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Family portrait

History is littered with talented artists who have always pushed the boundaries of art and established codes. Getting to know them and understanding their styles and techniques is important for our students, who are artists in the making. For this new workshop, the Prépa Entertainment students have created family portraits in the style of Alphons Mucha.

The painter (but also poster artist, illustrator and graphic designer) Alfons Mucha is one of the major figures of the Art Nouveau movement. His feminine works are instantly recognisable. Above all, Mucha is a unique style: ornaments, typography, arabesques, symbols, colours, plants… Even today, the Mucha style is taken up, reinterpreted and brought up to date with pop-culture icons.

With this in mind, the students at the Prépa Entertainement in Nantes were given the task of creating a family portrait using Mucha’s codes and imagination. It’s important to draw inspiration from artists, to understand their approaches, their worlds and their conceptions of art, so that you can build on your own knowledge and skills.

SUBJECT OF THE EXERCISE

Working in groups, the students were asked to create a portrait of a family: parents, children, grandparents, etc. Each pupil had to choose the member of the family they wanted to draw.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE EXERCISE

  • Select a family style (musicians, artists, rebels, outsiders, etc.);
  • Identify a feature & a character trait common to all the members of the family;
  • Determine a single graphic charter for all the portraits;
  • Determine the setting in which the characters will be positioned;
  • Maintain consistency between all the portraits produced by the group of designers;
  • To create a graphic universe based on Mucha’s (ornamentation, typography, decor, etc.).

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE

To propose a group work presenting a unity despite the specialities of each student. To be able to respect an artist’s graphic universe and draw inspiration from it to create a new composition. To learn how to master style and proportions and give life to characters with an expressive and legible attitude.

TECHNIQUE(S)

Drawing, pencil, felt-tip pens…