THE ARTIST’S JOURNEY 9th-GRADE – 2019/20
Tolentino / Yergens
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THE ARTIST’S JOURNEY: THE CREATIVE PROCESS MADE VISUAL Tolentino / Yergens 2019-20
Students in Introduction to Creative Process began the Artist’s Journey project by independently researching the life and work of an artist. They each examined one important moment in that artist’s life and were tasked with creating a graphic novel that illustrates this moment. Students applied new drawing techniques and knowledge of the elements and principles of art to produce clear and engaging drawings with pen and ink. They then used Photoshop to digitize and colorize their graphic novel illustrations. These investigations in visual storytelling and art historical research are brought to life in this exciting anthology.
Demonstrate ability to communicate meaning through artistic choices.
Use the elements of Line, Shape/form, color, value, texture, space & perspective to demonstrate how they can be used to convey a message.
Engage in critique and feedback from adults and peers in order to refine and complete artistic work.
Use technology to manipulate, create and present images.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Alejandra Rodriguez Horita
Georges Braque
6-7
Alexandre Braga Filho
Joan Miró
8-9
Alexandre Cintra
Tarsila do Amaral
10-11
Ana Laura Vieitas
Joan Miró
12-13
Ana Teresa Fabiani
Maria Martins
14-15
Angelo Marotto
Salvador Dalí
16-17
Anna Luiza Galvez
Meret Oppenheim
18-19
Antonio Kheirallah
Kurt Schwitters
20-21
Antônio Leal
Man Ray
22-23
Arthur Feldman
Paul Klee
24-25
Bernardo Leal
Dora Maar
26-27
Carlo Fialdini
Hannah Höch
28-29
Carlos Pinto
Max Ernst
30-31
Carolina Gouvea
Marcel Duchamp
32-33
Carolina Menache
René Magritte
34-35
Catarina Furlan Vieira
Fernand Léger
36-37
Catarina Silva
Raoul Hausmann
38-39
Cora Bicalho
Kurt Schwitters
40-41
Daniel Kachanovsky
Yves Tanguy
42-43
Deborah Oliveira
Hans (Jean) Arp
44-45
Diego Quinto Di Cameli
Pablo Picasso
46-47
Eduarda Libman
Salvador Dalí
48-49
Esther Magalhães
John Heartfield
50-51
Felipe Baumfeld
Maria Martins
52-53
Felipe Salfatis
Maria Martins
54-55
Felipe Vianna
Meret Oppenheim
56-57
Filipe Abondanza
Pablo Picasso
58-59
Flavio Andrade
Frida Kahlo
60-61
Francisco Lara
Hans (Jean) Arp
62-63
Gabriela Hayek
Kurt Schwitters
64-65
Helena Cruz
Giorgio de Chirico
66-67
Henrique Barone
Frida Kahlo
68-69
Henrique Oliveira
Man Ray
70-71
Isabela Pereira
Tarsila do Amaral
72-73
Isabela Wessel
Paul Klee
74-75
Isis Machado
Hannah Höch
76-77
José Pires
Georges Braque
78-79
José Roberto Opice Blum
Alberto Giacometti
80-81
Julia Almeida
Georges Braque
82-83
Julia Ribeiro
Francis Picabia
84-85
Julia Yedid
Fernand Léger
86-87
Julya Maiorano
Dora Maar
88-89
Kira Shibasaki
Max Ernst
90-91
Laura Koukdjian
Dora Maar
92-93
Laura Menck
Man Ray
94-95
Letícia Lamacchia
Alberto Giacometti
96-97
Lisandra Kassardjian
Tarsila do Amaral
98-99
Lorenzo Passos Zuccarelli
Giorgio de Chirico
100-101
Lucas Burgos
Marcel Duchamp
102-103
Lucas Perez Reis Lobo
Hans (Jean) Arp
104-105
Lucas Son
Giorgio de Chirico
106-107
Luis Eduardo Ganem
Marcel Duchamp
108-109
Manuela Atkins
Joan Miró
110-111
Marcelo Fonseca
Fernand Léger
112-113
Marco Serra
Joan Miró
114-115
Maria Barbosa De Oliveira
Salvador Dalí
116-117
Maria Eduarda Barboza
Yves Tanguy
118-119
Maria Eduarda Iasi
Paul Klee
120-121
Maria Eduarda Ribeiro
René Magritte
122-123
Maria Eduarda Siqueira
Hans (Jean) Arp
124-125
Maria Oliva
Francis Picabia
126-127
Mariana Fadigas De Souza
Man Ray
128-129
Marina Libman
Pablo Picasso
130-131
Marina Sant Anna
Yves Tanguy
132-133
Mila Eymael
John Heartfield
134-135
Nicolas Etlin
Meret Oppenheim
136-137
Nina Padilha
Frida Kahlo
138-139
Paola Mendes
Frida Kahlo
140-141
Pedro Martinez
Raoul Hausmann
142-143
Pedro Pinela
John Heartfield
144-145
Peter Nyman
John Heartfield
146-147
Rebeca Song
Raoul Hausmann
148-149
Rodrigo Armani
Salvador Dalí
150-151
Rodrigo Dahruj
Francis Picabia
152-153
Rodrigo De Andrade
Yves Tanguy
154-155
Seonho Choi
René Magritte
156-157
Sofia Falleiros
Pablo Picasso
158-159
Sofia Vieira
Alberto Giacometti
160-161
Suzana Steinberg
Marcel Duchamp
162-163
Theo Gekker
Paul Klee
164-165
Tomás Bosch
Fernand Léger
166-167
Tomás Fornes Rodrigues Alves
Hannah Höch
168-169
Valentina Boechat
Maria Martins
170-171
Valentina Khoury
Max Ernst
172-173
GEORGES BRAQUE
ALEJANDRA R. HORITA Prodigy artist with a genius mind, Georges Braque the creator of cubism and one of the major 20th-century French painter. My comic shows the most important moments of his life and the story that lies beneath. Born with 3 generations, which just like him, were artists, painters, and dreamers. Grew up surrounded by art, and art was all he knew. He grew up to be a creative mind and a talented painter whose idea changed art forever. Cubism. This movement was created to represent 3D structures into flat surfaces. An idea that only the greatest minds can come up with. Then just like a coincidence, the great Pablo Picasso came to the picture and saved him… or did he? As time passed, they became a good friend to the point Braque decided to share his still in progress, life-changing idea. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the best idea. Picasso astonished by Braque’s idea and jealous of what could make him more famous than he already was. The idea of power and fame took over and without thinking of the consequences, stole Braque’s idea. He stole Cubism. You might already know what followed this, fame and popularity. Everything that an idea like cubism should have as a reward, the only thing is, that it wasn’t Picasso’s reward to have. Braques was angry beyond control, he was confused and uncertain. But one thing he knew for sure; he was not giving up. He worked as if his life depended on it. Day and night until one day he finally finished it. The best art piece that he has ever made in his life. Art at it’s highest. Have you ever heard the saying “Hard work pays off”? This time it did. After all, he went through, fame, money, and popularity decided to appear and the name of Georges Braque moved on to history. I believe that this comic is important since it shows what Georges Braque went through. Also as an inspiration for people to see and be reminded that hard work always pays off. I got the ideas from the biography of this great artist and with the help of my teacher. I want to thank everyone who helped me in the creation of this comic.
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JOAN MIRÓ
ALEXANDRE BRAGA FILHO This comic is a story about Joan Miró, a Catalan painter that combines abstract art with surreal fantasy. Thinking about that, I chose one of his drawings (L’air) and built a fictional story behind it. After drawing all the comic book stories with this painting in the main layout I chose another of Joan Miró’s lithographies, but this time it was for me to use its color palette (Abstract Lithograph) I got the six colors of that lithography and being able to change the brightness of the colors I painted my drawing digitally. In this work, I tried as much to inspire myself in Miró, and as you can see, the bright colors highlight themselves, and that is a characteristic that Miró is known. I also wanted to make sure that the people that see it know that it is from Miró, and to be sure that I drew a famous painting that he made (ballerina), you can view this painting in the background of the second panel. Another choice I made was to not leave almost anything in white because, as it is a characteristic of Miró, I tried to leave things as vivid as I could.
