Day 2

 

Lets consider how humans see:

Visual

image based communication (includes text)

    •    Visual discrimination: the ability to discriminate dominant features of objects.
    •    Visual memory: the ability to recognize something when it reappears.
    •    Visual spatial relationships: the ability to perceive the position of objects.
    •    Form constancy: the ability to categorize similar objects with different features.
    •    Sequential memory: the ability to recognize a sequence of objects when they reappear.
    •    Visual figure ground: the ability to identify an object from surrounding objects.
    •    Visual closure: the ability to identify a whole figure when only parts are shown.

 

 

 

There is a difference between "looking" and "seeing"

 

 

 

 

How do visuals change perception?

 

 

So what is art? 

- art is produced in a variety of 'mediums' both 2 dimensional(2D) and 3 dimensional(3D)

Dave McKean Drawing/Illustration

Andy Warhol Printmaking

Pablo Picaso Painting

Pendleton Ward Animation

Rodin Sculpture

Banksey Street Art

Greek Vase Ceramics

Jerry Uelsmann Photography

Glass

Graphic Design

Intro to the elements of Design & Composition

- The visual world is described by a specific vocabulary that crosses all art disciplines

 

Composition is the arrangement of visual elements on the picture plane. In art we accomplish this when framing an image while shooting the photograph or when altering an image in the darkroom or image editing software. In general composition helps the photographer define the important elements in the image. There are many ideologies concerning composition two of the classic ideas are the "Rule of Thirds" and the Golden Ratio.

Orientation

Golden Ratio

Rule of Thirds

        image credit

Studio Time

- Create 5x5 drawings on paper

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Outside of Class

 

1. Download Google Photos app on your smartphone and login

 

2. Review Google Photos - How To Basics 

 

3. Review Photopea - How To Basics
 

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Projects

 

Assigned:

 

Semester Long Project: Visual Diary

[assigned] Second day of class
[due] One image uploaded to Google Photos album 1 hour before class starts (Mon, Wed, Fri)


For this assignment you are required to take a photograph that represents the "moment" you are experiencing before each class. How you interpret this is up to you. 

Upload this image to the Google Photos "Art116 Visual Diary S26-2" album.

 

 

 

Project 1: Bad Photos

 

Take 25 photographs exploring Hartwick with the camera on your smartphone. The goal is to take 25 terrible photographs. 

 

To do this you need to break all the rules. Try taking a picture while running or getting so close the image is blurry. Take images from a high angle, get low, get close, get far, hold your camera at an angle instead of perfectly horizontally. 

Upload your favorite five 'Bad Photos' to the “Art116 Bad Photos S26-2” album.  

 

Due Friday April 3rd before the beginning of class.