Art 3 and AP Art - Friday Assignment

I enjoyed seeing your Natural Installations!  Hopefully that was a welcome break to our sketch assignments.  Save those photos in your Art folders.  They will make great additions to your Breadth sections for AP.  This week we are getting back to our sketchbooks.  Put your own twist on it and remember, it should take at least two hours.

2D - Pablo Picasso

3D - Jacques Lipchitz (Cubist sculptor and buddies with Picasso)

Ceramics - Slab Containers

We will be making slab containers for our next major project.  It will have to be made mostly of slabs but you may want to have a sculptural element as well.  Think about it.  Which one of these containers is your favorite and why?

Art Two - Collage ?

What did you think of the collage process?  How is it similar to painting?  How is it different?

Art One - Linoleum Cutting Video

Watch the following video for tips on cutting your linoleum block.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5QuEq8pKnQ

Ceramics - Coil Method examples

Below are examples of pots made with the coil method.  Which is your favorite and why?

Art One - Coil Pot examples

Below are examples of pots made with the coil method.  Which is your favorite and why?

Art Two - Four Collage Examples

Look at the collage artists below.  Which one is your favorite?  Notice how they use a variety of tones and textures of the same color.

AP/ART 3 - Natural Installation due FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20

Look at the environmental / installation work of Andy Goldsworthy, Nazca Lines, Christo and Robert Smithson.  We have also looked at others through our sketch assignments, and feel free to investigate others.  Create at least one on-site installation.  You may use natural or man-made materials to alter the environment.  Your idea can be elaborate or very simple.  It can have a message or just be beautiful.  Photograph it from several angles.  Also include detail shots.  A sunny day around 4:00 p.m. will probably give you the best light, but morning times are good too.  Avoid taking photos in the shade.  Also, be mindful of other stuff that might be part of the photograph.  Keep the installation the main focus of the photograph, but also keep in mind that the overall image (photo) should look good in terms of lights/darks, color, etc. and there should be no random stuff in the background.  Edit your photos for best results.

2D - You should view Christo’s “Running Fence” and the Nazca lines as drawings.  Keep in mind that this is a 2-D project.  Concentrate on value (light and dark) contrasts, color, texture and line.

3D - Your installation should activate the space in some way.  Think beyond colors and line to how your addition or manipulation to the environment affects spacial relationships.

Load the images into your AP or Art 3 Art folder in your Pictures folder on your computer.  Email Mrs. Butler the best two of the overall scene and also include one detail - for three total images.  You will email three images by Friday, February 20.  It is due by your class time on that day.

The following images are examples of work done by previous students.  Some better than others but it will give you an idea.  The first two with the rocks are 3D examples.  The last three are 2D examples.

Art 3 and AP - Friday Assignment for 2/6

All students - Begin siting the name of the artist and title of the inspirational work on the back of the sketchbook page.

2D - recreate your version of a Max Ernst painting in your sketchbook.  Begin thinking about how to put your own twist on these assignments.  Make changes, add content, change the style, etc. to make it your own work.  This should NOT be a direct copy of his work, but looking at it should inspire you to create something of your own.

3D - Look at some examples of Surrealist sculpture.  Recreate your version of it in your sketchbook as a drawing or painting. Begin thinking about how to put your own twist on these assignments.  Make changes, add content, change the style, etc. to make it your own work.  This should NOT be a direct copy of the work, but looking at it should inspire you to create something of your own.

AP Students - your next project is due Friday, February 13.

Art Two - Romare Bearden and Collage

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils and collage. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden moved to New York City at a very young age and went on to graduate from NYU in 1935. He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South. Later, he endeavored to express the humanity he felt was lacking in the world after his experience in the US Army during World War II on the European front. He later returned to Paris in 1950 and studied Art History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1950.

Bearden's early work focused on unity and cooperation within the African-American community. After a period during the 1950s when he painted more abstractly, this theme reemerged in his collage works of the 1960s, when Bearden became a founding member of the Harlem-based art group known as The Spiral, formed to discuss the responsibility of the African-American artist in the struggle for civil rights.

 

Ceramics - Free Form Sculpture

Taiwanese artist Chang Tzu-lung creates larger-than-life sculpture based on the female body. These free form sculptures represent a female body, with curving lines drawing the eye smoothly to the lower part, the center of gravity for the carved work. The artwork brings a sense of peace and comfort to viewers, who naturally want to stretch out their hands to feel the surface and connect with the stone.

“The subject of my interest has always been the forms of life,” Chang said March 15 while giving a tour of his studio in Danshui Township, Taipei County. “Women are life-givers, so the female body is the best means for me to explore the forms of life.”

Art One - Surrealism Video

Follow the link below and watch the short (5 min.) video about Surrealism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WKIBbVaxjc