Tag: Sculpture

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#WiArtChat TONIGHT at 7:00 PM – What #Questions do YOU have for the#ArtTeacher?

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

Henry Moore – “King and Queen” 1954 http://www.henry-moore.org/images/glenkiln_lh350_4.jpg

Painting and Advanced Painting: CANVAS Building

What is your PORTRAIT going to START like? Continuous line? Observation from Photograph? http://watercolorjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/inverted-drawing-of-portrait-of-igor-stravinsky-pablo-picasso.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 NOT planning on going?
    • SELF PORTRAITS from PREVIOUS Classes – HERE

Reflection / Evaluation: How do you see the plans you are developing as being successful? What ELEMENT are you focusing on? Line, Color, Texture, Value?

Studio Art 360: CLAY! Finally!

How did /can you use MODELING in the sculpture? No this is NOT Han Solo… http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/bas_relief_young_lincoln.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.:
This Is. http://williambeem.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Han-Solo-in-Carbonite.jpg

Reflection / Evaluation: What was the largest success you have in today’s work? Take a look at the rest of the classes work BEFORE we clean up. PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

AP Studio Art: Critique!

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

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Goals:

  • 4.2Ad: Critique, justify, and present choices in the process of analyzing, selecting, curating, and presenting artwork for a specific exhibit or event.
  • We are listening to Erica Meier’s Gallery Talk today – As an AP Studio Artist who is DEVELOPING their OWN Body of work… What is a solid question you have that you can ask a contemporary artist about the development / process / working habits?

Reflection / Evaluation: Good Gallery Talk!

Drawing: Google Slideshow

Relax Ma… It’s Only Fauvism… http://www.craftsy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/498px-Henri_Matisse_Self-Portrait_in_a_Striped_T-shirt_1906.jpg

Goals:

  • G: 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 / Evaluation: What is the LARGER message that you are hoping to get across with your work? It is MORE than just creating a portrait… we could use a camera and do that.

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What Difference does it make whether you’re looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look. Chuck Close

I am ready to get aboard the Yellow Submarine!
I am ready to get aboard the Yellow Submarine!

Painting and Advanced Painting: MID CRIT with your PAINTING on Social Commentary

Georgia O’Keefe: http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/1213_Dove-OKeeffe915381.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • As you look at your work in front of you, what are the aspects you struggled with? What have you soared with?

Reflection / Evaluation: Biggest accomplishment with the watercolor today? how have you seen stagnation – non-experimentation / growth as an artist so far?

Studio Art 360: Boxes/ Sculpture / Paper Mache

COOL! http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/cardboard-office-not-to-spend-much-money-1.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • When you see the forms in a finished state, how do you see it as relating to your experience as a person – as part of the art making experience? How could you see it as a moving you forward in the art making experiences?

Reflection / Evaluation: What was your biggest success over these past two weeks working on the sculptural forms? What are 2 criteria you would set up for yourself as a GRADING criteria?

AP Studio Art: Plants and Drawing! Time to WORK!

JIM DINE: Plant: http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/jim-dine-flowers-1353360952_b.jpg

Goals:

Reflection / Evaluation: What materials have you used today? How have you decided to arrange your composition? What are the elements you are looking at using / focusing on?

Drawing: CRIT – Polish and Finish – Let’s turn in our work!

How does MUSIC influence you? http://scienceillustrated.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/music.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.
  • What feelings do you get from specific pieces of music? Give some examples. Rap / Country / Reggae / Bossa Nova.

Reflection / Evaluation: What shapes did you struggle to find? What ideas did you find as you listened to the music?

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#LateStart #Wednesday… Get to #ArtWork #Fast and #Focused

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy

Painting and Advanced Painting: Collage to PAINTING

What TECHNIQUES are you going to or ARE you using? mhttps://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ed539-demo000.jpg

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 do you feel about talking aloud when it comes to other’s works? What are your thoughts about why you may be apprehensive or confident when discussing other individual’s work? (Am I looking forward to a critique? YES!)

Reflection / Evaluation: What were 3 things that you took away from today’s MID critique?

