Death

5. How do show mortality?

UnknownThe Death Mask of King Tutankhamen

1320 BC

UnknownThe Terracotta Army

200-300 BC

Artemisia GentileschiJudith Slaying Holofernes

1611-12

Hans Holbein the Younger, Self-portrait, c1542.

Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533. Oil on canvas, 207x209 cm, National Gallery, London

Hans Holbein, detail of skull (The Ambassadors), 1533.

Adrien von UtrechtVanitas – Still Life with Bouquet and Skull

1642

What is this artwork about?

1) What do you see?

2) How is it shown to you?

3) What is the meaning of the different parts?

4) Put it all together: what was Holbein trying to communicate?

5) Did he do a good job?

Hans HolbeinThe Ambassadors

1533

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst, For the Love of God, 2007.

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991.

Tiger shark, glass, steel, formalin, 84”x204”, private collection.

What is this artwork about?

1) What do you see?

2) How is it shown to you?

3) What is the meaning of the different parts?

4) Put it all together: what was Hirst trying to communicate?

5) Did he do a good job?Damien Hirst

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

1991

Damien HirstThe Physical Impossibility of Death

in the Mind of Someone Living1991

Hans HolbeinThe Ambassadors

1533

Today: a creative challenge

Design an artwork that is about the idea of FAMILY

1) Think and generate lots of ideas and possible images (20 min)

2) Edit, select, and combine the best (5-10 min)

3) Make a few thumbnails of the best combinations (10-15 min)

4) Put it all together into one sketch (15-20 min)