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TARSILA DO AMARAL
ALEXANDRE CINTRA Illustrated on my comic is a story based on Tarsila do Amaral’s inspiration when doing her first painting, called “A Lua”. I wanted people to see that Brazil inspired her on her first piece, showing her consideration for the country. When analyzing the art work I realized the presence of remarkable elements from Brazil such as the cactus, and the country’s flag colors: blue, green and yellow. In order to bring viewers’ attention to these elements I drew Tarsila observing these aspects and used close ups to emphasize their presence. I added texture on the land, Tarsila’s dress, the cacti and water to make it more realistic and used contrasting types of color (cool and warm) to be more eye-catching, plus, the blue on the sky was getting darker at each frame to blend better with the painting “A Lua” on the last frame.
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JOAN MIRÓ
ANA LAURA VIEITAS In the painting Ballerina, that was originally painted in 1925, when Joan Miró was about 32 years old. He was born in 1893 in Barcelona, Spain and died on December 25, 1985, in Palma, Spain. He has many of his artworks in a museum that was dedicated to him, Fundació Joan Miró. The artist is part of two movements surrealism and Dadaism, that are composed of artists that expresses nonsense and irrationality. The painting Ballerina is composed of simple shapes, a few examples are, hearts, circles, and lines. The left part of the canvas is to represent the ballerina’s movements as she spins. The right part of the painting is the ballerina’s body, with a heart as its skirt. My comic represents this painting when the skirt is given to her. Joan Miró takes his heart out to give the ballerina a skirt that represents his feelings. Before painting, he saw a dancer and decided to paint her. He was around thirtytwo when he painted this picture so in my comic the character isn’t very accurate. I based my character construction in recent pictures of him, that is when he was older.
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MARIA MARTINS
ANA TERESA FABIANI The moment I chose to illustrate in my comic page was when Maria Martins traveled to Japan. Maria Martins was a Brazilian sculptor, designer, recorder, and writer, known for her unusual modern sculptures. She was born in August 1894, in Minas Gerais, and died in March 1973, in Rio de Janeiro. She moved to the University of Kyoto, to study sculptures and Zen Philosophy with the professor Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki. There are some unique frames that I have drawn in a way that clearly explained the story for the viewer. Following the comic’s journey, the last frame shows the artist with a sculpture called “The Impossible”. This sculpture is one of the most popular ones from her carrier, being creating in 1946. Nowadays, one of its versions is in the MoMA Museum.
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SALVADOR DALÍ
ANGELO MAROTTO The connection I want viewers to make is the relationship between Salvador Dalí’s life and his deconstruction. I start telling his story before he was even born, showing his brother’s death. Due to the reason that our famous artist and his deceased brother were named the same, the people around him reminded him that he was his brother’s reincarnation. Dalí for most of his life suffered from the split-personality disorder, represented many times in his work. His split personality starts out being very subtle. That is until there is a panel showing how extreme his personality is for his face was cut through the middle, a half showing his happiness, the other half showing his sorrow and pain. The panel before last shows Dalí looking over his brother’s grave while he questions everything everyone told him until that moment. This idea came to me when I first read Salvador Dalí’s biography. I discussed the fact that he thought he was his brother’s reincarnation with different people that previously researched him, all unaware of this fact. That was the moment I realized this moment was worth pursuing. I chose to use an analogous, cold color scheme because I wanted the blues and purples to represent the artist’s pain. I believe that these colors represent a deep feeling that was suppressed and ignored by Salvador Dalí himself.
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MERET OPPENHEIM
ANNA LUIZA GALVEZ In my arts comic, the moment in my artist’s life that I felt was the one I was most interested in and curious to know more about was the one that talked about Meret Oppenheim’s dreams and how they reflected on her art. After I researched a bit about this topic, I discovered that my artist kept a dream diary where she annotated her dreams and used these annotations to get inspired for her next piece of art. My ideas all came instantly when I decided to create a scene where she actually dreams, annotates her dream and does something with her annotation. I wanted to make it clear for the people seeing my comic, the process my artist had from dreaming, to actually doing her final piece. The colors were all based on another art of hers where she uses light colors (light pink, light grey, and light brown).
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KURT SCHWITTERS
ANTONIO KHEIRALLAH
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MAN RAY
ANTÔNIO LEAL Man Ray was an artist born in Philadelphia and throughout his career contributed to Dada and Surrealist movements. He lived a great part of his life in Paris where he he became famous for his photographs, even though he considered himself as a painter. He died in the year of 1976 in Paris, and his work is famous all over the world. My drawing express thoughtfully and concisely a part of the journey of Man Ray’s life. It conveys the early 1900’s Parisian colors, representing his culture and city. It also portrays his prime piece of work, “Larmes de verre”. The representation of the eyes smoothly take part of the plot, composing an important frame of the storyboard. My decisions were inspired from some of the artist’s relationships, on this case, his love story with Lee Miller. The majority of the colors were used to provide a high contrast that would create dynamism to the plot, and the lines were specifically drawn to explore the theme of choice.
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PAUL KLEE
ARTHUR FELDMAN When I wake up, I always go to the bathroom and look in the mirror to see if I look minimally presentable for the day. The answer is usually no (I get my face and hair messed up in my sleep). The story in this comic is exactly that: Paul Klee waking up and seeing him in a way he isn’t used to. Because of how strange he looks to himself, he takes to painting to show people how that felt. He drew a mixture of how he usually saw himself and how he saw himself in the mirror. Paul Klee was very passionate about cubism, and it goes to show in his artworks. Even though this most likely wasn’t the reason he made this painting, it is a nice thought, and would show that a great idea can come from the simplest of things.
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DORA MAAR
BERNARDO LEAL Welcome to my final comic project, where we drew about an important moment in our artist’s life. In my case, I represented the situation of Dora Maar meeting Pablo Picasso for the first time and how it happened. So I basically started by creating the layout and deciding what I was going to put in each frame. It was really hard to represent the artists and a situation in which you weren’t there. I used Cubist characteristics to represent Picasso and I tried to use realistic aspects to represent Dora Maar who was a photographer.
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HANNAH HÖCH
CARLO FIALDINI Hannah Höch is a german artist that lived at the beginning of the 19th century and died in 1978. Hannah Höch’s is famous for her collage works and for being a big name in the dada movement. The dada movement is a post-war movement in which the artist was questioning everything, the work they were doing would not fit with what people would understand as art at the time. In my work, it is evident that there is some characteristic of her work including collage in an abstract form. The story on the comic page is based around one of her works. Every frame leads to an artwork of hers which is placed in the final frame. Before deciding the story of the comic page I chose a work of hers that I liked and that I would be able to make a story around.
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MAX ERNST
CARLOS PINTO The artist that I had to represent was Max Ernst. During this project I gathered information about his life and based my storyboard on his life and paintings. I picked this specific part of his life because I thought it was very interesting on why and how he lost a part of himself. Max Ernst participated on World War 1 and was fighting for France even though he was German. And in a interview he said in war he had lost a part of himself. I thought of drawing him before, during and after war. I showed before as a happy place. During I showed him said and him losing a part of him which was loplop his alter ego. And after I showed him emotion when war ended and him and loplop playing happily.
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MARCEL DUCHAMP
CAROLINA GOUVEA Marcel Duchamp was a groundbreaking French-American artist from the 20th century. Every piece of art of his caused a different and even more interesting impact on people. Although he was really appreciated by some art lovers, he was also judged harshly for his peculiar ideas and attitudes. My comic project is about “Fountain”, a readymade sculpture produced in 1917 and one of his greatest artworks. Duchamp exhibited Fountain for the first time in New York, but he signed it as “R. Mutt”. This was a very polemic event and it is important in art history because some people didn’t really consider it Art, and this argument continues to be controversial. I decided to make the comic about this event because it is an iconic moment in conceptual art and I think even people who don’t know much about art should know Fountain, as it is so bold, innovative and revolutionary.
