February 15th, 2012
dma105
Student Logo Projects
Digital Media Arts 105 Spring 2012 Student Projects: Logo Parody
Digital Media Arts 105 Spring 2012 Student Projects: Logo Parody
So here we have a bunch of artists, all basically making boxes and wanting the art world to accept them as Capital “A” Art. So how could it be that none of them get along? Today we look at the Minimalists, and interestingly, we see that the more similar the work of artists is, the [...]
For our second project, we will delve into Photoshop and learn how to tell stories by stitching images together. On a technical level, I am going to be looking for your ability to take parts of from different images and balance the color, the scale, and the textures so that when placed together they form [...]
The beginning of Pop Art as an artistic movement is often pegged to Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Home’s So Different, So Appealing? and that’s where we start our class today. We also look at our local fathers of Pop, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
This week, we pick up with the end of World War II. We start by looking at two very different images of soldiers. One is by George Grosz, a bleak image of a crippled WW I veteran, reduced to a beggar. The other, by Thomas Hart Benton, shows heroic young Americans heading off to Europe [...]
For our First Project, we are going to learn how to use Illustrator to create vector graphics. Most of the time when we think of digital media, we think of images made up of pixels. This is a great way to reproduce and manipulate photographic imagery, but what about clean, smooth lines? This is where [...]
Our course starts in New York in the 1940s, but 35,000 years of recorded art history exist before this point. Before we touch down with both feet running, what should we be aware of, what lessons from the past can we take with us?
Dma105 students: Here are the colors you chose in class. Use them wisely!
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