Category: Visual Examples

Examples from the board or from the class.

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#NVAS – How do you THINK about the #VISUAL ARTS

Art Classes Teach
What are you learning in your art class? What do you WANT to learn?

 “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” – Anges Martin, Art In America (p.124, 1996)

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Follow along with the http://WHSoc20.WordPress.com 30 Day Blog Challenge – Mr. Korb’s Online discussion group.

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Sketchbooks Due:

  • 1st Hour: Tuesday
  • 2nd Hour: Friday
  • 3rd Hour: Thursday
  • 4th Hour: Wednesday
  • 6th Hour: Monday

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Studio Art 360 – Critique Sketches, Demo Cardboard Constructions, National Visual Arts Standards

Hope you do not EARN THIS grade – Not a chance if you continue to FOCUS on the GOALS!

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What is the difference between shape and form? Please be descriptive in your definition.

What do you envision as the biggest challenge with your letter? If you see this as the problem… how do you feel you might be able to solve that challenge?

AP Studio Art: 1 week Magazine Article Assignment, 1 week concentration work

What marks and materials are you using? This is CHARCOAL. How can you try this if you aren’t already. We will look at a variety of materials this week…

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Four parts to this week’s project. What are you most comfortable with? Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel, or Paint? Why?

What materials have you used today? How are the projects coming along?

Painting: Collage, Critique, Sketch, Research…

Winslow Homer – a MASTER of the WATERCOLOR!http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/10.228.1

GOALS:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What challenges did you have with the watercolors last week when it came to OBSERVATION of the REAL WORLD around you.

What are 5 images you gathered today that say something about you?

Here are the artists to research: Winslow Homer, Charles Demuth, Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Dong Kingman, Reginald Marsh, Charles Sheeler, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keefe, James Whistler, or Andrew Wyeth

 

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First Week of School #DONE. CONGRATULATIONS!

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” — Zig Ziglar 

Welcome back to school! This is going to be a GREAT year and I am VERY excited to be back. I hope that all of you are too. There are a few things that we do in the art classroom that will happen everyday – Goal Setting (based on the National Visual Arts Standards), Work, and Reflection. This will all become second nature as the semester rolls along and I ask you to trust that what we do in class at the beginning and end of the class will help you in the middle portion of class as well as with the final artwork that we create. PLEASE subcribe to this website AND add your name to the TEXTING feature of REMIND – School Texting Services.

TEXTING with REMIND from Mr. Korb!

2014 – 15 Sign up for the REMOND TEXTING service for each of your classes…

  • Studio Art 360 (formerly Art Foundations): Text @14start360 to (262) 757-7491
  • Painting: Text @14painting to (262) 757-7491
  • AP Studio Art: Text @14APStudio to (262) 757-7491

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Studio Art 360: Syllabus, Sketchbooks, and Artmaking

BIO of Robert Indiana: http://robertindiana.com/biography/

A LOT of HOPE! What are you thinking about as you look at YOUR letters? https://rosenbaumcontemporary.com/imgs/exhibitions/Robert-Indiana-Exhibit-2.jpg

GOALS:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What are you doing in your composition to FULLY ACTIVATE the background? Shapes, Texture, Color, Lines, Circles? Allow yourself to EXPERIMENT!

What is the strongest part of your artwork that you created this week? Use the ART TERMS you know.  

ASSIGNMENT for MONDAY: Look through your FONTS on your home computer or school computer and PRINT OUT 4 VERY different types of letters using the first letter of your FIRST or LAST name. TAPE THESE into your sketchbook. 72 Point Font at LEAST and label them – EXAMPLE BELOW! You will choose ONE of these to draw and then SCULPT! When you have chosen the font and letter you are happiest with, print it out as large as you can on a single sheet of paper – we will use this as a tracing for the final product.

Text Examples KORB StArt360 Sculpture Ideas

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AP Studio Art: Introductions, Expectations, and Art Making – ON YOUR OWN!

CUPCAKES and YUMMY SUGAR! What ELSE draws you into this work? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef014e8679da33970d-pi

Goals:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
  • What makes your artwork based on a single object interesting or worthwhile? Why THIS object or idea?

What challenges do you have when you are working on more than one composition at a time? What is easy about the use of a common theme?

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Painting: Introductions, Expectations, and Watercolors

James Turner Bio: http://www.biography.com/people/jmw-turner-40806

Where is that Castle? Look carefully at how LITTLE paint Turner includes in the background – the FOCAL point! http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D02/D02344_10.jpg

GOALS:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept. 
  • What color schemes, techniques are you using to UNIFY the work as you develop it?

Describe the biggest successes and failures you have had with this first painting. What skills did you use that you remember from the earlier classes in art? Use BIG ART TERMS as you critique this work?

