ILLUS-3768

2D OR NOT 2D

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Course Level: Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, 5th Year, Graduate

3 CREDITS

Current illustration employs varied and resourceful modes of expression to communicate both forcefully and poetically. Illustration has historically tended to confine itself to two dimensions: art made flat, reproduced flat. But for some visual statements, the best articulation involves the third dimension. Eloquence occasionally requires that a line lift off the page, that color sculpt itself into shape, and that form not be wholly illusory.

Weekly assignments combine illustration objectives with a playful spirit of exploring materials for its own sake. Simple ingredients include plain paper & junk mail: cut, crimped, ripped, twisted, poked, prodded & glued. Layered cutouts extracted from old publications will be added & subtracted. Quick experiments will be the basis for compositions that will animate shadow boxes and tell stories.

Techniques with paper pulp, polymer & air-dry clays will be demonstrated (as low-relief and over armatures). Scavenged objects and supplies to be disassembled & reconstructed in fresh configurations are another way to create images. Whatever the initial steps, pieces will be finished with mixed media, collage and other treatments that unify the whole. Idea and technique come together so these illustrations will be anything but shallow.

Capacity: 15

Registration Restriction: Open to all when offered in Wintersession

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