Induction Project

1. Induction Project
September 2019
CERTA L2 Developing Study Skills
Joy Buck

2. Task 1 - Research
• Opt art – This is chromatic, abstract art made to create illusion or
perspective. It is usually black and white.
• De Stijl – This was foundered in 1917 by two pioneers of abstract art,
Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesbeug. De Stijl means style is Dutch.
• Pop art – This was foundered in the early to late 1950’s.
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3. Task 1 – Research – Web source
Pop Art was mainly under British and American cultural influence
through out the 1950’s.
Britain’s David Hockney and Peter Blake were portrayed as two great
people in the pop art culture. “They had a powerful impact.”
American pop culture is different to British as it is all about their own
culture and at the time, they were very different. American’s did more
representational work. This was more ‘abstract’.
British people did more irony and parodic work, ‘ manipulation of
peoples life styles’
https://www.britannica.com/art/Pop-art // 9.9.19
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4. Task 1 – Research – Web source
In 1957 pop artist Richard Hamilton listed the “ characteristics of pop
art listed in a letter to his friends and architects peter and Alison
Smithson;
“pop art is popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass produced,
young, witty, sexy, gimmicky and amorous.” “ it is big business.”
Modernist critics were horrified by the pop artists use of ‘low’ subject
matter and by their uncritical treatment of it.
“it can be seen as one of the most manifestations of postmodernism”
(This is one of the many negative opinions of pop art)
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https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/pop-art // history of pop art // 9.9.19

5. Task 1 – Research – Book Source
• Jasper Johns, the critic sees 1964. sculpmetal and glass on plaster, of
Rauschenberg's widely quoted remark that he wanted to work “in the
gap between life and art”, as well his fondness for iconoclastic
gestures. The most famous of this is ‘Eisenhower combine’; the
acquisition from de Kooning of a de Kooning drawing which was
erased and exhibited as ‘Erased by de Kooning by Robert
Rauschenberg.’
Book title/Author + Library location: LIP Lucy R.Lippard + 709.046 Pg. 23
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6. Task 1 – Research – Book source
The international art movement developed in Europe as moral, social
and political outrage against insanity of WW1. This was a very civilised
environment, world conditions made it restricted for artists in
dominant modernisms of geometric art e.g.; cubism.
Visa, Stuart Davis, in 1951, oil on canvas
“he used cubism and abstraction as lenses
to focus and portray the brush colours,
simplified shapes and sounds of the
American experience."
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Book title/Author + Library location: Richard Leslie // no. 709.046 // pg. 25.

7. Task 2a – Idea Generation [individual]
I thought of completing different pop art pieces from different times.
There are two pieces demonstrating different cultures or two different
new/old pieces. I could complete one of these at home along side
writing info about the history of them. My partner, could do one as well
and write info/ history.
The word I thought could be the tittle was Development or new-old.
“Pop art was born in Great Britain but greatly influenced by American
culture."

8. Task 2a – Idea Generation [group]
For our group idea, we have decided to complete
for pieces by various artists, this could be mixed
media.
e.g. like the Andy Warhol piece (Campbell's soup)
We are going to put them into one big piece.
This exhibition is going to be called… Pop-ular (pop
is in the tittle) and in the fount; silom.
We are going to write history beside each piece
and then compare each of the piece we have
made.
This is going to be our
colour code for these
pieces. Mostly a dark
colour paired with a
lighter colour.

9. Task 2b – Action Plan/Schedule
Session Activity Who is responsibile
1 Both of us planning the pieces (two each) and how
the layout works
Alisha and Joy (Both doing the same thing)
2 Planning/Making the thing’s that we were doing
last.
Alisha and Joy ^
3 Making the four A5 pieces (two each) and putting
them were they need to be.
Alisha and Joy ^
4 Evaluating them and showing them. Alisha and Joy ^
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10. Task 2b – Action Plan/Schedule
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• After we had done the task of trying to complete one piece each. We
realized we could only complete one. I was trying to complete this
quickly but I didn't want to rush it, so did Alisha. Time was the
problem.