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RENÉ MAGRITTE
CAROLINA MENACHE The artist I was assigned was Rene Magritte. My comic depicts a tragic moment in this artist’s life. The first 4 panels show when his mother passed. Later I wanted to show that this tragic moment affected his art. When his mother passed she was found dead with her face covered in a river, and most of the people his art have their face covered. So, I figured that this may be the reason.
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FERNAND LÉGER
CATARINA FURLAN VIEIRA Jules-Fernand-Henri Léger was a french artist and one of the original cubist. He was a painter, sculptor and a filmmaker. I had the idea for the panel after reading his story and discovering he participated in the army during the first world war. The first two frame was based on his story and in them I am representing his time in the army, the second frame is a picture of him being gassed on the war, which was the real reason why he got out of the french army. The other frames I was trying to represent Fernand Léger having a vision of the war while he was sleeping in the hospital. In the frame of the vision I chose to do something more colored and tried to make the colors spread through the paper. My panel was based on a painting of his called stalingrad. I chose the colors of my panel from another painting he made, and I tried to choose more sad colors to represent that it wasn’t a happy time for him.
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RAOUL HAUSMANN
CATARINA SILVA
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KURT SCHWITTERS
CORA BICALHO Kurt Schwitters was a German artists who worked mostly with collages. The part of his life that I am representing in my Comic Story in during World War 2. Since Kurt Schwitters was jewish, he had to run away from Germany in the 30’s and leave his wife, Helma Fischer, taking care of their house. He started a new life in Norway because if he went back to Germany, he would get killed. In my fictional story, Kurt Schwitters is already far away from home, he is inside a bar and sees a girl that he likes. In 1947, Kurt made a collage of a woman in a bar with a lot of guys around her, he used to call this painting: “for Kate”. He made this work for other artist called Kate Steinitz. I created a fictional story about how he had the idea of making this collage of her.
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YVES TANGUY
DANIEL KACHANOVSKY What I am trying to portray through my frames, is the story of Yves Tanguy and how he became the great artist he is. I want to characterize his life when he came back from the army in a few frames. This means that every frame has a lot of detail in them and if understood, can be very deep. I think that after having lessons about close ups and how to create our frames, I had a better understanding of how to utilize them in my comic book. I used lots of different colors in the comic page to create contrast and I thought that it would be visually attractive too.
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HANS (JEAN) ARP
DEBORAH OLIVEIRA Jean Arp was a french-german sculptor, painter and poet. Born in Strasbourg, Germany. He was a student at the Academy in Weimar from 1905 to 1907 and at the AcadÊmie Julian in Paris in 1908. The first frame on my panel is an actual portrait of him. I thought it would be nice to use his portrait because when people see my panel they will know that it is him and that it is about him. What my panel is showing is: the circle that he has on his eye on the first frame is a magic eye. With that eye he sees things in a different way, like statues, and that is where he gets his ideas of sculptures from. And with his normal eye he sees things as they are supposed to be. I made a couple of changes from my first panel idea, if I hadn’t made those changes it would be something almost totally different. I chose to use very light colour on my panel to keep it as it was at the beginning.
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PABLO PICASSO
DIEGO QUINTO DI CAMELI
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SALVADOR DALĂ?
EDUARDA LIBMAN The artist I was selected was Salvador DalĂ, a spanish artist, that is well known for surrealism. I created my comic book, as a description of his life, where most of the comic that created the narrative was created based on his own paintings, representing his growth as an artists throughout his life journey. Since my story was about death, the drawings were already very dramatic and sad. When colorizing my comic I tested two ways, onde being dark, brown colors, the other one using analogous, and warm colors. After finishing both ways I decided to go for the colorful one for many reasons, one of them being to enhance contrast the colors had with the sad story, performing a different way of representing death.
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JOHN HEARTFIELD
ESTHER MAGALHÃES John Heartfield was a German artist from the 20th century and was known mostly for his photomontages. He was a part of the Dada movement and did a lot of anti-Nazi artwork. Dadaists were provocateurs who disrupted public art gatherings and ridiculed the participants. One of them called “The house that Hitler built” inspired me to do my comic book page. It is an irony that the house of cards represents Hitler’s empire and the artist made it that to show that it is fragile and soon would fall apart. Then I made a visual representation of what that would be. It was made during WWII as a protest against Nazism. I got the color palette from other pieces of art by him. Just like him, I used unsaturated colors and not a lot of them, and that helped me convey my message.
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MARIA MARTINS
FELIPE BAUMFELD Maria Martins was a prolific sculptress, all of her artworks were very different and could represent multiple messages and generate a lot of interpretations. She was an artist that needed a lot of inspiration to create, therefore she used to travel to some places, however the two trips that are most known were the ones to the Amazon and to Japan. She was married, although she also had a lover and she loved them both. I created a fictional story where I was able to use one of the most known sculptures made by her, that resembles a man trying to connect with a woman. I took this interpretation and made a story about her not being able to decide between the lover, who she met in her trip to the Amazon and her husband who she loved very much.
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MARIA MARTINS
FELIPE SALFATIS Maria Martins was a brazilian artist that was a late adopter of Surrealism, she was a sculptor and is known internationally as “the sculptor of the tropic” and “the great sculptor of surrealism”. She has a lot of famous pieces of art. One of them is called Prometheus made in 1943, which is a greek myth. During my process I researched more about the Prometheus’ myth and came to the conclusion that it would be a good idea to tell his story on my comic. He stole the fire from the Olimpo Gods and gave it to humanity. The Gods discovered it and went after Prometheus. They found and arrested him. In the end of my comic, the sculpture appears and all of it is coming out of her head.
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MERET OPPENHEIM
FELIPE VIANNA “Anything can be furlined”, as said by Meret, was the spark that ignited the creation of the Fur Lined Teacup, by Meret Oppenheim. From a simple conversation with Picasso and Dora Maar, the idea of a teacup covered in fur turned into one of Meret’s most iconic creations. The representation aims to recreate the moment in which the teacup was born.
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PABLO PICASSO
FILIPE ABONDANZA Welcome to my Artist statement. I’m going to tell the story of how Picasso made one of the greatest pieces of art in cubism. In this story, Picasso was with a drought in his ideas. One day he was thinking and got an idea that he had never done before. The idea was a sculpture of a guitar. He was really happy with it. That is why the comic’s colour changes when he creates the sculpture. He then headed to the newspaper to take some pictures of it. The next day as he is having breakfast he sees his sculpture and he is finally happy. That was a great moment in the history of Cubism.
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FRIDA KAHLO
FLAVIO ANDRADE During the past few months, I was assigned to work on Frida Kahlo. While researching Frida, I saw that she suffered a car accident, and at the same moment, I remember the car accident that my brother suffered, therefore leading me to draw about her accident. This helped me to connect with the time that he suffered the accident, leading me to be more connected with Frida. I decided to portray the accident. I used key flashbacks for each frame to better represent it. I opted for a chronological order to show step by step how it happened, giving it emotion and brightness. Also, during the process of making my page, I had to constantly think before doing each frame. This is because I would try to find my main object of each frame and work on it to make it highlight.
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HANS (JEAN) ARP
FRANCISCO LARA Hans (Jean) Arp was borned 1886 and died 1926. In his life he was known for two different names: Hans, his german and birth name which was changed to Jean when he moved to France. He was known for his poetry, paintings, and sculptures. He followed the movement of abstraction, surrealism, and dada. Two of his most importants exhibitions were at MoMA in 1958 and at Musée National d’Art Moderne in 1962. The composition of my comic page was inspired by Hans Arp life and drawing style. It portrays colors that were usually used in his palettes and his painting “Moustache Hat”. The whole plot is based in this painting, because the female character was tired of realism and was looking for something new and she found this in Hans’ surrealism. I wanted to show to the viewer how groundbreaking he was with the surrealism. I got the idas from the painting because when I first saw it I thought that it looked like a woman and I realized it could a surrealistic portrait. The colors were really useful for me to communicate my ideas because in the beginning they were cold and referring to boredom and in the end they were warm to represent surprise.
