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#MoMA #Women in #PostwarAbstraction – and #MakingArt on a #wednesday – #ArtStudio

Albert Einstein: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3f/17/61/3f176185b7269a1576868f47e85bac7c.jpg
Albert Einstein: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3f/17/61/3f176185b7269a1576868f47e85bac7c.jpg

Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction / MoMA Live…

Just to give a bit of art history and importance / social context of women in art history…

Drawing: Kandinsky Critique

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 were the similarities and differences in your ideas and Kandinsky’s?

Remember Helen Miren - This one is from MO=oMA: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/443/w500h420/CRI_241443.jpg
Remember Helen Mirren – This one is from MO=oMA: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/443/w500h420/CRI_241443.jpg

Nothing – We Self Reflected ALL hour.

Studio Art 360: Selfies and the Grid

7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.

What is the emotional feeling that you are showing in your photograph / selfie? From all the color schemes, what color scheme best fits you?

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Moving into the world of POP art! 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

What 3 challenges do you see in the process of gridding the work out?

Remember our Sketches from Yesterday? Here are a few websites for you to enjoy from the artists Stephen Shanabrook and Veronika Georgieva.

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton Isolation Drawing

2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

What do you think the skills that you currently have will help you in the process of the skeleton drawing?

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How are you dealing with the negative space in your skeleton? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/de/e5/d3/dee5d33596aa1c473f97da7fc4ae3061.jpg

How does your drawing look in your own eyes? What did the process of ERASING the image in the beginning do for you?

AP Studio Art – YOUR BODY OF WORK!

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 are 3 things you have learned, researched, inquired about your ideas for your concentration so far this week? I’ve had MANY great conversations with each almost each of you… what do you take away from them?

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Alexander Clader’s Circus: http://whitney.org/image_columns/0002/4353/alexandercalderinstallview1_600_1200.jpg?1369062947

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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#Wednesday MidWeek… #ArtStudio

REMEMBER THIS FOLKS! http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/ij/images/imagination_einstein.gif

Drawing: PORTRAITS!

NEW PAGE on KORB’s Website: Facial Features!

 

http://www.craftsy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/498px-Henri_Matisse_Self-Portrait_in_a_Striped_T-shirt_1906.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Take a look at your previous week’s works – where did you struggle the most with the idea of the portrait? Where did you succeed the most? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro and color to better define the ideas of form (in the face especially)?

Reflection: What was the most challenging part for you to draw that you LEARNED the most from? Why was this most difficult way to go and how do you see the LEARNING? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

Studio Art 360: Clay

Early Sketches in Clay – STARTED ON PAPER! Ed Hamilton http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/slave_9_whole.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What challenges did you have in getting started last week on Friday with the clay? REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.

Reflection: What was the largest accomplishment you have in today’s work? EXPLAIN why it was an accomplishment.

AP Studio Art: Portfolio

What are you PROCEEDING with? https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/1e2ed-b2526oquotewomat-402525.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.
  • What are 3 things that one of the 5 QUALITY works you’ve chosen do to represent the visual art abilities that you possess?

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

Advanced Drawing: Skeleton – Shared Album HERE

Pelvis – TODAY’s Focus:  https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a3/14/37/a31437c011c8617346bbbd7426bd52bd.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • How can you use another part of the body to help you determine the height and width of the pelvic area as you are drawing the human form? Where and how will you use measurements to help?

Reflection: When you look at the form of the figure today, how have you succeeded with the drawing of the form? What techniques / approaches have you used?

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#ReDo of #Website #Blog – What are YOUR thoughts?

Another Day… Another Change… I am indecisive… THOUGHTS?

“Failing Isn’t Bad When You Learn What Not To Do.” – Albert Einstein

Painting and Advanced Painting: Self Portrait – Wrap up by Next TUESDAY!

Vincent Van Gogh – GREAT LINK to EXPLORE the Museum deOrsay: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/typo3temp/zoom/tmp_ed428a7a52fefe94ad793f628cf5ab2b.gif

Goals: 

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What specifically do you dislike or like about the use of the material that oil paint is? Please explain your thoughts. It is important to reflect on the work you are doing and the lessons that the new materials teach you.

Reflection / Evaluation: What advances are you making in your painting today? Step back and have a 3 minute CONVERSATION with a classmate (or two). Allow some REAL TIME to have a REAL CONVERSATION here. Listen to one another.

Studio Art 360: Color Schemes – LET’S GO!

Warhol’s Soup Cans! http://enpundit.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Campbells-Soups-Andy-Warhol-4.jpeg

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 images have you brought in today? Why are these products important to you? How do you feel they fit into the experiences of the rest of society? Popular Culture?

Reflection / Evaluation:  QUIZ TIME… What color scheme would it be if… LISTEN TO MR. KORB!

AP Studio Art: Concentration / Concentrate

Anne Truit Working: http://s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_production/images/film/anne-truitt-working/w856/anne-truitt-working.jpg

Listen to her JOURNAL THOGHTS. How might MY questioning be useful to your thoughts?

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.
  • How have you been able to use the NEW skills you’ve developed this year and create a STRONG BODY of CONCENTRATION works? How are you being interested in the CONCENTRATION work that you are creating? N: Demonstrate the use of the CAMERA and the LIGHTING in the back room to make photographs. Edit the images in PHOTOSHOP (Resolution and SIZE – refer to the AP FORMS).

