"The Ribbon of Extremes"
The French artist, Yves Tanguy, was a surrealist artist of the 20th century. His medium is mostly oil on canvas and his subject mater is comprised primarily of abstracted shapes on a blended background. What I found most intriguing about Tanguy's work was his soft blurred backgrounds contrasted with the hard almost cartoon like figures in the foreground. His limited color pallet sets the mood of the piece, cool colors being a sadder more melancholy mood, and brighter, warmer colors being more vivid and lively.
Although I am very interested in Tanguy's work, I can't really find a way to incorporate his techniques and styles into my surrealist piece. His color limitation, however, is something I may experiment with.
May 10, 2009
ReplyDelete4th quarter update:
We have about 20 schools days left, a few of you have missed quite a few homeworks and have unfinished projects. As I sit here doing progress reports I thought it might be nice to give you a heads up on what you need to have done....
Homework: So far we've been through one round of 5 HW's (20pts.) each. Last Monday we started our second round and some of you really need to start bringing in work, two zeros will really hurt your final average. DON"T FORGET YOUR HW TOMORROW 5/11
Blog: Your blog will count as 1 project grade ( 5 assignments 20pts each). You've already had three assignments. If you miss a Friday in class, you must finish it before the next Friday or it's a big fat ZERO! no excuses, no exceptions...you have a whole week to do a project that only takes 10 minutes. If recently gave me your address you still need to have all assignments done. If YOU HAVE NOT SENT ME YOUR ADDRESS I ASSUME YOU DO NOT HAVE A BLOG AND ARE NOT DOING ASSIGNMENTS.
Class work: This quarter I will be grading your two landscape paintings, surreal painting, and the last painting involving Op Art. If you do not finish any of these paintings you will receive a zero for the project. We will spend this week and half of next working on the surreal painting. During that time we will prepare canvases for our next project.
p.s. If you have a strong staple gun at home bring it in, this will help you tremendously when stretching the canvas as the rest of us take turns using the two I have.