Special Notes from Joe:
"I've been doing this with students for
years, it can be a lot of fun. Most students aren't crazy about
it at first, but after they have done it once they want to do it
again. Here is a write-up of the lesson that one of my student
teachers did for me once. Here are the basics: You could
make cardboard viewfinders and have them practice standing in one
place (it's very important that they don't move!) and get a
whole scene in 36 shots. Have them overlap whatever they are
shooting. I always have my students try this with their cameras
before they actually shoot the scene. They have to make
sure that they can get everything they want into the amount of shots
they take. I suggest that they can have a person in it, and if
they move the person around, they can be in the shot many times (as
long as the person isn't overlapping where they were just standing)
One of the biggest problems, as with any photo, is that the students
don't get close enough to what they are photographing. I also
have them make double 4x6 prints, matt surface if possible (glossy
doesn't work as well, shows too many finger prints, rubber cement
doesn't come off as easily, looks better, etc.) The double prints help
for creativity (Walmart is cheap) Oh, make sure that when they
shoot the assignment that they don't just shoot a straight line.
They need to look up and down, if it's too long it won't fit on a
board. I use 28x44 inch boards (they cut up perfectly for 11x14 which
is what we mount most photos on. I have them tape (cellophane)
the prints down on the board before they rubber cement it. I hope this
helps. Let me know if you have any other questions - email
Joe Applebaum"
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Digital Photo Montage
from Mark Anderson
8th grade lesson
Students at Raymore-Peculiar
Middle School in Missouri were inspired by the work of
David Hockney in creating photocubism montage with digital
images. Multiple views were taken then combined into one
composition. See more work on Mark's
site - exhibit 14. |
Additional Plans:
David Hockney Lesson Plan: Photomontage -
Digital: Students
will learn and use both digital cameras, computers, perspective, and
planning techniques. The final product will be a finished
photographic piece that each student will create individually from
photos taken with the digital cameras and printed from the computer on
photo quality paper. http://www.concentric.net/~brn2bcas/eryerson/
Teaching Linear Perspective:
Many artists are very interested in making two-dimensional
artworks look three-dimensional. During the Renaissance, artists used
mathematics and close observation to invent "linear
perspective"-a technique that helps artists make things look
three dimensional. This lesson teaches the basics of drawing forms in
two-point perspective http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/teach/lp_2pointperspect_complete.html
Resources:
Videos:
Behind the Scenes: The Illusion of Depth (also listed as
Behind the Scenes with David
Hockney (1992))
Hosted by Penn and Teller, this video gives an entertaining and
educational summary of depth techniques. Upper elementary and above.
About 30 minutes.
Available from http://www.amazon.com
Masters of Illusion is an interesting introduction to
perspective techniques of the Renaissance masters and how the same
principles are used today in Hollywood's special effects. Using new
technology, this video approaches old masters in an appealing way. 30
minutes. Available from Crystal Productions: 1-800-255-8629 for a
catalog or Available from http://www.amazon.com
NOTE: These links were all active at time lesson was put
online. Please report broken links and suggest alternatives.
Additional resources for teaching perspective: http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/teach/lp_2pointperspect_support.html
Internet Resources for David Hockney:
Artcyclopedia: David Hockney on the Internet
http://artcyclopedia.com/artists/hockney_david.html
Mark Harden's Artchive - has nice biographical information and
link to
images in chronological order
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hockney.html
WebMuseum Paris: David Hockney - has biography and some of my
favorite
Hockney works - a must see for your research project
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney/
or
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/wm/paint/auth/hockney/
WWW Pop Art - short Hockney biography - no images
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~toms/PopArt/Biographies/hockney.html
Hockney at Bella Gallery
Selected works and a short biography of David Hockney.
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Hockney.html
Art and Culture - a nice reading -get to know David Hockney
(has a photo of
him) http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=262
Behind the Scenes Video - only $14.95
http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/vid/hock.html
"David Hockney, the world-famous artist whose work spans
painting, drawing,
book illustrations, photo-collage and set design, shows how modern
artists
play with the conventions of perspective, illusion of depth and the
vanishing point as he draws "a walk around a chair.""
David Hockney biography - chronology
http://www2.kah-bonn.de/ausstellungen/hockney/biog_e.htm
http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/david.htm
(another biography)
THE BIG AMERICANS
The Art of Collaboration - High quality images with excellent
discussion on
each work
http://www.nga.gov.au/BigAmericans/Theme/moving.htm
http://www.nga.gov.au/BigAmericans/Large/Hotel.htm
I like this distorted
perspective.
Interesting article - THROUGH
THE LOOKING GLASS Further
adventures in opticality
with David Hockney by Lawrence Weschler
Do a Google image search and you will
find some very nice photographs to go along with your research: http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2EF62F23
See
contemporary digital work by artist, Harold Olejarz
From Harold: Images in
the “Big
Picture” series are panoramic since they present a wide view and
provide an all-encompassing survey of a street or place. But, the
images do not pretend to have been taken in one photograph. The images
in this series are composed of twelve or more digital photos that have
been collaged together to create spatial harmonies and disharmonies,
in some passages the images seem to be continuous and in other
passages images overlap and show only half of a person or car or 3
sides of a building.
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