In Depth Portrait/Propaganda

This is a two-part assignment.  Work may be created in any medium, but each work should be no smaller than 12” in the smallest dimension.

Part A) students will create a portrait of an individual and must choose whether to depict the subject as admirable or ignoble.  This choice will be realized through specific formal choices—composition, color, line weight, energy, texture, scale, contrast, etc.—in the medium of their choice.  The portrait should also be a good representational likeness of the individual, and not an abstraction or substitution (e.g.: a person must be represented by a person, and not by a bottle, or a cow, for example).  No smaller than 12” in the smallest dimension.

Part B) Students will next create a form of propaganda—some combination of text/speech and image that will promote a message opposite that of the portrait about the same subject.  For example, if you depicted one of your professors as destitute, intimidating, and horrible in a portrait, then your propaganda should promote them as rich, welcoming and wonderful.  No smaller than 12” in the smallest dimension.

In the propaganda you may feel free to use a personified representation of your subject—you may depict a bottle or cow, which has the characteristics of your subject in place of your subject, for example.  The propaganda may be created using the medium of your choice, though the requirement to use text may make some of you feel limited—consider that there are many ways to use text; it doesn’t simply have to be a digital insertion.  Formal choices will also be important in the propaganda.