tomorrow and a heads up

First and foremost, thank you to all of you who opened up and shelled out a bit of yourselves in front of everyone. That's hip hop.

Second, a lot of people have been asking about the coming weeks so here's the run down:

. you will need a canvas stretched and prepped by yourselves for tomorrow, to paint in class

. you will need another canvas for the home assignment

. and if you would like to paint on canvas for your last assignment, you'll need one or more (depending on what you're doing) canvases.

I will go over the final presentation and project tomorrow in class.

The reading assignment is very important to your next painting. It is an excerpt from the book "Spectacular Vernaculars" by Russell A. Potter. You really need to read this joint. One hour and a half of your day, that's it!

The home assignment is to make a painting that uses pastiche and appropriation as a way of Signifyin(g) a la Potter's commentaries on hip hop, or to make a painting by combining samples from art history. Think about these works:

Pastiche as imitation, detournement:

Leonardo da Vinci

to

Basquiat

Malcom X

to

Boogie Down Productions

Caravaggio

and Holbein

to

Trenton Doyle Hancock

Velasquez

to

Francis Bacon

Picasso

to

George Condo

OR

Pastiche as "a medley of various ingredients", a sampling of art history:

David Salle

Francesca Dimattio

We only have tomorrow and 2 more weeks of class, however the last week of class is our final crits. PLEASE hand in all of your work that is late.

1. collage

2. collage painting

3. in class graffiti cropped painting

4. text painting on record covers

5. show and tell (if you were absent, email me a pdf of images)