Guided Course: Create a Portrait Using Everyday Objects
On Caricature
A guided course by Hanoch Piven, Mixed Media Artist
About the video: On Caricature
Overview
“In this lesson I would like to look with you at faces and caricatures. This is not intended to be an art history lesson on caricature but rather a subjective tour of my collection of heroes in the field and an attempt to understand the way they build the face, how they create likenesses and how they create content using a personal style. ”
In this video lesson Hanoch Piven addresses the topic: On Caricature, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Course: Create a Portrait Using Everyday Objects. Create expressive portraits using everyday objects, exploring collage techniques, caricature, and facial expressions for unique artistic results.
Partial transcription of the video
“Until now, we talked a lot about the process of creativity. In this lesson, I want to start talking about the face. After all, I'm a caricaturist. I have been making faces for over 40 years. When we talk about the caricature, as I've said earlier in this course, A caricature is a loaded portrait. It's a portrait that is drawn with an idea, with a meaning, with a point of view. I'm going to talk about contemporary caricaturists. And this is really my list of favorites, my heroes, people that I have been looking at their world. For many, many, many years. And the purpose of looking at differe...”
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Course summary for: Guided Course: Create a Portrait Using Everyday Objects
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Arts & Crafts, Collage, Creating with Kids

Hanoch Piven
A guided 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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