Assignment: To produce an image or images, or artworks if you like, that represent one of the Genres, or subject categories, listed below that have also been discussed and illustrated in class. It must be clear what genre category it falls into. These artworks can be created with Any medium, material, or technique: drawing, painting, photography, collage, Photoshop, etc., etc. They can be done in any style. If you need to get ideas, look at the works in the textbook or those you see in museums and elsewhere as examples. To make your images visually compelling use any colors or pictorial effects you want to. Be bold, but try to keep it simple and the genre obvious. [See Genres of Art Gallery in Openlab to see what other students did last semester]
Genres:
Animals
Caricature: A humorous or entertaining image of a well-known living person that exaggerates a personality
trait or physical feature.
Cityscape: A real or imagined city with many buildings, streets, concrete and steel. Just one block or so is a
Street Scene.
Fantasy, Comics, and Graphic Novels
Genre: A real or imagined scene from everyday life that features people.
History: A work that depicts an important historical event, from the distant past or the recent past. Landscape: A real or imagined place. It can be a field with trees and a lake, or the sea.
An image inspired by a Myth, Story, or Fairy Tale.
Nature: Close-up images of birds, insects, trees, plants, rivers, etc.
Political: An image that involves a comment on an important political or societal issue.
Portrait: An image of a living person/people that gives attention to the face.
Self- Portrait
Pure Abstraction: An image composed of lines, shapes, and colors that don’t represent real objects. Religious: An image that represents holy figures, events, or symbols from any religious tradition. Satire: A image that comments in a critical and funny way about politics or culture
Still-Life: A group of inanimate objects on a table that form a pleasing or interesting arrangement.
Steps:
1. Choose the Genre you want to represent.
2. Create the Image.
If you have an image and you don’t know what genre it is, you have not done the assignment correctly.
Please don’t use drawings or photographs you have already made. Do the assignment from scratch to get some practice in meeting a deadline.
