You also may choose to enlarge a portion or all of the painting or reduce the painting , but whatever you do, have a reproduction of the entire painting for the documentation of the project. You may find the copy in a book, through slides in the museum store, in our library, on the World Wide Web, or as a poster. The class will take a field trip to one of several museums during the first two weeks of the quarter, museum shops often have the reproductions. You will need to get approval of your selection, by your instructor by Monday of the second week of class. I must create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume, of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression.
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment.
It sugests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to expose the absolute. Using several means, analyze the painting's formal structure. Paint, draw, color at least two very different but simplified distilations of the original. Consider using a media approach utilized in ENV 101 in the Visual Images assignment.