Step 1: Below are 20 images. I want you to rank them in order by their letter starting with number one being your favorite. You might want to click on the image for better detail. Please e-mail me your responses. DUE OCTOBER 4 @ 3pm. Any late work will be deducted one letter grade per each day late.
Step 2: What were your top three images and what where you bottom three?
Step 2: What were your top three images and what where you bottom three?
(Example: Top 3: A, H, and M Bottom 3: B,Q, and L)
Answer the following questions about each of your TOP three favorite images. (Your responses must be in complete sentences)
a) Why did this image appeal to you?
b) What do you think the image is about?
c) What do you think the artist is trying to communicate with her/his artwork?
d) Would you have this artwork in your home, why or why not?
Answer the following questions about each of your BOTTOM three least favorite images. (Your answers must be in complete sentences)
a) Why didn't you like the image?
b) What do you think the images is about?
c) What do you think the artist is trying to communicate with her/his artwork?
DUE OCTOBER 7 @ 3pm. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED
Step 3:
I have sent you an e-mail providing you with the name of your artist and the title of their piece. Please research the following information about the artists. Please e-mail me your findings. DUE OCTOBER 9 @ 3pm. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED
1. The DATE of the artwork
2. The NATIONALITY of the Artist
3. The MEDIUM/MEDIA of the artwork (example: painting, drawing, sculpture, video)
4. The IMPORTANCE, SIGNIFICANCE, and/or REASON why the artist made the artwork. In other words why is the artist and artwork important? What is the message the artist is trying to communicate?
EXAMPLE OF THE FORMAT (provided by C. Newell).
Artist: Raymond Pettibon
Title: Untitled/It's Almost Like Driving In West Texas
Date of artwork: 2008
Nationality of artist: American
Media of artwork: Pen, ink, gouache and acrylic on paper
Significance of artwork: This is different than most of his artworks because he is using color and typically his images are black and white. He is commenting on George Bush's foreign policy regarding Iraq and Afghanistan by making a Texas reference with a tank. Pettibon's captions are quotes from various sources and he claims that his drawing and captions have no relation to one another.
Step 4:
Step 3:
I have sent you an e-mail providing you with the name of your artist and the title of their piece. Please research the following information about the artists. Please e-mail me your findings. DUE OCTOBER 9 @ 3pm. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED
1. The DATE of the artwork
2. The NATIONALITY of the Artist
3. The MEDIUM/MEDIA of the artwork (example: painting, drawing, sculpture, video)
4. The IMPORTANCE, SIGNIFICANCE, and/or REASON why the artist made the artwork. In other words why is the artist and artwork important? What is the message the artist is trying to communicate?
EXAMPLE OF THE FORMAT (provided by C. Newell).
Artist: Raymond Pettibon
Title: Untitled/It's Almost Like Driving In West Texas
Date of artwork: 2008
Nationality of artist: American
Media of artwork: Pen, ink, gouache and acrylic on paper
Significance of artwork: This is different than most of his artworks because he is using color and typically his images are black and white. He is commenting on George Bush's foreign policy regarding Iraq and Afghanistan by making a Texas reference with a tank. Pettibon's captions are quotes from various sources and he claims that his drawing and captions have no relation to one another.
Step 4:
Thanks to your research you now have information regarding
both the artist and artwork. Please read all the findings and then re-order the
artwork from 1-20 (1 being your favorite-20 being you least favorite).
1. Did you order change from your original list in Step 1?
2. How does knowing about the artist or the reason why the artwork was made make a difference in your rankings?
3. Do you think most artwork has meaning and purpose beyond the image? Why or why not?
4. Are you a visual person, meaning do you judge a work of art based on how it looks OR does the meaning behind it influence your feelings about it?
5. After reading about all the artists, who was the artist you found the most interesting and why?
6. After reading about all the artists, who was the artist you found the least interesting and why?
PLEASE RESPOND TO THE QUESTIONS IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. DUE: THURSDAY OCT 10 @ 3pm.
