First project for A&DS...

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The Combine Painting/Mixed Media/Collage-Assemblage
Creative Project based on the Gregory Corso Poem entitled:
“BOMB”
 
After reading and discussing “BOMB”,  by Gregory Corso, you will formulate ideas to create a “Combine Work” based on this poem and possibly interpret its relevance to contemporary times and circumstances.

This work must be at least 30”X  48” on 1/8th inch poplar or Luan plywood available from Lowes or Home Depot a third dimension must also be a minimum of 5”.off the surface or may be cut unto the wood as depth or a cellar layer.  Also, collect objects and materials, cloth, rope, wire, plastic, bits of wood, dowels, urethane foam, Styrofoam pieces, newspaper, pictures, your own drawings, modeling paste, cardboard, found objects, pieces of canvas, toys, stuffed things, granny squares, metal parts, etc. Hot glue, 15 minute epoxy, tite Bond wood glue, acryic medium, comics, screws, etc.

The work can combine many techniques (Collage, Assemblage, Montage, etc.), and mediums (paint, drawing materials, photography, prints, sculptural material, etc.)and elements or objects that carry their own or a secret history.

You should consider several preliminary sketches in charcoal with Montage elements (at least 3), on heavy paper or cardboard or Bristol or etching paper etc. These drawings can be almost full scale.              

When the piece is completed, each student will present it to the class, and discuss it by means of an oral presentation supported by the preliminary drawings (small, idea sketches should be in your sketchbook this week), and how the poem fits in as if you were “teaching” what you have created.

We will begin final critiques and oral presentations on April 5th. So we must shake it!

Bruce just sent this to us. WE HAVEN'T DISCUSSED THE POEM YET. Bruce rambles like frickin' whoa. He pisses away classes because he can't stop talking, and we've had the poem for two weeks and still haven't gone over it. So now we have two weeks from yesterday to complete this thing. I hope we get into it while we start working next week, because that poem is quite possibly the most out-there work I've ever read that wasn't supposed to be out there. Or maybe it is. I don't like mind screws. >_<

I'm going to get some plywood on Thursday and maybe head down to Blick or something and see what I can pick up. I haven't been collecting anything because I don't know what I'm even going to do. Goddamnit. I should've switched classes when I saw his name on the schedule. I bet Arthur's class is better. Bruce is a nice guy, but we don't get anything done. We need to meet more than once a week or something, because three hours a week is not enough to do anything, as stupid as that sounds.