Creating fictional narratives with a heightened sense of the sublime.
Mark Tansey's narratives are an excellent example of the grandeur and beauty that inspires admiration among his viewers and awe.
Pictures should be able to function across the fullest range of content. The conceptual should be able to mingle with the formal and subject matter should enjoy intimate relations with both.
—Mark Tansey
Mark Tansey is an American painter born in 1949 in San Jose, CA. His work is collected by museums and collectors t/o the world. His education is from Hunter College in NYC
From the Gagosian Gallery who represents the artist's works, says this about the artist's works:
Each of Mark Tansey’s paintings is a visual adventure that explores the nature of perception, meaning, and subjectivity. Working with the traditions of figurative and landscape painting, Tansey incorporates his expansive knowledge of history in layers of literary, philosophical, and mathematical references. Distortions of perspective and scale combine with his technical mastery to complicate what it means to view and understand an image.
Painting Goals
CAZENOVIA COLLEGE Division of Art & Design
Mark Tansey's narratives are an excellent example of the grandeur and beauty that inspires admiration among his viewers and awe.
Pictures should be able to function across the fullest range of content. The conceptual should be able to mingle with the formal and subject matter should enjoy intimate relations with both.
—Mark Tansey
Mark Tansey is an American painter born in 1949 in San Jose, CA. His work is collected by museums and collectors t/o the world. His education is from Hunter College in NYC
From the Gagosian Gallery who represents the artist's works, says this about the artist's works:
Each of Mark Tansey’s paintings is a visual adventure that explores the nature of perception, meaning, and subjectivity. Working with the traditions of figurative and landscape painting, Tansey incorporates his expansive knowledge of history in layers of literary, philosophical, and mathematical references. Distortions of perspective and scale combine with his technical mastery to complicate what it means to view and understand an image.
- To create 3 collages that set up a sent of awe, question reality with a sense of surrealism. Each collage 5" x 7" minimum
- Each collage should be some sort of a landscape - look for three different types of landscapes: a winter scape, a desert scape and water scape, etc.
- Incorporate a disparate object into the scene that creates a new sense of adventure the landscape. This can be as far out as you wish, yes, here, cows can fly! It also can be as subtle as you desire.
- Translate local color of each collage into local value.
- Construct the painting from furthest thing from your eye sight forward, making adjustments to your mixed values along the way. I.e. sky would be further away than landscape, further away than a tree, etc.
- Your composed pictorial realm should be an activated expression of the landscape narrative, thus composition is key!
- Experiment with impasto paint and thin painted surfaces and variety of application techniques
CAZENOVIA COLLEGE Division of Art & Design
Assessment Rubric
Professor Jen Pepper Studio Art + Design
Areas of Evaluation
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Exceeds expectations & standards of assignment Achieves all objectives
A 10 A- 9 |
Meets expectations
B+ 8 B 7 B- 6 |
Meets some expectations C+ 5
C 4 C- 3 |
Does not meet expectations
D+ 2 D1 |
Unable to score
F0 | |
Technical: Work ethic
Efficient use of time, asks questions, time in developing idea and assignment. Use of vocabulary; spoken and written. Evidence of research beyond lecture of Mark Tansey's work | ||||||
Technical: Meeting deadlines, timely and thoroughness at critique installation, etc.
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Conceptual: Use of thumbnails, revisions, work has evolved from prior works > Composition is complex & activated / excellent use of space. All 3 collages completed thoughtfully with revisions made to final painted form
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Technical: Craft
Skillful use of paint application, tools, variety of paint physicality, attention to details within the composition, neat and clean, etc. | ||||||
Aesthetic: Visual communication of the assignment - how well is the work ‘performing’ reaching the benchmark standards of the assignment
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