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Exams: 2004 Studio Art 2-D Design: Concentration -- Katie Daly
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Plano West Senior High School
Plano, Texas
Student Work
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Student Commentary
Briefly define the nature of your concentration project.
My concentration delves deep into the culture and underlying attributes of the music industry. I am very passionate about music and think of it as audible pieces of art, but sometimes I find myself frustrated by the politics and lack of creativity that the music industry and pop culture often add. This frustration and confusion in wondering where the industry will go next lent to the emphasis on rhythm and movement in my pieces. I wanted to make the pieces mimic the idea of music while also displaying chaos and surprise. As my concentration developed, the juxtaposition of the shapes, patterns, and colors became more important in producing contrast. The contrast was helpful in portraying both the organic versus the industrial sides of music and the mainstream versus the artistic and innovative attributes of the industry.
Briefly describe the development of your concentration project and the sources of your ideas. You may refer to specific slides as examples.
My ideas for my pieces came from examining how the business aspect of the music industry sometimes puts an industrial, molded edge to the organic, free-spirited nature of music. Eventually, I found a way to portray this contrast by placing symbolic objects into strange environments (slide 10, 11), placing black and white next to colorful objects (slide 6), and putting abstract patterns next to recognizable images (slides 9, 10, 11, 12). The pop artist use of recognizable imagery and collage, James Rosenquist's juxtaposition, and Jackson Pollock's sense of movement were probably the most influential in the development of my works. I began to find that a lot of my ideas about the music industry paralleled a lot of the concepts behind the pop art movement of the 50s and 60s. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg displayed a sense of frustration with the way the media and mass communication were invading streets everywhere. My personal frustration evolved from blurred colors with intense dark lines (slides 1, 2, 3) to chaotic lines with garish colors (slides 5, 6) to sharper recognizable images with the movement lying in the collage and the mixing in the background colors (slides 9, 10, 11, 12). I also thought about album covers and the way they attract album buyers while still being able to hint at the type of music inside. Sometimes the look and visual ambience of bands and music icons is almost as important as the music itself.
What medium or media did you use?
Initially, I used oil paint which allowed for rich colors and interesting contrast. After about three pieces, however, I experimented with mixed media and pastel because I felt like the pieces were too static and not as mysterious as I wanted them to be. Eventually, I was drawn to acrylic paint since it dried faster and allowed me more versatility in developing a layering effect. I also used a variety of printing and screen techniques, which gave new texture and line variety to my paintings. The final works are acrylic paintings that have evolved from magazine and patterned paper collages that I made in my sketchbook.
* Important Note:
The numbers of the slides run from top left to bottom right.
- 19 x 27, oil paint
- 15 x 20, oil paint
- 16 x 20, oil paint
- 16 x 20, mixed media
- 16 x 20, pastel
- 24 x 30, acrylic
- 15 x 19, acrylic
- 18 x 24, oil paint
- 21 x 28, acrylic
- 19 x 27, acrylic
- 13 x 19, acrylic
- 15 x 20, acrylic
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