Art One - Photoshop

See the art below made with Photoshop.  What do you think?  Which is your favorite and why?

Ceramics - Slab Containers

Below are examples of containers made with the slab method.

Art Two - Block Prints

Below are of block prints.  What do you notice about the process of the artist?  Which ones are more/less successful and why?

Art One - Chairs

Below are paintings of chairs by Vincent van Gogh.  He was a Dutch painter who lived and worked in France (1853-1890).  Which is your favorite?








This chair was painted by van Gogh's friend Paul Gauguin.

Art Two - Picasso's Guernica and Women of Avignon

Below are two of Pablo Picasso's most famous paintings.  Thoughts?

Women of Avignon (1907) 96x92"

This large oil painting was created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on a street in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none is conventionally feminine. The women appear slightly menacing and are rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. The three figures on the left exhibit facial features in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain, while the two on the right are shown with African mask-like features. The racial primitivism evoked in these masks, according to Picasso, moved him to "liberate an utterly original artistic style of compelling, even savage force."

In this adaptation of primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting. This proto-cubist work is widely considered to be seminal in the early development of both cubism and modern art.

Guernica (1937) 137x305"

This is a very large oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937. Now in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the gray, black, and white painting was done at Picasso's home in Paris. It is regarded by many art critics as one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history, and is one of Picasso's best known works.

Standing at 11 ft 5 in tall and 25 ft 6 in wide, the painting shows the suffering of people and animals wrenched by violence and chaos. Prominent in the composition are a gored horse, a bull, screaming women, dismemberment, and flames.

The painting was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country town in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy at the request of the Spanish Nationalists. Upon completion, Guernica was exhibited at the Spanish display at the 1937 Paris International Exposition and then at other venues around the world. The touring exhibition was used to raise funds for Spanish war relief. The painting became famous and widely acclaimed, and it helped bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War.

Ceramics - free form sculpture 2

See the sculpture examples below.  Which is your favorite?

Constantin Brancusi





Don Frost

Art One - Glazed Pottery

We will be glazing your clay pots this week.  Here are some examples of glazed pieces of pottery.  What do you think?

Art Two - more Masks

Below are more masks from around the world.

Ghana




Tibet




Mexico



Japan

Ceramics - Free Form Sculpture

1. Jean (Hans) Arp

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2. Jean Arp or Hans Arp was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet, and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. 
4. Born: September 16, 1886, Strasbourg, France
5. Died: June 7, 1966, Basel, Switzerland
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7. Below are examples of his work.  What do you think?  How is it similar to your free form clay work?
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Ceramics - Wheel Throwing videos

Watch the following videos and comment:

You will need to complete a wheel thrown piece for Quarter 1&2.

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 - more Picasso

Below are more examples of Picasso's work (in chronological order).  Thoughts?