Category: Art

What artists or cultural events have influenced your artist?re there specific artists that have influenced their work and are there visual links contextual, intentions that link similarities or references?

Timeline Project.

Plot some points on your timeline

What year is the artwork you have chosen?

What is the format of the artwork? (painting, sculpture, installation, performance)

Is it part of a specific art movement?

What art movements come before, after or overlap?

What are your artist’s concerns or intentions?

What is the subject matter?

How might it address identity?

What artists or cultural events have influenced your artist?

Are there specific artists that have influenced their work and are there visual links contextual, intentions that link similarities or references?

Can you identify a link with an artist that has influenced your artist and/or artwork?

Can you identify a link to a cultural event? (women’s rights, equal rights, LGBTQ rights, environmental issues?)

Are you choosing artworks with a similar aesthetic and color story? Or are they united by their concepts and subject matter? Does one piece change the meaning of another when placed beside it?

Impressive revolution

Are you choosing artworks with a similar aesthetic and color story? Or are they united by their concepts and subject matter? Does one piece change the meaning of another when placed beside it?

Does it engage the viewer in a new or unexpected way? Does it provide social commentary, or suggest a break with conventional approaches to art and/or art-making?

Does it give you a new appreciation of how artists can use unconventional materials in their works? Does it engage the viewer in a new or unexpected way? Does it provide social commentary, or suggest a break with conventional approaches to art and/or art-making?

Frida is a 2002 American biopic drama film directed by Julie Taymor. It depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo:Discuss?

The title is whichever movie you decide on im letting you pick.

Frida is a 2002 American biopic drama film directed by Julie Taymor. It depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo:Discuss?

Basquiat is a 1996 American biographical drama film based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of American painter Jackson Pollock.

Mr. Turner is a 2014 biographical drama film based on the last 25 years of the life of painter J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851).

 

What is the story and mood of the work? What symbolism, visual metaphors or iconography is employed? How do you think the artist felt making the work?

Duane Hanson’s Queenie ii

Are certain colors found only in one area of the work or throughout? Is the same or multiple textures used throughout the work?

Describe the relationships between the elements that you see- their location, size, shape, color, texture, space.

Is the work horizontally or vertically oriented, symmetrical or asymmetrical?

Are there any patterns, repetitions, overall similarities or great contrasts which stand out immediately to the eye, if so describe where these design principles occur and how they lead and move your eye around the images composition.What is the purpose of the work?

What is the story and mood of the work? What symbolism, visual metaphors or iconography is employed? How do you think the artist felt making the work?

Describe how photography changed the priorities of painting beginning in the 1840s.Talk about photography’s unique character as a Modernist tool in art. What makes photography particularly Modernist?

Write an essay that describes photography’s impact on Modernism, and on painting in particular.

For this choice, you will need to write at least 2 pages and include:

At least 3 images/photographers or painters.

Describe how photography changed the priorities of painting beginning in the 1840s.

Describe how Alfred Stieglitz and Gallery 291 became a force in the American Avant-Garde.

Talk about photography’s unique character as a Modernist tool in art. What makes photography particularly Modernist?