Tag: Henri Matisse

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#Happy #Friday in the #ArtStudio – #Painting #Portraits #ColorSchemes Anyone?

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar

Painting and Advanced Painting: Oil Paints – Ready, Set, GO!

Talk about REAL and OILS: http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/32324421311_1/HOT-PRINT-OIL-PAINTING-40-30-THE-EYE-WITH-DROP-OF-WATER-WALL-ART-HOME-DECORAGIFT.jpg

Goals: 

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What challenges do you see in the use of OIL paint versus Acrylic paint? What advantages do you see in the use of oil over acrylic?
    • SELF PORTRAITS from PREVIOUS Classes – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: What ideas do you see coming out from others works as you took the 4 minutes to walk around today and see what others are doing? How can you see working with OTHERS in a COMMUNITY as being beneficial to the development of your art?

Studio Art 360: COLOR 

Ah – THIS is the COLOR WHEEL! 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.
  • What is the difference between PRIMARY COLORS and SECONDARY COLORS? Share this with your neighbor.

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

AP Studio Art: Tune in! Tune Out!

What is your work SAYING? http://www.agora-gallery.com/advice/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Artist-Statement-Audience-1024×617.jpg

Goals:

  • 6.1Ad: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
  • Put all your works up in front of class and then step back… in your folder – write out ONE THING that you see as making the works seem to relate to one another or DOESN’T seem to help them relate. This is a curious observation considering we are all working on the same ideas of the music BUT have a very different idea in the composition.

Reflection / Evaluation: PLEASE Read over ALL THE WRITINGS / Journaling, Statements that you have compiled this week about these works… what is the STRENGTH / THEME / IDEA that stands out in YOUR ARTWORK that will help it engage a viewer’s attention? THIS WEEKEND – ASSIGNMENT – One 12 sentence Paragraph the clearly explains your ideas about your artwork and the music it is tied to. MONDAY – Google Drive / SHARE with me. 

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • Who is the Graffiti Artist that you have chosen to work from and WHY are you inspired by their work?

Reflection / Evaluation: What was the most challenging part of the work today? Why was this most difficult? What is most important about observation when it comes to drawing?

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#PortraitsThursday – Not a real thing but it is now!

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar

 Painting and Advanced Painting: Oil Paints – Ready, Set, GO!

Eye Eye Captian! What technique do you see here? https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/143da-maitha_eye.jpg

Goals: 

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Which direction have you decided to go in regarding the use of colors while using oil paints? What kind of mood / feeling do you hope to incorporate into the idea of your painting?
    • SELF PORTRAITS from PREVIOUS Classes – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: Have you  decided HOW you are going to break apart the space that you are building in the painting? Are you emphasizing the new SHAPES or are you developing the LINES that you have in the portrait?

Studio Art 360: COLOR (Critique First)

What is WRONG with this color wheel? https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/color_wheel_pencils.jpg 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?

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

AP Studio Art: Tune in! Tune Out!

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/artiststatementagain-140320215710-phpapp02/95/artist-statement-again-9-638.jpg?cb=1395354152

Goals:

  • 6.1Ad: Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer’s understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.
  • Looking at the ARTWORK, the MUSIC and your STATEMENT so far… how do you feel the idea of incorporating the VISUAL ART into the MUSICAL EXPERIENCE can / might / should / hopefully will add to the cultural experience?
    • MUSIC SIGN UP SHEET HERE! Thanks Julia.

Reflection / Evaluation: 3 successes in today’s work that help you explain / create a successful VISUAL experience that ties into the musical one.

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • Take a look at your beginning drawing – WHAT is WORKING? What is something (2 things) that are POSITIVE about the process you are using?

Reflection / Evaluation: What was the most challenging or LEAST successful today? Why was this most difficult way to go? What is most important about drawing when it comes to observation?

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#ArtMaking for #SocialChange (on a #Tuesday?)

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar

 Painting and Advanced Painting: Portraits and Oil Paints

YUM – Oil Paint! https://korbartwuhs.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/2b726-portaltpadencloseupbrmedfile.jpg

Goals: 

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • What color scheme are you hoping to focus on with this portrait? How will this help you UNIFY your composition? Are you using OTHER elements to create a sense of unity? What might that be?
    • SELF PORTRAITS from PREVIOUS Classes – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: What are you anxious about as we begin to think about and use oil paints?

