Creative Strategies from Contemporary Art

 

• Hybridize: Join parts of different things 

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• Reformat: Use a format from outside art

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• Project: Imagine or envision what is not there or speculate on what could happen next. 

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• Juxtapose: Place contrasting images or objects in proximity to each other

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• Transform: Morph or change something into something else

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• Personify: Cast animals or inanimate objects as human 

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• Elaborate: Go into more detail; add details 

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• Change Scale: Make an object larger or smaller relative to other things

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• Extend: Take ideas to logical or absurd conclusions. 

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• Employ Metaphor: Cast one thing as another 

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• Use Unusual or Metaphorical Materials: Construct an object out of surprising materials and/or components

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• Translate: Create a form in a different material (often an art material)

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• Map: Arrange and present ideas and concepts in graphic configurations

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• Categorize or Re-categorize: Place something in its common category, a new category, or multiple categories.

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• Layer: Superimpose an image onto another image.

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• Intervene: Insert an object or image into an environment; take action

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• Distill: Simplify down to the basic form or idea

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• Mimic: Use the methods of a non-art discipline

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• Re-contextualize: Place an object or image in another context

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• Embody: Take on the persona of someone else; act

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• Appropriate: Use an existing image to draw on its meaning

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• Distort: Exaggerate a trait or feature