Week #9

 

Objective

Each student will have selected an art style/movement from the early 20th Century to research. If you prefer, you may choose to research a non-Western art tradition instead.  Within each style or movement select one artist to research individually.  You could plan to collaborate with other students who have artists doing work in the same style, time and geographic area.  Your research should address the following questions:

  • How would you define and describe the artwork of this movement/style?
  • How did this art style relate to the events/ideology of the time period? 
  • Can you relate music, literature, historic events or philosophy to aspects of this artist’s style?
  • What did the artists of this movement say about the work? (What is their intention?)
  • What was the response of the public at the time, to the work
  • How does your selected artist represent the concerns of the movement that they are identified with?  Do they differ?
  • How would you describe the artwork of your selected artist?
  • In the process of replicating a work by your specific artist, what did you learn? 
  • How were colors used? How was the paint applied? What influenced decisions about composition?

 

 

Start on painting in the style of your selected artists.  Students will paint from a large format image found in a printed form whether in a library book from another source.  Students should NOT use a digital reference especially not a phone pic or image from the interwebby thing.  It is imperative that students have a high quality representation of a work so that the sublties of the original painting such as under painting, brush strokes and paint quality can be observed.

Tips to use as you are working on your paintings:

  • Paint in thin layers of paint to build up a surface of complex and interacting colors.
  • Don’t use paint straight from the tube always mix your color for richer, more interesting color.
  • Avoid painting forms in one solid color.  Even if an object appears to be one color.  Most artists will use mixtures and variegated colors in order to represent the ways in which light and shadows react with a three dimensional object.

 

 

 

Continue in class work on painting in the style of your artist. 
Due: Last day of class

Assignment: Look at your book!  Please read in your library book about the painting that you are replicating.  Write notes that relate details about the artist and the particular painting.  What is important about the painting?  When and where was it painted? How does the painting fit into the artist’s oeuvre?  What does the word oeuvre mean?  You should write at least two paragraphs about the artist and their work. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
   
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