Studio Art 360: Boxes/ Sculpture

Cool ways to use cardboard and paper to make useable objects! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5c/a3/47/5ca3470c7ce2e609b6d6915e8a3a0660.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 changes can you make to the forms as you add the paper mache to them? How will this add or take away from the sculptural form?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What do you need to do to WRAP UP THE BUILDING part of this work?

AP Studio Art: Computer Lab – Website

WordPress AP Pages Add
Here’s where we can start!

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • WHY do we want to set up a webpage and digital images for AP Studio Art? Give 3 reasons and explanations.

Reflection / Evaluation: What challenges did you have using TECHNOLOGY today? Give 3 specifics.

DID YOU MAKE 2 PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR ARTWORK AND EMAIL OR PUT THEM ON YOUR GOOGLE DRIVE? Get it DONE for TOMORROW! Computer Lab AND… Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON FRIDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?  WE ARE USING THIS NEXT MONDAY ON THE AP WEBSITE!

Drawing: CRIT – Let’s Review the PROCESS!

Final Morandi for the Project? What is working – What is NOT? HA – It ALL Works! http://carpetmoss.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/giorgio-morandi-natura-morta-ii-1953.jpg Let’s Read Up HERE: http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2015-5-1/giorgio-morandi

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.
  • Looking at the still life you have drawn, what are aspects that you would talk about if you were critiquing the work as being successful or unsuccessful?

Reflection: What are your thoughts about the idea of the composition / white objects as subject matter? WRITE THAT IN YOUR GOAL SHEETS. Why do you feel this is worthy / unworthy / simple / complicated? What is working? What can you take forward to the next assignment?

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#Critique #Sketchbook #ARTMAKING in the #Studio

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy

Painting and Advanced Painting: Collage to PAINTING

http://marciglenn.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/watercolor-techniques-from-julie-balzer.jpg – Julie Balzer TECHNIQUES…

Goals:

  • 6.1Ac: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.
  • How are you relating the ideas of making art to making art about yourself? Do you find this to be easy or difficult – WHY?

Reflection / Evaluation: As you are working, what are you seeing as an area that you might need to really focus on as you continue. 

Studio Art 360:Sketchbook Day! YEAH!

Jim Dine – Richard Gray Gallery: http://prod-images.exhibit-e.com/www_richardgraygallery_com/613b6576.jpg EXAMPLES of TOOLS: http://www.richardgraygallery.com/exhibitions/2000-10-26_jim-dine/ Jim Dine VIDEO at Richard Grey Gallery: http://www.richardgraygallery.com/artists/jim-dine/

Goals:

  • G: 2.1P: Engage in making a work of art or design without having a preconceived plan.
  • What was the most CHALLENGING part of drawing out your CITYSCAPE drawing for today’s sketchbook? If you looked at doing it again, what would you change so it was MORE successful?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What was it about the tool you chose that made you choose that tool? What did you do today to really LOOK at and UNDERSTAND the shape and form of the tool in order to make a unique and successful drawing? Do you have to continue working on it so that it is FINISHED for NEXT TUESDAY?

AP Studio Art: CRIT and FOOD! ONE MORE DAY!

http://www.jerrysartarama.com/blog/post/2011/image.axd?picture=2011%2F5%2Fcritique.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 did you TAKE AWAY from the critique as the AUDIENCE or CRITIC yesterday?

Reflection / Evaluation: Looking back – what are your thoughts on the idea of a CONCENTRATION? Questions? Concerns?

DID YOU MAKE 2 PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR ARTWORK AND EMAIL OR PUT THEM ON YOUR GOOGLE DRIVE? Get it DONE for TOMORROW! Computer Lab AND… Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON FRIDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?  WE ARE USING THIS NEXT MONDAY ON THE AP WEBSITE!

Drawing: Last Day to DRAW!

MORANDI: http://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/giorgio-morandi/natura-morta-1(1).jpg  MoMA Let’s Look at his BIO: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=40790

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What are 3 things you see as BENEFICIAL to understanding and practicing the ideas of shading? How can this help in ALL your artworks?

Reflection: What is the #1 Skill you see as having been develeoped over hte past 2 weeks? What is ONE strugfgle you still need to work on and overcome?

