social commentary project: artist as social critic realized through linocut or woodblock printing
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Social Commentary Project:Artist as Social Critic
Realized Through Linocut or Woodblock Printing
Social Commentary Issues• Age Discrimination• Animal Rights• Anorexia Nervosa• Bulimia Nervosa• Bullying• Child Labor• Environmental Pollution• Equal Pay• Global Warming• Homelessness• Hunger• Identity Theft
• Identity Theft• NRA• Obesity• Poverty• Racism• Recycling and Conservation• Smoking/Tobacco Use• Social Networking and Privacy• Social injustice• Stereotyping• Terrorism• Texting While Driving• Unemployment
Proposal in your sketchbook
1. Why am I doing this? What are you passionate about?
2. What do I need? Materials, images, etc.?3. Who cares? Who is your audience?4. How do I go about doing it? Printing making.5. Where does it need to be? Installation? Site-
specific?6. Thumbnail sketches. Plan it out before cutting.
Examples from Art History
Honore Daumier
Jose Guadalupe Posada
Projects Requirements• One fully developed series of 5 original prints,
properly labeled and with a clean, precise 2-inch border around the image. (This will come from one block, just printed 5 times.)
• Must include a diversity of line quality and mark marking
• Must include a unique and dynamic composition. Be creative, not didactic!
Deadline: installed Friday, 11/20 for crit. with finished artist statement.