by Mary Erickson PhD Education Consultant amp Professor of Art with Ellen Murray Meissinger Artist amp Professor of Art and her students at Arizona State University International Guild ID: 278709
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From Ordinary to Extraordinaryby Mary Erickson Ph.D. Education Consultant & Professor of Artwith Ellen Murray Meissinger Artist & Professor of Art and her students at Arizona State University
International Guild
of Realism
Eighth Annual Juried ExhibitionSlide2
What could be more ordinary than five tin cans and four partially peeled oranges? How did artist Nino Dobrosavljevic transform these mundane objects into something extraordinary? How does the position of each object add to the “drama?”Slide3
How does the setting of Cat Corcilius’ Tea and Roses painting help transform a simple teapot into something more? How do the objects around the teapot suggest a story?Slide4
In The Music Lesson, artist Barbara Rudolf created a setting for the violin by combining an unlikely set of human-made indoor objects with natural objects from the outdoors.What story do you “read” in this painting?Slide5
Your assignment is to make a drawing that transforms an ordinary object into something extraordinary.1. Choose an ordinary object.Slide6
2. Dramatize your object by carefully choosing the viewpoint from which it is seen ….seen below eye level seen above eye levelSlide7
… or dramatize your object by carefully choosing its position.Slide8
3. Create a setting for the object by adding real or imaginary surroundings.4. Finish your drawing with a touch of color.
Between rock strata at eye level.
Among tomatoes below eye level.
In suburbia above
eye
level.
Between
books.
On a tree branch.
Tipped on an incline.Slide9
All the university students in these examples drew ordinary cups. They sketched them in several positions from several points of view. Ariana RamirezJoaquin Franco Munoz
Daniela Michelle Slide10
Then the students placed their cups within settings by adding surroundings.Your setting may be realistic or imaginary or strictly visual.
Halley Nguyen
Zachary
Osowski
Caitlin Kaiser
Ana Smith
Christine Weeks Slide11
Finally, most students choose to add some color.Joaquin Franco Munoz
Stephanie Hagen
Nicole
Giro
Faith Brown
Connor
McShane
Rebecca LopezSlide12
Derek Brennan titled his animated, top-down view of a cup and saucer Tornado in the Midwest.Slide13
Ariana Ramirez wrote “I wanted the vessel to be a home for something. Thinking about tea or coffee steam, I made that something a ghost couple. They stand in the opening teaching their son, who’s just left home, about making good first impressions.”Slide14
In-process photos of Fabian Hernandez’s work illustrate how one student transformed an ordinary object into an extraordinary one. First, he made a pencil drawing of a stack of cups in various positions. Next, he traced the drawing with a fine-tip ink pen. To add drama, he added human figures sitting and standing among the cups.Slide15
Fabian refined his drawing and began to create a setting for it. He made a new pencil sketch of his work to help him plan the placement of colors.“When I was … creating the piece I was thinking of the materials of which the cups are made. So I depicted the cups as a mountain to make it one with the earth.” Slide16
Fabian wrote: “I believe the title should be up to the viewer because anyone can interpret them in their own way.”Slide17
What ordinary object will you transform into something extraordinary through your selection of point of view, object positioning and setting? Janet WeaverSlide18
Thank you to the following artists for the use of their artworks in this presentation.Cat Corcilius Nino Dobrosavljevic Barbara RudolfJanet Weaver& Ellen Murray Meissinger’s art class at Arizona State UniversitySupport for this curriculum unit was made possible by a grant from the Friends of Tempe Center for the Arts.