 

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#Art and #Goals, #Success and #Failure… how are you doing?

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” — Zig Ziglar 

Welcome back to school! This is going to be a GREAT year and I am VERY excited to be back. I hope that all of you are too. There are a few things that we do in the art classroom that will happen everyday – Goal Setting (based on the National Visual Arts Standards), Work, and Reflection. This will all become second nature as the semester rolls along and I ask you to trust that what we do in class at the beginning and end of the class will help you in the middle portion of class as well as with the final artwork that we create. PLEASE subcribe to this website AND add your name to the TEXTING feature of REMIND – School Texting Services.

TEXTING with REMIND from Mr. Korb!

2014 – 15 Sign up for the REMOND TEXTING service for each of your classes…

  • Studio Art 360 (formerly Art Foundations): Text @14start360 to (262) 757-7491
  • Painting: Text @14painting to (262) 757-7491
  • AP Studio Art: Text @14APStudio to (262) 757-7491

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Studio Art 360: Introductions, Syllabus, Sketchbooks, and Artmaking

How are you using the idea of TEXT in your Artwork? http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/robert-indiana/art-1977.jpg

BIO of Robert Indiana: http://robertindiana.com/biography/
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GOALS:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Q: What materials did you use yesterday that you have used in the past? What materials can you TRY to use today that you have NOT USED in the past. 

What is ONE question that you still have about the course, department, or me?

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AP Studio Art: Introductions, Expectations, and Art Making – ON YOUR OWN!

YUM! What’s that… I forgot your doughnuts? http://ashleerubinstein.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/p1020041.jpg

Goals:

  • Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
  • Q:   Previous repetition of single object in drawings? What are topics / images that you frequently go to in your collection of imagery?

What new materials are you exploring? What techniques are you attempting that are new to you?

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Painting: Introductions, Expectations, and Watercolors

What’s happening with YOUR painting that is similar or different than Turner’s? “Norham Castle on the River Tweed” http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D18/D18148_9.jpg – TATE MODERN

James Turner Bio: http://www.biography.com/people/jmw-turner-40806

GOALS:

  • Choose from a range of materials – Watercolors – and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • Q: Are there aspects of painting that you are hoping to develop? What do you really hope to learn / experience in the making of the watercolors?

What two things did you struggle with today in your painting (or paintings)? AT THIS MOMENT?

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#Goals and #Introductions to #ART!

“Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.” — Zig Ziglar 

How can you look at and use SMART GOALS? Thanks to http://transformfxfitness.com/2013/04/goal-setting/ for the image!

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Welcome back to school! This is going to be a GREAT year and I am VERY excited to be back. I hope that all of you are too. There are a few things that we do in the art classroom that will happen everyday – Goal Setting (based on the National Visual Arts Standards), Work, and Reflection. This will all become second nature as the semester rolls along and I ask you to trust that what we do in class at the beginning and end of the class will help you in the middle portion of class as well as with the final artwork that we create. PLEASE subcribe to this website AND add your name to the TEXTING feature of REMIND – School Texting Services.

TEXTING from Mr. Korb!

2014 – 15 Sign up for the REMOND TEXTING service for each of your classes…

  • Studio Art 360 (formerly Art Foundations): Text @14start360 to (262) 757-7491
  • Painting: Text @14painting to (262) 757-7491
  • AP Studio Art: Text @14APStudio to (262) 757-7491

Let’s take a quick walk around the website and see where valuable information, syllabi, assignments, and other information is. Feel free to explore this on your own too.
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AP Studio Art: Introductions, Expectations, and Art Making – ON YOUR OWN!

Yum – I do love me some cakes! What is it YOU love (and can draw / paint / etc…) (© Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY)

Goals:

  • Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
  • Q:  What is your understanding of AP Art? How do you plan on using your skills to make the best you can? Talk to your classmates about this – write this in your GOALS folder.

Art From OBSERVATION – What interested you about the images you went out to draw? What is the interesting – worthwhile object(s) and how do you relate to it? Wayne Thiebauld: Cakes:

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Painting: Introductions, Expectations, and Watercolors

Turner “Norham Castle at Sunrise,” TATE MODERN – UK: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N01/N01981_9.jpg

James Turner Bio: http://www.biography.com/people/jmw-turner-40806

GOALS:

  • Choose from a range of materials – Watercolors – and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • Q: What made it challenging to put that first mark on your paper? Unless you had no problems – then what was it that gives you confidence in painting?

What three things did you succeed with today in  your painting?

