American University in Cairo visual Arts Department Course Intro to Painting Spring Semester 2014 Instructor : Rania Fouad Place : studio P008
Time : Mondays from 10 am to 12:45 pm
This catalogue includes projects carried by students in Intro to painting course /spring semester 2014. Each student had to submit at least five of the following projects including a final : -Scales gradation of tones in grey using black and white ,gradation of chromatic greys using complementary colors plus white ,"color" gradation made out of color hue with different shades and tints . -Painting of a pixilated image /perceived asintensive exercise of mixing and matching colors. -Introducing image transfer technique (to be used in combination with painting )applying ideas discussed for spacing objects in space ) -Painting portraits -Expressing by paint language of flowing bodies ..figures that enact . human feelings and relations .
dramas of
-Study paintings that came from different eras in art history by coping them applying skills introduced in class :working with tempera paint , gilding and glazing. - A Final Project (free theme )
General view of studio activity
Individual progress of participating students
Dr.Karim Addas kaddas@aucegypt.edu
Faculty member at AUC/ physics department
Audit class
Yara
El Said
yelsaid@aucegypt.edu
Yara Elsaid
Yara El Said ID: 900112346 Research Paper Andrea Solario Andrea Solario was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Milanese school, he was born in Milan, Italy in 1460 and died in 1524. Solario was one of the followers of the legend, Leonardo da Vinci. In addition, he was one of the most famous painters during the Renaissance era, especially in Milan and Venice. Around 1495, Solario was extremely active in Venice, because at that time he was influenced by the work of Antonello da Messina and his followers. In the year 1515, that was his last dated work. Furthermore, he was born into a family of artists. Solario’s paintings were mainly, either religious or portraits. He has numerous famous paintings. And one of his portrait paintings that I was really influenced by was, Portrait of a Female.
2 This is one of the greatest portrait paintings I’ve ever seen. The ways the eyes were painted is outstanding, and the look in the female’s eyes looks so weird as if there is something behind that look. As if there is sadness as well.
Works Cited "Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History." Andrea Solario (Italian, Milanese): Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist (32.100.81). N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/32.100.81>.
"Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza - Inicio." El Museo De Arte Thyssen-Bornemisza. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. <http://www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_artista/534>.
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Yara El Said 900112346 Statement
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wish people were like money so I could hold them to the light to see ones are realâ&#x20AC;? unknown
which
People nowadays are so fake, they hide themselves by wearing fancy and shiny clothes. This is all they care about. You never know who they really are from inside. Since I believe, the outer look seems beautiful and shiny..the inner is unknown. I decided to make the objects that people use to hide their real characters with.
Farida ElBassouni faridakhafaga@aucegypt.edu
Farida
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Farida El Bassiouni 900131040 Installation with the portrait of Marilyn First, I bought two pieces of glass, one that is 50 cm wide and 70 cm long and the other is 90 cm long and 70 cm wide. I have chosen to draw on two
layers ..I used acrylic because glass
paint would have been transparent and I did not want that effect, I wanted the colors to be bold. On the first layer I second
did a mono-type
of Marilyn Monroeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portrait
using black acrylic . On the
I painted a mountain with the sign of Hollywood on top. I particularly
painted Marilyn
Monroe.. She is an Icon .. I consider her as one of the prominent figures in the history of cinema and one of my favorite actresses. It is my dream to be like her. Involving light in installation affected the color and
the texture of its surface
.. Marilynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face acquired different
expression and different impact with each different light position .
