Instructions:
1. Everyone must read all the text on this page before painting
2. Everyone Must only use their assigned brush to apply paint to the designated canvas
3. Males must only use the pink paint and the large brush
4. Females must only use the black paint and the small brush
5. Everyone must dip their brush into the paint only once, and then apply the paint to the canvas however they desire
6. Males must complete step 5 a total of 3 times; no more or less
7. Females must complete step 5 a total of 6 times; no more or less
8. Once finished, everyone must lay their brush on the paper towel next to the assigned paint
Note:
*The first person should see the canvas as awaiting a total composition, and therefore should apply their paint in a way that sets up a framework that others can follow
*Everyone who is not the first person should contribute to what the others have already done and not do their own thing regardless of what is already on the canvas
Results:
The goal of my painting was to structure a pre-defined relationship while still allowing the creativity of the individual to prevail and interesting piece of art to result. I also tried to provoke a gender contrast by only allowing males to use pink paint, and females only black; switching what color would be socially assigned to each gender.
If I were to do this painting again, I would add one more rule that says no brush can ever touch the canvas directly. I think this would create a much more interesting piece of artwork, since the biggest drawback of this piece was that it was overdone.
I felt that this project was very compiling and unique. I liked the choice of materials, and how they stepped farther into the project then anyone else. I also felt that out come that they produced was very intriguing. While two colors of paint could create a very static composition this algorithm on a whole created a very dynamic piece. This project is informative about architecture in how it teaches one to think about how to articulate their ideas into instructions for someone else to interpret and how to work with/overcome some of the variances that they might encounter in how different people interpret instructions differently. This project also began to inform us on how one can use a somewhat simple set of rules to create a complex outcome. It shows how by repeatedly completing a set of rules over and over again the out come becomes exponentially more complex.
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