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KURT SCHWITTERS
GABRIELA HAYEK While painting my comic I firstly made some prior decisions. While analysing, prior to the coloring, I observed that the artist is mainly known due to his use of materials in neutral colors, alongside with shades of colors, as it can easily .be observed on the comic page. Therefore, after analysing some of his collages, I was able to produce a pallet according to some of his art works such as the blond lady, the number 23, and his childrens books. Shades of brown, blue and magenta were used in order to produce this effect of contrast and neutrocyty, since non bright colors were used. Along with that, using negative and positive colors was a way to generate this effect. Therefore some shading and texture, since the dark background contrasts Kurt Schwitters face for example, made it all even better. Last but not least, perspective was also used in order to give the sense of depth on the scenario of the man sitted in the chair for example, giving the space a much better contrast, as if the background would be there. I mainly inspired myself according to many of Kurt Schwitters pieces, such as famous collages, written children books and even many objects present in many of his art pieces oftenly. Inspiring to make specific artistic choices such as color use, and perspective, helping communicate my ideas visually. My drawing contains, for example colors in similar shades, which contrast the drawing, perspective and even tones which give a “combinative sense� in some sort of way, in other words, color were used with a pattern in mind, instead if on a distorted manner.
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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
HELENA CRUZ Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born on July 10, 1888 in Volos, Greece. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which had a big influence on the surrealists. His most well-known works are known because of the Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. On November 20, 1978 in Rome, Italy, Chirico dies of a heart attack. For my comic I decided to represent his death.
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FRIDA KAHLO
HENRIQUE BARONE This comic aims to portray, in a childish way, the story of how Frida Kahlo became an artist after she suffered from a tragic accident. There is a frame in which Frida walks from the medical school to the art school, but things didn’t happen this fast, the process was long and suffered. Frida Kahlo broke her column in a traffic accident while she rode a bus and during her recovery in the hospital, she figured that she would prefer to continue her career as an artist instead of continuing in medical school, due to her impressive skills in arts.
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MAN RAY
HENRIQUE OLIVEIRA The comic page I made was based on one of Man Ray’s art pieces. Man Ray was an American Visual artist that had a significant contribution in the Dada and Surrealism movements, even though his art was considerably informal. My idea was to create the story behind a art piece called “The gift”. The Gift is a picture of a iron that has some nails under it. I wanted to invent a reason why there’s a picture of a iron with nails under it. With this in mind, I started to plan the comic page I had a idea that’s a bit simple, but I like the idea. The idea was to do like his daily- life from the beginning of the day. First, he went to the laundry room, then, when he started to iron his clothes, the shirt ripped off, letting him in shock. So, he went to the studio and took some pictures of it to finally post it in the paper.
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TARSILA DO AMARAL
ISABELA PEREIRA My comic page speaks to an extremely significant moment in Tarsila do Amaral’s life in light of the fact that the Abaporu was her most well known painting. The point of my story is to show the viewers a new and fun fictional narrative about the Abaporu. I connected parts of the story with her life, for instance, the potions have labels with countries’ names because during that time they used to consume other countries artwork and create their own unique Brazilian artwork . Her husband , Oswald de Andrade, created the “Manifesto Antropófago”, a vanguard current that marked the first modernist phase in Brazil. She also participated by creating a structure for culture of national character. When I knew that I would be doing Tarsila do Amaral, I already had the Abaporu in mind. One other thing I also used from her paintings is strong and vivid colors. With the colors, I was able to make specific frames more impactful, creating contrast between the elements.
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PAUL KLEE
ISABELA WESSEL Paul Klee was a swiss-born artist. His style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism and surrealism. Klee also deeply explored the color theory. This colorized comic is a fictional story, but it is based on Paul Klee’s real art piece. The ballerina in this comic is represented as the little girls passion, that is then painted into a canvas for her. I interpret this little girl as Paul Klee’s niece because I wanted to relate his story with his family to make my comic feel more personal. I got my inspirations and ideas from his “ballerina” art piece and his backstory, such a as his wife and siblings. The colors I used were based on the colors he used on his past works and then I used these colors to make a pallet. So I used this pallet through my whole comic. I used a range of lighter and darker colors in my pallet to express each moment in the comic. According to the atmosphere.
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HANNAH HÖCH
ISIS MACHADO Hannah Höch was a german artist known for producing photomontage art pieces. Her variety of vibrant colors and textures present in Höch’s work called my attention. In my perspective, the artist’s polemical love life was the best option to be portrayed in my comic page. She was part of a violent, toxic relationship filled with abuse episodes with her husband for seven years. After seeking for abortion of Hausmann’s child, Hannah filed for divorce. Later she started dating a woman who were introduced by a mutual friend. I opted for demonstrating in a simplified form, this caotic piece of the artist’s life. In addition, I used colors commonly used in her pieces.
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GEORGES BRAQUE
JOSÉ PIRES Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. Braque played an important role in Fauvism from 1905 and was one of the founders of Cubism. In my comic book, I focused on the most important moment in Georges’s life; when he discovered cubism. I pictured this phase of Braque’s life through each welldetailed frame. The first frame Braque is going through a hard time producing meaningful work. Through the 2nd and 6th frame Braque experiences different things until he discovers cubism. As a whole, I tried to give a fictional characteristic to my frames and storyboard. For example, in the 5th frame Georges brakes a vase he was observing, and then he discovers cubism. Cubism certainly wasn’t discovered through a broken vase, but as cubism is a very abstract painting style I thought a broken vase would be the perfect representation.
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
JOSÉ ROBERTO OPICE BLUM In my comic book I detail a moment in Alberto Giacometti’s life where he is in Paris, this phase is also after the war. He was sculpting this dark figures with a very thin body structure that became one of his most known pieces. I represented his work as the evolution of the artwork portrayed throughout the story, the art piece began as a more humanly shaped figure with facial feature I inspired myself from some of his others artworks, I used a very similar palette as well which was somewhat of a darker tone.
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GEORGES BRAQUE
JULIA ALMEIDA Born on May 13th of 1882, Georges Braque was one of the revolutionary artists of the 20th century. Growing up in Le Havre (France), he was trained by his father and his grandfather to be a house painter and a decorator. However, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts also in Le Havre to study artistic painting. After graduating, he made a lot of success, receiving loads of awards for his decorating and painting skills. During his life, he was part of different art movements, like fauvism and impressionism. Before the period of fauvism, Braques started out as painting landscapes, however throughout this period, together with Picasso, he realized he preferred painting still life because according to him “… I began to concentrate on still-lifes because in the still-life you have a tactile, I might almost say a manual space… This answered to the hankering I have always had to touch things and not merely see them… In tactile space you measure the distance separating you from the object, whereas in visual space you measure the distance separating things from each other. This is what led me, long ago, from landscape to still-life”. Furthermore, he is most known for creating, together with his colleague Picasso, the art movement called cubism at the beginning of the 20th century. Despite being equally important in the creation of cubism, since Picasso, was already more famous and well known in the world of art, he has always been considering the father of cubism. This way, Braque’s participation at the beginning of this movement, was completely disregarded. Because of this fact, I decided to represent this disregarding in my story. I created a fiction story in which Picasso and Braque invented cubism together, and Picasso chooses to take credit for it on purpose.
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FRANCIS PICABIA
JULIA RIBEIRO The moment illustrated in my comic is the war that happened at that time. I chose to represent this remarkable moment of his life because it was a new experience for him and also traumatizing. When producing the drawings I was inspired by other paintings of Francis Picabia. In my comic I chose darker colors because the time of his life that I am portraying was difficult and chaotic, so I decided to emphasise the drawings by choosing cold colors like dark green and blue, black and more grayish colors. In the process of adding colors.
