Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
Distilling Meaning
A course by Hanoch Piven , Mixed Media Artist
About the video: Distilling Meaning
Overview
“At the beginning of the process we talked about opening options by having lots of objects on our table. Now is a time to ask yourself what is the main idea you want to convey in this piece of art and whether you have exactly the right elements to help you tell that idea. ”
In this video lesson Hanoch Piven addresses the topic: Distilling Meaning, which is part of the Domestika online course: Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage. Discover a playful process to unleash and expand your creativity through the creation of portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“DISTILLING MEANING In this lesson I want to talk about a very important concept, editing. It is essential to know what stays in your project and, more important, what goes out. Editing exists in any art project. In film, in books and in paintings. But in order to edit, we need to understand what is the essence of our creation, what is the main idea. So how do we find the main idea? Sometimes we might have the idea ahead of time going into the project, but more often than that the essence, the idea of our project, emerges as we are searching So this is why it's so important to create the spa...”
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Course summary for: Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
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Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Collage, Creating with Kids
Hanoch Piven
A course by Hanoch Piven
Hanoch Piven is an award-winning illustrator, educator, and seasoned creative instigator. Piven’s artwork is unique in both form and method. By reinventing the meaning and use of everyday objects he forges associations between these and the subject of his creation.
Piven's art is playful, inclusive, and transformative. Since 1992, Piven's work has been published in newspapers and magazines across the world, such as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, London Times, Der Spiegel, and Israel's Haaretz. Piven is also the author of a series of award-winning children's books and apps, TV shows, interactive exhibitions, and advertising campaigns.
Piven has lectured extensively on creativity and its applications to life in diverse platforms across the world. Amongst them are The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Business School, Teach for All Global Conference, Duke University, The School of Visual Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts, Art Center of Design, Instituto Europeo di Design, and many more.
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