I had promised to exhibit student work on this blog, but then I didn't deliver, here now are some examples with explanations.
Here is an exercise by a 7th grader. The assignment was to take a photograph and first draw it as realistically as possible, then in two more steps, draw it abstracting the basic geometric shape until in the third drawing what is left is nearly non-objective.
This is another 7th grade example. We were studying shape and discussed how sometimes in analytical cubism, artists like Braques and Picasso employed multiple perspectives. Students then were asked to draw two or three simplified portraits from different points of view, only on the same page, so that each new drawing was superimposed over the previous one. Then they were asked to find the new shapes created by the overlaps and color them in so that no two neighboring shapes are the same color. This can prove to be a pretty challenging puzzle.
Here is one by a pair of the high school painting students after studying Williem de Kooning's abstract expressionism. This was done in tempra on paper entirely with pallette knives. Jessica and Ryan tell me that it represents one person- the green is the facade they show the rest of the world and the black is the inner-self. Pretty cool that Freshmen can come up with that kind of Freudian construct of id/ego/super-ego without ever having studied psychology!
Here is an exercise by a 7th grader. The assignment was to take a photograph and first draw it as realistically as possible, then in two more steps, draw it abstracting the basic geometric shape until in the third drawing what is left is nearly non-objective.
This is another 7th grade example. We were studying shape and discussed how sometimes in analytical cubism, artists like Braques and Picasso employed multiple perspectives. Students then were asked to draw two or three simplified portraits from different points of view, only on the same page, so that each new drawing was superimposed over the previous one. Then they were asked to find the new shapes created by the overlaps and color them in so that no two neighboring shapes are the same color. This can prove to be a pretty challenging puzzle.
Here is one by a pair of the high school painting students after studying Williem de Kooning's abstract expressionism. This was done in tempra on paper entirely with pallette knives. Jessica and Ryan tell me that it represents one person- the green is the facade they show the rest of the world and the black is the inner-self. Pretty cool that Freshmen can come up with that kind of Freudian construct of id/ego/super-ego without ever having studied psychology!
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