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FERNAND LÉGER
JULIA YEDID Fernand Léger, born on February 4th of 1881, was one of the original cubists. When he moved to Paris in 1900, he first settled as an architectural draftsman. He then worked with depth drawings and drawings with perspective. Some years later, he started to participate in the cubism movement. From 1911 to 1914, his work became increasingly abstract, using 2D shaped figures only with no depth or perspective. The comic represents one of the biggest transitions of Léger’s life: from an architect to a cubist, or from depth drawings to2D shaped figures forming abstract paintings. In the first two frames, it shows him drawing the city as an architect, using depth drawings. Then, we can see through his expression that he was not happy with it, and tried many times, but couldn’t be satisfied with his drawings. Next, he has an idea, and the last frame shows a painting of his called “The City”. When he started following the cubism, he limited his colors to primaries and black and white. That is why I chose to use the palette of one of his lithographies, “Etude de fresque (1968)”, that contains mostly strong and primary colors.
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DORA MAAR
JULYA MAIORANO
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MAS ERNST
KIRA SHIBASAKI The moment that Max Ernst was in war is really important because the tastes and characteristics of his work changed before and after the war, and I thought that he changed his way of drawing the work as a result of his wartime experience. By looking at this story, I wanted readers to know these backgrounds. I was conscious of being able to express the emotions and situations of people in shades and color contrasts. I used light colors in cheerful part and dark color in sad, scary part of the story. And finally, it ended with a large piece of loplop, a character created by him to represent his alter-ego, so that his sense of freedom from war could be conveyed.
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DORA MAAR
LAURA KOUKDJIAN ‘The Weeping Woman’ is one of Pablo’s Picasso’s most famous paintings, however, the story behind its making has an unexpected turn. Dora Maar is an amazing artist which was mostly known for being Picasso’s lover; even though their nine-year relationship Picasso was physically and mentally abusive. Dora usually modeled for Picasso, independent of the state she was in, ‘The Weeping Woman’ shows her crying and in an uncomfortable state. As I, personally, did not have this aggressive idea of Pablo Picasso, and this was a shock for me and that’s why I wanted to base my comic page on this event.
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MAN RAY
LAURA MENCK My comic was based off of ‘Object to be destroyed’, originally created by Man Ray in 1923. It was reformed a decade later after a devastating breakup with Lee Miller, formerly his assistant, muse, and model. Let down, he replaced the picture with a picture of Miller’s eye and, along with the piece, added an instruction to “Cut out the eye from the photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.” That instruction is what inspired me to create my comic, but twisting it with the story as if Man Ray had actually followed his own instruction, destroying his own work. To make the storyline easier to understand, I gave somewhat of a backstory to the characters, visible in the panels, especially in the detailing. Since my story has a sadder take on what happened, I decided to make my drawings seem very dramatic, as well as choosing a darker/duller color palette. With that, I was able to pull my comic and all of my ideas together.
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
LETÍCIA LAMACCHIA The 20th-century artist, Alberto Giacometti grew up in Switzerland alongside his dad, which was an expressionist painter. With the artistic blood running in his veins, with an artistic background, he started using his skills when he was only fourteen. In 1922, Giacometti moved to Paris to study with the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. It was in Paris, after the second world war, that he started making his most famous sculptures, the remarkably tall and slim figures. That was the exact moment I decided to represent: all his sculptures were “normal” and then, he had a war flashback and everything turned like his statues, skinny and tall. Of course, it’s a fictional representation of what actually happened. In the first comic, I drew Giacometti sculpting in Paris, everything was normal and colorful, then, on the second part, we have a close up of that scene, to show what his statues used to look like. On the third part, I drew a close up of his face, with some distorted objects as a blurry background to look like he was having a flashback ( which he was). Next, I drew a full body shot of him, so you can later compare to how he turned out. After, we have to scenes, in which he is ripping a part of his shoulder. That scene emphasizes the change of his body. It also can represent how he lost a part of himself in the war. Next, we have a full-body shot of his new body, compared to the old one. I painted everything the same color, except for the shadow of the body, which I left white. I did that so it had a big contrast and captured more attention than the rest. Finally, in the last scene, I did everything just like the first one, but this time everything was stretched, just like his sculptures.
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TARSILA DO AMARAL
LISANDRA KASSARDJIAN Illustrated on my comic is a story based on Tarsila do Amaral’s inspiration when doing her first painting, called “A Lua”. I wanted people to see that Brazil inspired her on her first piece, showing her consideration for the country. When analyzing the art work I realized the presence of remarkable elements from Brazil such as the cactus, and the country’s flag colors: blue, green and yellow. In order to bring viewers’ attention to these elements I drew Tarsila observing these aspects and used close ups to emphasize their presence. I added texture on the land, Tarsila’s dress, the cacti and water to make it more realistic and used contrasting types of color (cool and warm) to be more eye-catching, plus, the blue on the sky was getting darker at each frame to blend better with the painting “A Lua” on the last frame.
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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
LORENZO ZUCCARELLI In my comic page I was representing a phase of Giorgio de Chirico’s life call metaphysical painting, where he drawed all of these long and strange shadows in his paintings and at the end of the story when the character lock himself in his house it is representing the phase where Giorgio left this style and got back to baroque. I used a palette from a painting Giorgio did that I really liked it. Also that painting used colors that most of his paintings also have. I am really proud of how it turned out specially the fact I coloured with solid colors like cartoons. Overall the biggest takeaway is that artist have a interesting journey and if you interpret them well you can make a really nice piece of art.
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MARCEL DUCHAMP
LUCAS BURGOS Duchamp’s love for art was incontestable from an early age, but what most people don’t know is that he loved chess as much as he loved art. Because Duchamp artworks are more known after he was an adult, I decided to show him at an older phase, as it would make it easier to understand who he was. I also decided to show in a metaphoric way how he liked art and chess equally at the same time, and how he started as a painter, was introduced to art and then was a mix of both passions.
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HANS (JEAN) ARP
LUCAS LOBO For me, the most unique characteristics in society are the abilities to observe, develop, reflect and change. Therefore the moment I received the artist I would need to develop a comic page on, I already began exploring how his work and personality changed over time. I immediately came across the fact that his works were mostly collage and later became sculptures. With this, I was certain I would use one of his sculptures on my comic page. I was also certain that Arp would need to grow older as the story progressed. Therefore, in the first frames he is still young and later when developing the sculpture he has already reached an older age. Later when investigating more about Hans Arp. I came across his piece Ptolemy 1st. It seemed like an unusual name for seemingly abstract sculpture. After I researching, I traced the name back to an Egyptian Pharaoh who was famous for betraying his supporters in order to gain more power. With this, everything began to make sense. Hans Arp criticized the powerful, he represented their corruption by deforming the original portrait of Ptolemy. Therefore I showed his vision of the original piece collapsing into a deformed sculpture.
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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
LUCAS SON Giorgio de Chirico was born on 10 July 1888 and was a Greek artist and writer. A few years before World War One, he founded the Scuola Metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealistic movement. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Nietzsche and for the mythology of his birthplace. After a long time in the Scuola Metafisica, he left the movement and started painting self-portraits. In my work, I represented some of my artist painting and tried to explain in a very surrealistic way why he left the Scuola Metafisica, I used unrealistic traits to match his work, and also worked on one of his phrases: “When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.�. The Metafisica art movement is known for its surrealistic traits, so instead of working with a more detailed trait, and realistic colors, I instead used the surrealistic traits and colors
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MARCEL DUCHAMP
LUIS EDUARDO GANEM Marcel Duchamp was born in France in July of 1887, he is responsible for paintings such as: The Fountain, Bicycle Wheel and Nude Descending the Staircase (that is the one that I am representing in my comic). The story has the objective to show the reader how the same painting can have the value increased and also how people’s opinion changes as times goes on, some examples are that the painting was only worth it 200 euros and nowadays is worth it more than 2,000$, such as people’s opinion that thought that the painting was ugly and it needed to be censured. The comic occurs in two different periods, 1912 that is in Paris and 2019 that is in Philadelphia, where nowadays the painting is located.
