DejeunerHUA CHEN
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My illustration is an exploration for me; not only in subject matter, but in style and perspective as well. The main characters of my story are rendered as significantly smaller than the environment around them to reflect how overwhelming it can be at times to live in the modern world. Stylistically, I was inspired by the detail, color, and linework of East Asian art. I wanted to emphasize the sense of having the forest loom over the figures, so I created an extreme perspective and distorted the trees to create a more imposing appearance. Most of the narratives I’ve seen are idealized—they reflect our wishes for clean-cut, resolved worlds and happy endings. I wanted to try my hand at creating a narrative about an open-ended/more realistic journey, one that wouldn’t necessarily end in a happy ending (or end definitively at all) but would instead be rather ambiguous and could be interpreted by the viewer. The tale of the two very small people lost in a very big world could continue at any point.
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Instructor Resources
INSTRUCTOR
Julie Limerick
Torrey Pines High School
Each of the 4 pieces exhibited by my students are artworks they have created in response to the same prompt assigned to them in November for their Concentration section of their AP portfolios, however these are all very recent compositions. As an AP Studio Art teacher my job is to help my students realize their artistic potential and build their technical mastery by challenging them every step of the way. I assign work by concept and encourage the use of a variety of mediums from student to student rather than introducing specific class assignments. As they progress I often ask them to think of each piece as a "moment in time" or a "frame from a movie", in other words the viewer should linger just a bit longer as they ponder what may happen next, and what may have happened in the moments before this scene occurred. To inspire them and get their engines running I give them the following hand-out.
Julie Limerick
Torrey Pines High School
Each of the 4 pieces exhibited by my students are artworks they have created in response to the same prompt assigned to them in November for their Concentration section of their AP portfolios, however these are all very recent compositions. As an AP Studio Art teacher my job is to help my students realize their artistic potential and build their technical mastery by challenging them every step of the way. I assign work by concept and encourage the use of a variety of mediums from student to student rather than introducing specific class assignments. As they progress I often ask them to think of each piece as a "moment in time" or a "frame from a movie", in other words the viewer should linger just a bit longer as they ponder what may happen next, and what may have happened in the moments before this scene occurred. To inspire them and get their engines running I give them the following hand-out.
LESSON PLAN
What is a Concentration?
What is a Concentration?
