drawnscriptive: museum assignment, tuesday november 22

A poem has cadence, flow, intonation, rhythm and pattern (meter). For this next project I want you to be mindful of two things, composition and mark making in creating the elements of poetry mentioned above in a drawing that will interpret your selected poem.

Next week we will work on a still life made of blocks which will help facilitate these ideas.

In lieu of class today, you are to go to the Philadelphia Art Museum, you are to bring me your ticket stub which should show the date so that I know that you went there today, and:

First go to the show "Here and Now: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by Ten Philadelphia Artists" located in the Berman and Stieglitz Galleries, ground floor. Write about the flow of the marks, the inclusion of color and photographs. Your opinion, no more than 500 words.

Second go to the Modern and Contemporary art gallery and compose sketches of the compositions you see in the pieces there.

Thirdly, go and search out other galleries of your interest in the Museum and sketch their compositions.

I want at least 25 drawings

(25 of them are due next tuesday)

In sketching the composition, think of doing this:

look at the painting