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March 18, 2013

Visual Culture...The Class

You have seen lots of words about this Visual Culture class, so I think it is time to show you some images. Here are some samples of work created by my students during the launch of the class in the fall of 2009.

Grant Wood’s American Gothic is often used to make comment on issues in society. The charge for the student-created work to go along with our study of American Gothic was to create a magazine cover that addressed a social problem. Students had to research opposing sides of their chosen issue and highlight them on their magazine cover, as well as compose a short paper citing their research and points of view.

BabyTalk
In studying Leonardo daVinci’s The Last Supper students researched the personality traits of the disciples and then came up with their own version with people who fit those same personality traits.

Last-Dance
As you can tell, there is significant intertwining of cross-curricular subjects in these samples. This is common throughout the class.

Students are quick to discover Lichtenstein’s repeated use of “Brad” in a number of his works. Ironically, the name of this young man’s dad really was Brad.

Brad's My Dad

Students become quite proficient in using the multitude of Photoshop tools to create their works.

So, who would like and take the class? *Wink

—Ronda Sternhagen

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