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#ArtAssignment #Critique and #SelfEvaluate

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

Painting and Advanced Painting: Collage Social Commentary – Building the Collage

Thomas Moran: Watercolro – http://www.denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/thomas-moran-s-yellowstone-project-nation

Goals:

  • 2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
  • How has the gathering of images HELPED or CHALLENGED you in the creation of a composition visually and / or telling a story – about yourself? 

QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR SOCIAL TOPIC. Please write these in your sketchbook for future reference.

  1. What is the LARGER OVERALL TOPIC you have chosen?
  2. If you had to discuss the topic with someone, what are 5 key points that you would try to make in order to “sell” your viewpoint?
  3. What are 2 questions that you have about the topic that require a bit more research?
  4. What is a question / argument that someone else might pose to you about the topic?
  5. What are IMAGES / ENVIRONMENTS / SPACES that you are hoping to create for your collage / watercolor?
  6. What are the KEY images you have gathered SO FAR that are going to help with the building / communicating of your message?
  7. What is a WORKING TITLE for the IDEA you are having SO FAR?

Reflection / Evaluation: What does your composition say about you? How might others read the images you have gathered and assembled

Studio Art 360:Sketchbooks – BRING CARDBOARD FOR TOMORROW!

Donald Judd – Installation at MoMA: VIDEO: http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=81324

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What can you use from the process we went through YESTERDAY to continue to create a CUBE, CYLINDER, and a pyramid? Do you want to work on ALL of them at the same time or are you going to finish one and then move onto the next? What was the most challenging form for you to create? What is ONE things that gave you such a hard time with it?

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

AP Studio Art: Bag of Objects. How is your first CONCENTRATION going?

Abstract Watercolors – How are you using WATERCOLORS (or PAINTS)? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/b3140-reusage-blog-free-texture-paper-colorful-rorschach-watercolor-inner-organs-abstract.png

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.
  • What is the MAJOR IDEA, the FOCAL POINT to your concentration for this week?

Reflection / Evaluation: What is the COMMON THREAD that viewers can see in the five works that you are creating? How does it TIE them all together?

Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON FRIDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?  WE ARE USING THIS NEXT MONDAY ON THE AP WEBSITE!

Drawing: Group of Objects – STEP BACK from your drawing and REFLECT! MID CRIT!

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 it about the mid-crit that makes you a bit nervous?

Reflection: What do YOU find useful from today’s critique exercise?

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Getting to #Work on #Art and #Reflecting on the #Progress OF the 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

Painting and Advanced Painting: Collage Social Commentary 

Charles Demuth (Bio): http://www.tfaoi.com/am/3am/3am169.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What did TAPING the paper down to the board help with last week?

Reflection / Evaluation: What 2 things did you get done today that helped you move the ideas of SOCIAL C OMMENTARY forward in your design ideas? Be VERY specific in the tasks you accomplished.

Studio Art 360:Sketchbooks – BRING CARDBOARD FOR TOMORROW!

Minimalist Sculpture TONY SMITH: 1964, http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/128/w500h420/CRI_229128.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.2P: Explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.
  • What challenges do you see about the process of building a cardboard sculpture of a pyramid, cube or cylinder?

Reflection / Evaluation:  What was the most difficult part of the building process today for YOU? How can you use those challenges to develop your skills?

AP Studio Art: Bag of Objects. How is your first CONCENTRATION going?

Pastel? You? http://www.artistsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/64-uart-paper.jpg

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.
  • What materials are you NOT using yet? Make sure that in the body of work you are making (about 1 object) you try things you are not comfortable with

Reflection / Evaluation: What mediums are you afraid of using. If not afraid – haven’t used because you are not used in the past? WHY?

Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON FRIDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?  WE ARE USING THIS NEXT MONDAY ON THE AP WEBSITE! WOO HOO!

Drawing: Group of Objects – Scale, Composition, VALUE! STEP BACK from your drawing and REFLECT!

MORANDI: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f-jjIfjcnuA/ToJb1gf2UgI/AAAAAAAAAVM/AeO7cIo-KIA/s1600/GM1.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.
  • How are you defining the edges of forms DIFFERENTLY now than you have in the past?

Reflection / Evaluation:  Have you improved your drawings skills over the past few days? What do you feel you will be able to improve on regarding the skills you have currently?

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Let’s Get #SERIOUS this week – #ArtSchool is IN SESSION!

