#Changes – #BeTheChange you want to see!

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“If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinsek

AP Studio Art: Prepare for the AP FINAL on WEDNESDAY!

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Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • What are your answers to your AP Online uploads? Are they concise? Are they thorough? Do they answer the questions effectively?

Are you ready for Wednesday – both online and on mounting boards?

Advanced Drawing: Gesture Drawing to warm up – Longer drawing tomorrow!

How to use the GESTURE to get the larger drawing started? https://eddietuckerblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/degas-drawing.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What was successful in the series of drawings you did yesterday? How did the STRONGEST DRAWING stand out among the rest of them? Mark making? Line? Variation?

TOMORROW – LONGER FIGURE DRAWINGS – What are 3 STRENGTHS you had today? What is the BIGGEST CHALLENGE you faced today?

Drawing: Get BACK to the Drawing – This week is IT!

John Feckner is a graffiti artist – http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/space-invader-old-new.jpg

GOALS:

  • G: 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • After ONE WEEK of pastels, what is your STRONGEST aspect of the composition? Describe WHY you feel it is working so well.

How do you feel about the work you accomplished today? What has changed in how you are looking at using Soft Pastels?

Studio Art 360: Paint – this week is the END – Wednesday – then to mount and evaluate.

Non-Erased Dekooning: http://htmlgiant.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/woman-500×584.png
Erased DeKooning: http://www.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/medium/98.298_01_B02.jpg

GOALS:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • How are you EMPHASIZING the idea of PRODUCT or YOU as you create this artwork? N: Color mixing with acrylic paints – obtaining neutral grey.

Why is it easier for you to use YOUR ideas rather than MY ideas to make YOUR artwork?.

#SayItAin’tSo – #Friday in the #ArtRoom

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites / Preparing work for Presentation

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • After our AP Test we are going to present an art exhibition in the gallery. We will mount 3 of the BEST works you have remaining. Please think about those works… which of them are you going to use to represent you?

Are you ready for Wednesday – both online and on mounting boards?

Advanced Drawing and Drawing: Karl Borgeson – Ceramic Artist!

Karl Borgeson – Ceramiacist

 

Goals:

  • 7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
  • Looking at Karl Borgeson’s work, history, and ideas may give you WHAT as you move forward as an artist?How might seeing another artist and their work help YOU as an artist?

We will discuss on MONDAY what we saw today.

Studio Art 360: POP Art Painting

 

 

 

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • How are you EMPHASIZING the idea of PRODUCT or YOU as you create this artwork?

How can ART be used to discuss IMPORTANT things in culture? List 3 ways in swich you could use art to communicate ideas.

Can you believe it is #Thursday already?

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites / Preparing work for Presentation

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • Choose TWO of the QUALITY works and describe differences you see in the skills you are representing. N: Deciding on the artwork, writing out the statement.

By choosing the 5 BEST works you have made is important in presenting your skills to an AP reading board, how do you see this as a larger life skill in presenting yourself in the best possible light  (1, 3, 7) 

Advanced Drawing: GESTURE!

Leo can do gestures – so can YOU. http://www.wga.hu/art/l/leonardo/09study/03nursin.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • How does the WARM up of the gesture help “warm you up?” in the drawing process? N: Series of QUICK GESTURE drawings to warm up. Then spend the hour with 5 minute drawings – classmates volunteering.

Next week – LONGER FIGURE DRAWINGS – What are 3 challenges you faced today? What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE you faced today in the drawing? 

Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism

Mr. Brainwash and HIS art!

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • What positive qualities are coming through with your drawing as you are working on the techniques in soft pastels drawings? NO FINGER BLENDING!?

What is the ONE STRUGGLE that you could sit back on and write about if you were asked to do so today? Explain in more than just one word. Mr. Brainwash in front of one of his works: 

Studio Art 360: POP Art Painting

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What is one thing you would like to LEARN MORE ABOUT when it comes to ACRYLIC PAINTS / PAINTING?

What is working in the use of COLOR MIXING? It is DUE at the BEGINNING of class on Monday.

While Mr. Korb is Away the Art Students will #WORK!

