Tag: Abstraction

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What day is it? It’s #HumpDay! Halfway through the week. YIKES!

“Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.” – Barack Obama, #SOTU 2014

AP Studio Art – Art and Fear – Let’s finish TALKing about your Concentration!

Let’s think about how Andy Goldsworthy DID this sculpture?

Goals:

  • 2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
  • As you look back on the body of works you have created so far, what are TWO things that you are seeing as falling short of AP Level work?

What were the biggest impressions you had from going outside for ideas? What were the most difficult things you felt as you presented your work? Conversation between classmates about the 2 questions for your exam. How does this work relate to your concentration?

Work of Art: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YFJR84/ref=avod_yvl_watch_now

Advanced Drawing: Let’s LISTEN about the AP Concentrations!

Critique Time – Tomorrow we will sit and talk about the works – What are the strengths you are seeing in your work? What are the struggles?

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.
  • What is the one biggest fear you have about standing up in front of a group of people and talking? N: In class critique – 3 parts of the rubric – go over the parts in class and then go over the parts about your work.

How does identifying the criteria behind a letter grade (or number grade) help you see, know about, or understand what they represent? How do you think this will help you work on your art as you move forward?

Drawing: DRAWING TIME! 

Work of Art – Let’s TALK about the works and Listen to what others have to say.

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.
  • As you have worked… what pencil have you been drawn to? Why? What has been easy about this project? More importantly – what was challenging?

What are the differences with the three types of Pencils? What do YOU find useful from today’s exercise?

Video: Work of Art: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003QWZVF8/ref=dv_dp_ep1 Episode 1 – Start at 18:20 and run a few minutes to see a mid-critique. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0bwEX_0GsFXJr9Vg7SqPUgvZc9KjDH5Kr6dhTq8CZE/edit

Studio Art 360: Let’s keep on the construction!

Donald Judd and his minimal sculpture. Let’s listen to what has to be said about his work – VIDEO.

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What was the most challenging form for you to create? What is ONE things that gave you such a hard time with it?

What do you think one might interpret from seeing a sculpture (like the one as an example today) that is MINIMAL?

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#Routine in #Korb’s #Classroom. Let’s #work this #DAILY!

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. 

AP Studio Art – Art and Fear – Let’s go to it!

YEAH!

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • How does FEAR get in your way TODAY as you begin to or continue to create art?

How have you learned to work beyond fears to create work this year? Do you find that you still have fears about the work you are creating?

Advanced Drawing: Abstraction and Pastels – Color Schemes!

Monochromatic – simple in color – BALANCED in value. How are you balancing your composition?

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What is successful in your artwork? What is the monochromatic color scheme you are using and what is the complementary color? Share this with your neighbor. Where is your emphasis (complimentary color) going to be and why?

What is the progress of the drawing thus far? What is your neighbor doing well? What is your neighbor not doing successfully? Share your thoughts with your neighbors.

Drawing: Still Life – FAST and FURIOUS!

I will ALWAYS go to Giorgio Morandi for the CLASSIC Black and White Still Life. What’s the compositional style here?

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What did you accomplished yesterday? Thumbnails from MONDAY help prepare ideas for more solutions and ideas

What are the differences with the different types of Pencils? What do YOU find useful from today’s exercise?

Studio Art 360: Draw what you REMEMBER!

I LOVE ART! Robert Indiana does too.

Goals:

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • 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.

Continue to hand out supplies – Discuss the expectations of the classroom.

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

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#POPArt and the RESOLUTION of it all. How would the #Griswolds sing about making #art? Hmmm

“In not stating the goal to the students and wording them so they are understandable… it is like a family going on a trip with Dad in the driver’s seat and him not sharing what the destination is or how long the trip is going to take. Dad knows where he’s going, but the rest of the family has no clue.” – Frank Korb

On the ROAD again! Testing is over for today and we’re on the ROAD AGAIN! Let’s Sing a song to CELEBRATE our journey together – our ART journey!

EXTRA CREDIT BELOW!

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Studio Art 360 – Color Schemes and POP Art – WRAP IT UP by WEDNESDAY!

PEANUT BUTTER ALLERGIES? Stay away from THIS art! http://ed_wp-content_v2.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/food_streetart_logos_03.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • Today is the 2nd to the LAST day to work in class… what do you need to do to WRAP IT UP?

What are the 4 color schemes you have used? What do you need to do this evening to FINISH? Are you done?

Painting – Color Schemes and PAINTING of the ABSTRACT Composition!

