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.