Studio Art 360: Bas – Relief Sculpture

COOL TIRES! http://www.artinlimbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/s02clatp.gif

Goals

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What was your FAVORITE or LEAST FAVORITE part of working with clay. Please tell me WHY you LOVE or DON’T LOVE using this material. Please be specific. 
    • REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.

Reflection / Evaluation: What do you see as needing to be RESOLVED for the end of the project TOMORROW? Know that it is the LAST day to work. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

AP Studio Art: MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC

 

Music is LIFE! http://www.masmacon.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/MusicSquare_200x200.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.
  • From your conversation about the work at the end of class yesterday – what is one thing that you remember talking about regarding YOUR Work – How does this GOAL REFLECTION help get you started?
    • MUSIC SIGN UP SHEET HERE! Thanks Julia.

Reflection / Evaluation: Name 3 things that were of positive advancement in your work today. Name 1 thing you will START ON TOMORROW.

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Henri Matisse: mlle yvonne landsberg: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2010/06/13/gallery02_custom-38eccb755c66d92755eb41e79071d9683c510419-s900-c85.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?

Reflection / Evaluation: 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?

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#NewLook in the #Arts – Hope you had a great #Vacation

NOTICE the NEW LOOK – Let’s take 2 minutes to work through the changes…

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” — Zig Ziglar

MAM Box

TAKE A LOOK at the Shepherd Express about the NEW MAM!

Painting and Advanced Painting: Portraits and Oil Paints

Alice Neel Portrait. http://www.lalouver.com/html/gallery-history-images/small/Alice-Neel-painting-PEGGY-ca-1949-oil-on-canvas.jpg

Goals: 

  • G: 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • What differences do you know about ACRYLIC Paints and OIL Paints? Today we are DEMONSTRATING the differences. We NEED to be AWARE of STORING THEM in the YELLOW RACK – Safer in there than on the TOPS OF THE LOCKERS.
    • SELF PORTRAITS from PREVIOUS Classes – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: What differences do you NOW KNOW about acrylic paint and oil paint?

Studio Art 360: Bas – Relief Sculpture

Contemporary Bas-Relief Sculpture http://www.bnyee.com/Black%20Bas-relief%20Faces.jpg

Goals

  • G: 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • STOP and LOOK at the work you have been away from for four days – What do you like about working in three dimensions that is DIFFERENT than working in two dimensions?
    • REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.

Reflection / Evaluation: What are you seeing in the works of others that you find successful? What are you doing that OTHERS could learn from? PAUSE 7 minutes before the end of class. GIVE COMMENTS in one another’s RUBRIC – PAPER COPY.

AP Studio Art: MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC

Play your music Mr. Piano Man: http://www.worldupsidedown.org/wp-content/uploads/edd/2014/03/Stocksy_txp22cd4d66Xi3000_Medium_77702.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.
  • When you think about the music that you have chosen (and it was to be chosen by today) what images, ideas, colors, shapes… elements or principles come to mind? List 3 different but possibly related ideas.
    • MUSIC SIGN UP SHEET HERE! Thanks Julia.

Reflection / Evaluation: Have a 4 minute discussion with your classmates at your table and describe your work. Write down one thing from each of your classmates that help explain their work.

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Green Stripe – Let’s get to our OWN green Stripes – http://www.artionado.com/Matisse/Images/Matisse/Matisse-Green-stripe.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 IDEA works – where did you struggle? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form?

Reflection / Evaluation: What was the most challenging part of coming up with an idea for this PORTRAIT? How are you tying the ideas in together to come up with a strong COMPOSITION?

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#MidWeek #Friday? #Reflect on #Portraits are #Passion!

