ARTE 250: computer technology in art education
SPRING 2002
Concepts, themes, and big-ideas can be used as the focus of curriculum and instruction in art. For this assignment, students are asked to create a 60-second commercial in which they attempt to “sell” a concept, theme, or big idea to the viewers.
These students used works of art, either explicitly or implicitly, to help sell their concepts.
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Created with iMovie
"Keeping with the idea of innocence and society, this piece is about women in society and our preoccupation with beauty. And even though she isn't a child, in a way she is still 'innocence,' she is a pawn of society and what society wants her to be."
"...I really wanted to approach the subject of love in a way that would eliminate the corny stereotype that it has been given. I really wanted to focus more on the idea that love has many angles and can be expressed in many different ways. To sell this concept I recorded... a group of friends to discover how a modern generation of 2002 interprets the term, and then I used a piece of art work to reinforce ideas of our generation."
"Squatting is a way of life that has somehow become acceptable in today’s world; however in earlier times you would have been assumed to be without pride and personal wealth, and it socially would be considered very demeaning way of life. Currently many young people have this way of life. These people live off other that may or may not have the funds to support them. Theses are the people that come to more stable individuals in a time of need, and out of the goodness in your heart, you tell them they can stay with you until they get back on their feet. These people often end up staying for many months until they view the caregiver’s home as their own. Then the caregiver will have to take drastic measures to remove the Squatters when they become a burden on the caregiver and their lifestyle."
"It’s been my experience that people have countless positive, negative, uncertain, and contradictory opinions on feminism. To both avoid controversy and stir it up, I chose two fairly loose, large and opposing categories of perceptions of women for my projects: woman as the goddess, and woman as the bitch...I opted to use some of Cindy Sherman's film stills to help sell my concept, since she often deals with stereotypes of women in her own work. "
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"I wanted to convey the idea that everyone is beautiful just as others before them. To show this I wanted to pose my models in the poses and positions of a famous work of art. Somehow I wanted the connection to be made that we are works of art ourselves."
"My commercial was...an attempt to show the fascination that the living have with the dead. I used many still images of famous people from the history of mankind, literature, Government, religion, popular culture, etc. Just the fact that these images are readily available on the Internet subtly demonstrated the concept. In addition, the historical references to man's knowledge of his own anatomy and attempts to, in one way or another, preserve that construct past the event of death illustrate the point further."
Stephanie (5 MB)