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Project Breif

Art & Design project

I am going to create work responding to my chosen theme – Home.

I will do this by using film and/ or photography and creating a digital collage. I will use photo editing software available to me at home and at the college. i.e. Photoshop and Iphoto.

I plan to project my images onto surfaces and / or walls. If however during the course of my research I decide that i will, for example, be creating not one collage but 10, then that is what I will do.

My targeted audience is people ages 18 – 50 that can relate to concept of home in a more abstracted form that the literal sense.

I foresee my constraints being access to computers and materials, as I will mainly be creating work at college and all computers are of course shared.

I can see another restraint being time management. I will have to make sure to manage my time correctly and follow my guide.

Week 1, 2 and 3 – I will use this time to write this brief, as well and do research on more artists and different techniques.

Week 4 and 7 – I will try out a range of techniques from the initial research by Looking into different concepts of my theme, home, by looking at poetry, literature, film, talking to people and writing notes about their own concepts of home. I will experiment with what I find visually.

Week 8 and 9 – I will research different ways work can be presented and experiment with the research I find.

Week 10 and 14 – I will create my final work.

Week 15 and 16 – I will focus on how I will present my work in a gallery setting and set it up.

I plan to evaluate my work by leaving a comments book next to the work at the exhibition. I feel this will be a more honest and realistic way to receive feedback.

I will look at a range of artists that work digitally, with collage, film and different concepts. It is a list that I will add to as I work through this unit.

Artists:

Hannah Hoch
Marcel Duchamp
Max Ernst
Ritchard Hamilton
Pablo Picasso
Robert Rauschenberg
Jean Arp
Gustav Metzger
Tony Oursler
Jean Painlevé
Angela Bulloch
James Ritchard

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