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JOAN MIRÓ
MANUELA ATKINS As I look at this art piece, I see a ballet dancer who spins all-around and dances non stop. The tons of vivid blue and the contrast of the yellow with the moon that never stops illuminating the ballerina (ballet dancer) helps us to visualize the painter’s choice of colors. The mixture of watercolor and gouache shows how the visual texture of the artwork is different. Many believe the heart is the main object in the painting but, in my opinion, the mixture of blue tons surrounding the entire background is one of the most important parts of the art piece even though the story is about the heart given to the ballerina. Her trails stick to the canvas making her look more and more vivid as if she was actually dancing around the painting. Miró is very well known for symbolism and minimalism. Even though it was not his most famous movement, the surrealist movement was still really important to him! And his career as an artist. Miró painted this art piece in 1925 being his sparsest yet most poetic pictures. Miró tried his best to add movement to his painting by using the blue on top of the brown layer and, this movement is enhanced by the wavy line on top of the straight top to bottom line placed on the left of the painting. This idea came to him while spending his Christmas in Barcelona, as he went to a bar and watched a dancer who was one of the most beautiful ladies he had ever seen. After many many sketches, he started painting it as soon as he arrived at his studio Rue Blomet, Paris. Being so important since it was a very important art piece that helped him develop as an artist.
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FERNAND LÉGER
MARCELO FONSECA When I investigated Fernand Leger I learned his main characteristics. For an example, he was French and I ended up giving him a beret in the first frame to show his nationality. He also wore fancy clothes like suits, and I showed he was wearing a suit, and he is also known for his mustache, therefore I clearly showed a mustache. Now, a simple characteristic that he had which know one knew about, is that he never stopped trying, and I showed that by showing him, throwing a painting on a painting pile on the trash and trying a new one later. Something else that some people do not know is that he was lonely, and I showed that by not having other characters except for his fans and by showing his graveyard empty. Therefore, on the 1st frame, I choose to draw Fernand Leger painting a normal frame, to show he is an artist, and I also added a beret in his head to show he is French. On the second frame, I a hand, throwing a paper ballin the trash. This was supposed to show how failed and through his work on the trash. On the third frame, it shows him painting another frame to show his perseverance. That painting over there is the “Woman With the Book, which is his most famous painting. On the fourth and fifth frames, it shows a picture of MOMA, because that painting is in MOMA today. And for the 7th painting, we can see lots of people seeing his painting in MOMA, and this shows his success. Later, on the last frame, it shows a picture of a graveyard, with his name written, to show that he died. Therefore, this story really matches his. And for the frames I used photographic reference in a good way, turned out really good, for example the hand, the hand turned out the same as the picture, which ended up really nice, however to picture which I didn’t use photographic reference, it turned out bad, for example, the MOMA picture, was not the same as the museum, however if it was, it would have building behind and it would be nicer.
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JOAN MIRÓ
MARCO SERRA My comic is about a painting called “Landscape” by Joan Miró. The painting is simply a blue dot on a white, unpainted canvas. I find the painting very, very interesting, not for how it looks, but because of its meaning. “Landscape” represents the idea of how so little can cause so much noise, like the blue dot on a white canvas. With it, I tried to make my comic represent a crowd of white people, changed by one, singular, blue man, which, by making a painting different and going away from the formula, transforms the people around him. My objective with all that was to use a monochromatic palette of tones of gray and blue to stand the man out from the blandness of the scenario. With that, the viewer directly knows where to look without it looking unnatural. The message of my comic is exactly that, how so little can do so much noise, and cause such an impact on the world and around society.
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SALVADOR DALĂ?
MARIA B. DE OLIVEIRA Salvador Dali was born on 11 of May 1904 in Spain and died 1989. He was an surrealist and he is best known by painting the melting of clocks. His artwork and influences can be seen almost everywhere around the world. Dali expressed surrealism in everything he said and did. He was not just unconventional and dramatic; he was fantastic, shocking, and outrageous. Salvador Dali remains one of the great artistic innovators of all time.
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YVES TANGUY
MARIA EDUARDA BARBOZA After joining the navy for 4 years, Yves Tanguy put an end to his services in 1922 - Just then he started investing in his artistic career. The art piece “Rue de la Santé” was painted in 1925, near the start of his occupation. I selected this art piece because it was Tanguy’s painting that inspired me the most. As there isn’t any information about the artist adaptation during this new phase, I allowed myself to imagine Tanguy’s inspiration for the painting. I wanted people to see a potential version for the “beginning” of the workpiece: Yves decided to paint the street he was walking on.
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PAUL KLEE
MARIA EDUARDA IASI When I wake up, I always go to the bathroom and look in the mirror to see if I look minimally presentable for the day. The answer is usually no (I get my face and hair messed up in my sleep). The story in this comic is exactly that: Paul Klee waking up and seeing him in a way he isn’t used to. Because of how strange he looks to himself, he takes to painting to show people how that felt. He drew a mixture of how he usually saw himself and how he saw himself in the mirror. Paul Klee was very passionate about cubism, and it goes to show in his artworks. Even though this most likely wasn’t the reason he made this painting, it is a nice thought, and would show that a great idea can come from the simplest of things.
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RENÉ MAGRITTE
MARIA EDUARDA RIBEIRO For my comic project, I was assigned to artist René Magritte. The story I told, was the start of his artistic career. The first couple of shots represent a wallpaper factory, painted in grey and colder tones, to represent the boredom and emptiness of Magritte’s life. I got inspired by the fact that Magritte worked in a wallpaper factory and was miserable. Then, sees a newspaper with a piece of art, named the Song of Love, which was colorful. This piece actually inspired Magritte to chase his dreams and become a painter. Later on, he created a wallpaper with abstract designs and colors and got fired, so he could a job as a designer.
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HANS (JEAN) ARP
MARIA EDUARDA SIQUEIRA Dada was an art movement during the First World War in Zurich, with the meaning of an adverse reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. Most of the artists didn’t want to be out of it; eighter did I. Various of my art pieces were based on this movement, including the “Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Law of Chance).” This collage fully embodies Dada’s demands. However, it has no story, no picture, only white and blue paper glued on each other. My main idea about the comic was to guarantee that this art piece consolidates Dadaism. With that in mind, I built the rest of the story myself. Some creative ideas I had was to do the frames in a disorganized way but still in a way that you could follow the order. Besides that, I just drew everything in its assigned places in a simple way, which for me, would be easier for people to understand than in an abstract style. About color, I tried to use the colors that the artist most used, so that it would look like it was about him. Regarding contrast, when I wanted to bounce an object, I would paint it with a more vibrant color and less vibrant color, the background, and viceversa.
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FRANCIS PICABIA
MARIA OLIVA My comic page is about an artist called Francis Picabia. Francis Picabia, (born January 22, 1879, Paris, France—died November 30, 1953, Paris), was a French painter, illustrator, designer, writer, and editor, who was successively involved with the several art movements. In the 20th century, he became the best known as a leader of Dada in Paris. Over time he used to do transitions between art movements. He also became an Impressionist and travelled extensively to record scenes of France and afterwards dissatisfied with Impressionism, and he began to paint in more subjective and abstracted styles, particularly the styles of Fauvism and Cubism. In the development of my research, I came across a sentence that Francis Picabia said in an interview, that he viewed his art as an intimate extension of his life. When I saw this, I could capture the image of my comic being made. I developed a scene where you could see Francis Picabia and another character from one of his most famous painting called “The playboy prankster of modernism.” I created a normal day at Francis Picabia life with one of his artworks until the artwork goes back to the canvas.
