Visual Culture Database Form ARTE344 Spring 2020

Provider: Kristiana M Vasil

Number:
3
Big
Idea/Subject:
Freedom
Major Theme:
Individuality
Medium/
Presentation:
Manipulated
Photography
Visual
Components:
Balance,
Category:
Fine Art
Pop art
Pop culture
Non-art

Authorship: Alejandro Aboli The RedLine

Title: Playground Vol.2- limited edition of 21
Original The Other Art Fair by Saatchi Art in Brooklyn, Los Angeles,
Location:
Description/Inte This Photograph is of a city with a playful twist. Instead of just an
rpretation ordinary city photo, Aboli has chosen to keep the entire city in black
and white so that your primary focus is set at the Fisher Price toys in
color. I think that artist chose to do this because he wanted to send the
message that staying within the lines of our society’s expectations isn’t
always the best thing to do. The buildings are all perfectly straight lines,
they are the conformed people fitting within its walls. The Fisher Price
 toy represents the people that do not fit within the city’s buildings, it is
an organic shape that thinks for itself, and is creative in its own
personal way.
Use in Teaching: If I were to use this while teaching a course I would try to get my
students to think outside of the box.
Assignment name: Outside The Box

Think about something that you might not see every day. What makes it
so special to you? Now try to imagine something that might not be real,
and could be part of a fantasy. For example, pigs flying, computers that
wear shoes, raining gum balls.

Sketch it out- and draw in using NuPastels...

What did you draw? (Literally)

What makes your drawing unique?
Is this something that you or I would actually be able to see in real life?
Is it playful?

Trade with a partner, and critique each other. (Is your partners work
creative and/or unique? Did they use their imagination? Is it playful?)
Source: https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Photography-Playground-Vol-2-Limit
ed-Edition-of-21/1130537/4954992/view