Title: Critique Groups for Project 1
Course: TAACCCT - Found. of Design - ART 126 > Section: Course Content

YCCC_ART 126FoundDesign_CritiqueGroupsProject 1.docx You will be a member of one of three groups which I have set up. You will DISCUSS YOUR PROJECT (as described below).

Upload your five images, labeled as instructed on the original assignment pdf. Please keep the jpegs to a maximum of @800 pixels on largest side (at 72 dpi). That will make things easier for everybody. Please if possible try to upload all images into the one post after doing the short written synopsis described below:

DISCUSS YOUR PROJECT. Give us a brief introduction to your own individual process, etc. This should be a couple of short paragraphs or so. How did you come up with your idea? What problems did you encounter, what were your "aha" moments? If you were asked to assign a title to your work, what would it be? You will be discussing your "Thinking, Looking, Doing" as described in the beginning of your textbook.

UPLOAD YOUR IMAGES INTO THE CONTENT AREA TEXT FIELD using the photo icon, which is third from left on the bottom row.

We will be doing a mixture of what I generally do in the classroom and what will work online in a discussion format.

What I would like for you to do is the following:

For the purposes of this first critique we will keep our comments within the first four chapters of the textbook - Design Basics by David A. Lauer & Stephen Pentak; 9th Edition. I have listed the elements I would like you to address specifically (below).

For EACH of the students in your group you shall describe the following (more or less in this order) to be done at the end of their images.

1. Describe how Unity is achieved by repetition of the motifs and how successful was he/she in achieving Unity?
2. Where is the Emphasis? Discuss the Focal Point (yes, you can use words to the best of your ability to describe placement, etc. for these questions...)
3. Describe how in the white shapes on black changing Scale and Proportion affect all of the above.
4. Last, please add any comments that are not necessarily included in the questions above, any things you would like to share with your classmate. What would YOU have titled their work? Does it remind you of something else or make you think of something? Please be very open-minded and feel very free to let your thoughts reach and soar like the birds pictured!

I will check in over the coming days and jump in after you all have a good start. I do understand that an inherent part of this process is the fact that once a student comments on another student's work and answers the questions, the next student(s) who have the same questions to answer on the same student's work, do not want to just repeat what the previous student has already just pointed out. We will do the best we can to see how each of you can come up with your own original way of sharing with each of your classmates in your group, even if there is an obvious answer (ie. focal point, etc.)

Again, patience will be our best friend.

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