Category: Visual Examples

Examples from the board or from the class.

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#WHsocial – THANK you @DrBiden and @ArneDuncan for the Great Opportunity!

Welcome to my site Janie and everyone in Australia – yes… the WHOLE country!

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

ALL ART CLASSES!

Art Foundations: COLLAGE And EMOTION!

Textures - Landscape, Architecture, Figurative?
Textures – Landscape, Architecture, Figurative?

GOALS:

  1. Create multiple solutions through collage to solve visual problems of opposite emotions.

What emotions have you chosen to represent in your collage? What has been working so far? What are you struggling with in the process? Let’s talk Friday about the work even more.

Drawing: PORTRAITS WORK TIME – DUE MONDAY!

What’s simplified? What is the color scheme? http://uploads4.wikipaintings.org/temp/408d0ea0-6ad5-46c7-bcb6-314993afb543.jpg!Portrait.jpg

GOALS:

  1. Begin to resolve the visual challenges in front of you. What are your BIGGEST CONCERNS as you RESOLVE your image? Write out your thoughts. Be thoughtful! Be Aware! Begin.

What mistakes did YOU make – how bad were they when it came to eyes and mouth? What are your biggest struggles? Failures? Write it down and give the WHY!

AP Studio Art: Collaboration! Get it going!

Ties are not required! Collaboration is! Get to work! http://www.gayhurstschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/collaborative_art_2.jpg

Goals:

  1. 3.3 describe the creation of images and ideas and explain why they are of value – What are you doing and WHY is it important? EXPLAIN! Carmel has answers to some pivotal questions. Walk up to SS lab and see the big walls… maybe 2 artworks.

What was the BEST part of your collaborative part of the project? What are you doing well collaboratively?

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#WHSocial Washington DC – Korb and ART!

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

THIS VIDEO IS FOR ALL MY CLASSES!

ART FOUNDATIONS: Texture with PAINT

Grattage, Frottage and Decalcomania – Max Ernst – We are going to work with TEXTURE! http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T00/T00548_10.jpg

GOALS:

  1. 2.6 Work on creating multiple solutions with Acrylic Paint to solve visual challenges regarding TEXTURE!

Of all the textures you are using and creating over the past two days… what have been your favorite? What has been FUN to make? What has tested your ideas about making art?

Drawing: Peer – Critiques / WORK!

Andre Derain with Hat – What’s going on with the paint? The colors? The ideas! http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/images/andre-derain/self-portrait-with-a-cap.jpg

GOALS:

  1. 5.5 evaluate responses to works of art for communicating 5.5.2 ideas and 5.5.3 opinions – What sorts of ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES might you be looking at to talk about today in the critiques? Write out what you are feeling is important.

What was the COMMON comment that you got from your classmates? What comment stood out to you that was said by only one? These are IMPORTANT THOUGHTS that are being shared and you need to be THOUGHTFUL about the work that you are making. Good work today! Write out your responses in your goals pages… MR. KORB is GRADING THEM on FRIDAY for completion.

AP Studio Art: PROUD OF YOU ALL! Collaboration Work TODAY!

Do NOT be influenced by this image but… what can you do with TECHNOLOGY and YOU? Collaborative work is coming up NOW. Technology and art. What can you do?

GOALS:

  1. Create multiple solutions collaboratively to solve the visual problems of working on an installation piece for the school promoting technology and all that is does in life. Long one…

Talk aloud about the initial ideas that you have been having about this work. What are the challenges you see coming? What are the materials / sizes you would like to work in? This is a COLLABORATIVE work that will hang for a LONG LONG time… make sure you are putting some thought and idea into the work to support the work.

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

Art Foundations: Texture and Composition (Golden Rectangle)

Max Ernst and TEXTURE – Let’s gather some texture! http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N05/N05289_10.jpg

GOALS

  1. 2.6 Work on creating multiple solutions (TEXTURE PROCESS) to solve visual challenges.

TEXTURE PAGE – HERE

What are the most interesting textures you have gathered? What do you think you might be able to use them as in the artwork?

Drawing: Portraits

Ah… the musicians. How did Matisse simplify? How are his colors being used? If he had a box of 24, would he use them all? I don’t think so. http://www.daydaypaint.com/images/Commerical-Painting/Henri-Matisse-Painting-027.jpg

GOALS

  1. Identify the intentions and purposes behind making art.

What was the most challenging way to draw? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

AP Studio Art: EXAM! (Ice Cream Friday… sorry CAT, we’ll plan another one)

GOALS

  1. NO GOALS! EXAM DAY! Take all the goals you’ve put out there in the past YEAR and let’s prove ourselves today! I am SO PROUD of YOU ALL!

Reflection: Sit back and consider all the work you have done… seriously, sit back and consider.

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The Art Student (and the lessons you can learn)

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.” ― Robert Henri

What a great day at the Milwaukee Art Museum. It has been FAR too long. Oh to get back into the looking at the visual arts (and a lot of it at that). I was very happy to have changed my approach and began with the European Art from the Baroque era and worked my way forward. Of course, I ended in the Bradley Collection with a look at the Alex Katz painting of “Sunny” but… it wouldn’t be a trip to MAM if I didn’t end there.

As an art teacher, I look to Robert Henri as one of THE art teachers to look up to. Color Theory, Art Theory, Aesthetics, History, Art Making… if one knows me, the ideas behind the art are as (if not more) important than the final product itself. Here you go… and if you are an art student, her you are…

10 Things the Arts Teach Students

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it
is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.

7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source
and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10. The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
what adults believe is important.