Month: January 2013

• Art Foundations – EXAM DAY!

1. Use all of the knowledge that you have gained over the past 18 weeks to your best and successfully pass the final exam!

Today we critique, Your paper is a good portion with the final grades as well as the work… I hope you did nicely!

Advanced Drawing – Did you use the TEMPLATE for your final?

1. Demonstrate your ability to speak, write, and defend the work you have created.
2. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks

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• AP Studio Art – Did you use the TEMPLATE for your final?

1. Demonstrate your ability to speak, write, and defend the work you have created.
2. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks

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• Art Foundations – EXAM DAY!

1. Use all of the knowledge that you have gained over the past 18 weeks to your best and successfully pass the final exam!

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• Advanced Drawing – Did you use the TEMPLATE for your final?

1. Demonstrate your ability to speak, write, and defend the work you have created.
2. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks

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• AP Studio Art – Did you use the TEMPLATE for your final?

1. Demonstrate your ability to speak, write, and defend the work you have created.
2. 2.2 evaluate the effectiveness of artworks

Art Foundations: Today we will be reviewing the year, cleaning the room, and having some Dr. Know ART All Q & A about ANYTHING you may want to know about the year and what you may STILL have questions about regarding Art.

1. 4.2 describe the purpose and meaning of your collage as it relates to your cultures, times, and place.
2. 4.3 compare relationships in your collage in terms of 4.3.2 aesthetics 4.3.3 and culture.

What do you have to do to get yourself READY for the exam? Do you have your note card ready? Do you have your 7 color scheme cards ready from way back when?

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Advanced Drawing: Last day to work on Figure Drawing. We will ALSO be cleaning out your lockers and washing the desks in the last 10 minutes. Chair back to Schreiber’s class, platform back tot he storage room.

1. 5.3 describe meanings of figure drawings by analyzing 5.3.1 techniques

What do you need to do for the final exam? What were the challenges you had with this drawing? What did you think of the video on Jim Dine?

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AP Studio Art: Today we will be reviewing the year, making any last minute photographs for your final, and cleaning the room.

• 4.2 describe the purpose and meaning of art objects within different cultures, times, and places
• 4.3 compare relationships in visual art in terms of 4.3.1 history 4.3.2 aesthetics 4.3.3 and culture as it relates to your own art

What do you have to do in order to get yourself up to speed for the final exam? Are you prepared? Make sure you use the maximum number of characters – I will be checking them and grading your writing (spelling counts).

Art Foundations:

Social Commentary – Continue to work and wrap it up. Monday the work is due with a written explanation attached to the back. Name and hour… Review for final exam – You have the review packet in the back of your chapter worksheets… have had them all year.

1. 1.4.3 evaluation of your work as you are wrapping it up (formative and summative reflections about your artwork)

If you are not done – what is it you are going to need to do to wrap it all up? Clean it up!

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Advanced Drawing: NPR Interview with Ai Weiwei – A MUST listen.

Figure Drawing – Erase… 10 minute drawing session – BREAK – 10 minute Drawing session – BREAK with Observation of classmates work – final minutes of drawing. FINAL EXAM WILL BE A TEMPLATE ONLINE… END OF TODAY… KORB Advanced Drawing FINAL (look it up), complete it, SHARE it. Exam Template is Here.

1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.1 skill 1.1.2 confidence 1.1.3 and awareness so that your ideas are executed well.

What upset you about the first portion of the period? What did you do with the remainder of the period to resolve your frustration?

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AP Studio Art: NPR Interview with Ai Weiwei – A MUST listen!

Understand that you will have a brief presentation of the concentration works for your mid-term exam. Gather up your current concentration works and evaluate them with a classmate. Do they stand as a body of work? FINAL EXAM WILL BE A TEMPLATE ONLINE… END OF TODAY… KORB AP MID-TERM (look it up), complete it, SHARE it. Exam Template is Here.

1. 5.5 evaluate responses to works of art for communicating 5.5.1 rationale and 5.5.2 ideas

This is the last day to work on your current concentration – what do you have to do for Monday? Do you have PHOTOGRAPHS of all your concentration works? You will NEED THEM for the EXAM. Today might be a good day to shoot.

