All Art Students

Study for your exams!!!
There is no Friday assignment this week for any class.

AP - Your projects are due in my room by noon on Friday.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Art 2 - Rembrandt

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative.
Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters. Rembrandt's greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.

Ceramics - More Teapots

Here are several more.....

Art One - color mixing video

Watch the following video about color mixing and comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX9vL8cGYeE

Art 3/AP

2D - recreate an image by Ralph Goings in your sketchbook

3D - recreate a Michaelangelo sculpture SKETCH in your own sketchbook

Art Two - Self Portraits

Watch the short video.  Natalia Stefanek creates a very realistic portrait drawing of Derren Brown.  He starts with a sketch that is shown at the 30 second mark.  This is the stage to work out proportions.  It looks like he has traced and transferred his own sketch onto the drawing paper and then completed it using a variety of pencil grades.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5GFb_Sivzk

Art One - Color video

Click the link below to watch the video.  It is a GREAT (and very, very interesting - I promise) video about color and culture.
What do you think?  What comment in the video stood out to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX0DHd5QNS8

Ceramics - Teapots

Here are some great teapot examples.  Which do you like or not like?



 

AP ART and ART 3

AP ART
1. What is the central idea of your Concentration? (500 characters or less)  What is the conceptual idea or content that you want to investigate?  It can be related to design elements and/or principles such as line, color, texture, space, pattern, movement, etc.  OR it can be something that is social, political, religious, scientific, personal, etc.
2. What materials?
3. Reply to two others with an initial response and suggestions or ideas to expand the idea.

ART 3 - Reply to two AP students with an initial response and suggestions or ideas to expand the idea.

AP Students, visit the following sites for more examples of previous Concentrations, Breadth and Quality sections.  This can be very helpful to get your brain thinking about your own personal Concentration as well as see how your work stacks up against other students.

2D - www.apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/220017.html

3D - www.apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/220107.html

Drawing - www.apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_information/220194.html

Ceramics - a little more nativity

Art Two - No Name landscape paintings

Nobody famous here (that I know of).... What do you think?

Art One - Paper Bags

AP/ART 3 - 11/21

ART 3 (2D) - recreate a Frida Kahlo work in your sketchbook.  Use color.

AP (2D) - spend two hours on your painting which is due Friday.

Tesch - finish your engine by Friday

AP (3D) - spend your extra time photographing your work which is due Friday

ART 3 (3D) - draw a Robert Smithson natural installation

Art One - More Drawing Examples

Ceramics - Nativity Extras

Art Two - Paul Gauguin landscape paintings

Paul Gauguin was a French born painter.  He was born in 1848 and died in 1903.  He is best known for his connection to the Post Impressionism movement.  He was a friend (and competitor) to Vincent van Gogh - they even were roommates for a little while in the south of France.  The paintings below were completed after he left van Gogh and moved to Tahiti.  He began using even more expressive color and his style became more primitive.  Although he abandoned his wife and children, critics say that this work is his best.

AP/Art 3 - Friday Assignment due 11/14

2D - Instead of looking at one of the masters, find an example of coleus leaves and recreate one of those in your sketchbook.  Complete in FULL color and spend at least 2 hours.

Tesch - finish the yearbook painting by Friday.

3D - Look at the work of artist Louise Bourgeois.  It's pretty crazy!  Recreate one of her cells, spiders or hands in your sketchbook.  Spend about 2 hours on this drawing.

Ceramics - Nativity

After we glaze our enormous pots, you will design and create a sculptural nativity.  See the examples below to get your thoughts going.  It can be as realistic or abstract as you like.  You will need to have a minimum of three pieces (Mary, Joseph and baby JC) and some sort of base or creche to glaze it onto.  You can add wise men, angels, shepherds and animals if your time and skills allow ;)

Art One - Drawing

The drawings below were all completed with pencil.  Which is your favorite?