Art Project

Produce: One complex piece of art per person.

Goal: Art projects should demonstrate a range of functions from the chapter, try to use 3-4 from each category in your whole project.

• Methods of placement: beside, above, overlay, place-image, as well as the “/align” variations. (Use the variations!)

• Changing pictures: crop, scale, rotate.

• Shapes: triangles (many!), lots more listed at the end of Chapter 3 (PDF pages 60–61).

• Colors: color-database, make-color from the internet, colorize or name->color.

Remember: This is a short project. I expect you will spend no more than three hours on it, including time working in class (roughly 1.5 hours).

It is OK to simplify and focus on using the goal functions (see above).

Steps

1. Find one inspiration piece of art.
2. Have idea approved before the first class ends.
3. Complete by working in class and possibly some time at home over the weekend.

Choice 1: DrRacket’s take on MoMA

Choose a piece of art for inspiration.

• School appropriate.
• No duplicates with anyone you know in any class.
• MoMA archive (blocked in CPS as of 2022):
  • Textiles from Japan - which could have floral patterns or numbers from the cataloging process
  • Islamic art — like this

Choice #2: Picture Puzzles

Goal: create two pictures that are challenging or interesting to recreate once they are finished. If you can get someone to say, “How did you do that?”, your puzzle is a success.

Possible sources:

• Geometry puzzles
• Triangle puzzles