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https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSfjk7yZB_5cOkWWAR…/viewform
Exquisitely Connected Art (I am in! You to?)
The Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, WA, in partnership with Monmouth Arts, Red Bank, NJ invites you to participate in a national visual art community-building experience. Open to any grade level/experience level!
The project takes inspiration from the Surrealist parlor game known as “exquisite corpse.” Surrealism originated in France with artists who questioned the status quo. This exquisite corpse drawing game asked participants to take turns creating sections of a human form on a piece of paper folded to hide each successive contribution. When unfolded, the whole "body" is revealed. The game was created around 1918—another time of tremendous uncertainty—and is all about connecting!
Here are a few simple “rules” to connect our individual artistic expressions. Once you have followed the steps listed below, please take a good photo (tips below) of your finished piece and upload it on this form.
Artist Molly Gaston Johnson will curate the images and arrange them for digital display on Maryhill Museum of Art’s website, www.maryhillmuseum.org.
MATERIALS:
A ruler
A piece of paper on which you can create an 8” x 8” composition
A pencil
An eraser (just in case)
Whatever other art making supplies you have and want to use
An imagination
INSTRUCTIONS: SEE PHOTOS BELOW
1) On any white piece of paper, cut out a 8” x 8” square (“ means inches…).
2) On each of the four sides make a mark at 4”, a second mark at 4.25”and a third mark at 3.75”.
These marks create a ½ inch gap and are the points where your image will “enter/exit” to the next person's art, thus allowing all submissions to line up fluidly. This common rule will literally unite ALL the individual works of art to form an ever-growing celebration of community.
3). Connect your creation thematically to something about this moment in time:
The feelings it stirs in us
The hopes you want to express
A metaphor for today's world experience
Show how linking to others in this unknown and literal way effects each of us
Show how Positive and Negative Space interact literally and metaphorically.
4). You may wish to reflect on nature and may combine writing with imagery. Try beginning with a haiku poem.
EXAMPLE:
Look at the photos below. In #4 you can see how Molly Johnson translated her idea onto paper integrating circular forms that began by tracing a circle. Once her pattern developed in the central part of her page, she used negative and positive spaces to connect the entry/exit points of the composition. She used the poem’s words flow onto the page becoming pathways to the entry/exit points.
4) PHOTOGRAPH: Tips for a good visual art photo:
Be aware of shadows from your camera or hand
“Square” your camera to the piece so its edges run parallel to the edges of your viewfinder
Play with photo-editing tools to get the color balance that you feel best represents your art
It is easier to get a crisp focus if you do not zoom in on your piece
Use the crop tool to effectively zoom in and eliminate distracting backgrounds
Send the best-focused and squared-to-the-camera image possible
**The curator of this growing piece respectfully reserves the right to edit placement and edges to create a more visually cohesive overall piece.
STANDARDS EXPLORED
Elements of Art
Principles of Design
Positive Negative Space (as Design Strategy and as Metaphor)
Collaboration
Creative Problem Solving
Writing/Storytelling/Symbolic Thinking
Constructive Criticism/Critiquing
Deriving Meaning from (Visual) Fact
The name and photo associated with your Google account will be recorded when you upload
Submission form with more information and image examples. https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSfjk7yZB_5cOkWWAR…/viewform
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