3D - In your sketchbook, draw your favorite work by British artist Henry Moore. Show it from at least two different sides. You will have to look for works that show two views or look for two different images of the same work. Use pencil or ink and make sure to add shadows to show that it is 3D.
2D - Find a work by Georges Seurat that uses dots or dabs of color. Recreate one of your favorites in your sketchbook. Use a full page and you can use any material you like. If you choose the "Sunday Afternoon" piece, then you can opt to do just a section of it, because it is so complex. This process of using small dabs of color that sit next to each other without actually blending is called "optical mixing". Look at Seurat's work as an overall image then zoom in and look at one particular section. Notice how he used colors. This is the process that we will use for your self portraits. Most of y'all did GREAT last week. It should take at least two hours.
Tesch - Choose one of the Dutch masters like de Heem, van Aelst, van Beyeren or Claesz and recreate a still life that involves life and death. Most of these were done around 1620-1680 and are highly realistic. Several types of subject were recognized: banketje were "banquet pieces", ontbijtjes simpler "breakfast pieces". Virtually all still lifes had a moralistic message, usually concerning the brevity of life – this is known as the vanitas theme – some artists use an obvious symbol like a skull, or a less obvious one such as a half-peeled lemon (like life, sweet in appearance but bitter to taste). Flowers are wilting and food shown in various stages of decay.
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