Change of plans for next week, y'all:

monday:

- crit pastiche paintings (check last post for explanations)

tuesday:

- paint in class (graffiti)

*individual meetings with me (in lieu of presentations) bring the things that you would have brought to present.

- everyone is to come to class since we will be painting

Here are the individual meeting times (for those that didn't return to class from the library [clear throat] and thus didn't get to sign up, I scheduled your names below along with those who were absent.

1pm - 1:15- Karan
1:15 - 1:30- Demo
1:30 - 1:45 -Chelsea
1:45 - 2:00- Hillel
2:00 - 2:15- Claire
2:15 - 2:30-Hannah
2:30 - 2:45- Katrina
2:45 - 3:00- Diandre
3:00 - 3:15- Max
3:15 - 3:30- Soleil
3:30 - 3:45- Sam
3:45 - 4:00- Sarah
4:00 - 4:15- Amanda
4:15 - 4:30- Chris
4:30 - 4:45 -Mariah
4:45 - 5:00- Schmitty
5:00 - 5:15- Emmanuel
5:15 - 5:30- Andrew
5:30 - 5:45 - Anya

* I decided to change this so that I would get a better sense of your research as well as I would be able to help you toward your final pieces a little more (clarify things, point to some artists to look at, give you feedback before you finalize your project, etc...)

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)

day 4 . sylllabus change . homework . class assignment

Homework for tuesday Jan 12:

- Bring in 10 cropped shots of graffiti and/or screen shots of movies

- 30x30 stretched canvas

- all your paints, medium, brushes, palette, etc.

day 4/ Jan 12

Paint in class assignment - Paint "abstracted" cropped shots of graffiti on canvas, ie:

watch "Style Wars"/discussion of graffiti, breakdancing

Artists: Mark Bradford, Deb Grant, Doze Green, Christopher Wool, Tauba Auerbach

Homework for Mon Jan 18: - 3rd project

- text paintings (graffiti, lyrics), pattern, rhythm + repetition on record covers

- buy 9 vinyl records with cover from Salvation Army, Saver's, etc. ie:

- put the covers together in your own way

- Take no more than 8 words from your chosen lyrics and make a painting using its text
- Treat the color as if it were the instrumental track under the text

- Use both the colors of the record covers and paints.

-Read excerpt from Saul Williams' "The Dead Emcee Scrolls" TBA