Sue Benner is such a good teacher. She has it all laid out beforehand and passes out an "agenda" with all sorts of tips and instructions. Today she showed a series of slides of the work of Modrian which I found very interesting. I have never had any art history classes, so now I know a little more of the origins of abstraction and how it has changed since the mid 19th Century. We had one assignment today and the pictures below might give you an idea of what we are doing. Sue gave each of us a picture cut from a magazine and we traded one eight inch square of fused fabric with the person on each side of us - which gave us each five fabrics. They were all supposed to be different, but I wasn't listening and mine were all the same busy fabric, so I ended up with only three fabrics. Woe am I!
We were to use only those five fabrics to interpret the magazine picture we received and use some of each fabric in our piece.. Everyone worked very hard and some of us had never done abstraction previously, so the results were mixed. And that was the lesson. Working within the instructions and limitations we did intuitive abstraction - it was hard.
In the pictures the magazine photo is on the left and each work to the right of it, except for mine where the magazine photo is below because there wasn't enough room to put them side-by-side. I didn't space some of the images very well, but I think you can get the idea. Tomorrow we will make five different 8" x 10" abstractions based on a photo we have selected and can use any fabric we wish. An abstraction with a little control.
I think the second one down on the left is the most successful one. Mine is on the lower right.
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2 comments:
I always learn something from your posts, Del.
Sue is s t r e t c h i n g your artist abilities and imagination ....wonderful exercise! I await this week's blogs to see where she takes you.
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