Reflection / Evaluation: Knowing that you are working on your concentration works and STRONG IDEAS with SKILL Building ideas, how are you advancing the ideas of the ARTIST’S JOB? (Or would you like to draw / make JUST TO MAKE ART TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF)?

Drawing: DRAW – Wrap up by Next TUESDAY!

Kehinde Wiley: https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/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 your drawing – think about the mid crit we had last week. What is standing out as successful? What is standing out as needing resolving COMPOSITIONALLY? Now is the time to FIX the issues.
    • The Selfie – Listen and comment on one or two points that describe how YOU are using some f the ideas in your drawing for EXTRA CREDIT: http://www.wpr.org/listen/565351

Reflection / Evaluation: 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!

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#100CansOfSoup – I could use a few!

“Failing Isn’t Bad When You Learn What Not To Do.” – Albert Einstein

Painting and Advanced Painting: Self Portrait – Wrap up by Next TUESDAY!

Vincent Van Gogh – GREAT LINK to EXPLORE the Museum deOrsay: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/typo3temp/zoom/tmp_ed428a7a52fefe94ad793f628cf5ab2b.gif

Goals: 

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What specifically do you dislike or like about the use of the material that oil paint is? Please explain your thoughts. It is important to reflect on the work you are doing and the lessons that the new materials teach you.

Reflection / Evaluation:  What advances are you making in your painting today? Step back and have a 3 minute CONVERSATION with a classmate (or two). Allow some REAL TIME to have a REAL CONVERSATION here

Studio Art 360: Color Schemes – LET’S GO!

Andy Warhol – Gathering up ideas for his newest painting! http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/sothebysatauction/2013/10/warhol-campbells-soup-gristedes.jpg

Goals

  • 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • Take this can, bottle, object, whatever I have set out in front of you and REPEAT the idea in as many ways as you possibly can. Look at how Warhol used the store shelves as the impetus (idea) for so many of his artworks… The same image over and over and over.
Here is one of his MANY works: http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/inside_out/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/soup-cans-grid.jpg

Reflection / Evaluation:  What does the idea of REPETITION do help make an interesting (or not if you aren’t liking it) image in your sketchbook. How do you RESOLVE the idea for NEXT Week? 

AP Studio Art: Concentration / Concentrate

Lee Kranser at work: https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/dee38-pollack-leekrasnerwifecubism.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.
  • Looking at the NATIONAL STANDARDS (above) how are you using traditional (or better) BREAKING contemporary art making practices? Please give 2 specifics.

Reflection / Evaluation:  While we HAVE NOT EMPHASIZED this… How much work have you photographed, edited, and uploaded to the computer?  How can I help you?

Drawing: DRAW – Wrap up by Next TUESDAY!

Matisse – How’d he handle the background? How could you? 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 have chosen a DOMINANT COLOR Scheme to emphasize an emotion… what color scheme did you use and how are you expressing feeling through your drawing?
    • The Selfie – Listen and comment on one or two points that describe how YOU are using some f the ideas in your drawing for EXTRA CREDIT: http://www.wpr.org/listen/565351

Reflection / Evaluation: How are you using OBSERVATION to get your drawings set up correctly? How are you using OBSERVATION to reflect on the quality / skill you are developing?

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#SevenDays of #ArtStudio Time – 101 Ways to make your seven days worthwile

https://goalhabits.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/goalhabits_1214.jpg Thanks Paul…

Painting and Advanced Painting: Self Portrait – RESOLVE this Week!

Van Eyck “Man in Red Turban” http://www.canvasreplicas.com/images/Man%20in%20a%20Red%20Turban%20Jan%20van%20Eyck.jpg

Goals: 

  • G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Step back and LOOK AT YOUR painting. It’s been a weekend. What are you seeing as being successful at this point? What are you seeing as needing attention?

Reflection / Evaluation:  How has this painting been new and worthwhile for you? What lessons have you learned about using different materials?

Studio Art 360: Color Schemes – LET’S GO!

Mark Rothko “Orange and Yellow” http://www.markrothko.org/images/paintings/orange-and-yellow.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 mix to get a TINT? What do you mix to get a SHADE? What do you mix to get a TONE?

Reflection / Evaluation:  Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? When you look in your closet… what COLORS do you think you have the most of hanging? Why do you think that you have more of that color than others?

AP Studio Art: Concentration / Concentrate

Robert Rauschenberg working on HIS concentration… http://www.theartstory.org/images20/photo/rauschenberg_4.jpg

Goals:

  • 10.1Ad: Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
  • What are two things (specifically) that you have accomplished during your past week as you’ve worked on your CONCENTRATION? Write out the IDEA behind your work and then SHARE the story with your classmate… 

Reflection / Evaluation:  With ALL that is going on these past two weeks – and little input from me… what have you accomplished VISUALLY and / or TECHNOLOGICALLY?

Drawing: Resolve Hip-Hop all you Wild Beasts (Fauvists).

Margaret Kilgallen – Famous Female Graffiti Artist http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Kilgallengarage.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What do you feel is an aspect of your composition that you initially struggled with but resolved in the thumbnail and preliminary drawings
    • Artist NPR: The Selfie – Listen and comment on one or two points that describe how YOU are using some f the ideas in your drawing for EXTRA CREDIT: http://www.wpr.org/listen/565351

Reflection / Evaluation: What was the most challenging aspect of your drawing to get done today? How are you using OBSERVATION and COMPARISON – sighting in – to get your drawings set up correctly? List TWO SPECIFIC aspects of the drawing you have used these skills in your drawing. 

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