Allison Surprenant

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  • Video

    Assignment Project #4 Video Category Description Formal Review artists who work in the media and framing, sequencing, and shooting principles Technical Work in video planning, shooting, and editing your work Conceptual  Project a narrative as clearly as possible (with room for viewer interpretation) for your idea   Process I originally had a much more complex…

  • Guerilla Installation

    Assignment Project #3: Guerilla Installation Formal  Scale, form, proximity, proportion, structure Technical ·      Work using modular forms in a non traditional space·      Create a work for a specific location considering space Conceptual Choose a site where you will be constructing a modular composition that will be built off site and reconstructed onsite.   Description: Using…

  • Expressive Hand

    Assignment Project #1: Expressive Hand Formal  Scale, proportion, size, gesture, color Technical ·      Maquette creation·      Direct observational rendering using sighting tools·      Balance a larger than life scale object·      Subtractive method    Conceptual Create a hand that gesturally conveys a message to the viewer   Description: After defining what expressive means you will construct: This hand…

  • Adornments

    Assignment Category Description Formal Create a 3D customer based product Technical Work at a smaller scale on an iterative product series·       use high fire clay and glaze·       Consider efficient methods for creating forms  Conceptual Understand what material, time, and customer driven work needs to consider to be profitable Working with high fire cone 10 clay…

  • Kathy Butterly Presentation

    Audio Transcript SLIDE 1-2 Kathy Butterly was born in 1963 in Amityville NY. She graduated from Moore College of Art – located in PA in 1986 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She then received her Master of Fine Arts at University of California in 1990.  SLIDE 3 Butterly studied with Robert Arneson who was…

  • Wheel Thrown Elements

    Assignment Formal Create a visually dynamic object using color, open forms, texture and rhythm. Technical Learn to use the pottery wheel. Create a functional object.Use mixed building methods to create a form. Conceptual Learn to use bowls/open form to create a closed form. This is a multiple part project that should have results on specific dates. …

  • Historical Vessel Adaptation

    Formal Elements of design: color, texture, material, scale,  Technical Correct use of underglaze and clear glazeUse mixed methods of hand building to create a hollow formAdditive and subtractive methods  Conceptual Create a contemporary object using forms and iconography from the tradition of historic vessels For this project you are to choose 3 different vessel forms…

  • Two Slumbers

    Through the 17th and 19th century, Europe and the United States were in a time of revolution and unrest. The Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism were movements all responding to the instability of their environment at the time. Neoclassicism and Romanticism in particular had a polar difference in reaction to their climate.  Neoclassicism was more…

  • The Art of The Game

    The High Renaissance is known for its prioritized values in harmony, balance, and ideal beauty, but later movements broke from these ideals. Mannerism and Baroque responded to changing times with very different values, intellect and ambiguity, and emotion and accessibility. These differences are clear when comparing how each depicts a tabletop game. Mannerism held strong…

  • Powerful and Divine Foundations

    Vijayanagara architecture blends Hindu and Islamic styles, as seen in the Queen’s Bathhouse. It reflects how the Sangama brothers, Harihara I and Bukka, shaped a distinct identity for their newly founded kingdom in response to outside Islamic influence.There’s some debate about whether the brothers came from the Kakatiya Kingdom or the Hoysala Empire (which eventually…

  • Defining Women Should Not Be to Define Modernism

    To be modern is to challenge the present. Post-Impressionist artists did just that; they rejected tradition, embraced emotion, and redefined what art could express. As you can see to the right, this movement’s style exhibited imperfect lines and unnaturalistic colors. They were reacting to the Impressionists, who were beginning to embrace brushstrokes and color. They…

  • From Rebirth to Revenue

    The Renaissance literally translates to “rebirth,” a rebirth from a period marked by famine, war, and the Black Death. The medieval period was not a habitable era for the pursuit of art, and the art that was made had a slightly different focus in content. However, during the Renaissance, there was an upsurge in quantity…

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