AP and Advanced Drawing VIDEO

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites / Preparing work for Presentation

Great Quote!

 Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • How does one of the 5 QUALITY works you’ve chosen represent the visual art abilities that you possess?

When it comes to the making of art, what have you learned in the class about that part of being an artist?

Advanced Drawing: GESTURE!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • What details in the earlier gesture drawings are you forcing yourself to overlook and ignore in the process of the GESTURE drawing? What makes it difficult for you to OVERLOOK these and focus on the ideas of GESTURE?

Next week – LONGER FIGURE DRAWINGS – Be aware of the challenges you faced today? What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE you faced today in the drawing? 

Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism

Keith Haring in front of Crack is Wack!

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • Think about the PROCESS you have been going through with your drawing. Stop and SILENTLY think. What NEW SKILLS have you learned about / developed in the process of this drawing?

What do you need to look at tomorrow and think about – fix, change, clean up? WRITE THAT DOWN and make sure you deal with that first thing tomorrow! 

Studio Art 360: POP Art Painting

Jim Dine’s Bathrobes – Self Portrait through color and line!

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What is ONE THING you have learned about the use of ACRYLIC PAINTS so far in the process?

What are three things you would / will CHANGE about the artwork that you are doing SO FAR? We are in a good spot to EXAMINE and REFLECT on the work in front of you. 

#Gesture and #Pop, #Portfolio and #Faces

The Arts Teach Kids to… Take a look in the folder on Page 7 and learn about what the arts do for the kids.

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites / Preparing work for Presentation

What are you FEARING as the test day comes upon us?

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • What are three things that stand out in your written answers that help the reader really understand the body of work that they are looking at.

What did you get done today? If you step back from your 5 Quality works, what stands out as “DEVELOPMENT?”

Advanced Drawing: GESTURE!

GESTURE!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Are you thinking about the the FORM in a different fashion than you had prior to us dealing with the ideas and practices of GESTURE Drawings?

What did changing the time like we did do for the process of the drawing? Harder? Easier? What did you have to do DIFFERENTLY? 

Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism

Gas Mask ON! Graffiti artists OZ in front of one of his murals.

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • What are TWO Elements of Art that you are EMPHASIZING as you create this work of art?Draw on your FAUVIST / Hip Hop Drawing.

Look even MORE carefully at your drawing – what is ONE MORE ELEMENT of ART that you could see as developing as a subordinate element? 

Studio Art 360: POP Art Painting

POPular culture from Comic Books to Soup Cans – they worked across the prism of popular ideas.

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What color schemes are you planning on attacking TODAY?

What is it that you especially enjoy about the product you are going to use in your painting? How do you RELATE to it? How does it RELATE to you?

MoMA Exhibition Please CLICK HERE and READ ABOUT the ANDY WARHOL exhibit that is happening NOW

#Monday is here – Week 14 – #HowManyDaysLeft?

The Arts Teach Kids to... Take a look in the folder about what the arts do for the kids. Good page in the folder.

The Arts Teach Kids to… Take a look in the folder on Page 7 and learn about what the arts do for the kids.

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites / Preparing work for Presentation

Let’s fill this bad boy!

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • What are the best works you have in your portfolio and how do they represent the abilities that you possess? What have you said about the works that you have uploaded as your concentration?

As last week – what do you need to complete so that you have a complete portfolio by Friday? List the them. Online too. Please print out your answers to the two AP online questions and review them for tomorrow.

Advanced Drawing: GESTURE!

Vincent VanGogh used a lot of GESTURE DRAWINGS to plan out his body of work. Let’s begin to do the same! http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/1649r/Sheet-with-Numerous-Figure-Sketches.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • How did you struggle with the drawing from FRIDAY – Look at your drawing and think about it? What do you see as TWO benefits from learning how to GESTURE DRAW?

What strengths did you develop in your drawing today? What three things do you look at with your drawing and say – “Hey… that’s not so bad!” 

Happy Sweet 16 Irene!

Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism

KLASS in front of his work at the Longwood Art Gallery. https://bronxbohemian.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/img_1897.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
  • Now that you have your artwork out in front of you… What is a STRENGTH in the visual image that you can build off of?

