Week 2: Digital Imaging: Compositing

70 minutes: Photoshop tour and demos: Basic compositing using multiple layers.  Tools/techniques: lasso, marquee, feather, crop, copy, paste, move, layers, flatten, etc. using Cezanne compositing tutorial handout located online here.

DOWNLOAD CEZANNE COMPOSITING ASSIGNMENT MATERIALS HERE. The image you will be working toward, and the original Cezanne are pictured below.

20 minutes: Visit by Flaxman Library staff who will demonstrate use of art image databases, Google Image search, Flickr image tag search. See Flaxman Wired resources online: http://libraryguides.saic.edu/wired).

>Sketch 2 Reinvent the content/composition/theme of another artist’s work.  Use ARTstor or CAMIO or another good database to find a suitably high-resolution image from which to start.  Use an image at least 1024 pixels on the longer side.

LONGER EXPLANATION: Create a digital photograph that is a contemporary re-interpretation of another artist’s work—since we are working on “space” choose an artist you admire working with this topic.  If you can find an artist who deals with your archived subject matter all the better!  Examples provided in class, and Jeff Wall’s emulation of Manet is shown below as an example of how to respond to the Sketch 2 assignment.

UPLOAD this image to your blog with the original and please write a short paragraph explaining your creative intentions behind altering the original photo as you did.

>Reading Anyone for Photoshop Tennis? WIRED magazine online: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/09/47132

>Screen Check out the Tate Modern’s online exhibition of Jeff Wall’s photographs.

Jeff Wall, Picture for Women (1979)	Edouard Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergere (1882)
Sketch 2: ABOVE EXAMPLE OF A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST (LEFT) EMULATING THE COMPOSITION OF A 19TH CENTURY MASTER.