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Studio Art 360: Introductions, Expectations, and Artmaking

How does Robert Indiana use the EVERYDAY to create art that might make one stop and consider the ideas? http://whitecubediaries.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/3923768734_6b16394256_z.jpg

BIO of Robert Indiana: http://robertindiana.com/biography/

GOALS:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Q: What was the biggest challenge or success you came across as you developed your ideas yesterday? 

What are 2 skills you have already that are going to make your experiences in Studio Art 360 easier or more successful?

 

 

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Making Art for FUN!

http://blurblogs2014.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/04144831/art.jpg

Welcome BACK fellow staff members! Our Goals for Today are:

  1. Express yourself visually and begin (maybe finish) a piece of art that says something about you.
  2. Collaborate with your group members:
    1. Tell the group your plan and get suggestions and feedback
    2. As a group, attempt to agree upon a color or color scheme that visually brings your pieces together.

*Give your finished piece to me by this Thursday 8/28 to be hung in the new gallery.

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Welcome to the new year… and all the ways to connect with your art classes!

Welcome Back! Image from: http://atlanticneon.com/Welcome.JPG

WELCOME BACK – Almost… The new year is upon us, and with that, new and exciting courses! Art Foundations has changed to Studio Art 360! We are going to explore and experience so MANY different approaches to making art while still focusing on the same standards and goals that help ALL the visual arts succeed! Painting is BACK! While the schedule may say Oils and Encaustics… the materials are going to be Watercolors, Acrylics, Oils AND Encaustics… touching all the bases!

There are MANY ways to stay connected with what is happening in the classroom. On a DAILY BASIS you can get my posts and see how we are approaching the day. Materials, goals, probing questions, reflections to challenge your learning and growth. Select the CLICK HERE to Follow (or enter your email if that is what it asked for – on the right hand side of the screen) for a daily hello and welcome from me!

If you are like me and enjoy the world of GOOGLE and all it offers – maybe you use GOOGLE CALENDAR like me and my family, you can add MY calendar to YOUR calendar. The calendar is just to the right of the screen and you can add it to YOUR’S by selecting the +Google Calendar image on the bottom of the calendar. Poof! Right there!

REMIND is another approach… I use REMIND (formerly Remind 101) to safely text information to my students and parents about the classes and things that are going on. Generally it is for “reminders,” “hello’s,” “don’t forget” kind of things. There are 3 different courses I am teaching – Studio Art 360, Painting, and Studio Art, each of them have a different code to text to so here are the numbers. In ALL of my classes you will text to the same number (262 757 7491) but the message is slightly different. Easy enough! I will be sharing this info on day one or two with all my classes and giving the opportunity to take out their cell phones and join the mission to stay informed.

If you have ANY questions… please feel free to give me a call at 262 492 9090 – this is my cell phone so… if I don’t pick up, leave a message. If it is during the school year, 262 534 3189 ext 7123. I can also be contacted via email at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us. Enjoy the rest of the summer and I will always be here to answer your questions!

Frank

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Goals Have Changed… So has the Binder, er, folder

During the school year, I begin every day with a look at goals with each and every one of my classes. Our goals began, years ago, as larger ideas I made up off the cuff, in regards to what I was going to be working on during the hour of art. Times move forward and so do the ideas and understanding of how the National Visual Arts Standards worked in what I was doing with my students. Knowing about the information (a brain activity – Declarative Goal) and Working On the skills (hands on – Procedural Goal) became a more obvious approach to the designing of the daily goals for the students. As the new year approaches, there are new changes that have come about. The binders are changing to folders. Thanks to the art students from last year and the continual GREAT and HONEST feedback, the day to day goals have changed and are less about the repetition of writing verbatim or interpreting goals to answering open and thoughtful questions about the goals that are pertinent to the work and experiences at hand. The reflection about work and sketchbooks are also HUGE and really essential to the development of the thoughts and work being produced. I am VERY proud of the changes that are coming out of the Goals and look forward to helping our artists make great use of them.

Check out the Goals FOLDER pages HERE. If you have  ANY questions or thoughts or COMMENTS – PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I am in GREAT need of your feedback. I look forward to the beginning of the new school year (and the new Visual Arts Standards!). Thanks!

Title Page
Inside Pages
Goals Pages
Inspirations!
Habits and Standards
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National Visual Arts Standards are HERE! #ArtsEd

Ah… The days of summer are quickly flying by. As I sit and listen to the neighbors mowing their lawns, the robins chirping in the trees, the wind rustling the leaves of the trees, and my daughter asking, “You still work over the summer break?,” I appreciate the time a bit more. “Yes, I still work over the summer break.” With the Common Core State Standards making significant changes to the rigor and curriculum of the core classes (Math, English, Science, Social Studies) the elective courses (hardly a term I enjoy when I think of the importance of all of our classes) are also in need of review.

