Shattered Portrait Unit Developed by Ashley Molfino

Project Summative Objective

• Students will create a shattered self-portrait using personal descriptive words, SAT words, and patterned backgrounds to create a composition reflecting contemporary art.

Flow Chart: 90 min mod • Day 1:

– Micro lab 1: Practice • Day 2: (take high contrast digital

image of each student while they are working) – Micro Lab 2: Brainstorm – Micro Lab 3: Text

• Margaret Kilgallan • Day 3:

– Define Contemporary Art – Begin Project

• Digital Picture – Start Drawing

• Day 4: – Continue Drawing – SAT Word/Text

• Sagmeister • Swoon

• Day 5: – Finish Drawing portion – Complete Words

• Color, Text Orientation, Balance

• Day 6: – Pattern

• Kehinde Wiley • Day 7

– Continue Pattern – Finish Composition

• Day 8 – Self Critique – Group Critique – Teacher Critique

Daily Objectives

• Students will demonstrate knowledge of line, shape, shadow and value in order to complete a celebrity and self portrait

• Students will incorporate text reflecting personal traits reflecting contemporary artists.

• Students will brainstorm texts that influence aesthetic responses and creative expression including: design, functional and stylistic considerations.

• Students will demonstrate an understanding of contemporary art in order to apply personal word patterns to a self portrait.

• Students will define the word contemporary art in order to get a better understanding of its meaning.

• Students will take the art elements into consideration to create a successful final composition.

• Students will critique contemporary artists using the method: Describe Analyze, Interpret, and Judge.

Contemporary Artist Exemplars

• Swoon

• Kehinde Wiley

• Stefan Sagmeister

• Margaret Kilgallen

Swoon; Located on 14th street and

6th Ave, New York City

Margaret Kilgallen: Installation view at UCLA / Armand Hammer

Museum, Los Angeles

2000

Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Vocabulary

• Contemporary Art

• Art Elements

– Color

– Shape

– Line

• Principles of Design

– Balance

– Rhythm

– Variety

• Artist Exemplars

– Margaret Kilgallen

– Swoon

– Stefan Sagmeister

– Kehinde Wiley

Day 1 Planning Micro Lab 1: Practice

• In groups of 4 students will select a portrait of a celebrity. – Step 1: Cut the image

in to four or more pieces, the pieces can be cut however you want.

– Step 2: Lay the piece on white paper and trace the shape.

Day 1 Continued..

– Step 3: Add the facial features of the celebrity found within your shape with a pencil, measure!

– Step 4: When all group members are finished, cut out your pieces and glue them down to an 8.5 X 11 piece of paper.

Day 1: Final Product

Day 2 Planning Micro Lab 2: Brainstorming

Students will answer the following questions in their journal. A SAT Packet is required for this.

Which SAT word describes you the most and why?

What current events have effected you?

What global issues do you feel strongly about?

What are your likes and dislikes?

How does your family/outside of school life effect you?

Exemplar: Margaret Kilgallen

Untitled: Installation at Deitch Projects New york, NY. 2000.

Margaret Kilgallen

Untitled: Installation at Deitch Projects New york, NY. 2000.

Margaret Kilgallen

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists//index.html

Day 2 Micro Lab 3: Text

• Students will explore the effect text and color order to depict personal descriptive words in their journal.

• Step 1: Students will select FOUR SAT words and draw the words in a journal. Each word will need a specific text (found in the text packet) and color pallet that will be descriptive of the word itself.

• Step 2: Write down the definition of the word next to each word creation.

• Step 3: Creative background! • Step 4: Share the personal words

chosen, and given an explanation of artistic decisions.

After all of that Preparing…..

Students Finally

Begin Final Project

Students should have mastered the following in Micro Lab’s 1-3:

Text/Font and its relationship to Color

SAT Vocabulary and definitions

Spatial Relationships within pieces

Value, Shape and Shadow

Drill:11/6/2008

In paragraph form

Please answer the

following question:

If your head were to

explode, what words

would come out? How

do these words refer to

contemporary art?

Example: What current

issues and themes

effect you?

Contemporary Art: Art

dealing with current

issues and themes.

Contemporary Artists:

• Artists who create personally descriptive art (post WWII) dealing with current issues or themes. Our Artist Exemplars are: – Margaret Kilgallen – Swoon ( Caledonia Curry) – Lou Reed – Stefan Sagmeister

• In your journal: Define the word contemporary art in your own words. Use specific examples of how contemporary art relates to your surroundings. Do you ever see contemporary art?

Step 1: Portrait

• Students will utilize a digital photograph taken by the teacher as well as, a mirror in order to draw themselves from observation.

• Students will cut up the digital photograph into pieces and trace these pieces on large paper, and then fill in the piece with the corresponding facial features.

Examples

In this Portrait: the pieces have been cut using a variety of right, obtuse,

and acute angles so that the image looks shattered.

Step 2: Text • Students will use both SAT

Words and personal words descriptive of font and color in their final composition. Students refer to SAT Micro Lab # 3.

• Discuss: Overlapping techniques, Material use and properties, color, texture, font, and text orientation.

• Text Artist Exemplars: Kilgallan, Sagmeister, and Swoon.

Sean Landers: Word Painting

Sagmeister

• How do these words emulate their meaning?

• How does the background of each of these words play a role in their description?

Sagmeister; “Trying To Look Good

Limits My Life” 2004

http://www.sagmeister.com/index.html

Sagmeister

• What emotion do you feel when looking at this image?

• Positive or Negative?

• Does the text/font fit the mood of this image?

Stefan Sagmeister, poster for Lou Reed’s

“Set the Twilight Reeling” (1996)

Exemplar: Swoon

Swoon: Streets of New York, NY

Step 2: Text Continued

• Pencil the words chosen in the composition around the drawn portrait pieces.

• Use different text orientation and font to create balance.

• Words bay be located in the background, or foreground of piece.

Step 5: Pattern

• Add Pattern to the surrounding areas.

• Patter can overlap descriptive words as well as portraiture.

• Here are some examples of a contemporary artist named Kehinde Wiley.

• Contemporary Art which is represented in the present day, but also can be referred to being current in any specified period of time – Kehinde Wiley uses models found on the streets of NYC.

Takes their photograph and works from it.

Kehinde Wiley

‘Le Roi à la chasse’ (2006) 'Rubin Singleton' (2008)

http://www.kehindewiley.com/main.html

Final reflection

• Students will complete a final reflection in their journal answering the following questions: – To what extent did you solve the problem?

– What is contemporary art to you?

– How did you incorporate contemporary art into your final composition?

– What makes your piece successful?

– What would you have done differnetly?

Final Reflection Example

Reflect on your work, and a peer

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Closure

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