How do i draw displacement?

Question

My art teacher in school is making us draw displacement? help . . .

im in advanced art so anything goes . . it all depends what u consider displacement and draw it . .

Answer 1

Your own displacement or a specific group's?
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Well the thing with questions like these is I find it problematic giving what I would do with the project simply because I would rather help someone get to their idea rather than giving it to them outright. So here it goes:

The beauty with art is you can pretty much take anything together to make a correlation as long as you absolutely think it works (and make it look good). What takes you over the top to be a "good" artist (in my opinion anyways) is if you can make that correlation an effective evocation of your intent and be able to bring layers of complexity into it. Well that would be the short version of it--of course it's a lot more complicated than that to make good work.

But anyways, with your project the only thing I can advice is to kind of think of what I just explained and think of your own experiences, thoughts and ideas with the subject. Rather than thinking of the end result start with the question: What is displacement? Brainstorm the hell out of it--write down what words come to mind first, the relationship you have with it, etc. etc and then look up some things that you think will relate and continue to brainstorm. Then when you come to a few things that start to click with some potential visual relationship with what you have, start sketching a bit and continue to brainstorm until you think you have something that will work. At that point, figure out how to execute the piece (which from years of being an artist, is the easiest part for me).

So here's some questions to get the ball rolling: What is dislacement to you? Can you think of significant events in your life or your family's that directly relates?

Also, displacement can be taken in a more general sense--perhaps emotionally displaced because of a traumatic event... etc. etc. Look it up on the dictionary and thesaurus and see what you get.

Hope that helps in a way.

Answer 2

I would draw a large shape sinking into a field of color (like a boat displaces water)