As a professional artist and educator, one who firmly believes and practices looking at standards and setting goals, I was pleased to see that the National Arts Education Association was deep in the thick of it rewriting the National Standards for the Visual (and the rest of the) Arts. Dance, Theater, Music, Visual Arts all got a good going through in the redesign. What I especially enjoyed about the National Standards prior to 2014 was the ease in which they were laid out and written. While some students and I (along with a wonderful Student Teacher) met and worked to unpack the old standards a few years ago, we got a good feeling as to what they all meant. The ideas and philosophy behind the 6 over arching ideas. The NEW standards are broken into 4 sections with a few more standards underneath each heading… a total of 11 (which can be found on my site HERE, in the NAEA site HERE and HERE) give a bit more to think about.

http://www.k6art.com/art-rooms-around-the-world/

Using the GANAG method of lesson planning (Goals, Accessing Prior Knowledge, New Information, Applying New Information, and Generalizing – Janie Pollock at Learning Horizon, http://www.learninghorizon.net/) is the tried and true process I have been using to plan and structure my lessons and the day to day of my classroom, the new Standards are going to ask a bit more of me this year. I am not complaining in the least. Do not get me wrong. The best thing any of us can do is look back at the progress we have made and revisit the ideas with new eyes and new goals (or at the least reconsidered old goals). The new standards will give me the opportunity to see that the art works my students are creating give them the larger picture of the importance of art in their lives and culture, as well as the skills and grit that are required to become successful artists and members of the larger society. As I have rewritten my webpage on the National Standards in the Visual Arts, I realized that the ideas that are behind them are very important, not only as a student of the arts (or teacher) but also in what the artist ought to be aware of as a professional. I know that I will be working to make certain that each and every day of the school year, the standards are the jumping off point for my art students and that they are fully aware of the importance and direction we, as a class, are heading in the pursuit of realizing and grasping those standards.

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2 Great #ART shows to visit! #MAM and #WaterfordUnionHighSchool

Milwaukee Art Museum – Milwaukee, WI

As the summer comes upon us, I took in the opportunity to see a couple of wonderful art shows (and to help celebrate my Birthday – 42 if you are keeping score). The first exhibition I saw was the WASSILY KANDINSKY exhibition (Link Here) at the Milwaukee Art Museum. This was a GREAT exhibition of works from the early part of his career while he was experimenting with Impressionism and Post-Impressionism up through the Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), back to the Impressionist works through his works as a Bauhaus teacher and artist. WHEN you get a chance to go and see the work (there is NO OPTION here… you HAVE to go and see it – ask for family / student discounts). ALSO – Here is the LINK to the Kandinsky Inspired works the artists of our class created on Oil Pastels earlier in the school year. I bought the exhibition catalog (of course) and was NOT able to make photographs in the show so… (shhhhh…) here are a couple of images from the catalog.

Entrance to the Kandinsky Show!
Interested in a catalog.
“Fragment for Composition VII (Center),” 1913, oil on Canvas.
“Achtyrka – A Neighboring Dacha on the Pond,” 1917, Oil on Canvas Board.
“Drawing for Arrow Shape to the Left” 1923, Pencil and India Ink on Paper. Look at the NUMBERS! MATH!

 Waterford Public Library -Waterford, WI

And the OTHER Show – This is a bit more local and accessible for everyone in Waterford, WI… I have taken the Drawing Student’s COMMUNITY Art Exhibition, special thanks to the Library Director Pam Belden and the library staff, and installed the COMMUNITY EXHIBITION (Link Here). The final works for the 2014 school year are based on the artists of the American Regionalists (Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper to name a few) as well as their personal photographs and studies of the community of Waterford, WI. Some of the images are VERY recognizable – Waterford ICONS – as well as images that are more PERSONAL to the individual artists. Please visit the official website (Link Here) to read more and go to the Waterford Public Library to see the works in person!

PLEASE – Give our artists some of your thoughts on the bottom of the page (comments). I will share your thoughts with the artists as the new school year starts up! ALSO – Subscribe to my blog page and continue to follow the arts and ideas as the summer goes along and the new school year begins up! Enjoy the summer!

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#MAKERFAIRE AT #INTERACTIV2014 with #WHSOC20 AT 8:00CST ON #TWITTER

TONIGHT at 8:00CST on TWITTER

Join the #WHSoc20 for conversation about the Maker Movement and what kinds of ideas are happening out there.

Visit the InterActiv 2014 Maker Movement Site: https://korbartwuhs.wordpress.com/interactiv-tech-conf/

And OTHER GREAT Maker Movement Resources and Sites

Join the White House at the Washington D.C. Maker Faire
Join the White House at the Washington D.C. Maker Faire