Art Foundations 2D:

• Social Commentary Mixed Media work – ALL WEEK. This work will be due on Monday – First Thing.
• Guest Teacher – Please show this Presentation of Romare Bearden’s “Black Odyssey”

1. 5.1 identify the reasons (rationale) behind making your art 2.1 form criticism about artworks that work to accomplish 2.1.3 communal meanings

How have you begun to create images that are not just cut out images pasted to the board? How are you using your skills to really push the ideas that you are hoping to communicate?

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Advanced Drawing: 

• First few minutes will be a surprise – brace yourself… 10 minute drawing session – BREAK – 10 minute Drawing session – BREAK with Observation of classmates work – final minutes of drawing.
• I am not sure how long the video is… it may take the hour.
• Make sure the STANDBY button is green on the left side of the Promethean Board so SOUND from the VCR works.
• On the WHITE Remote – switch from Computer 1 to VIDEO so the Tape in the VCR Plays.
• When the video is done… swith back to Computer 1

1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.1 skill 1.1.2 confidence 1.1.3 and awareness so that your ideas are executed well

“What upset you about going back and erasing the drawing? What did you do with the erased part to make the drawing more accurate?”

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AP Studio Art:

• Understand that you will have a brief presentation of the concentration works for your mid-term exam.
• Gather up your current concentration works and evaluate them with a classmate.
• Do they stand as a body of work?
• YOU ARE WORKING TODAY!

1. 5.5 evaluate responses to works of art for communicating 5.5.1 rationale and 5.5.2 ideas.

What are you continually doing to self-evaluate and resolve the work you have in front of you. What is ONE question that you have asked as you have moved your work forward?

Art Foundations:

• Social Commentary Mixed Media work – ALL WEEK. This work will be due on Monday – First Thing.
• Mr. Korb will be making FORMATIVE evaluations on the first 3 categories of your work – Execution / Composition / Character
• Looking at the work of Romare Bearden and listening to an NPR Snippet of Romare Bearden’s Life and Times – Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson. (5 minutes today… we will finish listening to this). Begin at 5:05
• We will take a look at more of Romare Bearden’s work from the Black Odyssey Exhibition.
  
• Presentation of Romare Bearden’s “Black Odyssey”

1. 3.1 reflect on how your art differs from your classmates and describe how it relates to your culture
2. 4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form and 4.4.3 meanings

What are you doing with the work that is different than what you have done in the past? How is it working for you or how is it a struggle?

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Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing – Today we will be working from Figure Drawings based on your and  the live model.

• Gesture drawings will be the first 4 minutes
• BREAK – 10 minute drawing session
• BREAK – 10 minute Drawing session
• BREAK with Observation of classmates work
• final minutes of drawing.

1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.1 skill 1.1.2 confidence 1.1.3 and awareness so that your ideas are executed well

In the process of drawing the figure from the live model, what are you pleased with? What are you not happy about? What were the largest challenges you faced today?

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AP Studio Art: Working on the next batch of Concentration works and continuing to plan for the next works to come. Understand that you will have a brief presentation of the concentration works for your mid-term exam. You will have your 2 questions reviewed and retyped for the final. Your presentation and your commentary regarding others works will be your mid-term grade.

1. 3.1 reflect on how your art differs from your classmates and describe how it relates to your culture
2. 4.4 evaluate and interpret your art for relationships in 4.4.1 form and 4.4.3 meanings

Elizabeth Peyton: Bio from the Museum of Modern Art website.

What are the new ideas you have brought into this current work of your concentration? If you have NO NEW IDEAS… what are you missing in the process of developing the concentration?

Art Foundations:

• Social Commentary Mixed Media work – ALL WEEK. This work will be due on Monday – First Thing.
• Looking at the work of Romare Bearden and listening to an NPR Snippet of Romare Bearden’s Life and Times – Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson. (5 minutes today… we will listen to this).
• We will take a look at more of Romare Bearden’s work and discuss the poetry of Langston Hughes – Harlem Renaissance Artists. http://www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/romareBearden/index.htm

1. 1.1 apply your collage materials, techniques, and processes with 1.1.3 an awareness so that  your ideas are executed well
2. 4.3 compare relationships in visual art in terms of 4.3.3 your culture as it relates to your own art

How can you remember to use these techniques once you have left this classroom? What might the use of these new skills do for you outside of the classroom?