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MAN RAY
MARIANA FADIGAS The artist I represent in this comic book is Man Ray. Man Ray was a surrealist and dadaist artist who did many famous paintings, he was also the one who discovered rayograms. Rayograms are light and dark pictures, he placed a bunch of objects on to a photographic paper in the dark, and once all of them were places, hue turned on the lights in order to keep the light and dark registered in the paper. For this project I chose to create a short story about one of Man Ray’s art pieces, a black and white photography named, “woman with the long hair”. In this painting, a woman is sitting in a chair and her hair is falling on top of a table. Aside from the name, her hair isn’t long, so I thought that I could do something related to that. My final product is the woman’s hair going through some famous artworks that I recreated and I the end the hair being chopped off and then the woman’s face with her recently cut hair.
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PABLO PICASSO
MARINA LIBMAN Picasso was an artist who spent most of his adult life in France. The comic shows the moment where the painter and his classmate Georges Braque created Cubism. Picasso and Braque presented the idea of Cubism in Paris at art college. After college, Picasso painted more Cubist paintings. The last frame of the comic shows the new technique was getting more and more famous and was being represented in museums. The moment I searched about Picasso, and the important moments in his life, I read about the Cubist technique. When reading, I got interested in and engaged in the topic, and continued with the deep research to improve my knowledge. While searching for different Cubist paintings, I saw one that I really liked, and I included it in my comic. That painting has a huge variety of colors, and that would also be great when that time for colorizing in photoshop came, and it came. The colors managed to fit perfectly and accurately to the whole painting.
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YVES TANGUY
MARINA SANT’ANNA Yves Tanguy was a surrealist artist that experience both world wars. The comic portrays a journey of Yves Tanguy’s life, in two different moments: at the beginning of his career as he started his art journey in 1922 and in the middle of it. The first comic page is a portrays of one of his paints called Rue De La Santé, made in 1925, after the first world war. The second moment, in the middle of his journey, on the last comic of the page, a work of his called Promontory Palace, made in 1931. It only passed 6 years between both of them, however, we can already see the difference. With it, I want to show a journey from Yves Tanguy’s career with the obstacles along the way being the rock. I got the idea by seeing the slope of the street in the painting Rue De La Santé and the red toy cart on the side, maybe most people don’t look at it but I just imagined someone going down the street with it and falling. I dreamed of living in this warm street and after I thought about the same street but in the middle of the war, like Yves Tanguy did most of his life. In the first comic, I used vivid and mostly warm colors to portrait the street and on the second comic, I show the same street with a more monochromatic palette to show that the war changes everything. After there is Yves Tanguy on the toy cart, falling for it because of a rock, which means his life was a path full of obstacles and ending everything on a strange type of painting that can be what the war left behind in his life.
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JOHN HEARTFIELD
MILA EYMAEL When I looked at the art piece, I immediately thought of the story. I don’t know how the story came to my mind, it just did when I looked at it. It might be because of the stories I heard and read before. In his artwork he usually works with dark shades. He actually uses black and white for most of his art pieces. This made me chose green, red, black, and white. This fits the aesthetic of John Heartfield, and all the colors match as well. I didn’t use much texture in my comic because there wasn’t much texture needed. I also didn’t draw faces because I want people to focus on their actions instead. This made my comic more clear. If I did draw features the comic wouldn’t look that great.
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MERET OPPENHEIM
NICOLAS ETLIN Meret Oppenheim was a famous female surrealist artist in the 1920s and 30s, during a time when there was a clear discrimination of women in the art world (especially in surrealism). As a woman, Meret was also affected by this. Her work, just like from many other women, was majorly overlooked and underappreciated. Only male artists managed to put their work in places like, Louvre, Metropolitan museum of art, MoMa, British museum etc. all of which were renowned and globally famous museums. During a meet-n-lunch with Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso in 1936, Picasso noticed a fur-covered bracelet that looked pretty good on Meret’s wrist. Picasso commented, “That’s the style nowadays. You can basically cover anything with fur and it will look good.” Dora Maar replied, “Yeah, I didn’t notice that.” While Maar and Picasso were admiring Meret’s bracelet, Oppenheim was jokingly telling the waiter to bring more fur because her coffee was getting cold, thus, Oppenheim was inspired by Maar and Picasso’s idea of covering everything in fur to create the Fur Lined Teacup.
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FRIDA KAHLO
NINA PADILHA My comic book is a story about Frida Kahlo and the love of her life Diego Rivera. Frida was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.Their relationship went to amazing to very bad (divorce) and so my comic. I represented their relationship, so I started with more vivid colors and gradually I changed to darker and less saturated colors. I used an analogous color scheme that varied from red to orange to yellow to brown. I chose those colors because I need a big variation that could be connecting all of the colors and still representing the different emotions I decided to portray.
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FRIDA KAHLO
PAOLA MENDES I decided to represent how Frida Kahlo supported herself when she needed to deal with “haters” and negative opinions about her works. I chose to portray this moment of her life because with that she could improve, grow as a person and be a famous artist with her original art pieces. Before starting to work on my comic page I was inspired by many art pieces of Frida Kahlo. The main one was “The Two Fridas” since it can represent that she could support herself on her own. Furthermore, I chose to use cold and warm colors to represent, in each frame the emotions that I wanted to convey. I also used many techniques in this project such as the use of contrast and shadows to build the drawings and the character.
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RAOUL HAUSMANN
PEDRO MARTINEZ Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian artist and writer that impacted the whole world with his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry, and institutional critiques would have a profound influence in the aftermath of World War I. In the comic, I did a visual representation in the way that Raoul was influenced by the end of WWI in one of his most famous artworks, The Mechanical Head. Raul Hausmann got his inspiration to do this amazing artwork from the soldiers that fought in the war and got injured after it. He wanted to show the impact that the war had on the people. I chose this moment from the artist’s life because the Mechanical Head is one of his most known artworks. Another aspect that made me choose this moment was because it related to big stories such as war and reconstruction of the country after it. The colors that I used in this comic are sad colors to show that Germany had lost the war.
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JOHN HEARTFIELD
PEDRO PINELA I can say that the process of investigating my artist life and background was easy for me, the hard part was to connect and apply my research to my comic book and with that, create a story. John Heartfield used to criticize the Nazi government even knowing that such action could put his life in danger. This characteristic was represented on my work, when John enters a battlefield with nothing but his art. John Heartfield appears holding a painting of a snake, which is a reference to one of his famous pieces. Still holding up the piece, we can see the impact the artwork caused. This is the message I wanted to share, the impact of art on on people and the power it contain to change the world and influence people. John Heartfield always criticized the Nazi government but instead of using guns to win the war he helped with art. If you pay close attention you can also see a snake inside the armor in which you can also assume is Hitler. To finalize, I chose to represent the other “main� nations that fought against the Nazis also as animals. Now that Hitler lost his power, influence and army (metaphorically due to John Heartfield pieces), he is vulnerable to other animals. The sun set as a background represents a end for the day and for the war.
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JOHN HEARTFIELD
PETER NYMAN
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RAOUL HAUSMANN
REBECA SONG The moment of Raoul Hausmann’s life that I chose to represent was when he first started to work with poster poems and phonemes, in a Dadaist soirée in 1918. He was one of the first ones to produce poster poems, art pieces based on letters and sounds, that can transmit a message through a metaphor, for example (as poems do). Dadaist soirée were informal meetings, where artists would show their work and perform, if necessary (poems, theater plays, etc). These meetings happened in the time where the Dadaism was taking place, an art movement led by artists (such as Raoul Hausmann) that were applying abstraction and expressionism seriously on their works. This art movement was one of the most important in history, the one that challenged the concept of art and what it actually was. Artists involved with Dada were doing unimaginable things, applying forms and art elements that didn’t make sense. There wasn’t any information about the process of his work, but as the majority of his other art pieces were collages, I assumed one way he could have done it was through collage. When using photoshop to colorize, I chose to use the color palette from the work “Dada Conquerors”, because it was the one with the greatest variety, with darker and lighter colors, varying from green and blue, to brown and orange.
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SALVADOR DALĂ?