Color blending in Kasmir Malevich’s Russian works. http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Malevich_The_Knife_Grinder_1912.jpg

Goals:

  • G:  2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Third REAL day of painting – What are you looking to accomplish today? Look at your painting FIRST… them answer this question?

Looking at your painting today… what DID you accomplish? What are you pleased with and what are you NOT happy with? 

AP Studio Art – Concentration and CRITIQUE!

Think about the idea of the PORTRAIT! How can you do it in engaging fashion? How can you engage your viewers in all your works? CONCENTRATION HERE!

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.
  • What did you hear others say about the work in front of you YESTERDAY? How did that HELP or HINDER your thoughts about your work or the work of your classmates?

Thinking about the ideas that were spoken about in the CRITS… where do you see yourself going in the next three works? The NEXT 3 works will be due in TWO WEEKS from MONDAY – Monday the 10. What do you have to do in the next 12 school days?

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#MakingArt and #TalkingArt – #MakerMovement – #Critique – and get out and #VOTE!

WHOEVER PUT THE FOREIGN SUBSTANCE IN MY FISH BOWL… PLEASE RETHINK YOUR CHOICES. WHAT WAS THE POINT OF POTENTIALLY HURTING MY FISH. DID SHE MAKE YOU MAD? DID I? IF I DID, TALK TO ME… DON’T HURT MY FISH.

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Are you 18? Have you registered to VOTE today? This may not be social studies, but the right to vote is YOURS and ARTISTS have fought along side of all those who have NOT been able to vote until they were. GET OUT AND REGISTER and then VOTE!
Are you 18? Have you registered to VOTE today? This may not be social studies, but the right to vote is YOURS and ARTISTS have fought along side of all those who have NOT been able to vote until they were. GET OUT AND REGISTER and then VOTE!

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“In not stating the goal to the students and wording them so they are understandable… it is like a family going on a trip with Dad in the driver’s seat and him not sharing what the destination is or how long the trip is going to take. Dad knows where he’s going, but the rest of the family has no clue.” – Frank Korb

Oh NO! What SHALL WE DO? It is all part of the journey! http://cdn.mos.totalfilm.com/images/n/national-lampoons-christmas-vacation-3339-p-1374489086-645-75.jpg

 EXTRA CREDIT BELOW!

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Studio Art 360 – Color Schemes and POP Art – WRAP IT UP by WEDNESDAY!

Mark Rothko Chapel – Let’s take 5 Minutes to visit the ideas once more before we work… THEN WE WORK!
What? Sharpie on the wall… REMEMBER TO NOT PARTICIPATE IN GRAFFITI! http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3684/10111213266_057434c5bd_o.jpg

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 know more about when it comes to ACRYLIC PAINTS / PAINTING? N: PAINT and PAINT and PAINT.

What is working? What do you need to do to continue to move forward with your works? It is DUE at the BEGINNING of class on THURSDAY (?). What do you need to do to be DONE… not ALMOST done, but DONE!

Painting – Color Schemes and PAINTING of the ABSTRACT Composition!

How to STAIN a canvas? Helen Frankenthaller could teach us a thing or two… http://www.thebohmerian.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Jewish-American-abstract-expressionist-painter-and-artist-Helen-Frankenthaler-photographed-working-in-her-new-york-studio-by-Austrian-photographer-Ernst-Haas-2.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Yesterday was a new start for some of you. What are your concerns about the process of painting with Acrylics?

What CHALLENGES did you face today? How did you go about SOLVING that challenge?

AP Studio Art – Concentration and CRITIQUE!

Cat Vukodinovuch and her concentration HERE!

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.
  • What are you HOPING to take from a CRITIQUE today? What are you hoping to contribute?

What DID you TAKE or GIVE in the process of the crit?

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#WrapUp and #Critiques this week… #Art Thou Ready?

“In not stating the goal to the students and wording them so they are understandable… it is like a family going on a trip with Dad in the driver’s seat and him not sharing what the destination is or how long the trip is going to take. Dad knows where he’s going, but the rest of the family has no clue.” – Frank Korb

Let’s go on VACATION! https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/d476f-family_truckster.jpg

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Studio Art 360 – Color Schemes and POP Art – WRAP IT UP by WEDNESDAY!

How can you use EVERYDAY logos and images to make a point in the REAL world? http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/02/article-2484476-191F902600000578-97_634x414.jpg
Mark Rothko Chapel – Let’s take 5 Minutes to visit the ideas once more before we work… THEN WE WORK!

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 painting you are doing SO FAR? 

Painting – Color Schemes and PAINTING of the ABSTRACT Composition!

