Have your sketchbooks out and ready by the time I shut the door. Today we are watching a video of Jackson Pollock painting. Keep in mind your ideas of chaos and order while you watch and take notes, at the end of the video write you thoughts and reflections about what you heard and saw.
Operative words are the essential words in a sentence, story, poem, or script. Performers and spoken word poets stress or emphasize these words when performing to give them impact. We scan for them for test and highlight or visually emphasize them to draw attention, so that we can easily find them later.
Look over all your previous bellwork and choose important words or phrases. Highlight them in some way; Draw a shape around them, make them bold, use a different color or material. These should be words or phrases that you are drawn to so trust your instinct. After you find at least three or four operative words or phrases isolate one and use it as inspiration for a random word continuos thought exercise. What does this word or phrase mean to you? why is it important? Level one: Basic observations
Level Two: What can the viewer assume based on what is there? Level Three: Artist's intentions Level Four: Personal comments on the work. Level One observation: State what you see. What is pictured in this triptych?
Level Two observation: Similarities and differences between the three images. Level Three observation: What is some symbolism of the objects used? Level Four observation: How do these three images create a story? |
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