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Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing – Today we will be working from GESTURE Drawings based on your classmates and your live modeling skills. Long drawings beginning from 5 minutes and finally getting to 30 seconds. We will NOT be switching pages today. We will be allowing the drawings to overlap and continue to develop into a composition that is ABSTRACT and FIGURATIVE.

1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.2 confidence 1.1.3 and awareness so that your ideas are executed well

Here is some information about the above painting. Link Here. ALSO – Culture Shock 1913 – Listen Here.

Looking at your drawings – what are you pleased with? What are you not happy about? What were the largest challenges you faced today?

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AP Studio Art: Working on the next batch of Concentration works and continuing to plan for the next works to come. Understand that you will have a brief presentation of the concentration works for your mid-term exam. You will have your 2 questions reviewed and retyped for the final. Your presentation and your commentary regarding others works will be your mid-term grade.

1. 1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.1 materials 1.2.2 techniques 1.2.3 and processes you use
2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value

Looking ahead at your concentration… what works have you got planned? What do you need to do to get the work from the past semester all wrapped up and solidified? What is the meaning behind your most current concentration work? How well thought out are your answers to your 2 AP questions?

Art Foundations: Social Commentary Mixed Media work – ALL WEEK. This work will be due on Monday – First Thing. Looking at the work of Romare Bearden and listening to an NPR Snippet of Romare Bearden’s Life and Times – Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson. (Tuesday we will listen to this).

1. 1.3 communicate your thoughts on social topics clearly
2. 4.3 compare relationships in visual art in terms of 4.3.3 your culture as it relates to your own art

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Advanced Drawing: Figure Drawing – Today we will be working from GESTURE Drawings based on your classmates and your live modeling skills. Long drawings beginning from 5 minutes and finally getting to 30 seconds.

1. 1.1 apply media, techniques, and processes with 1.1.3 an awareness so that your ideas are executed well

What is the process that you see in this video that you have used in the past?

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AP Studio Art: You will be presenting your 2 questions and the works to the class today. 3 minutes per student – no discussion, no comments but you need to use the three minutes to talk about the answers and defend your work – GRADES WILL BE MADE ON YOUR PRESENTATION

1. 5.1 identify the rationale behind making art 5.2 stand behind your criticism of art

Link to talking about your art:  http://www.artbusiness.com/appearpub.html

R.C. – I pasted the image in your GOOGLE DOC. You are all set.

.Art Foundations 2D: Social Commentary – What are social topics that are important to you in life? We are going to create works over the next week that speak to the social topic that you feel is important enough in your life that you can make work to respond and comment on it. – Social Commentary Brainstorming Worksheet.

1. 2.6 Work on creating multiple solutions to solve visual challenges.
2. 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges

http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html

Banksy Street Art is SOCIAL COMMENTARY… What social topics are important to you? What might Banksy have been saying about society or life with this work of graffiti?

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Advanced Drawing: Classroom critique is the topic for the day. Online rubrics should have been completed and shared with Mr. Korb. Past today… sad for your deadline.

1. 4.3 compare relationships in visual art in terms of 4.3.2 aesthetics 4.3.3 and culture as it relates to your own artwork.
2. 6.2 compare characteristics of the visual arts and other disciplines from history or movement

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AP Studio Art: Working on the next batch of Concentration works and continuing to plan for the next works to come.

Assignment for Monday: In GOOGLE DRIVE, and SHARED WITH ME, answer the following questions…

1. Clearly and simply, state the central ideas of your concentration (500 CHARACTER maximum).
2. Explain how the work in your concentration demonstrates your intent and the EXPLORATION of your idea. You may (and should) refer to specific images (art works) as examples. (1350 CHARACTER maximum).

GOALS:

1. 1.2 create art that demonstrates an understanding of how your ideas relate to the 1.2.1 materials 1.2.2 techniques 1.2.3 and processes you use
2. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value

Link to works and profile of Wisconsin Artist Frank Juarez