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Style and subject….Is your art supposed to represent the style of realism? Abstract? Or another one that we talked about in class? Is the subject landscape, still-life, portrait or non objective?
Purpose- expressive, persuasive, narrative, religious/ceremonial, or functional
Media or medium : what materials make up the art work? Ex. Paint, pencil, pastels, clay, yarn etc.
Elements of art: principles of design
Line Balance (symmetry, asymmetry, radial)
shape contrast
Form pattern
Colour variety
Space unity
Texture rhythm
Value Emphasis (focal point)
Purpose- expressive, persuasive, narrative, religious/ceremonial, or functional
Media or medium : what materials make up the art work? Ex. Paint, pencil, pastels, clay, yarn etc.
Elements of art: principles of design
Line Balance (symmetry, asymmetry, radial)
shape contrast
Form pattern
Colour variety
Space unity
Texture rhythm
Value Emphasis (focal point)
Value scale....
Divide your paper into two bars. In both bars, divide those into 6 or more spaces. Create a value scale (lightness to darkness) by colouring in the blocks in one.
In the second bar, you will create a value scale using line pattern. DO NOT colour in. The closer you put your lines, the darker the value will appear. Be creative. Do not repeat the same line pattern.
In the second bar, you will create a value scale using line pattern. DO NOT colour in. The closer you put your lines, the darker the value will appear. Be creative. Do not repeat the same line pattern.
Project one: Coil baskets made from yarn.
Baskets are functional arts meaning they have a usefule purpose yet the elements of art and principles of design are carefully considered.
Why do you think functional arts would be important to Early Native Americans?
What elements of art do you think are most prevelant or most important in a coil basket?
What principles of design do you think are most important in a coil basket?
Directions on how to make a coil basket: http://www.craftypod.com/2008/04/19/how-to-coil-a-basket/#
Why do you think functional arts would be important to Early Native Americans?
What elements of art do you think are most prevelant or most important in a coil basket?
What principles of design do you think are most important in a coil basket?
Directions on how to make a coil basket: http://www.craftypod.com/2008/04/19/how-to-coil-a-basket/#
Renaissance art http://www.mrdowling.com/704-art.htmlw.
The Renaissance patrons wanted art that showed joy in human beauty and life’s pleasures. Renaissance art is more lifelike than in the art of the Middle Ages. Renaissance artists studied perspective, or the differences in the way things look when they are close to something or far away. The artists painted in a way that showed these differences. As a result, their paintings seem to have depth.
The Renaissance period is also called the age of rebirth. Art began to move away from religious subjects and become more secular. While there were still religious paintings, even the portrayal of the Holy family was done in a way that became less formal and more naturalistic. For example, Mary and the infant Jesus were depicted interacting as a mother and child would be expected to be interacting. You begin to see more human emotion and expression being depicted.
Here are a few Renaissance artists.
Rembrant
In this painting it shows the advances that were begining to be made in the sciences. Here there are doctors that are examining a cadaver.
In this painting it shows the advances that were begining to be made in the sciences. Here there are doctors that are examining a cadaver.
Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa
The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a seated woman (it is almost unanimous that she is Lisa del Giocondo) whose facial expression is frequently described as enigmatic.[2] The ambiguity of the subject's expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
Try your hand at portraiture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ25OngOLts&feature=related
The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a seated woman (it is almost unanimous that she is Lisa del Giocondo) whose facial expression is frequently described as enigmatic.[2] The ambiguity of the subject's expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
Try your hand at portraiture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ25OngOLts&feature=related
Michelangelo
A segment from the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.
Take an amazing tour of the Sistine Chapel. http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
A segment from the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.
Take an amazing tour of the Sistine Chapel. http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
Michelangelo
Pieta
Notice the great sorrow in Mary's face as she holds her dead son, Jesus. In this marble sculpture, Michelangelo has taken something very hard and solid and created such fluid forms in the folds of the cloth, the expressions on the faces and the limpness of the body. It is one of my favourite sculptures.
Pieta
Notice the great sorrow in Mary's face as she holds her dead son, Jesus. In this marble sculpture, Michelangelo has taken something very hard and solid and created such fluid forms in the folds of the cloth, the expressions on the faces and the limpness of the body. It is one of my favourite sculptures.
Linear perspective was a technique applied more commonly in the renaissance period.
Here there is one point (called the vanishing point). All lines seem to converge or disappear at this point. The vanishing point is always at eye level. That is why when you are drawing buildings at the street level, you do not see the bottom of the building nor do you see the top of the building. You only see two sides. You can further emphasize the illusion of depth and form by using colour value (lightness and darkness of a colour).
The image at the right is a work in progress done by a student, Hannah C.
http://youtu.be/UP9x1322dK8 video to show linear perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYBWA-ifEs&feature=related
The image at the right is a work in progress done by a student, Hannah C.
http://youtu.be/UP9x1322dK8 video to show linear perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYBWA-ifEs&feature=related
Early American Artists
John James Audubon
Find a photograph of a bird from North America and Draw it.
Make sure the bird is the focal point by making it the biggest in your paper. Include some background such as the bird's habitat. Try to make your drawing as realistic as possible by showing the bird in action instead of a generic bird. Think about what makes the picture realistic...Texture, values, colour. You will be using water colours to colour these.
Youtube videos on watercolours...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMT20CWKeps&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDs637D2rbU&feature=relmfu (chinese brush painting but a good example of how to make twigs, trees, shapes of birds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCybdgw0yNM&feature=relmfu
Make sure the bird is the focal point by making it the biggest in your paper. Include some background such as the bird's habitat. Try to make your drawing as realistic as possible by showing the bird in action instead of a generic bird. Think about what makes the picture realistic...Texture, values, colour. You will be using water colours to colour these.
Youtube videos on watercolours...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMT20CWKeps&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDs637D2rbU&feature=relmfu (chinese brush painting but a good example of how to make twigs, trees, shapes of birds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCybdgw0yNM&feature=relmfu
Thomas Cole
http://web.sbu.edu/theology/bychkov/cole.html
The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevitable decay.
The paintings are now housed at the New-York Historical Society, and comprise the following works: The Course of Empire - The Savage State; The Course of Empire - The Arcadian or Pastoral State; The Course of Empire - The Consummation; The Course of Empire - Destruction; and The Course of Empire - Desolation.
The series of paintings depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on the lower end of a river valley, near its meeting with a bay of the sea. The valley is distinctly identifiable in each of the paintings, in part because of an unusual landmark: a large boulder is precariously situated atop a crag overlooking the valley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire
The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times, when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization, fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevitable decay.
The paintings are now housed at the New-York Historical Society, and comprise the following works: The Course of Empire - The Savage State; The Course of Empire - The Arcadian or Pastoral State; The Course of Empire - The Consummation; The Course of Empire - Destruction; and The Course of Empire - Desolation.
The series of paintings depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on the lower end of a river valley, near its meeting with a bay of the sea. The valley is distinctly identifiable in each of the paintings, in part because of an unusual landmark: a large boulder is precariously situated atop a crag overlooking the valley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire