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Photo Credit: © Mickalene Thomas.
Forget Picture Perfect is a teen cal ss (ages 14-17) at the Brooklyn Museum taught by Kameelah Janan Rasheed.
This class blog is updated by student artists as well as the instructor.
Class Description: What’s beautiful? Who gets to decide? What if you don’t agree? Inspired by the artist Mickalene Thomas’s use of busy patterns and glitzy rhinestones, and her questioning of art-historical traditions, this digital photo course will explore artworks that challenge assumptions of what art can (or should) be. Students will combine photography, photo manipulation, collage, and other techniques to create artwork that begins with photography but doesn’t end there.
Class Description: What’s beautiful? Who gets to decide? What if you don’t agree? Inspired by the artist Mickalene Thomas’s use of busy patterns and glitzy rhinestones, and her questioning of art-historical traditions, this digital photo course will explore artworks that challenge assumptions of what art can (or should) be. Students will combine photography, photo manipulation, collage, and other techniques to create artwork that begins with photography but doesn’t end there.
Email: forgetpictureperfect@gmail.com
Twitter:
@ForgetPicPerf
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This is a work of art that I have in my house that combines photograph and other mediums of art, so I think it is relevant to this class. (I don’t know the artist’s name, to give credit.)
-Micaela
Bobby Neel Adams
Bobby Neel Adams is a photographer that takes a picture of someone when they’re young, and then another when there older. After that, he combines the two pictures creating one unique aging photograph
Awesome work by one of our youth artist!
© Briauna Gardner, 2012 // Forget Picture Perfect Class @ Brooklyn Museum
Youth artists creating their collaged self portraits inspired by Mickalene Thomas, Romare Bearden, John Stezaker @brooklynmuseum
This really is a dream job.
Week 5: Demonic self portrait project sketch.
© Andonis Hughes, 2012 // Forget Picture Perfect Class @ Brooklyn Museum
Week 5: Fun day at the office in the Brooklyn Museum!!!:D DIfferent poses for my astronomical self-portrait project.
© Julio Martinez, 2012 // Forget Picture Perfect Class @ Brooklyn Museum
Week 3: Students interviewing one another to prep for self-portrait projects.
Emily’s Turn to Post
Heyya guys,
So because it’s my week to post, I thought I’d share something that some of you might have seen before. But it is really cool and definitely worth checking out if you haven’t. ( If you don’t have a facebook sorry). It’s a page called Humans of NewYork and this photographer captures people he sees on the streets. Either because they seem really interesting visually, or he thinks they might have a cool story to share. Anyways, it’s a great example of street photography.
Week 3 of Class!
We will be finishing up our Romare Bearden collages today then moving on to work on our portraiture work.
For class today, be sure to bring:
1. two pieces of patterned clothing
2. a camera with the card reader/USB cord (if you have one)
Photo Credit: Carolina Memory (Tidings), 1970–72 Screenprint Edition 125. Courtesy of the Romare Bearden Estate. Art© Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY, NY
Class #2: Romare Bearden Collages — After exploring some master work by master collage artist, Romare Bearden, students will create collages inspired by Bearden using at least 12 self-created or found patterns/textures.
Learn more about Bearden at The Bearden Project | The Studio Museum
The Bearden Project brings together work by contemporary artists who have all been influenced by this twentieth-century master. Bearden was born in North Carolina and then spent much of his life in New York—Harlem in particular. Some of the artists in the exhibition, a sampling of the generations he affected, knew him personally. Others attended lectures and talks given by him when they were young artists just beginning their careers, and still others never met him in person, but flocked to exhibitions featuring his artworks when they were students. For many of the younger artists in this exhibition, Bearden was one of the first black artists they ever encountered.
Class #1: Pattern Palettes — After exploring the Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe exhibit and photographing attractive patterns, youth artists looked through magazines to create a 20 swatch pattern palette. Youth artists identified patterns and named these patterns.