Melanie Ragheb melanousha@aucegypt.edu
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Melanie Ragheb 900080124 Vermeer Painting: The girl with the pearl earring About the painter: Along with Frans Hal and Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer is one of the most beloved, and wellknown Dutch painters; he was not that well known during his time. The main reason, which he became more widely known, is due to the work he did, producing a small number of pictures (about 45). Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (1632 -1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. Although he had a short career (died at 43), Jan Vermeer's works sold for extremely high prices during the time, allowing him to support his wife, and eleven children that the couple had together. â&#x20AC;¨â&#x20AC;¨With many of the earlier works that Jan Vermeer created, he followed the style of a number of 17th century artists. About the painting: Date of Creation: 1665 Height (cm): 44.5 Length (cm): 39 Subject: portrait Art Movement: baroque Current Location: The Hague, Netherlands Displayed at: Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery Owner: Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery
Ahd Tarek Hashish ahdhashish@aucegypt.edu
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Ahd Hashish 900121466 Final Art Project Presentation My final art project is basically a statement in a form of an experiment to prove that the fast food industry uses too many preservatives in their food products. This is evidently not good for anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health. Several experiments were conducted to prove that these fast food meals are filled with preservatives to the extent that the meals do not rot. An experiment conducted by an American mother showcased two photographs of a McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happy meal that she kept for a period of 12 months. She photographed the meal in 2009 when she first bought it and later in 2010 after it had been preserved in her home for an entire year. The two pictures look practically identical when the second picture of the meal should look like a decomposing mess after all this time. The mother stated that not even flies or other insects that are supposed to flock to the meal and decompose it went near the meal at all. So if insects refuse to consume such products then why should we? I wanted to prove the same but using a different approach, I painted over the actual burger and fries to show that this food Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m painting on is not actual food, it is some sort of material, I wanted to show how nothing happens to the food, showing that the supposed meal could easily be used as a canvas to paint on since the preservatives keep them from rotting.
(Information about the artist who inspired me is Boo Ritson) Boo Ritson was born in 1969. She studied Fine Art at the University of Buckinghamshire, before going on to complete her M.A in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in 2005. She is best known for the works which depict characters and still lives drawn from her own imagined narratives which until recently recalled iconic images from American pop culture. For each piece she literally paints her subject in a thick emulsion and then photographs the sitter or object whilst the paint is wet. The resulting tableau sit somewhere between painting, sculpture, performance and photography.
Hadeer Amin didiatef@aucegypt.edu
The Young Martyr. Tempera painting based on a new classical painting of the 19th century
The Young Martyr, also known as the young Christian Martyr and A Christian Martyr Drowned, is painted by Paul Delaroche in 1853 - 1855. It’s displayed in the Louvre. Its height is 74 cm and width is 60 cm and its medium is oil on canvas. Paul Delaroche was born as Hippolyte De La Roche in Paris. He was born on 17 July 1797 and died on 4 November 1856 in Paris. He was trained by Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, who was painting life-size historical subjects and had many students. Delaroche's studio in Paris was in the rue Mazarin. His subjects were painted with a firm, solid, smooth surface, which gave an appearance of the highest finish. Among his students were British landscape artist Henry Mark Anthony (1817–1886), British history painters Edward Armitage RA(1817–1896) and Charles Lucy (1814–1873). Delaroche had a great liking for painting historical motives. This painting was completed a year before Delaroche's death in 1856. It depicts the death of a young Christian martyr in the 3rd century AD during the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. The dark silhouette of a man can be seen against the darkening sky and the sunset, but the main focus is on the dead, young girl. Her hands are bound and her eyes closed - and her features are lit by a halo over the face. She is dressed in light fabrics, totally soaked but still floating. It is said that the woman has the same face as Delaroch's wife. She had died in 1845.
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…now you seem to have 2 different ideas The First looks like "weaving “..creating a multi layered textured surface from the successive tracing of movie scenes .. the out come can turn into something very abstract but your obsession of the alternative world of fleeting drama & cinema stays reflected in the making process . The second is actually similar to the process followed by designers in producing a multi layered pattern .. William Morris- for example- used this technique to create his work. He built his intricate rich surfaces in layers ,same way you are suggesting here by your sketches ,each layer had a pattern that followed its own grid if you do that then you are choosing to "recreate" and reflect on the process of making patterns.. …….. “This is what I've reached so far. I'm going with pattern idea trying to add colors on different layers to enrich the surface .. I'm thinking of having one layer drawn in black ink. pastel for a second one , pencil and acrylic for the last .” *Excerpt from e-mail contact between instructor and student discussing final project
Amal shawty@aucegypt.edu
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It is common for people to acquire affordable prints of artworks rather than buy â&#x20AC;˘ the much more precious original pieces .. Amalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paintings were done to look for the first sight like simple inkjet prints of pixilated images. However when examined closely it is nothing but an intricate work of painted grids.. She is kind of fooling the viewers , and in reverse to the common . allowing her painstakingly painted precious work seem almost mundane and casual .