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

Let’s Look at GOAL SETTING… https://studentsuccess.unc.edu/files/2012/10/iStock_000009376848Small3.jpg

Painting and Advanced Painting: Watercolors and You – Social Commentary and Collage

Jean Lacy (BIO) – Social Commentary Collage: http://www.southernspaces.org/sites/default/files/images/2015/rowell-002-cover2-lg.jpg

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?

Reflection / Evaluation: What are 5 images you gathered today that say something about you? Consider the materials WE have in the Art Studio… magazines that may or may not have ANY interest to you. If you have materials that YOU can bring in… please do so. Rely on YOURSELF and not just the stuff Korb brings. If you do not supply images for yourself – DO NOT COMPLAIN that there are NO IMAGES YOU CAN USE.

Studio Art 360:Sketchbooks – BRING CARDBOARD FOR TOMORROW!

Tony Smith Sculpture… THIS IS OUR DESTINATION… Different than previous years sculptures. http://www.cornermark.com/images/cubi1.gif

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • What is the difference between shape and form? There are a FEW OTHER terms we are going to cover in our textbook – terms that help up TALK about art.

Reflection / Evaluation: What is the strongest part of your sketchbook assignment that you created today? Filling out the Sketchbook Grading Sheet on the RIGHT SIDE of the GOALS Page… Use the ART TERMS you know. 

AP Studio Art: Bag of Objects. How is your first CONCENTRATION going?

How are you working on your ideas? Sketches in pencil and charcoal and watercolors and acrylic? Anything else? http://vincentmademedothis.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/01_04_making_marks_using_charcoal.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Five parts to this weeks project (DUE ON MONDAY). What are you most comfortable with? Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel, or Paint? Why?

Reflection / Evaluation: What materials have you used today? How are the projects coming along?

Assignment ONLINE – Google Document – SHARE WITH ME at fkorb@waterforduhs.k12.wi.us! DUE ON FRIDAY. CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE. READ THE BRIEF BLOG POST! Where do you see yourself artistically now, where in 5 Years?  WE ARE USING THIS NEXT MONDAY ON THE AP WEBSITE! WOO HOO!

Drawing: Group of Objects – Scale, Composition, VALUE!

Yet another Morandi: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/526/w500h420/CRI_167526.jpg MoMA: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4079

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 your biggest accomplishments as you worked last week? Where are the three successful aspects of the still life? What are the aspects that are not successful yet? Identify with your neighbor the absolute black, absolute white, and 3 different levels of grey.

Reflection / Evaluation: What have you learned today about how to push / pull space with value? What have you accomplished with pencil? What is SUCCESSFUL in your drawing?

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#What? #Friday already? #WhereDidTheWeekGo?

Happy Youth Art Month: Art Terms 101:  Composition is an arrangement of the elements of art and the principles of design

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews

AP Studio Art: Figure Drawing! Let’s DRAW!

Richard Diebenkorn’s Drawing – How do you relate? https://coxcrows.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/diebenkorn-woman-e280a6-w-cup.jpg?w=272&h=367&crop=1

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.
  • Before you leave for the day – thank our model for the time and posing – it is a lot of work! What is the ONE THING you are most satisfied with in your drawing today? WHY?

What did it for you to WRAP THIS DRAWING UP? Share a small thought with your classmates about this process – product?

Advanced Drawing: Bauhaus Drawing – Oskar Schlemmer

The ballet figure drawing! https://strangeflowers.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/triadic-ballet-3.jpg?w=710

Goals:

  • 7.1Ad: Analyze how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.
  • What do you need to do to come to a solid RESOLUTION for the end of the week? 4 days next week – not much time!

Are you in need of taking this home this weekend? What are the aspects of the work that are in need of REAL FOCUS?

Drawing: Online Presentation of the Images.

Kandinsky and the Bauhaus Presentation is HERE…

POP Art – Portrait of the FAMOUS – not a drawing – but FAME nonetheless… http://revolverwarholgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/andy-warhol-jacqueline-kennedy-iii.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1Ac: Recognize and describe personal aesthetic and empathetic responses to the natural world and constructed environments.
  • Of ALL the aspects of the face – what are you having the most success with and what is the most challenging? What is hardest about the most challenging part?