There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it. – Henry Moore

Painting and Advanced Painting: CANVAS Building

Alice Neel – How to handle the portrait? https://d1ycxz9plii3tb.cloudfront.net/additional_images/52fbd3077622ddb3300001c1/large.jpg

Goals: 

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • What differences do you know about ACRYLIC Paints and OIL Paints? Today we are DEMONSTRATING the differences. We NEED to be AWARE of STORING THEM in the YELLOW RACK (or in the locker)  – Safer in there than on the TOPS OF THE LOCKERS.
    • SELF PORTRAITS from PREVIOUS Classes – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: What differences do you NOW KNOW about acrylic paint and oil paint?

Studio Art 360: Reflect on Progress

MODELING of the clay… http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/slaves_detail.jpg

Goals

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • How does working three dimensionally make you think differently about the making of art than working on the collage (2D work) did?
  • http://edhamiltonworks.com/bas-relief.htm 
    • REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.

Reflection / Evaluation: What are you seeing in the works of others that you find successful? What are you doing that OTHERS could learn from? PAUSE 5 minutes before cleanup. GIVE COMMENTS in one another’s RUBRIC – PAPER COPY. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO TO KEEP IT FROM DRYING OUT THIS LONG WEEKEND?

AP Studio Art: Critique!

Have you looked at the AP Studio Art Portfolio for Inspiration? Here are the AP Studio Art Portfolio Example Pages.

http://www.thelogomix.com/files/u7/art-on-music.png

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 have YOU begun to understand the importance of reflection and CRITIQUE? AND…
  • 7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • You’ve got the music at your fingertips – how are you going to work and BUILD this creation over the Thanksgiving Break (in your sketchbook) so we can GO TO IT FAST AND FURIOUS when we get back. One Week to DO IT!

MUSIC TO BE INSPIRED BY HERE!

MUSIC SIGN UP SHEET HERE! Thanks Julia.

Reflection / Evaluation: What are you going to do on FRIDAY, SATURDAY, and then SUNDAY to be READY to work on Monday? 3 things…

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Andre Derain – Self Portrait: http://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/andre-derain/self-portrait-with-a-cap.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • How are you going to SOLVE the issue we are having with the combining of the PORTRAIT and the GRAFFITI? This is a CHALLENGING idea – how are you tackling it?

Reflection / Evaluation: 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.

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#TODAY in #Art: #Fauvism, the #Portrait, and #You – #Symbolism?

There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it. – Henry Moore

Painting and Advanced Painting: CANVAS Building

How to BEGIN the Portrait? http://www.urchinmovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/egon-schiele-7.jpg

Goals: 

  • 5.1Ac: Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display artwork in a specific place.
  • Knowing you have the options of REALISM in colors or going out on your own in choices of colors… what do you see as advantages of the direction you are planning on going? I want you to think about both approaches.
    • SELF PORTRAITS from PREVIOUS Classes – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: What ideas do you see coming out from others as you develop your own ideas? How can you see working with OTHERS in a COMMUNITY as being beneficial to the development of your art?

Studio Art 360: CLAY! Finally!

What NEXT? We SAW this work LAST WEEK – What did he do next? 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 are you having COMPOSITIONALLY with your image / sculpture?
    • REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ARTWORK: Subtractive, Additive, and Manipulation to the clay. These techniques are REQUIRED in the FINAL Sculpture.

Reflection / Evaluation: How have you begun to SOLVE the COMPOSITIONAL CHALLENGES / PROBLEMS in your work?

AP Studio Art: Critique!

Have you looked at the AP Studio Art Portfolio for Inspiration? Here are the AP Studio Art Portfolio Example Pages.

 

How can Music Inspire your ART? – Listen to the SONGS in the link below for your inspiration – CHOOSE TWO to work from – We will assign them tomorrow!

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 have YOU begun to understand the importance of reflection and CRITIQUE? AND…
  • When you think of your favorite music… do you think of images, colors, shapes and forms? How HAVE you , COULD you use your past / current ideas about MUSIC to create works that will represent / draw upon music

MUSIC TO BE INSPIRED BY HERE!

Reflection / Evaluation: What is something that you took away from the critique today – whether it be about YOUR work or about another person’s work.

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Oh Matisse – How you are an inspiration! Andre. http://culturoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Andr%C3%A9-Derain-Henri-Matisse.jpeg

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 color scheme you are using? Share this with your neighbor. 

