Aim: How do artists alter objects to create new meanings? Do Now: create a list of the

meanings/uses of a PIN

Dec 2, 2013

HW: Continue small, detailed drawings of found objects. Due Friday.

PINNEDAltering meaning through objects

How to Artists Alter Objects to Create New Meanings?

Paradox: A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

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Paradox

JUXTAPOSITION (Latin: juxt "side by side" + French "position")

Placing seemingly unrelated objects or images close together or side-by-side, to encourage comparisons or contrasts. Visual artists often use juxtapositions to refer to existing images or ideas and suggest new meanings for them.

’Object"Meret Oppenheim

Juxtaposition

http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/3/59

• Artist collaborators• Video, sculpture and performace

artists• Puerto Rico• Begin process by learning

meanings of different objects• practical vs symbolic meaning• unusual juxtapositions• the ideas the viewer forms about

their work is what helps seemingly unrelated things come together

Contemporary Art

Allora & Calzadilla

http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-allora-calzadilla-in-paradox

In trying to explain how they concoct their outlandish work, she said they spend their days routinely throwing out ideas and free-associating.

Ms. Allora stared at a jar of honey in front of her. “I’ll say, ‘Let’s do something with honey,’ ” she explained. “And Guillermo will start talking about bees, and he’ll say the word honeycomb, the object. And I will get on the computer and start researching what’s meaningful about honeycomb.”

Mr. Calzadilla jumped in: “There’s a discipline in a way. We go through different things: etymologies, functions, gravity operations, trying to work every angle.”

Create a drawing of an object that has been altered to create a new, symbolic meaning.

Meanings behind the word "PIN"

"The child was pinned under the fallen tree”immobilise, immobilize, trap "pin the needle to the shirt" (attach) "pin the blame on the innocent man" "she pinned her gaze on the man" (fix)"pin down the butterfly" (pierce)

What happens when you take the practical use of a pin and pair it with something seemingly unrelated? How does this create a new meaning?

Pinned

Aim: How can you alter your own object through the use of a pin to create a new meaning? Do Now: complete the brainstorm

worksheet/visual organizer

Tuesday Dec 3, 2013

HW: Continue small, detailed drawings of found objects. Due Friday.

Form + Content

= Artwork

What is the underlying

concept you would like to

express through your art?

What other object (in this case,

what kind of pin) can be added to

this image to construct the

meaning of the artwork?

What will your final

composition look like?

What objects represent this topic? What

material is best suited to create

this object?

The Content:

The Form: The juxtaposed object

The Artwork

Think DEEPER!

What concepts can you explore?AdvocacyBeautyBizarre/SurrealCensorshipCultureCompassionConflictDesireDistortionDreamsEmotionsFamilyFreedomGrowing upHeroesIdentityInside/OutLonelinessLoss

MacabreMemoryMusicNostalgiaOppositesOut of PlaceParadoxPersonalityPoliticsPowerProtestRaceRecyclingReflectionsSpiritualityTransformation

Research!

http://artinspired.pbworks.com/w/page/13819720/Themes%20to%20Explore

Aim: How can you continue to create your Pinned reference photo ? Do Now: practice colored pencil techniques

with textbook while waiting to photograph.

Wednesday Dec 4, 2013

HW: Continue small, detailed drawings of found objects. Due Friday.

Aim: How can you continue to create your Pinned reference photo ? Do Now: practice colored pencil techniques

with textbook while waiting to photograph.

Thursday Dec 5, 2013

HW: Continue small, detailed drawings of found objects. Due Friday.

Reference photo due by end of class today!

Aim: How can you begin to draw your final Pinned image? Do Now: grid review

Friday Dec 6, 2013

HW: Due today

Reference photo due by end of class today!