Optional Sketchbook Assignment 2: Mental Map (Tracks A & B)
It’s good to try to know yourself as an artist and visual thinker. And it’s interesting to learn from others. This week I’m asking you to tell your own story in images and words, and learn about things you might not know from other people’s stories.
- In your sketchbook, assemble ten (10) images, books, films, or even music/songs that provide a history and context for your current work or interests in art, animation and/or gaming, whether as a practitioner, viewer or player/participant. Choose works that are important to the way you think, and just as importantly, works that inspire you in ways that you can’t always perhaps put into words. Reach back into your childhood (where you may perhaps find some unexpected sources of inspiration) and look around you to collect some contemporary resources. (This assignment is particularly well-suited to a digital sketchbook, like a Tumblr or blog, but as before, if you are posting content that is not your own, please cite where you retrieved each image with a link.)
- Sequence your images/items in a way that makes sense to you, chronologically or thematically or some other way.
- In this forum, start a new thread. Give your thread a title, write a short intro (100-200 words), and post your images/list of links, or a link to your digital sketchbook/blog where you created your sequence.
- Click “Create New Thread.”
Further Reading and Web Resources:
- Bayeux Tapestry at the Museum of Reading, UK
- See the work in fine detail, panel by panel.
- The Caves at Lascaux, France
- A simulated walkthrough of the caves.
- Kerry James Marshall Lecture at National Gallery
- Marshall’s 2012 Elson lecture at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., The Importance of Being Figurative, is worth a listen (recorded March 12, 2012).
- A list of some photographers working in a way similar to Jeff Wall:
- Edward Burtynsky
Andreas Gursky
Thomas Struth
- Persepolis (the book), 2003, and Persepolis (the film), 2007
- Marjane Satrapi’s 2003 graphic novel is highly recommended, and we encourage you to see her 2007 animated feature, too. It’s available on Netflix if you have access to it in your part of the world (membership required), or on video.
- Charles Baudelaire, “The Painting of Modern Life,” in The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, 1964.
- Baudelaire’s seminal collection of essays has been republished widely. Check your library.
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