Discovering Your Artist of Choice
Week one-visit 16 important museums online (critique works from each museum as assessments)
Week two:
1400’s 1800’s 1900’s 2000’s
Raphael Jean F. Millet Picasso Kehinde Wiley
Titian Honre Daumier Matisse Kara Walker
Bernini Remington Georg Baselitz Chuck Close
Do research on the artists above and choose one that interests you the most. Write a one page report on the artist in long hand. Answer the following questions and be sure to use at least 10 of the vocabulary words you have learn thus far.
Answer these questions:
What drew you to this particular painting? Why does it interest you?
What are the details of the artist? Their birth dates plus death dates if not living. What is their nationality?
What is in the artist’s background that formed why they paint? What were their influences? What other artists or movements inspired them?
What is their particular subject matter and why?
Can you draw any information between one of their earliests works of art and one of their last works of art? Can you see a maturity between the time line? If so, what is that maturity? Is is skill, change of subject matter, change of visual dynamics of color or perspective?
After studying the art of this painter, which painting is you favorite and why?
Use the following vocabulary words as much as possible:
scale = the size or visual weight of an object as compared to another object. usage: The scale of the Lincoln Monument is 55 times larger than the average height of a man.
texture = the visual surface of an object that shows the skin or outer dimension as appealing to the sense of touch. usage: The texture of the drawing of the tree showed the detail of the bark in a very real manner.
vanishing point = a single point on the horizon of an image that all lines lead to. usage: the railroad tracks all lead to one distant point.
analogous = similar or comparable to something else ex: An airplane’s joystick is somewhat analogous to the reins on a horse. The emotional impact of a painting by Jackson Pollock is analogous to watching fireworks on the fourth of July.
symmetry = balanced proportions ex: The human face holds symmetry on each side.
asymmetry = the lack or absence of symmetry ex: As Mercury orbits the Sun, it experiences a small torque due to its slight asymmetry in the plane of its orbit
obtuse = annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand. example: “he wondered why the artist was being deliberately obtuse in showing his art"
nebulous = in the form of a cloud or haze, unclear, vague, uncertain, example: “I felt very nebulous about abstract painting”
obscure= not clearly expressed or understood example: “Mr. Bonnell was very obscure when he explained the art lesson.”
aesthetics = ones own personal definition of beauty that holds a value system or reasoning.
ambiguity = revealing the beauty of opposites within a subject matter or work of art.
symmetry = a term to reveal a mirror image of a subject or perfect balance.
alchemy = Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold.
allegory = The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.allude = To refer incidentally, or by suggestion.
alteration = Change or modification.
achromatic = Colorless
acquiescence = Passive consent.
acquisition = Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
acute = Having fine discernment.
addendum = Something added, or to be added.
adjacent = That which is near or bordering upon.
adjunct = Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place.
Subtle = difficult to analyze
convoluted = complex and hard to follow ideas, thoughts and writings
mosaic = an arrangement of pieces of material to form a work of art
ethereal = a form of beauty beyond reality
illusive = to evade or dodge a subject
attenuate = to lesson the amount
naturalism = The approach to art in which the forms used by the artist are essentially descriptive of things that the artist sees.
nonobjective = A term given to a work of art that has no recognizable subject matter.
rhythm = A continuance, a flow, or a feeling of movement achieved by the repetition of regulated visual information.
motif = A visual element or a combination of visual elements that is repeated often enough in a composition to make it the dominating feature of the artist’s expression. It is similar to theme or melody in a musical composition.
volume = A shape that is three-dimensional in nature and exists in space. On a flat surface the artist can only create the illusion of a volume.
After choosing your favorite painting recreate a replica of that painting using the art supplies in the art room. You may purchase your own canvases or supplies and bring them in. Do your best to replicate the painting and take your time. This is a two week project.