Hi All,
So we WILL be meeting this coming week--December 21--but we will not be meeting on December 28th. Then we will resume in the new year on January 4.
This week at home you will research the artist Tomma Abts, and then "forge" a Tomma Abts painting in your sketchbooks. This forgery is NOT a copy of an existing painting. Instead you are to make a new painting that could be mistaken for an Abts painting. In the research phase, you job is to discern what is indicative about her work, and then apply that piece of intelligence to your painting.
What we know: she is a hard edged abstract painter that only makes 15x19 paintings. Her paintings are very carefully crafted. Each painting has a fairly limited color scheme (so choose 3 or 4 colors that look good together) There is often the illusion of parts of the paintings jutting out and the viewer. We know this because there is often a suggestion of shadows being cast from some forms.
Here are some links to her work:
http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/tomma-abts/
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/abstractexpressionism/Tomma-Abts.html
http://www.artspace.com/tomma_abts
http://www.gclass.org/lessons/plans/tomma-abts-abstract-painting (feel free to do the lessons in this one!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomma_Abts
Good luck!
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