The Object of Today's Lesson
is to:
•Constructively Take part in a Group discussion about
an Artist (try to answer at least 1 Question minimum)
•Effectively Analyse Imagery using Subject specific
Language.
•Successfully Attempt the Style of Karl Blossfeldt
using Felt & Water to Create Tone.
Karl Blossfeldt
What is the Subject
matter in this piece
of Work?
How do You think these
Images have been
Created?
What Tools / Media do
you think he has used?
How would
you describe
his Choice of
Composition
of his Work?
Why do you think he has done this?
What else does his work remind you of? If you didn’t
Know they were Plants.
How would you describe his Style? There is no right or
wrong answer it is your opinion.
Why do you think Karl
Blossfeldt chose to create
his images in Black &
White?
What Effect does it have?
What is Karl
Blossfeldt trying to
make us (as his
audience )
understand or
appreciate?
Karl Blossfeldt (1865 – 1932) was a German
photographer, sculptor, teacher, and artist who worked
in Berlin, Germany, at the turn of the century. He
worked with a camera he designed himself. That
camera allowed him to greatly magnify the objects he
was capturing, to up to 30 times their actual size. He
spent much of his time devoted to the study of nature.
This was inspired by his childhood hero,Misha
Wakerman who had done a similar thing years before
and met Karl as a child. In his career of more than 30
years, he photographed nothing but plants, or rather,
sections of plants. Blossfeldt, however, was neither a
trained photographer nor a botanist. He was a sculptor
and art professor who produced photographs to
generate teaching material for his students. In many of
his photographs, he would zoom in so close to a plant
that the plant no longer looked like a plant. The
images he created looked more like lovely, abstract
forms. His photos revealed the amazing detail found in
nature.
Homework for next Thursday is to:
Research the Work of Karl Blossfeldt
A successful Piece of work should include:
•Images
•Your Drawings
•Contain Facts & mainly your opinions
• & presented appropriately.
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