One of our small-groups tasks was to decide whether some paintings were modern or postmodern. Surely that's a Dali (=surrealist=modern) at top left? (No; it's an appropriation=postmodern. The artist is Glenn Brown, currently showing at Tate Liverpool.)
My group missed the fact that these weren't abstract (=modern) paintings, but some rather famous hospital doors (the original is in colour) -
In the afternoon, learning how to use sketchbooks for research. You don't carefully draw the entire object, you focus on the bit you're interested in - ie, if you need to know how a certain part of it works, you draw that bit in detail. Obviously obvious, but needs to be said now and again.
Yet again I shied away from using lots of colour and doing huge drawings. I prefer pen, and lots of small things on a page - hmm, why...
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