1. Did you order change from your original list in Step 1?
2. How does knowing about the artist or the reason why the artwork was made make a difference in your rankings?
3. Do you think most artwork has meaning and purpose beyond the image? Why or why not?
4. Are you a visual person, meaning do you judge a work of art based on how it looks OR does the meaning behind it influence your feelings about it?
5. After reading about all the artists, who was the artist you found the most interesting and why?
6. After reading about all the artists, who was the artist you found the least interesting and why?
PLEASE RESPOND TO THE QUESTIONS IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. DUE: THURSDAY OCT 10 @ 3pm.
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Artist:
Fernando Botero
Title: La Ballerina Date: 2001 Nationality of artist: Colombian Media of artwork: Oil and watercolor on a canvas Significance of artwork: It reflects back to his South American culture from the way he uses colors, by making bronzes and his ballerina has a typical Latin face. Also he said that he like to draw bigger people because the size of objects and body parts it indicates importance and fun. Also in this painting, and most of his, the bigger people seem to be floating slightly and aren’t heavy in any way. |
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Artist: Claes
Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen
Title: Flying pins
Date: 2000
Nationality of artist: Dutch-American
Media of artwork:
steel, plastic, foam, polyester gel coat
Significance of artwork:
I think that the idea of have having giant sculptures on streets is amazing.
Non of his sculptures are small, they are all big and significant in there own
way. They are spread out all around the world in places such as: USA, Korea,
UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. What they do is get a small abject and
transform it and put it all over the globe. You can tell that it is one of
their sculptures from miles away from how big they are.
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Artist: Diana
Arbus (Birth name: Diana Nemerov)
Title: Jewish
Giant At Home/ Jewish Giant, taken at Home with his parents in the Bronx, New
York
Date:
1970
Nationality of
artist: American
Media of artwork: Photography
Significance of
artwork: This piece is different because she is using an old camera and still
her pictures are really nice, and in all of her artwork she takes quick
pictures of odd people like: giants, transvestites, dwarfs, nudists, and others
who don’t appear a lot in the world.
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Artist: Marcel Dunchamp
Title: Bicycle Wheel Date: 1913 Nationality of artist: French Media of artwork: Metal wheel mounted. Significance of artwork: Marcel Dunchamp said that he enjoined watching it. It was a cry simple piece of artwork. Just an upside-down metal wheel on a wooden stool. The artwork joined his groups of artworks which were ready-mades, which meant that there were real things put in a picture. The original "Bicycle Wheel" got lost, so in 1951, he re-created it as a sculpture. |
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Artist: Ester
Hernandez
Title: Sun Mad
Date:
1982
Nationality of
Artist: American/Latino
Media of Artwork:
Pastels and paints
Significance of
Artwork: The artist wanted to address the issues of workers touching crops sprayed with pesticides and chemicals.
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Artist:
Barbara Kruger
Title: Buy me, I'll change your life Date: 1984 Nationality of artist: American Media of artwork: Collage Significance of artwork: Kruger’s artwork deals with irony. She uses high contrasting images and text to get her message across about feminism and consumerism. |
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Artist:
MC Escher
Title: Magic Mirror Date: 1946 Nationality of artist: Dutch Media of artwork: Drawing (Lithograph Paint) Significance of artwork: As most of MC Escher’s images, Magic Mirror is black and white and it is tessellation. It has a mirror standing vertically on wooden supports facing the right side of the image. There is a sphere at each side of the mirror. The main focus is a procession of small winged lion sculptures which emerge from the mirror and trail away in single file. The reflection of the griffin procession continues behind the mirror. The griffins then loop around to the front and form a tessellated pattern on the surface. As usual, his image is signed at the bottom-left part. |
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Artist:
Shepard Fairey
Title: Freedom to lead Date: 2009 Nationality of artist: American Media of artwork: screenprint Significance of artwork: The reason the artist made this image was to try and help people in Burma. He used the bird as a sign for peace. The use of colour with reds, yellows and blacks all send a message of passion, hope, and power. |
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Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Title: untitled
Date: 1983
Nationality
of artist: American
Media
of artwork: color silkscreen
Significance
of artwork:
It was when he went through what would
be a defining period in his career. Homing in on the possibilities implicit in
drawing from his own life experiences as a means of addressing larger human
concerns, he produced five key works over an eighteen-month period one of them
was this art work. These works not only offer insight into this period in
Basquiat’s career but reveal the depth of his concern for portraying spiritual
experience
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Artist: William Blake
Title: Pity
Date: Year
1795
Nationality of artist: English
Media of artwork: Color print finished with pen and ink and watercolor
Significant about the art: Because it was
influenced by the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare In this work, the inspiration
came from Macbeth, especially the lines:
"And pity, like a
naked newborn babe,
Striding the blast,
or heaven's cherubim.
