Keifer

YouTube Doubler

Dog Drinking Water vs. Octopus

YouTube Doubler

Will Farrell vs. Greatest Moments in Sports History

YouTube Doubler

Pygmy Goat vs. Bad Piano Playing

YouTube Doubler

YouTube Doubler

Text for Poster

Tuesday, April 28th

At the Holland Project (140 Vesta st.)

Devotion

Man the Tanks

Impurities

Gine Rose Waller

Resistance

Idol Smasher

And The Amazing Chris Lippincott

$5

6:30pm

Always All Ages


GALLERY OF HOLLAND POSTERS HERE.

Poster size:

11x17"
300dpi

Holland logo is here.

Resources for poster project

Some public domain image resources:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images

http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml

http://grin.hq.nasa.gov

http://www.oldbookillustrations.com

Some limited palette posters:

Local Bands

Royal Noble

https://royalnoble.bandcamp.com/

teen creature

http://teencreature.bandcamp.com/

TELE/VISIONS

https://televisionsss.bandcamp.com/

Alphabet Cult

http://dsix.bandcamp.com/album/alphabet-cult

spitting image

http://spittingimage.bandcamp.com/

Surf Curse

http://surfcurse.bandcamp.com/

Solterona

https://www.facebook.com/vivalasolterona

Plastic Caves

http://dsix.bandcamp.com/

Poltergash

http://shorthair.bandcamp.com/album/poltergash-ep

Casino Hearts

http://casinohearts.bandcamp.com/

Prescription

ttp://prescription.bandcamp.com/

Cat Jelly

http://catjelly.bandcamp.com/releases

Casino Trash

http://casinotrashrecords.bandcamp.com/

Franc Friday

http://francfriday.bandcamp.com/

Ghost Friends

http://ghostfriendsltd.bandcamp.com/releases

Yelsa

http://yelsa.bandcamp.com/album/yelsa-ep

Elephant Rifle

http://elephantrifle.bandcamp.com/

Reading Assignment

For Monday, I want you to write a series of short responses to some questions, in reaction to an online reading assignment. We'll also look at a handful of links in class:


Milton Glaser critiques Shepard Fairey.

Milton Glaser on referencing Marcel Duchamp and Islamic Painting motifs in his Dylan poster.


Here's the article on Shepard Fairey for you to read & respond to:

Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey, by Mark Vallen

Please answer the following questions, and print out your answers to hand in on Tuesday's class:

1. Vallen suggests Fairey has no demonstrable drawing ability, calling his art "machine art that any second-rate art student could produce." Is this an accurate appraisal of Fairey's style? Is it a relevant critique? Explain why or why not, in each case.

2. Vallen suggests that Lichtenstein's appropriation of comic strip imagery is valid, while Fairey's is not. What is the distinction he draws between the two artists? And do you think it's a valid distinction?

3. Vallen claims that the rationale behind Fairey's "Obey Giant" campaign -- to "stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the campaign and their relationship with their surroundings - because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the motive is not obvious" -- is "pointless twaddle." Does he have a point, or is this in fact a decent rationale? Why?

4. Did Fairey have any sort of responsibility to recognize the skull image from the "defiant since 89" T-shirt as an SS Skull? Why?

5. Was the use of the Koloman Moser figure for the "Obey Propaganda" poster appropriate? Did Fairey make the image his own, or does it stand too much in the shadow of the original image?

6. Is Fairey's addition of an "Obey" logo to a Black Panther's beret an act of commentary, appropriation, or something else? What does the addition of the "Obey" logo do to transform the meaning of the original image?

7. What do you think Fairey's transformation of Rupert Garcia's "Down with the Whiteness" poster ultimately means?

8. Should Fairey have issued an apology to Rene Mederos, for the use of his poster image on a T-shirt?

9. Do you think that Fairey's use of Gary Grimshaw's winged panther image violates the spirit in which it was created for the "public domain?" Grimshaw says as much: "It is an icon that people can identify with and organize around, and thus must be free of copyright restrictions and onerous ownership. That is the spirit in which the image was created. The commercial exploitation of this image is not strictly criminal because of its public domain intent, but it reeks of the very mean spirit that the image was meant to oppose." Does Grimshaw have a point, or is Fairey completely in the clear in this case?

10. Towards his conclusion, Vallen states: "The expropriation and reuse of images in art has today reached soaring heights, but that relentless mining and distortion of history will turn out to be detrimental for art, leaving it hollowed-out and meaningless in the process. When I refer to "mining" in this case I mean the hasty examination and extraction of information from our collective past as performed by individuals who do not fully comprehend it. That is precisely what Fairey is guilty of, utilizing historic images simply because he "likes" them, and not because he has any grasp of their significance as objects of art or history." Is this a vlid critique of Fairey's art? What responsibility does the artist have to the history and social context of art the imagery he/she chooses to appropriate, if any?

Vector characters

Character Project

For your character design project, due at the start of next class, please have the following:

1. An illustrator file of your character, with a short paragraph of text, explaining:

Character Name
Where character was born
Character personality traits
Character's favorite breakfast food
Character's favorite personal hero
Character's biggest personal enemy
Character's favorite TV show (can be a fictional show)
A phrase the character often says

2. An illustrator file of the character in a different outfit

3. An animated GIF of the character