What are THREE things you have done to BUILD OFF OF the artwork? KLASS in front of his work at the Longwood Art Gallery: 

Studio Art 360: POP Art Painting

How has Andy Warhol used the ideas of ART on a larger scale than a painting? http://assets.yellowtrace.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Brillo-Box-foam-ottomans-by-Fab.com-and-The-Andy-Warhol-Foundation-Photo-by-Nick-Hughes-for-Yellowtrace-02.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What is the personal relationship that you have to the PRODUCT LOGO that you are working with in this project?

What color scheme did you work with today and how does it change the way you are seeing the logo?

#Friday #Friday #Friday… I can’t believe this week has flown by.

Yeah! https://i0.wp.com/www.inspirationalconnections.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpg
‘Nough Said! https://d22d7v2y1t140g.cloudfront.net/m_4020048_YGmNllW5GFUV.jpg

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites / Preparing work for Presentation

The DATE is almost upon us… May 5th to earn your 5. http://www.theprospect.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rise-of-the-AP-exam.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • Choose one MORE of the BEST works that you have in your collection… This is going to be the SECOND of your QUALITY works that we are MOUNTING for the portfolio. What is it about the work that makes it STAND OUT FROM the others as one of the BEST works?

We have 2 weeks to pull the 5 total QUALITY works to mount and 24 total other works to photograph, edit, and UPLOAD to the AP Site AND OUR AP Site… How many DIGITAL WORKS do you need to work on?

Advanced Drawing: Mat and Frame your work – Hallways and Hanging!

Combination of gesture drawings… http://www.studentartguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/line-drawings-wang-tzu-ting.jpg

 Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Look at the series of works from a few days ago… how have you begun to see the figure differently? Are you thinking about the the FORM in a different fashion than you had earlier?

Next week – LONGER FIGURE DRAWINGS – Be aware of the challenges you faced today? What was the BIGGEST CHALLENGE you faced today in the drawing? 

Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism

Max Pechstein Girl on a Green sofa with a cat.

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • After ONE WEEK of pastels, what is your STRONGEST aspect of the composition? Describe WHY you feel it is working so well.

How do you feel about the work you accomplished today? What has changed in how you are looking at using Soft Pastels?  

Studio Art 360: POP Art

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What are the 4 color schemes that you are going to be using in your painting?

What do I have to do in order to get painting on Monday?

#Thursday in the #ArtRoom – #Presentation of #Artwork in the #BAUHAUS of #WUHS

Yeah! https://i0.wp.com/www.inspirationalconnections.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpg
‘Nough Said! https://d22d7v2y1t140g.cloudfront.net/m_4020048_YGmNllW5GFUV.jpg

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites / Preparing work for Presentation

The DATE is almost upon us… May 5th to earn your 5. http://www.theprospect.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rise-of-the-AP-exam.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • Choose one of the BEST works that you have in your collection… This is going to be the FIRST of your QUALITY works that we are MOUNTING for the portfolio. What is it about the work that makes it STAND OUT FROM the others as one of the BEST works?

Advanced Drawing: Mat and Frame your work – Hallways and Hanging!

Bauhaus Hallways – We are prepping the work for hanging in the halls. http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs30/i/2008/124/0/b/Bauhaus_Stairs_Again_by_Runegoblin.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • Describe the process to your classmate in HOW and WHY we are going to present our work the way we are. What might the work in the hallway do to help people envision the space differently?

What were YOUR thoughts as you saw the work in the halls? Good? Bad? Indifferent? WHY?

Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism

Max Pechstein Self Portrait with Pipe and Hat.

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • How are the colors working for you? Look carefully at the LAYERING of your colors and how you are considering the FAUVIST approach?

What areas are you working on? Background? Foreground? ENTIRE GROUND? How is the space coming together for you?

Studio Art 360: POP Art

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • How can your ideas (not just about Soup Cans or Today’s Products) be used in other classes or aspects of your life to share and explain more about you? To let the world know what is important to you?

What are the challenges you have been having with this process? What colors have you begun using and how easy / hard has this been for you? Did you need or offer help from / to a classmate? Collaboration is ESSENTIAL to solving problems.

