Select photographs from magazines (or use pictures you've taken yourself) which are:
Visually effective images
Are different from each other (in subject matter, veiwpoint, ect)
Have a line or an edge extending from one side of the photo to another side
Have no extraneous words or letterforms in them.
Neatly trim each phtograph in a rectangular format
* Within a uniformly colored rectangle....
Artfully arrange, and neatly glue, at least 5 of these photos
so that a "line" is implied which extends from the top of your composition
to the bottom, and another "line" is implied which extends from the left
side of your composition to the right side.
you may overlap photos, but each must "read" as a rectangle.
Assignment #2
1. Within a rectangle, construct a visually interesting array of "disorderly"
uncontrolled, untidy, non-representational blobs, squiggles, platters, drips, smears, smudges, scratches, ect.
As much as possible, try to avoid indicators or order, such as moter
dexterity, parrallel lines, radiating lines, geometrical shapes, obvious
repetition, transition, continuity, symmetry, consolidation of any marks
into clusters, lines, centers of interest, ect.
2. Construct, within a rectangle, a second, independant, visually interesting
construction made up of disordly, uncontrolled, non-representational blobs, ect...
which looks as different from array 1 (above) as you can get,
while still avoiding indicators of order.
3. Build a composition which looks a lot like either 1 or 2 (above),
but include within this (rectangular) construction a "found"
representational, 2D object(e.g. a photograph, a peice
of a crayon box, ect) which somehow "fits" in, or "works" in this context of blobs, splatters,...