Reflection / Evaluation: 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.

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#FigureDrawing #Friday #Finally

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/arts/international/matisse-gurlitt-collection-femme-assise-seated-woman.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/arts/international/matisse-gurlitt-collection-femme-assise-seated-woman.html

1 Billion Dollars in 1 week… Go Christies. http://nyti.ms/1Hi1PAf

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

SUMMER COURSES: Painting (Korb) Printing (Robert’s / Dukowitz) registration ends THIS FRIDAY!

AP Studio Art and Advanced Drawing: RELAX and WE ARE DRAWING TODAY – No Erasing!

Richard Diebenkorn – Woman in a chair. http://raggedclaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/richard-diebenkorn_seated-woman-no-44.jpg

Goals

Larger Drawing Goals:

  • Observation (80% – 92% time looking), Guidelines, Concentration, Slow Drawing
  • Focus on the figure, Proportions, Scale, Sighting In
  • Full Page, Composition
  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • RESOLUTION of the figure drawing is MONDAY. What are three strengths that are happening in your drawing? How are you going to build on those strengths and develop the final drawing?

Step back – how did it turn out? Give a thought here – think about your work and step back with pride in the process.

Drawing: Get Work Out, Sit Down, and Log in

Young Woman in a Blue Blouse – Henri Matisse http://goo.gl/21LlBx

Goals

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • What is your reaction to the process of the writing of a critique? How do you feel it has helped or caused you grief? 

What did you LEARN from the process of the critique over the past few days?

 

Studio Art 360: Let’s look at COMPOSITIONS and Photographs

POP Art Paintings! Nicely Done! – HERE

Compositional Examples in Photography

Photography Lesson Instructions: HERE

Photography RUBRIC HERE

http://opticalcollimator.com/2014/03/20/revelations-unlocking-diane-arbus-composition-techniques/ GREAT BREAKDOWN of this WONDERFUL and Moving photograph. Diane Arbus “Child with A Toy Hand Grenade”

GOALS:

  • NETS: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making – Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
  • What have you found DIFFICULT about using WUHS as the setting for your Photographs? Know that it is all about the FRAMING of the Photograph. It doesn’t matter the subject – it is the composition…

What is the STRONGEST of your photographs and WHY? Please explain your comments in ONE SOLID 11 word sentence!

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#Critique, #Photography, #Drawing, #FigureDrawing in the #ArtStudio

1 Billion Dollars in 1 week… Go Christies. http://nyti.ms/1Hi1PAf

“Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.” — John Andrew Holmes

SUMMER COURSES: Painting (Korb) Printing (Robert’s / Dukowitz) registration ends THIS FRIDAY!

AP Studio Art and Advanced Drawing: RELAX and WE ARE DRAWING TODAY – No Erasing!

Drawing of Chuck Close by Jim Dine http://web.carteret.edu/keoughp/AFA%20images/Drawing/Jim%20Dine/jimDine-portrait%20of%20Chuch%20Close.jpg

Goals

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

Larger Drawing Goals:

  • Observation (80% – 92% time looking), Guidelines, Concentration, Slow Drawing
  • Focus on the figure, Proportions, Scale, Sighting In
  • Full Page, Composition
  • AP and AdDraw: How did looking at the video yesterday give you a new insight / appreciation for the process of drawing?Today – a FULL period on the work and NOT having to erase it may help you move the process forward. Are you still afraid of erasing as you progress through your drawing?

AP and AdDraw: What are you struggling with in the drawing today? What HELD YOU BACK? 

Drawing: Get Work Out, Sit Down, and Log in

Matisse and the simplification of the form. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/matisse.mme-matisse-madras.jpg

Goals

  • Form http://goo.gl/forms/3q3rPakz8m 
  • Critiquing HELPER sheet HERE
  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • Finished Fauvist Drawings HERE

What did you take away from completing a WRITTEN CRITIQUE? Tomorrow – the ORAL CRITIQUES BEGIN! 