11. Task 2c – Planning
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Apart from this, we thought we were going to complete four
separate pieces for one piece of paper. We planed this on here.
From this, I just stated my first piece and was going to copy a
piece by Stuart Davis (visa) and did. I did it on Photoshop
rather than drawing it out. As I was working out Photoshop,
was using the piece (visa) as a copying guide.

12. Task 4 – Production/Final Products
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Before, I realized that you
could not see the text so I
added the black box behind
the writing and also made it
white.
This is the final result, I put a
filter on the yellow
background of the piece to
make it different to the
standard piece.
I also didn't have
time to complete
all of what is on
the original.
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13. This is
my final
Product.
You can find
Alisha’s Photoshop
document in her
PowerPoint.

14. Task 5 – Evaluation – Problem Solving
• Describe three problems you faced in your project and how you solved
these
• 1. Time as we were fighting it, we thought we could get through two pieces
each but we only did one.
• 2. I didn’t get how to use photoshop at first but in this project I learnt many
things e.g. How to put shapes in free transform and put filters on to
objects. I still need to pick up a lot more information on how to become
more advanced in Photoshop.
• 3. Coming up with ideas as a team, Me and Alisha were trying to figure out
how we could do our project as we had two different ideas. We
compromised and I listened to what ideas Alisha had and then I added. It
worked out in the end.
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15. Task 5 – Evaluation – Working with others
• Choose three aspects of your production where you worked well with
your team and this benefited the project
• 1. Figuring out what we were doing for our project. Even though, we
found a problem figuring out our ideas for the project. We
compromised and found that our ideas bounced off of each other.
• 2. helping each other out in Photoshop, we asked each other if one of
us were stuck or didn’t know how to do something in photoshop. It
worked out well because Alisha taught me how to add filters to a
background as I had forgotten.
• 3. Planning out who was doing what. It was easy to know who was
doing what in our group as we were going to do the same thing.
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16. Task 5 – Evaluation - Feedback
• Discuss the feedback you received from your tutor during the project
and how you used this to improve the project
• For the feedback, we asked for help with photoshop and our tutor
(Dave) gave some advice, including multiple ways to do things e.g.
Reshape/draw irregular shapes and that improved my project a lot!
• He also advised us that we didn’t have time to complete what we
were aiming to do. We spent more time on the first PS project instead
of rushing it and starting another.
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17. Task 5 – Evaluation – Active Engagement
• Define active engagement in your studies and briefly explain how you
used it in this project
Active engagement is ‘ the joint of functioning of motivation,
conceptual knowledge, cognitive strategies and social interaction in the
project’.
I think we used this as a helpful motive to find information in the LC
and record it. We figured the idea relatively quickly with some
problems but we got through them. We worked well together and
didn’t fight over what we were doing. We came out with a great
project.
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18. Task 5 – Evaluation
Accessing and storing information
• Explain where the books/resources are for your area in the LC
• You can find Your chosen Op, Pop or De Stijl Art books on the second
floor of the college in the book no. 700.
• Explain how to take a book/resource out of the LC
• You go to the desk in the LC and ask if you can take the book (s) out,
then they scan your college I.D and give you a date to bring it back.
(to take a book back you do the exact same but ask to give it back.)
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19. Task 5 – Evaluation
Accessing and storing information
• Explain where to store electronic information on the college network
I haven’t been told where you store work on the college network but I
have gotten told to store Photoshop work and other work on your iMac
desktop or the documents in your YC account. Or just bring a memory
stick.
• Explain where you upload work when it is completed
To upload work for your tutor to mark, you just make a blog account
and link (online) your tutor to the work you have uploaded on your
blog.
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20. Task 6 - How do you learn best?
• Explain some of the ways you think you learn best [refer to the VAK
questionnaire results in tutorial]:
• I can learn best when the room/house I am in is not noisy. I like it
quiet so that I can concentrate and have no disturbances.
• Quiet classes so that I can only concentrate on learning.
• Clear targets so I know where I need to be.
• Not making it tricky to access information.
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21. Task 6 - How do you learn best?
• What makes it hard for you to study?
• Noisy people (I like quiet places as I can concentrate)
• Sometimes home life (disturbances)
• Not having the correct information.
• What strategies do you think would benefit your studies?
• Being told the correct information and printing it off so I don’t forget.
• On my days off (sometimes) coming to college if I physically cannot
work at home.
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