Assignments and Due Dates- Topic #2: Pattern and Ornament. Part 1

Our next unit topic will be a consideration of design, specifically through the lenses of both Pattern and Ornament in art, craft and architecture.

Here are your first two assignments.

1. Read, and respond to the Ornament text below.  DUE Monday, September 25th at midnight.

Ivins, William M. ""Ornament" and the Sources of Design in the Decorative Arts." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 13, no. 2 (1918): 35-41. Available on JSTOR through the MDC Library.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/3254155

Here is the link to the google form with the reading response worksheet.

2. Sketchbook Work: Form-Based Language. DUE on Tuesday, September 26th. 

In your sketchbook, develop a personal language of shapes that draw upon your own experiences and visual environment--you can also think of this as a symbolic system which visually represents thoughts, places, actions, events, conditions and sentiments which are important to you. Avoid clichéd, and commonly received versions of imagery. For example: the use of a red octagon (stop sign) to indicate the cessation or end of something would be both clichéd and commonly received, as would the graphic representation of a ring (wedding or engagement), to indicate romantic commitment.  Your Form-Based Language can draw upon and refer to commonly received symbols, but must be refreshed by being made your own through some act of transformation. 

3. REQUIRED outside museum visit. Wolfsonian. DUE MONDAY, October 2nd at midnight.  

The Wolfsonian FIU

1001 Washington Avenue

Miami Beach

305 531 1001

You will specifically respond to the permanent collection show, Art and Design in the Modern Age.
  

I advise you to also tour other exhibits in the museum, as they will all tie into to topics introduced later in the semester. You will be able to substitute one outside visit this semester, if you are unable to attend a required one, so preparing good notes that allow you to create a response to one of the museum's other shows would be wise.

These are the museum's hours (please note the free hours on Friday evenings; regular admission for students is only $5, however, with your ID):

Mon, Tue, Thu, Sat     10am–6pm 

Wed                               Closed

Fri                                  10am–9pm (free 6–9pm)

Sun                                noon–6pm

Here is the link to the google form with the reading response worksheet.