Day One: Class #1 - Sept 7th 2010

CLASS #1

Introductions - to the course

Questionnaire - you fill out in class

Class overview & syllabus  - long and painful - all 15 pages of it

Library Visit

Process Journals discussion/overview

Introduction to Visual Resource Lab Book

Critiquing workshop

CRITIQUING METHOD FOR O.A.D.:  -->   IN CLASS EXPERIEMENT

1. What do you see?  (Visual description of formal elements only)

2.  What does it remind you of?

3. What feelings – if any does it raise?

4. What questions does it raise?

5.  What can you synthesize from this as far as what the content is?

1. What do you see?  (Visual description of formal elements only)

2.  What does it remind you of?

3. What feelings – if any does it raise?

4. What questions does it raise?

5.  What can you synthesize from this as far as what the content is?

Untitled (portrait of Ross in LA), 1991
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
175 lbs Fruit Flasher Candy, size variable

                                                                                                           

Bird in Space, 1923
Constantin Brancusi (French, born Romania, 1876–1957)
Marble