#Wednesday in the #MiddleOfTheWeek – #MakingArt

Yeah! https://i0.wp.com/www.inspirationalconnections.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpg
‘Nough Said! https://d22d7v2y1t140g.cloudfront.net/m_4020048_YGmNllW5GFUV.jpg

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites

The DATE is almost upon us… May 5th to earn your 5. http://www.theprospect.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rise-of-the-AP-exam.jpg

Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • Yesterday we got things squared away with the AP Site – Logging in and getting ready for the test. How many images  do you need to work on, photograph, edit to get your final ONLINE COUNT to 12 in Concentration and 12 in Breadth?

Reflect on your body of work… What are you proud of in the works you have completed? We have a COUPLE of weeks before we take the test. 

Advanced Drawing: Gesture Drawing – Day ONE – Wooden Model

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http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/image/1649r/Sheet-with-Numerous-Figure-Sketches.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • How did you struggle with the drawing from yesterday? What do you see as TWO benefits from learning how to GESTURE DRAW?

What strengths did you develop in your drawing today? What three things do you look at with your drawing and say – “Hey… that’s not so bad!” 

Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism

Kehinde Wiley – Hip Hop Culture and Famous Work Composition. https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/8c85f-dee-and-ricky-by-kehinde-wiley.png

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • REVIEW the beginning stages of your portrait. What is standing out as successful? What is standing out as needing resolving COMPOSITIONALLY? Now is the time to FIX the issues.

What do you need to look at tomorrow and think about – fix, change, clean up? WRITE THAT DOWN and make sure you deal with that first thing tomorrow!

Studio Art 360: POP Art

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • The artist Andy Warhol and his use of Color Theory POP ART and REPETITION – What does YOUR object say about YOUR generation or the time you are in now?

Self – evaluation: Share image with your classmate and explain the process of measuring and transferring images.

#Math in #Art – YES! #RatiosInArt

Yeah! https://i0.wp.com/www.inspirationalconnections.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/the-earth-without-art-is-just-eh.jpg
‘Nough Said! https://d22d7v2y1t140g.cloudfront.net/m_4020048_YGmNllW5GFUV.jpg

AP Studio Art: Update to AP Sites

Like the AP Warehouse of portfolios - but really an Amazon shipping warehouse... https://blackbeltstory.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/inside-amazon-warehouse5.jpg
Like the AP Warehouse of portfolios – but really an Amazon shipping warehouse… https://blackbeltstory.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/inside-amazon-warehouse5.jpg

 Goals:

  • Research and Information Fluency – Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
  • What NEW images do you have to upload to the website? How many works do you need to upload to the AP Website? Today we are looking.

What did working on the AP Site give you new insight to about your work? Any NEW thoughts?   

Advanced Drawing: Gesture Drawing – Day ONE – Wooden Model

These are Gestures! http://www.fanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/gesture-drawings.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Beginning with a general idea of the figure and a reference with the mannequin – students will draw out the proportions and stance of the models for a few minutes and then transition to the human form.

 What was the most challenging part of drawing a GESTURE DRAWING? What were you unable to focus on with the idea of GESTURE? What did you have to focus on when it comes to the GESTURE?

Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism

Henri Matisse and Fauvism – how are you dealing with the figure? http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ma/web-large/DT1777.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1Ac: Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student’s existing artwork.
  • Knowing that we are looking at today’s culture through the use of the photograph and the idea of the SnapChat technology. You may need to choose a DOMINANT COLOR Scheme to emphasize an emotion… what emotion might you choose in your drawing?

What was the most challenging aspect of your drawing to get done today? How are you using OBSERVATION to get your drawings set up correctly?

Studio Art 360: POP Art

Look at the REPETITION of the Warhol’s! http://garygarthmccann.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/andywarhol2-2.jpg

 Goals:

  •  7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • What do you think the PROCESS is going to be in how we DUPLICATE the image over and over with our logo? How is your drawing coming along? If you do NOT have it finished – get it done TONIGHT so we can move with it tomorrow!

What is it that you especially enjoy about the product you are going to use in your painting? How do you RELATE to it? How does it RELATE to you?