RODRIGO ARMANI My comic page does not relate to a specific period of Salvador Dali’s life, my comic is a visual representation of the main sections of his life, as shown on to the first to the last scene. I got this idea from his life timeline in a website and I chose to represent that moments that were most impactful. I used images to create visual metaphors such as the final scene with the melting clock representing his death. I tried to keep it simple with color, for example in the third scene where I used green for the forest and brown for dirt on the second scene.
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FRANCIS PICABIA
RODRIGO DAHRUJ Francis Picabia is a French painter, illustrator, designer, writer, and editor, who was successively involved with the art movements Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism. Picabia was the son of a Cuban diplomat father and a French mother. After studying at the École des Arts DÊcoratifs he painted for nearly six years in an Impressionist and after he started to paint a Cubist style. I tried to use a lot of complementary colors because almost all of the scenes I wanted to an image to pop up because it was the most important context of the scene and the complementary colors when together makes things pop up easily, I wanted to show the impact the war made to him because when he came back from it was when he started to do cubism. First, he drew landscapes and cubism is more drastic and more related to war.
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YVES TANGUY
RODRIGO DE ANDRADE Yves Tanguy was born on January 5, 1900, in Paris. His father died when he was just 8 years old. He lived his whole childhood with his mother in Paris. When he completed 18 years old, he joined the merchant marine, which he didn’t want to do. This is the main topic of my comic page, where I showed Yves panic regarding the navy trip. During this trip, he got in contact with art, became friends with the poet Jacques PrÊvert, who encouraged him to go further in painting and the whole field of art. During his life, Yves had many views of his paintings in dreams and hallucinations what is shown by some frames of the comic page. And the final frame, which is one of his paintings, is the result of all the dreams, hallucinations and of his journey.
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RENÉ MAGRITTE
SEONHO CHOI My artist is René Magritte. He has a lot of masterpieces and I chose one of his works, which name is Return of the flame. The painting showed us the sadness of modern life. People often try to hide their feelings, even when they get mad of somethings. Magritte seems to wish people would be honest with their feelings. And this is really important because with this background of the story I could make the comic story with his ideology. I get the idea of this story from his background. The biggest reason I chose this paint to work is that the colors and the image are very powerful. So, at first, when I saw this painting I was immediately attracted. I used Magritte’s ideology, and also my opinion to make a fictional story more interesting. So, the most important theme in my work is expressing anger. To emphasize the anger I use the red, and blue tone colors to emphasize the anger and express the cold-heartless. While this work, I used the contrast of the 2 colors tone. And I also use the tint of the black and white to emphasize the René.
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PABLO PICASSO
SOFIA FALLEIROS For this comic assignment, I represented a moment in Picasso’s life as an artist. The comic shows Picasso painting Guernica, which was one of the most important paintings in his artistic life. Guernica was also a very important painting at the time, as Picasso, with the support of the Spanish government, painted it to represent the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, after there was a bombing in the city of Guernica in 1937. In my comic, I tried to represent Picasso’s artistic process, by blurring the lines of reality and fantasy, merging moments from the battlefield and the painting. I showed the city after the bombing, Picasso’s concern, and the people and animals who were affected by the bombing. I combined elements from the painting and real life, as well as a representation of the painting as a whole. To represent this, I merged both Picasso’s painting style and the photographic “style”, and tried to make them contrast, mostly by using different textures, values and various types of lines.
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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
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MARCEL DUCHAMP
SUZANA STEINBERG Born on 28 July 1887, Marcel Duchamp was a painter, sculptor, and writer whose work was associated with Cubism. Some people say Duchamp broke the boundaries between art and everyday objects. The comic portrays the moment of his life where he comes up with the idea and inspiration to create one of his most famous art pieces: The Mona Lisa with a Moustache (L.H.O.O.Q.). I researched a lot about the artist’s life and discovered one of the theories for why he drew a mustache on top of a Mona Lisa postcard. People believe that this art piece was inspired after Appolinaire, one of Duchamp’s closest friends, was sent to prison. Appolinaire was wrongfully arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911, and Marcel may have created L.H.O.O.Q as a critique of this mistake. I then tried to find the best way to communicate this story to the viewer. Placing two different establishing shots situated the environment and mood. Also, after the prison frame, I made sure to draw Marcel Duchamp with a serious and distressed facial expression. After all, his anger about the situation resulted in the art piece. I used dull colors such as beige and blue to set a serious tone.
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PAUL KLEE
THEO GEKKER Paul Klee had terrible happenings in his life such as his brother’s death. A painting of his that really caught my attention was the Red Balloon painting he did in 1922. If you pay attention to the comic, you can see that in almost all frames a red balloon is present in the background. I was lacking the creativity to produce my comic, so I decided to research a little bit more about Paul Klee and found out that after his brother’s death he started dreaming about ways his brother died. Sometimes he dreamt it was a train accident or a heart attack. Immediately after learning this, an idea came to my mind. I was fascinated by this information and I was also fascinated by his red balloon painting. So I decided to join both Ideas. The colors I created were very contrasting on purpose, to highlight the main parts of each frame. In conclusion the comic was a connection between two happenings in Paul Klee’s life that really caught my attention.
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FERNAND LÉGER
TOMÁS BOSCH The inspiration I had to draw my comic was from Fernand Léger’s famous painting called the “Woman With a Book”. Since it is one of Léger’s most famous paintings, I decided to design my comic around this piece of art. In the comic, I had the idea to use different techniques that I learned in the course such as cold and warm colors and complementary colors. I also made sure all paintings high contrast, which is very present in Fernand Léger’s paintings. I hope that my comic transmit the idea to my viewers that different color choice varies due to the intensity of the situation and that it consists of high contrast due to the artist’s style.
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HANNAH HÖCH
TOMÁS ALVES Hannah Höch was beginning to get recognition during this time in her career, with some of her art being presented in German museums. This was around the time World War II happened, and Hannah was one of the only artists to stay in Germany during that time. During the Dadaist movement, Hannah made several pieces that use collage to make up weird characters and abstract representations of people. By the 1930s, which was when she released this piece, she had a homosexual relationship with Mathilda Brugman, a Dutch poet and artist. My piece is a visual representation of how her piece “German Girl” could have been, but with an overly abstract storyline that follows her artistic compass and style. The plot starts with Hannah Höch watching TV until the screen has an issue and a persons’ face becomes misconfigured. She has a flash of ideas and goes outside. She uses a ‘special paper’ to capture people’s facial features, later gluing them together as a collage to make the German Girl piece. Throughout my comic page, I used elements inspired by her pieces, such as backgrounds made up of colored paper and disfigured slips of paper.
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MARIA MARTINS
VALENTINA BOECHAT Maria Martins was a Brazilian sculptor, drawer, engraver, and painter. She was born in Minas Gerais, on 7 of August of 1894. She married the ambassador Carlos Martins in 1926. During this marriage, she had an affair with the artist Marcel Duchamp. My comic page illustrates a fictional connection between Maria Martins’ sculpture “The Impossible” and her affair with Marcel Duchamp. “The Impossible” represents the relationship of a man and a woman, with several issues and obstacles. Maria Martins’ and Marcel Duchamp’s affair was very similar to that; as Maria was married, they had to keep the relation a secret from everyone, causing multiple problems.
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MAS ERNST
VALENTINA KHOURY Max Ernst was a famous German artist who painted, made sculptures, graphic arts and poems. Throughout his life, his parents, although being very strict, were the ones that most incentives him because they wanted their kids to be talented. As he grew up his painting skills started to develop more and more. So he created two techniques: frottage and collage. He approached these techniques in all his paintings and he also created an imaginary creature, called the lop lop in which he uses to talk about his life in the paintings. In my comic, I used one of his signatures, the lop lop to represent his life, mostly during his teenage/young adult years. The lop lop will be present with him the whole time in my comic. But while Max Ernst had to experience the World War II, he got depression, keeping the lop lop captive and not feeling his life anymore. The lop lop will be released again only at the end of war, were everything goes back to normal.
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