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.

PINNED Altering 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 You can save money by spending it. I'm nobody. "What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young."- George Bernard Shaw Wise fool Bittersweet "I can resist anything but temptation."-Oscar Wilde 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

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 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? Advocacy Beauty Bizarre/Surreal Censorship Culture Compassion Conflict Desire Distortion Dreams Emotions Family Freedom Growing up Heroes Identity Inside/Out Loneliness Loss Macabre Memory Music Nostalgia Opposites Out of Place Paradox Personality Politics Power Protest Race Recycling Reflections Spirituality Transformation Research ! 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!