C. Lewis Alex MacLean Richard Margolis Peter Marlow Jim McNew Lin Moore Graham Nash Elizabeth Opalenik Ted Orland Christopher Petrich John Pfahl Andrew Pilichowski-Ragno Caroline Planque Robert S. Porter Mark L. Power Chris Rainier Ken Rosenthal Nadim R. Sabella David Saffir Errol Sawyer Susan Scafati Luther Smith Aline Smithson Daniel Stainer Jan Staller Margaret Stratton Tony Stromberg Elizabeth Sunday Cole Thompson Ciro Totku Guy Tremblay Nicholas Trofimuk Rick Turek Barbara Van Cleve Craig Varjabedian Neill Whitlock Huntington Witherill Stephen Yadzinski

Mike Hagan. www.outthereimages.com

Jason Odell

Website: www.luminescentphoto.com