Julian Schnabel – Additive materials to the work. http://www.saatchigallery.com/aipe/imgs/schnabel/divan.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What do you know about the process of using ACRYLIC paints? What are you worried about?

What did you do today with ACRYLICS that taught you something? What was that learning? Julian Schnabel – Texture / additive 

AP Studio Art – Concentration and CRITIQUE!

Carmel North – AP Website! How can you add to this site? We will learn today! Link Here.

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.
  • What is the CENTRAL IDEA to your concentration? How do your works demonstrate the idea of GROWTH, DISCOVERY, and INVESTIGATION?

What have you learned about your work today… over the past weeks?

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Did the #Artist’s #VanGogh towards the #museum this weekend or the #studio?

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.” – Og Mandino

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Studio Art 360 – Color Schemes and POP Art

The Rothko Chaple at CSU… Link to the WSJ Article…. Link to the Rothko Chapel Site. http://houstonmuseumdistrict.org/media/files/museum/W-NW-N-by-Hickey-Robertson_700x700.jpg

Goals:

  • G:3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
  • What do you need to do to get yourself ready for a WEDNESDAY due date?

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? 

Painting – CANVAS CONSTRUCTION! Color Schemes and the RESOLUTION of the ABSTRACT Composition!

Brice Marden in his Studio – COLOR and LINE! AP… Any Thoughts? http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/29/arts/600_loos.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.2Ac: Demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.
  • What can you say to someone who looks at your artwork (abstraction) and says something along the lines of “I Don’t Get It.” or “Anyone Can Do That!”

Today – Successful in the process? What is an interesting aspect of the layering or flattening of the acrylic paints? What did you accomplish today? 

AP Studio Art – Concentration Time!

Reflect on what you are doing… http://www.clevelandseniors.com/images/funny/art-thief/van-gogh-painting.jpg

GOALS:

  • 3.1P: Apply relevant criteria from traditional and contemporary cultural contexts to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.
  • What are you planning on doing TODAY to set yourself up for a productive WEEKEND? What is your body of work centered on? Drawing? 2D Design? How do you see this in your first three artworks?

What did you accomplish today? What do you need to do tomorrow, over the weekend? How can you develop your OWN voice? What does the BREADTH work do to help you find that VOICE in your concentration? Self-Reflection…

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#Thursday? What happened to the REST of the WEEK? #MakeArtToday!

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.” – Og Mandino

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Studio Art 360 – Color Schemes and POP Art

Mark Rothko in the STUDIO. What a GREAT BIG CANVAS! http://cloud.lomography.com/576/435/8b/70e4bf5f5f752f84ecd8eae677822dd43e790c.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • How do you feel using MULTIPLE APPROACHES to the creative process helped you or challenged you in coming up with your compositions?

Do you feel going through a PROCESS is a STRONG way to begin an artwork (or anything else) or  simply a waste of time – you have a “just do it” sort of approach. Explain your answer. 

Painting – CANVAS CONSTRUCTION! Color Schemes and the RESOLUTION of the ABSTRACT Composition!

Here we are DRAWING with INK on a LARGE SHEET OF PAPER – Thanks Brice Marden! ABSTRACTION! http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81CIvE3XoYL._SL1500_.jpg

Goals:

  •  2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Consider the layering and transparency of the images / colors… what does this visually do for you, the painter? What does it do visually for the audience?

As you look back on the construction of the canvas, what are especially happy about as you built your own?

AP Studio Art – Concentration Time!

Calder and his CIRCUS! What a GREAT idea to CONCENTRATE on! Fun! http://whitney.org/image_columns/0002/4353/alexandercalderinstallview1_600_1200.jpg?1369062947

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.
  • Have you DISCOVERED ANYTHING new about your ideas for your concentration today, this week, as you have been working. I’ve had MANY great conversations with each almost each of you… what do you take away from them?

What are your questions about making your statement ONLINE? Do you have an idea how to access your ONLINE portion of the website?

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#Tuesday – Where is Mr. Korb? #Appointments – Be Back Wednesday!

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”
—Og Mandino (Paul Mark Sutherland http://goalhabits.com/2013/10/12/goal-achievement-quote-oct-12-2013/)

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Studio Art 360 – Color Theory – How do colors work? NOTECARDS! SECONDARY, TERTIARY and PRIMARY – FINISH!

How does this color wheel represent the ideas of the REAL color wheel (but is WRONG)?
HERE’s a REAL color Wheel… Note the differences? http://www.jaimetreadwell.com/colorwheel.JPG

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • Review with your neighbor the PRIMARY Colors on the color wheel, the SECONDARY Colors on the Color Wheel and… if you think you know… the TERTIARY (Intermediate) Colors on the color wheel.

Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors.

Painting and AP Studio Art Intro Video

Painting – Abstraction! Hallways – Let’s make it interesting!

How has Piet Mondrain SIMPLIFIED the TREE? How can YOU simplify the HALLWAYS? Consider the BACKGROUND, FOREGROUND, NEGATIVE SPACE, FOCAL POINT… http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_1.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • Looking at yesterday’s one or two simplifications, name 3 of the larger GEOMETRIC shapes that are beginning to develop in your composition. Describe HOW the idea of SPACE changing in your composition.

How does the ORIGINAL image still show up in the space that you are creating? How do you feel the work is developing as a successful or unsuccessful? Give Specifics!

AP Studio Art – Level 6 Drawing – Are you UP TO IT?

How might DeKooning have used the ideas of CONTINUOUS LINE to create his MONUMENTAL Woman 1? https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2433/3753218591_3764daae89.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.
  • Considering the Hands and Feet, how has your drawing taken those ideas  and moved them to a strong work of art? What are your “level 6” criteria that you are mastering?

What element (2D Design) or mark making (Drawing) techniques are you looking at as you build artworks that DRAW people in?

 

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What are you #Recovering from this #Monday? A #Marathon of your own?

“There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”
—Og Mandino (Paul Mark Sutherland http://goalhabits.com/2013/10/12/goal-achievement-quote-oct-12-2013/)

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Studio Art 360 – Color Theory – How do colors work – CRITIQUE of DRAWINGS!

NOT about Pink Floyd today but… where DO our colors come from? http://www.photo-dictionary.com/photofiles/list/699/1110prism.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • Where do you see color? How does the color on TV get blended together? How does color in a magazine get blended together? Optical color?

What are the three types of colors on the color wheel? What can you NOT mix? How do you mix Orange, etc…

Painting – Abstraction! Hallways – Let’s make it interesting!

Ah Mondrian… How I LOVE your works! Landscape… but I thought you were an ABSTRACT DeStijl Painter? BIO HERE.

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • What are the largest and most DOMINANT LINES you see in your drawing of the hallways? These are the lines that we are going to be looking at as the FOCAL POINT / DOMINANT LINES to build our next work off of.

How easy or difficult was it for you to begin simplifying the space and shapes of your drawings? What challenges do see as you continue? Know that the use of color in the work will be used to create a MOOD / EMOTIONAL response to the space that you are representing with your abstraction (not today… but WEDNESDAY)

AP Studio Art – Level 6 Drawing – Are you UP TO IT?

AP Studio Art Concentration – Excellent Example HERE! http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/215/c/e/ap_studio_art_drawing_portfolio_6_by_jacksonst2509-d59ns6l.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.
  • What are your strengths when it comes to drawing? Hands and feet might be an easy place to see the strengths you have. Talk about something specific to your drawing.

What can you do to take the ideas from the beginning IDEAS to a fully resolved drawing of your own? Still using the ideas of CONTOUR LINE as the impetus to the process… AP Studio Art – Drawing Portfolio

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STEAM Education at Waterford Union High School

In two of our art classes, we have had the great opportunity to tie it ALL(most) together. Thanks to Ms. Lynn Neuman (math) and Mrs. Nancy Smith (Science) for their ideas and feedback.

Breanna A. – Science, English, and ART!

Art Foundations – Science / Engineering / Math / English and ART. They researched (flipped classroom of my videos) 2 point perspective (houses, buildings etc…) and learned the “rules.” Then they researched Scanning Electron Microscope images, we had a conversation about the results, they documented their sites, read a bit about it and then… they had to use the rules of perspective to interpret their microscopic image into and oil pastel drawing. The link is here: http://goo.gl/uRIS37

Jessica's Bauhaus Drawing!
Jessica’s Bauhaus Drawing!

Drawing – Using the HISTORY of Germany and Russia in the early 1900’s – WWII, the students studied the times and ideas behind the work of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. They studied the MATH / GEOMETRY / COLOR theory behind his works and came up with their own color theory. THEN… Music was the emotional impetus for the work. They listened first to music by Kandinsky’s contemporaries and got the ideas for abstraction and geometry. From there they worked their OWN music into the art. So lets see… Music / history / math / social studies (history)… oh.. and ENGLISH – they had to write up an explanation – Artist Statement about their work. The collaborative efforts can be seen in this presentation they worked out and engineered through Google Presentation… some of it MAY still be in the works! http://goo.gl/Jz15AT

Have a GREAT WEEKEND!

Frank