The Object of Today's Lesson

is to:•Constructively Take part in a Group discussion about an Artist (try to answer at least 1 Question minimum)

•Effectively Analyse Imagery using Subject specific Language.

•Successfully Attempt the Style of Karl Blossfeldt using Felt & Water to Create Tone.

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What is the Subject matter in this piece of Work?

How do You think these Images have been Created?

What Tools / Media do you think he has used?

How would you describe his Choice of Composition of his Work?

Why do you think he has done this?

What else does his work remind you of? If you didn’t Know they were Plants.

How would you describe his Style? There is no right or wrong answer it is your opinion.

Why do you think Karl Blossfeldt chose to create his images in Black & White?

What Effect does it have?

What is Karl Blossfeldt trying to make us (as his audience ) understand or appreciate?

Karl Blossfeldt (1865 – 1932) was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher, and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany, at the turn of the century. He worked with a camera he designed himself. That camera allowed him to greatly magnify the objects he was capturing, to up to 30 times their actual size. He spent much of his time devoted to the study of nature. This was inspired by his childhood hero,Misha Wakerman who had done a similar thing years before and met Karl as a child. In his career of more than 30 years, he photographed nothing but plants, or rather, sections of plants. Blossfeldt, however, was neither a trained photographer nor a botanist. He was a sculptor and art professor who produced photographs to generate teaching material for his students. In many of his photographs, he would zoom in so close to a plant that the plant no longer looked like a plant. The images he created looked more like lovely, abstract forms. His photos revealed the amazing detail found in nature.

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Homework for next Thursday is to:Research the Work of Karl Blossfeldt

A successful Piece of work should include:

•Images

•Your Drawings

•Contain Facts & mainly your opinions

• & presented appropriately.