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Open Toolkits

Open Toolkits

OERs composed by MA Contemporary Art Theory Students

Fictional map – Art Studio Tour

Summary

This toolkit is a tour of an artist's studio. Participants create a special, personal studio map and use abstract art elements to establish a certain symbolic connection with the studio, thereby constructing their personal identity and developing a sense of uniqueness. The pursuit of artistic language and understanding of the charm of abstract art.

  • Introduction:

The artist’s personal studio is a personalized and private space where inspiration and artistic creation can be achieved. Participants in this toolkit can think of themselves as an artist, designing a working studio for themselves, and creating in the form of abstract art. Perhaps it is not just an art space, but a small world of its own.

The symbolic connection between abstract art and the studio is that abstract elements can express an individual’s emotions about their creative environment, symbolize the complexity and depth of thinking and the explosion and flow of creativity, and highlight the dynamics of the creative artist’s personal creative process.

Use your imagination to create a studio map that blends fiction and reality to create a unique space. The map provides an open interpretation of the space, capable of expressing the emotional color behind an individual artist’s studio, conveying the artistic aesthetic and abstract understanding of the self.

 

  • Examples:(Art Map)

  • Materials:

Toolkit uses the simplest materials. Paper and pen are used to complete abstract art creations that can express creative intention and emotions more intuitively.

  • Steps:

Step1: Three minutes

Participants watch the examples provided and choose their favorite abstract art elements, such as lines, colors, and shapes. They can choose any combination of these to create a personal art studio.

Step2: Eight minutes

Use paper and pen to construct an abstract art map based on your own artistic interests and experiences as well as your inner emotional reflection.

Step3: Three minutes

Reflecting on the symbolic connection between colour, line and the concept of the artist’s studio, choose five key words to express your own studio-reflected emotions and individual identity, and write them on the side of the painting.

Step4: Three minutes

Share and communicate your creations with people around you. Through the practical experience of this toolkit, you can use abstract elements to explore your unique emotions and way of thinking, and stimulate artistic creativity. And experience the symbolic meaning of colors, lines, etc. in expressing personal identity when creating a personal studio, and understand the charm of abstract art.

Step5: one minute

Collect creative results.

 

Please leave follow-up feedback and feelings about the toolkit in the comments section below, as this is more conducive to reflection on the toolkit for development and progress!

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