Catalogue Entry Assignment

FY Portfolio 2020: Catalogue Entry

Consult Chapter 6 of Sylvan Barnet's A Short Guide to Writing About Art (146-153). 

Choose one work from one contemporary artist/designer (see the link and lists below).

A) Research about the biography of your chosen artist. Write one short introductory paragraph (7-9 sentences is a good guideline).

B) Write a formal analysis of your chosen work in a single developed paragraph.

C) What are some of the underlying ideas at work in this piece of art? What is the cultural context? What kinds of values do you see in the work? Why? This will be the final paragraph. Again, probably 7-9 sentences will ensure that your ideas are developed and not merely suggested. 

This Thursday. March 5, bring with you to class your selected artist and artwork.

Finished draft due next Tuesday, March 10. Print out two copies.

Final version due Thursday, March 12, at the start of class. Upload it to Populi. No need to print it out. 

Questions: csmith@dcad.edu

Students are free to choose any artist on this list, not just ones representing their major. Many of these names are new and unfamiliar. Spend some time exploring and learning before choosing your artist and one particular work.

Fine Artists & Photographers

A very long list of contemporary artists, some of whom are animators, illustrators, and designers, is available at www.art21.org. Click on the “artists” tab. Use the search function to look for particular kinds of work.

Animators

Hayao Miyazaki

Craig McCracken

Rebecca Sugar

Pendelton Ward

Bill Plympton

Norman McLaren

Nick Park

Don Herzfeldt

Jan Švankmajer

Caroline Leaf

Nina Paley

Domee Shi

Tabaimo

William Kentridge

Adam Pescapane (PES)

Jesper Just

Catherine Sullivan

Stephen Hillenburg

Norman McLaren

Lotte Reineger

Satoshi Kon

Graphic Designers

·         Marian Bantjes; lettering artist, Vancouver

·         Erik Spiekermann; partner, Font Shop & Meta Design, Berlin

·         Emil Ruder; design educator, typographer and graphic designer, Basel

·         Cipe Pineles; publication designer, NYC

·         Paula Scher; partner, Pentagram, NYC

·         Milton Glaser; founding partner, Push Pin Studios, NYC

·         Jan Tschichold; Die neue Typographie, typographer

·         Wim Crouwel; Mr. Gridnick, Amsterdam

·         Jessica Hische; typographic designer, San Francisco

·         Seymour Chwast; founding partner, Push Pin Studios, NYC

·         Mary Wells Lawrence; founding partner, Wells Rich Green, NYC

·         Zuzana Licko; type designer & co-founder, Emigre, San Francisco

Illustrators

Lynd Ward
Howard Pyle
Jesse Wilcox-Smith
Andrew Wyeth
N.C. Wyeth
Maurice Sendek
Ralph McQuarrie
Pauline Baynes
Art Spiegelman
Neil Gaiman
Margane Satrapi
Alan Moore
Loryn Brantz
Isabelle Arsenault