This is Baldo and his brothers Waldo, Renaldo, Geraldo and Jeff. The five brothers LOVE to play Hide and Go Seek. Can you find all of them in the picture below? YOUR ASSIGNMENT is to create an image in which, like my example above, you hide one or more objects. Your object(s) can be person(s), place(s) or thing(s). But, before we go any further, there are a few terms you need to know. Horror Vacui (“Har-or Vac-you-eye): (Noun) A fear or dislike of leaving empty spaces, especially in an artistic composition. Negative Space: (Noun) In a drawing, painting or other artistic composition, the area that contains no objects. It could also be called blank, empty or unused space. Negative Space is often filled only with a single color. Composition: (Noun) The arrangement of objects, shapes and colors in an artistic work such as a drawing or painting. (Verb) The act of creating artwork. That's it really. Just those three terms. But you need to know them. When you do, you should easily be able to understand the following sentence: "Horror Vacui is a style of art in which there is little or no Negative Space in the Composition." The images below are good examples of Horror Vacui drawings. Back to your project...
Your Horror Vacui composition will be graded on the following criteria: 1 The image measures approximately 2000 px X 2500 px. My example above is 1850 x 2400 and if yours ends up anywhere near that, it's fine. You can make it in the Portrait or Landscape format. 2 There is almost no Negative Space in the Composition. You will need to do some overlapping of your objects to get them close enough to each other so that there are almost no empty spaces. 3 You use no fewer than 100 images in your Composition. Really, it's not that many. My example has over 300 in it. But do take enough time to do this well. You have TWO WEEKS to complete this. Use images with no background so that you don't have to trim everything out. If you want a picture of a dog, search something like "dog with no background" or just add the phrase "transparent png" to any words you search for. 4 Each of your images is just the object itself, no background of any kind. 5 You submit this project for grading NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2020. I will not have time to grade your work otherwise. THIS PROJECT WILL BE YOUR LAST ONE. IT IS WORTH 200 POINTS, TWICE WHAT YOUR OTHER PROJECTS THIS QUARTER ARE WORTH. So do your best work :) Other than that, I hope everyone is well and being safe. Take care of yourselves. Loughran |
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