What was it about the FACIAL FEATURES of your chosen face that made for a SUCCESSFUL and at times CHALLENGING drawing?

Studio Art 360: Hands on with CLAY!

Ed Hamilton’s Website – Making of a Bas Relief Sculpture

North versus the South – The FINAL Bronze casting of Ed Hamilton’s sculpture! http://edhamiltonworks.com/images/lincoln/bas_relief/north%20and%20south%20no.%202_detail.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2P: Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art or design.
  • What portions of your sculpture do you see as ADDITIVE, SUBTRACTIVE, and MANIPULATIVE? Describe in DETAIL the areas – use imagery as descriptors.

What was the biggest challenge you had with using clay and creating a three dimensional artwork – PAUSE 10 minutes before the end of class.

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#Friday in the #Art #Studio. Week one #Done. #ThankYou for #Subscribing.

“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 – Make your ART!

Your reach as a maker is still pretty far… who do you reach?

Goals:

  • 2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • Last day in class to work on this breadth piece. How has it felt to be NOT working on your CONCENTRATION works this week? Give yourself a few sentences to reflect.

What are you going to be working on this weekend to resolve your work. PLEASE WRITE UP AND POST A ONE PARAGRAPH STATEMENT ABOUT YOUR ARTWORK ON THE WEBSITE – IN YOUR CHAPTER PAGE. 

Advanced Drawing: Let’s pin up our Abstraction and Pastels and talk – MONDAY!

Crit? Let’s look at this on MONDAY! What do you need to do in order to get this drawing completed?

Goals:

  • G: 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 has previous discussion of your work tended to be? Negative? Positive? Constructive? Discuss the challenges that one might face when posed with the potential of a critique.

What do you fear about the idea of speaking to your classmates about their work? If you had to choose ONE element or one PRINCIPLE to focus on about your artwork, what would that be and why?

Drawing: Still Life -Time to draw the FINAL WORK! 

Morandi’s prints. Look at the RELATIONSHIPS in space and form. Impressive!

Goals:

  • G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What did you accomplished yesterday? What are the differences in drawing materials – in your own words?

Regarding the work by Georgio Morandi, what are 3 things that you see in his work that you could carry into the work you are creating? What are 2 challenges you are facing? What is ONE thing you are happy about?

Studio Art 360: Construction Time!

Robert Indiana’s famous MECCA Arena Floor for the Milwaukee Bucks. Watch this WTMJ’s Story about Robert Indiana and his work!

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 that you come up with your neighbor.

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

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How can it be #Thursday in the #Art #Studio already?

“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 – Make your ART!

Goals:

  • G: 2.1Ad: Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.
  • Look through your chapter in the the book again – is there anything else in the chapter that is standing out to you? Is there a way you can work a second or third idea into the current work – cover more topics?

REVIEW The ideas with your classmates that you are working on. How do you see the ideas growing from your initial ideas?

Advanced Drawing: Let’s pin up our Abstraction and Pastels and talk!

Günter Fruhtrunk and his artwork – Color Scheme?

Goals:

  • G: 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What are the challenges you have had with the pastels and charcoal so far? What skills have you learned? What skills are you needing to continue developing?

REFLECT on the STRENGTHS of your use of your Color scheme and how you are using it successfully throughout. What are your plans as you move forward?

Drawing: Still Life -Time to draw the FINAL WORK! 

I gotta say – LOVE his stuff! http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2013/1/10/1357823154138/morandi-still-life-five-o-023.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What did you accomplished yesterday? What are the differences in drawing materials – in your own words?  N: Hands on use of a variety of materials. A: Boxes and Sphere drawings OBSERVATION.

How does it feel to get that BLANK sheet of paper and then get instructed to get to work? What FEARS did you face as you got started?

Studio Art 360: Construction Time!

Love and Hope exhibition – see how the same object can be used MANY times in the arts? 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 your plans to get at least ONE of the forms constructed today? Are you going to get all the cardboard cut first or are you going to work on one, finish it, and then move onto another? What’s your plan of attack? Allow yourself to EXPERIMENT!

What parts of CONSTRUCTING your sculpture are you having success with right now? What areas are you struggling with? Use the ART TERMS you know.