JenniferTurner
Turner
Dillard High School｜Fort Lauderdale, FL
TEACHER: Celestin Joseph
Drawing
Him Within the Golden Hour｜12 x 12 in.
Material(s): Acrylics, dip inks, India ink, and 23k gold leaf on stretched canvas
Process(es): Subject depicted in a state of mental wonderment. Material experimentation with gold leafing.
I believe the greatest type of art is not one that just looks beautiful, but one that makes you question something.
Student statement
Student
statement
Jennifer Turner
In this specific piece, I wanted to depict my subject in a state of awe and mental wonderment with his surroundings.
My sustained investigation revolves around the beauty in the perspective of the subconscious mind; exploring individual emotions created by our own ideas and thoughts. I purposely altered my palette to a saturation of warmer value tones, experimenting with lining/strong mark-making and gold leaf. In addition, I wanted to spark a deep connection with the subject and the viewer through my work, making them feel the same sense of admiration and wonder when they look at this piece so that they themselves can wonder and imagine what kind of landscape the subject could be looking at?
Leer en español
Mi trabajo se titula:
“Él en la Hora Dorada”
Mi investigación sostenida gira en torno con la belleza en la perspectiva de la mente subconsciente; explorando las emociones individuales creadas por nuestras propias ideas y pensamientos. En esta pieza específica, quería representar a mi sujeto en un estado de linbo mental anonadado con su entorno.
A propósito modifiqué mi paleta a una saturación de tonos más cálidos, experimentando con un balance de líneas y hoja de oro. Además, quería generar una conexión profunda con el sujeto y el espectador a través de mi trabajo, haciéndoles sentir la misma sensación de admiración y asombro cuando miran esta pieza, para que ellos mismos puedan preguntarse e imaginarse qué tipo de paisaje podría estar mirando el sujeto?
Creo que el mejor tipo de arte no es el que solo se ve hermoso, sino el que te hace cuestionar.
Mi investigación sostenida gira en torno con la belleza en la perspectiva de la mente subconsciente; explorando las emociones individuales creadas por nuestras propias ideas y pensamientos. En esta pieza específica, quería representar a mi sujeto en un estado de linbo mental anonadado con su entorno.
Teacher
statement
Celestin Joseph
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Hello everyone, let me just start by saying congratulations Jennifer on a wonderful job done on your AP Drawing portfolio.
Jennifer was one of the amazing Titans that I had this year who worked extremely hard on bringing together her portfolio and making an excellent show of it. During the pandemic, I don't even think she was fazed during that time. She really put in all of her effort into the work that she was creating and developed a body of work during this past school year that was absolutely amazing. I can't say that I had a whole lot to do with some of the wonderful work that she created, but she did understand what the standards were for the AP portfolio and during the course, I made sure that you know, that she wrote about her pieces as she submitted them in terms of practice, experimentation, and revision. Also with the skill-based effort that she put into each piece, no piece that was submitted into her portfolio was entered in there unless it was compositionally sound. And she was just impressive all year long, making sure that she crossed her, T’s dotted her I’s, and submitted a portfolio that was outstanding at the end of it and reflected all of the skills that we look for inside of the AP drawing portfolio .and uh? I'd like to say, you know, given what she learned during the course, you know she really took the coaching. She went onto the AP site. She looked at the examples and samples. She did her research during the process of creating the exam and really excelled at building and creating something that reflected her skills and her effort during the course of this past school year.
So congratulations, Jennifer. And job well done on submitting a wonderful portfolio and having it included in the AP Online Exhibit. Thank you.
Jennifer was one of the amazing Titans that I had this year who worked extremely hard on bringing together her portfolio and making an excellent show of it. During the pandemic, I don't even think she was fazed during that time. She really put in all of her effort into the work that she was creating and developed a body of work during this past school year that was absolutely amazing.
Jennifer Turner