Studio Art 360: Let’s look at COMPOSITIONS and Photographs

POP Art Paintings! Nicely Done! – HERE

Compositional Examples in Photography

Photography Lesson Instructions: HERE

Photography RUBRIC HERE

July 4th Camper, Yosemite Valley copyright Ted Orland. My Friend Ted Orland’s Photograph – Great guy!

GOALS:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What stories could you tell using a camera that documents your present-day life? What could you do to make an everyday “boring” part of the day interesting and inviting? Let’s use today in the hallway to “Document” some of what you might do in the hallway.

What did you do with the camera to make the BORING interesting? Remember – it is not the subject that makes an interesting image, it is the composition. July 4th Camper, Yosemite Valley copyright Ted Orland.

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#Tuesday back from #SpringBreak – I hope you are UP and AT IT!

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

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Mr. Korb’s Spring Break – Check it out HERE!

AP Studio Art: Duchamp and YOUR Nude Descending a Staircase

Calvin – You’re so clever! http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/candh/images/b/b2/Snowman-_Nude_Descending_a_Staircase.png/revision/latest?cb=20120115023631

Goals:

  • 8.1Ad: Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.
  • What do YOU feel an audience might think as they examine your artwork? Write out 3 ideas that might pop into their heads

What are 3 things YOU FEEL are working about your drawing? 

Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus and FRAMING up the work

ONLINE CRIT HERE. Due Monday of RETURN from SPRING BREAK!

Bauhaus by Kandinsky – What do you see as his work pulled together and the commonalities in your work? http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Kandinsky-Muralroom.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.2Ad: Determine the commonalities within a group of artists or visual images attributed to a particular type of art, timeframe, or culture.
  • What are the COMMONALITIES of ALL your work? Write out three COMMON IDEAS you see throughout.

What are three things YOU CONTRIBUTED to the conversation today – If your’s was spoken about – what are 3 things you heard about yours that you didn’t see earlier?

Drawing: Graffiti and Fauvism

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • 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)?

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? Previous works from past classes. 

Studio Art 360: Color Schemes

Can you see common color groupings in these works? How do they individually work? 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 or are you thinking about using for this project? Why are these products important to you? How do you feel they fit into the experiences of the rest of society? Popular Culture?

 What color scheme does this advertisement use and WHY?

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#FourDays of #School before #SpringBreak – Let’s #KeepWorking

“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.” — Debbie Ford

AP Studio Art: Duchamp – Let’s take the figure and break it into planes.

Duchamp descending the staircase… From the Philadelphia Museum! http://www.luminous-lint.com/imagevault/html_41501_42000/41730_std.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. NOW STOP and think about the GOAL you have for this ARTWORK – WRITE IT DOWN.  Same colors  Duchamp used. White, black, sanguine.
  • How did  Marcel Duchamp CHANGE the way the WORLD saw art? How is including TIME (Cubism) changing the way you are seeing Art / Compositions?

What do you see as a CHALLENGE in this drawing? Movement? Time?

Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus Drawing – Figure / Ground Relationships

ONLINE CRIT HERE: Due Monday of RETURN from SPRING BREAK!

Look Up! The week and project are almost up! http://olex.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bauhaus-dessau-2-oliver-lins-2012-01.jpg

Goals:

  • ALL ABOUT THE REFLECTION THIS WEEK: 8.1Ad: Analyze differing interpretations of an artwork or collection of works in order to select and defend a plausible critical analysis.
  • Having taken the weekend to break from your drawing… What is one thing that you SEE that jumps off as either NEEDING WORK or as WORKING SUCCESSFULLY?

You LOOKED at the stairway drawing and recognized areas that needed work or were successful – what DID you DO today that was productive? 

Drawing: Online Presentation of the Images.

Kandinsky and the Bauhaus Presentation is HERE…

Henri Matisse – Green Stripe! http://www.artionado.com/Matisse/Images/Matisse/Matisse-Green-stripe.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? How do you use the ideas of chiaroscuro to better define the ideas of form? How often are  you using the eraser to WORK with your drawing?

What was the most challenging part of this portrait for you to draw? Why are you struggling with the idea of using yourself (if you are) for this large scale drawing?

Studio Art 360: Hands on with CLAY!

Not Pink Floyd – This is a PRISM! 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…?

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