Tamara Scandar tamara@aucegypt.edu
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Tamara Scandar 900113352 Introduction to Painting
Painting Final Project Proposal
For my final project I chose to combine two of our previous assignments from earlier on in
the semester; the tempera paint and the transfer print assignments. The reason for which I did this is because upon researching about the Art Nouveau artist I had chosen for the tempera paint assignment, I learned something interesting. Alphonse Mucha, the artist, who although is very often associated to the Art Nouveau style attempted to disassociate himself from it and the commercial road it had taken. He believed that art existed only to communicate a spiritual and personal message, and nothing more. The strong attachment to creating something that is believed to be personal linked me back
to our transfer print assignment in which we were asked to use the photo printing method in order to create a composition including a personal object that is of importance to us. So for my final piece, I have recreated the tempera wooden panel painting using a different one of Muchaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous colorful posters and combining it with a monochrome photo print image of
Zeina Hisham zeinahf@aucegypt.edu
zeinahesham.95@hotmail.com
Visual interpretation of one chapter in Pina documentery: I chose this scene and painted a moon because it reminded me of the one thing that is centered and people revolve around .. The Moon. The stars, like the chairs in this particular scene , scattered around the moon , the men pushing the chair are the people who go out of their way to see and admire the moon. As for the red it represents the emotions I felt watching the dance .
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Artist Statement My painting is called the Catalan Foreigner, and the reason I called it that is because gargoyles are mainly famous in areas where they speak Catalonial and they are beautiful yet grotesque creatures that were created in the medieval century. Ofc course dragons represent power, excellence and boldness, so I wanted to interpret that and emphasize it with the large amount of colors. Gargoyles and Chimeras are great decoration and they always look down as if to say they are undefeatable by humans or giants and I wanted to interpret that in the painting. However, a grey stone gargoyle is boring and it is normal and does not stand out. I wanted it to stand out and I wanted it to be distinguished from anything else around it. Its not a decoration anymore, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a statement and its unique. I love the colors because I wanted them to modernize something ancient and medieval to make it look more relatable. It is very odd to paint a gargoyle but I was very inspired by one of my favorite movies as a child, the Hunchback of Notre Dam. This is one of the reasons to draw the gargoyle because that movie was the first movie I ever watched as a child where it made me feel like I actually learned something that still inspires me more than anything today. I am a very strong believer in equality whether that is gender, LGBT, skin color, special needs, anything. I want nothing more than for everyone to be equal and for everyone to be able to have a more diverse mind and this painting represents that through the movie.
Natalie Nathalie.M@aucegypt.edu
Tempera on wooden panel
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Suhaila Ameer Al sheikh suhayla8@aucegypt.edu
Study in tempera after Rubens
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FINAL PROJECT STATEMENT Abdel Halim Hafez Back to Life Suhayla Al-Sheikh
I brought a thousand buttons and sowed a pixelated picture of Abdel Halim Hafez on canvas. Each button resembled one pixel. I colored each button with the right shade of black or white before sowing it on.. I chose the blue string because I felt as though it is not too poppy to the point where it would take over the picture itself, and its not too subtle to where it doesn't show as a color.
Changes if I were to go back: If I were to go back and redo the project, I would sow the buttons (pixels) in red. When I started to work, I realized that the blue string is subtler than I had hoped for it to be, and therefore I knew that red was not going to be as poppy as I initially thought and it would have been perfect. Conclusion: The result is better than I expected and looks like Abdel Halim Hafez. I successfully achieved my goal and brought an old artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s liveliness to life. Furthermore, I feel like the lesson learnt from this project is patience. .The amount of time the process took from me made me value the project itself more.
Rola Abughazala rollaaboughazala@aucegypt.edu
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Nourhan Hammam nourhanhammam@aucegypt.edu
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Rana Younis Rana.Ezzat@aucegypt.edu
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Miral Arafa miral-mohammed@hotmail.com
miralarafa@aucegypt.edu
Work done in collaboration with Miralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother a former student in fine arts
Lama lama.eldanki@aucegypt.edu
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Shahd shahdhamza@aucegypt.edu
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