Introduction to Imagemaking

Full Details
Level
Price
Common Core
Images
No items found.

About this Course
During this course, we’ll be making exploratory images to expand your visual vocabulary. We’ll create pieces that are expressive, meditative, or ‘design-y’ to instigate, evoke, experiment, record, explain, or to try out a media. The first two weeks are experimental and exploratory; we won’t be concerned with meaning or communication (although, to be honest, every image does exist in a context, and therefore communicates—or can convey—meaning, connotation, associations, and expressiveness). In the second two weeks, we’ll invite the images to deliberately and intentionally carry meaning and communication through relational moves like juxtaposition, composition, and context. Everyone has a natural, intuitive way of putting things together. We’ll look at developing and expanding the range of approaches for putting things together, composing page spreads with your images. Since nothing exists without context, we look at how to intentionally drive the image’s connotations, meanings and associations generated through elements of composition and “visual contrasts.” through style, juxtaposition, closure and figures of speech. Ultimately, we will take the images that you create and make a book from them.
Subtitles available in English
4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week

Full Details
Formats: 
Part of resource: 
Posted 
Mar 2023
This resource has religious influence.

Similar resources

About California Institute of the Arts

CalArts offers a variety of unique programs at the undergraduate and graduate level within its six world-renowned Schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater.

Undergraduate core courses are the foundation of BFA studies at CalArts, providing a strong general education and opportunities to deepen every student's artistic practice.

More by California Institute of the Arts

thumbnail
Game Design Document: Define the Art & Concepts
Game Design Document: Define the Art & Concepts
College
thumbnail
Fundamentals of Graphic Design
Fundamentals of Graphic Design
College
thumbnail
Introduction to Typography
Introduction to Typography
College
thumbnail
Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance Works
Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance Works
College
thumbnail
Story and Narrative Development for Video Games
Story and Narrative Development for Video Games
College
thumbnail
Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop
Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop
College