Month: March 2015

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#HappyBirthday #KanoTanyu #Japanese Artist b.1602 d.1674

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Kano Tanyu b.1602 d.1674

Kano Tanyu b.1602 d. 1674 http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_kanotan.htm

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Please Play for ALL Classes.

AP and Advanced Drawing Intro Video:

AP Studio Art: REGISTRATION in due TOMORROW!!!

Ideas? What’s going on in your head?

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What have your previous sketches been over the past months? How have you been planning the NEW and Important ideas out for your work? HOW DOES THIS HELP YOU?

What have you come up with? What materials are you using that help you to challenge yourself? How does it fit into your current body of work?  How does it REACH OUT into NEW IDEAS?

Advanced Drawing: Stairway Drawing.

Your  Paper Bag Drawings are HERE. Copy YOUR image into YOUR document! Questions – ask me on Wednesday.

Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus Staircase – Germany. https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3080/2774825669_eb82e7df20_b.jpg

DO NOT GO UPSTAIRS TODAY! ACT Testing… Thanks.
Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • What type of images have you created in the past REGARDING PERSPECTIVE? What was visually successful in the composition? What was technically successful in your execution? Same with the unsuccessful aspects? Share with your neighbor. Use of (Element) to create a unified artwork.

What was the success in today’s drawing? What was the challenge? Back out Thursday for preliminary drawings.

RUBRIC LINK, but it should ALREADY be in your Google Drive. SHARE it with me...

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Reflect on YESTERDAY before you begin today! What worked? What didn’t?

Biggest struggle / success for today? Write it out and the WHY!  

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Romare Bearden and Social Commentary

What is the Romare Bearden collage About? Why? http://lindberghschoolartspace.wikispaces.com/file/view/Romare%20Bearden%20collage.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Looking at the ROMARE BEARDEN collage on the screen, what do you think this work is about? WHY? Please work with your neighbor on answering this question.

What is the most challenging aspect to creating a collaborative work of art? What did you feel will be helpful in working with a classmate? What did you feel will be a challenge?

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#HappyBirthday #ArnoldNewman

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Arnold Newman

“Pablo Picasso” 1964, Arnold Newman b. March 3, 1913 d. June 6, 2006.

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”  —Og Mandino

Are you LATE or TOO LATE? http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–pW1qHAs6–/18k2kh9qqlxwrjpg.jpg

AP Studio Art: CRIT!

How are you painting, making, drawing, creating? http://www.johnlund.com/Images/10284401107.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ad: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.
  • How does your work for this week Re-Engage the ideas you have been using in the past while ALSO provide ideas of REVISION?

I try to get you to talk to one another and reflect. Look at each other’s work today and do that. Explain, listen, WRITE DOWN THOUGHTS for your own reflections.

Advanced Drawing: Critiquing of a PAPER BAG.

Your  Paper Bag Drawings are HERE. Copy YOUR image into YOUR document! Questions – ask me on Wednesday.

Lots of Paper Bags: https://lunchat1130.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/paper-bag-hoarding.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • Looking at the SYMBOLISM that this work is SUPPOSE to have about your life, explain the thoughts and ideas you are hoping to communicate through the work. HOW are you doing that? Be SPECIFIC!

A GREAT day of drawing on Friday – Time got away from us… What worked today and HOW are you going to RESOLVE the work for Wednesday’s CRIT?

RUBRIC LINK, but it should ALREADY be in your Google Drive. SHARE it with me...

Drawing: Oil Pastels!

Kandinsky – Painting. http://www.most-famous-paintings.org/Complex-Simple.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What songs are you using to create your artwork and what is ONE things that STANDS OUT as OBVIOUS to connect the two works of art?

SHARE YOUR THEORY AND DRAWING WITH YOUR CLASSMATE – Last 5 Minutes – CONVERSATION and write down what you have learned from your classmate.

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Studio Art 360: Collage and Symbolism

Ernst: http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/artists_a-k/ernst/Ernst_Untitled1920.JPG

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What TEXTURES do you like best from yesterday? Why?  N: Max Ernst – Share one or more of his works – LANDSCAPES?

Write a ONE SENTENCE EXPLANATION about your work. Describe how you used Frottage, Grattage, and Decalcomania in the work.