All Art Classes - Last Blog and Extra Credit

Below is your last blog of the semester.  Comment with your class (not here). 

Next week, I will offer some extra credit.  We will be collecting socks for the homeless.  

I will take them to Macon Outreach or Daybreak to distribute.  You can bring in two new pair anytime between now and next Thursday.  I will not accept them past Thursday, December 12.  I will then replace a missing blog grade with a 100.  If you have done all of your blogs, I will add points to your Project average.  Keep in mind that many people will spend time in the cold this winter.  Warm, wool socks would be better than designer ones.  

Ceramics - Wheel thrown pieces

See the examples of work thrown on the wheel.  Make sure yours is complete and trimmed by next Thursday.

Art One - Degas and Braque

Below are paintings by Edgar Degas and Georges Braque.  Degas was an Impressionist painter and Braque was a Cubist painter.

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) - French Impressionist painter








George Braque (1882-1963) - French Cubist painter

Art Two - American Landscape Painting

Below are paintings by American landscape painters. 

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) - most of his work depicts the western USA.  These paintings are HUGE!!!  He was born in Germany and later moved to New York.  He joined several expeditions during the Westward Expansion.







Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was born in England but then moved to American.  He is considered to be the founder of the Hudson River School which was influential during the mid 19th century.  These paintings are large but not as large as the work of Bierstadt.

Art Two - Landscape Painting

Below are several landscape paintings that incorporate pattern in some way.  What are your thoughts?

Art One - Watch the 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?  Do not repeat comments, and say something that lets me know that you really watched the video.

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

Ceramics - Wheel throwing videos

Watch the following videos and comment:

You will need to complete a wheel thrown piece for Quarter 2.  This second piece will be graded on merit - not just completion.  All clay pieces MUST be finished before you leave for Christmas.  The last day to work on the wheel is Thursday, Dec. 12.

Centering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMWQ7eIbp98

Opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xupn8MRTF-8

Pulling the walls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RoCMYBoIII

Art Two - paint by number style painting

Paint by number or painting by numbers are kits having a board on which light markings to indicate areas to paint, and each area has a number and a corresponding numbered paint to use. The kits come with little compartmentalized boxes where the numbered color pigments are stored. The users are encouraged to wash the paintbrush every time a new numbered color is being used. The kits were invented, developed and marketed in 1950 by Max S. Klein, an engineer and owner of the Palmer Paint Company of Detroit, Michigan, and Dan Robbins, a commercial artist.

Art One -time lapse video of painting

Watch the short video to see the progress and building of a painting.  Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HrQP4kQShs

Ceramics - important Greek and Roman sculpture

Since we have just looked at Greek pottery, I wanted to show you some important Greek and Roman sculptures.  Notice the movement in each piece.  Thoughts?

The "She Wolf"  Etruscan (pre-Roman) 5th century B.C. with Renaissance boys added


Laocoon and His Sons - ancient Greek sculpture located in the Vatican Museum


The Dying Gaul - Capitoline Museum, Rome


Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife - Rome

The Discus Thrower - Greek


Nike of Samonthrace - Greek sculpture in the Louvre Museum, Paris

Ceramics - Greek Pottery video

Follow the link and watch the following very brief video about Greek pottery. 

You must say something that has not already been said and name a fact that you learned from watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhPW50r07L8

Art Two - Painting before 1850

The paintings below were created before 1850 (and before the wide use of the camera).  What are your thoughts?

Art One - More Drawings in Pencil

See below.  Which is your favorite and why?

All Art Classes - no blog this week

Ceramics - Greek Amphora

amphora, ancient vessel form used as a storage jar and one of the principal vessel shapes in Greek pottery, a two-handled pot with a neck narrower than the body. There are two types of amphora: the neck amphora, in which the neck meets the body at a sharp angle; and the one-piece amphora, in which the neck and body form a continuous curve. The first is common from the Geometric period (c.900 bc) to the decline of Greek pottery; the second appeared in the 7th century bc. The height of amphorae varies from large Geometric vases of 5 feet (1.5 metres) to examples of 12 inches (30 centimetres) or even smaller (the smallest are called amphoriskoi). The average normal height is about 18 inches (45 centimetres). Amphorae, which survive in great numbers, were used as storage and transport vessels for olives, cereal, oil, and wine (the wine amphora was a standard Attic measure of about 41 quarts [39 litres]) and, in outsize form, for funerals and as grave markers. Wide-mouthed, painted amphorae were used as decanters and were given as prizes.

Black Figure Neck Amphora


Red Figure Neck Amphora

Art Two - Famous American Paintings

Below are some famous and iconic American paintings. 

Gilbert Stuart - "George Washington"


Grant Wood - "American Gothic"


John Singer Sargant - "The Daughters of Edward Darly Boit"


Andrew Wyeth - "Christina's World"


James McNeill Whistler - "The Artist's Mother"

Norman Rockwell