Como parte de la investigacion del retrato...

...vayan a artjammer.com y vean una práctica contemporanea. Busquen a Chuck Close tambien.

Los pasos a seguir en el trabajo final son:

1. Investigación: historia del retrato, estilos del retrato, retratistas de cada epoca y su estilo:
(egipcio, greco-romano, bizantino, medieval, renacentista, reformista del norte de Europa, contrareforma del Sur de Europa, Impresionismo, Post-impresionismo, Rafaelismos,cubismo,surrealismo,futurismo,expresionismo alemán,abstracción,feminista,conceptual,'earth works',post modernism, post post modern (popomo)

2. Escoger 1 artista que va ha ser el modelo que va a emular. Traer copia de pintura del auto retrato de ese artista.

3. Escoger el estilo que va a utilizar ---todos menos manga japonesa.

4. Traer una foto actual como referencia.

5. Traer papel de dibujo no menor de 18x24, lapices de dibujo, gomas, etc. (ver lista de posibles materiales en el silabario, incluyendo crayon conté)

6. 3 posibles bocetos.

Retrato contemporaneo -contemporary portrait

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/25/barcelona.obama.art/index.html

http://www.artjammer.com/identity.htm

Artist to create massive Obama portrait near Barcelona beach

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* Cuban-American artist plans to finish work before U.S. elections
* 500 tons of material will cover 2.5 acres of beachfront
* Democratic presidential candidate is "larger than life," artist says
* Project also aims to address issue of "trying to find heroes"
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From Al Goodman
CNN Madrid Bureau Chief
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MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Barack Obama sometimes gets ribbed for his outsized ideas, like the massive stage built in Denver, Colorado, to accept the Democratic presidential nomination. But an artist in Barcelona, Spain, may be about to outdo the candidate himself.
Large-format sketches have long been a focus of artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's work.

Large-format sketches have long been a focus of artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's work.
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The artist plans to create a gigantic face of Obama sculpted from gravel and sand, which will cover nearly 2.5 acres (1 hectare) of Barcelona beachfront before the U.S. elections.

"The size of the piece is intrinsic to its value," the artist, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, said Saturday.

He hopes it will be big enough to be seen on Google Earth.

"Obama's personality -- his youth, personal history and message of a new politics -- has fused with the historical moment to create someone larger than life," says the artist's dossier about the work, titled "Expectation."

The huge size also alludes "to the global impact of this election," the dossier adds.

Rodriguez-Gerada, 42, is a Cuban-born American who grew up in North Plainfield, New Jersey, near New York, and now lives in Barcelona.

The artist, who has long focused on large-format sketches and other designs, said he had been planning to put an anonymous face on Barcelona's Mediterranean beachfront but shelved the idea. Then, six weeks ago, he decided it should be Obama's face.

"Everybody's doing work about Obama," he said. "I was talking to my wife about the importance of this election internationally. It all came together."

The idea, that is. The execution of the project is still a work in progress, but with a lot of help pouring in.

The artist has created what he calls a "vectored image" from different photos of Obama, showing the candidate's face looking left over his shoulder.

He will use 500 tons of material -- mainly gravel but also sand and possibly some soil in black, brown and white tones -- to create the image on a flat piece of land slightly raised and overlooking the Mediterranean, near downtown Barcelona.

The artist and a Barcelona newspaper say the city has temporarily ceded use of the land for the project.

The portrait of Obama's face will be 445 feet long by 264 feet wide (139.28 by 82.67 meters) and the artist hopes to have it done by late next week or no later than November 3, the day before the U.S. elections.

The materials have been donated, along with bulldozers and their drivers. The crews will initially spread the materials along white lines, and other markers that will be laid out according to the sketch.

Then, the artist's technical team will direct volunteers with garden rakes to put the final touches on the materials, making sure the various colors are spread properly on the ground in order to depict Obama's eyes, hair, cheeks and collar, according to the plans.

Rodriguez-Gerada said he'll need to raise about $18,700 (15,000 euros) for other costs, such as rakes and gloves for volunteers, documentation, even portable toilets for the crew.

He said it's his "biggest work ever, in scale and complexity."

He's a self-described political independent until recently, when he joined Democrats Abroad in Spain. But he added that the art project is his alone, without help from any political organization or campaign, and he won't be paid for it.

Rodriguez-Gerada said this project also aims to address the issue of "trying to find heroes with empathy for the problems of the world. We really need empathy from Barack Obama. There's a need to do positive things for the future."

Obama's giant face would be environmentally friendly, with all natural colors, so the materials could be recycled, the artist said.

Rodriguez-Gerada's not sure how long the face would remain in place in Barcelona, because the site is slated to be used for a new municipal building.

But even if the face isn't permanent, it might be the start of outsized artistic images of Obama.

Ejemplo de una oportunidad afuera de PR

http://chroniclebooks.net/designfellowship/about.php


...en diseños de carátulas de libros....

ASIGNACION: DISEÑO DE CARÁTULA DE LIBRO O CD

1. Escoger libro o cd que va a ser el sujeto de la carátula.
2. Analizar en tėrminos de tema, personajes, eventos, estilos, y maneras de expresar cada una de las carácteristicas que se van a desarrollar. Bocetear tipo de diseño que se puede escoger: alegria, depresion, confusion, radial, piramide, etc. Refieranse a sus notas y al silabario.
3. Hacer lista de palabras-imágenes que van a bocetear.
4. Experimentos con la iconografía: textura real, o implicada, tratamientos de fondo, tratamientos de figuras, composición, ritmo, balance, en forma de S, en forma de pirámide, diagonal, horixontal, vertical, etc.
5. Hacer tres bocetos y traer a clase pasos del 1-5.

6. Hacer obra final en acuarela, o acrilico, o tinta china no menor de 8z10 y no mayor de 16z20. Puede ser en papel de dibujo, en canvasette, o en canvas.

Traer todo, 1-6 a clase.

De este ejercicio saldrá la nota de mitad de semestre. Busco que cada paso esté documentado a cabalidad y completo, incluyendo los garabatos que se hacen a mano libre.
TODO.

Problemas con la última clase

Me informaron ayer sábado que la persona que dejé a cargo de la clase no
asistió. Primero, les pido excusas por lo ocurrido. Espero podamos recuperarla.

Sin embargo, eso no quita que ustedes hayan podido continuar trabajando en sus
asignaciones para tener la crítica en clase de las tres pinturas.

Cualquier duda, ya saben me pueden escribir a mi correo electrónico. Nos vemos el viernes sDq.
Rosina