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

Art One - Drawings of Nature

Which is your favorite?  These are all done with pencil. Notice the light and dark values.

Art Two - Jasper Johns

American Painter of pop images.

He was born in 1930 in Augusta, GA.