Aim: How do artists alter objects to create new meanings?

1. Dec 2, 2013 Aim: How do artists alter objects to create new meanings? • Do Now: create a list of the meanings/uses of a PIN HW: Continue small, detailed drawings of found objects. Due Friday.

2. PINNED Altering meaning through objects

3. Paradox 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

4. Juxtaposition 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 http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/3/59

5. Contemporary Art Allora & Calzadilla • 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 http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-allora-calzadilla-in-paradox

6. 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.”

7. Pinned 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?

16. Tuesday Dec 3, 2013 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 HW: Continue small, detailed drawings of found objects. Due Friday.

17. Think DEEPER! The Content: The juxtaposed object The Form: The Artwork

18. 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! http://artinspired.pbworks.com/w/page/13819720/Themes%20to%20Explore

26. Wednesday Dec 4, 2013 Aim: How can you continue to create your Pinned reference photo ? • Do Now: practice colored pencil techniques with textbook while waiting to photograph. HW: Continue small, detailed drawings of found objects. Due Friday.

27. Thursday Dec 5, 2013 Aim: How can you continue to create your Pinned reference photo ? • Do Now: practice colored pencil techniques with textbook while waiting to photograph. HW: Continue small, detailed drawings of found objects. Due Friday. Reference photo due by end of class today!

28. Friday Dec 6, 2013 Aim: How can you begin to draw your final Pinned image? • Do Now: grid review HW: Due today Reference photo due by end of class today!