Upon the sightless
couriers of the air."
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Artist: Pieter Bruegel
Title: the fight between carnival and lent Date: 1559 Nationality of artist: Dutch Media of artwork: Oil on wood Significance of artwork: This painting explains a common festival of the period, as celebrated in the Southern Netherlands. The painting shows the difference between Carival (party) and Lent (abstaining from vices) in a small town setting. |
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Artist:
Marc Chagall
Title: La Mariee
Date: 1950
Nationality
of artist: French-Russian
Media
of artwork: gouache -pastel
Significance
of artwork: he uses different colours for the wedding dress he drew it read,
and the background id dark unlike other wedding, and he drew animals playing
the instruments which is also odd. Focus is on a
singular young woman in quasi-wedding attire with a bouquet of flowers, it focuses
abut marriage, and it seems like the viewer is the one who is going to marry
her.
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Artist:
Salvador Dali
Date: 1945 Nationality of artist: Spanish Media of artwork: Painting Significance of artwork: This artwork was a scene from a short movie called Destino. In this scene there is Dali and Walt Disney dressed like mouse. This scene takes place in the woods. |
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Artist: Frida Kahlo
Title: Roots
Date: 1943
Nationality of artist: Mexican
Media of
artwork: Oil on canvas
Significance
of artwork: At the age of six, Frida contracted polio, which caused her
right leg to be much thinner than the other. It was to remain that way
permanently. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and
indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female
experience and form. She started to draw these pictures of her cousins and friends,
because we she made an artwork it used to make her feel way much better. She uses more
light colors than dark. I can see that all her pictures refer to her health.
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Artist: Edvard Munch
Title: Vampire
Date: 1895
Nationality of
artist: Norwegian
Media of artwork: oil
Significance of
artwork: The picture is simple and concentrated in expression. A woman with
long red hair bends over a man, Medusa-like she lets her red hair bind him to
her. The pair cast a single shadow, which groups them in a classic pyramid
composition. Love and Pain, which was the first title of the picture, indicates
an ambition to express complex feelings in painting.
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Artist:
Pablo Picasso
Title:
Mirror (detail)
Date: 1932
Nationality
of artist: Spanish
Media of artwork:
painting
Significance
of work: Picass’s art is very strange.
His art is usually mixed. What I mean by that is that he doesn’t draw a normal
face but he draws the face all mixed together. This is what he is famous for.
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Artist: Mark Rothko
Title: No. 8
Date of Artwork:
Unknown, 1952
The Medium: Abstract
painting, oil on canvas
Nationality of
Artist: Born in Russian Empire, Nationality is also American but by
law
Significance
of Artwork: Most of his artwork are color field paintings. He also creates a
lot of blurry paintings of an object. I think Rotho likes mixing and blending
colors that stand out. I think the drawing is the view from his
balcony. The painting is both a color field painting and blurry.
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Artist: Stewart Davis
Title: Colonial
Date: 1954
Nationality of
artist: American
Media of artwork: Oil on Canvas
Significance
of Artwork: "I paint what I see in American, in other words I paint the American scene." He grew up in an artistic family and his work is influenced by the dynamics of jazz music.
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