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History of Theater, Interactive amazing timeline viewer…
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GALLERY REQUIREMENTS
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EVERY MONDAY (or tuesday if no school on monday)
-Turn in 1 print out of an image you found online/magazine/etc. of a current or previous gallery show that you found interesting.
-Report WHO the artist(s) is, WHERE the gallery is located, WHAT the show was about and WHY you liked it…
-This is PART of your GRADE in this course
PORTFOLIO PREP SYLLABUS
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Expect high level of self-discipline and abilities.
Portfolio Preparation is a must.
Participation at National Portfolio Day is expected.
College Research, Application and Interviews.
Real-World Applications of Art-Making.
Self-motivated efforts are monitored and rewarded through self-awareness and recommendations.
PREREQUISITES:
1. Art I and Art II.
2. Discussion with Art Teacher for recommendation to guidance.
3. College Major: Visual Art Field, including multimedia.
COURSE SYLLABUS:
This class is designed for serious 11th and 12th graders that are considering pursuing the visual arts as a career. The course demands highly motivated students, self-discipline and it is technologically integrated. There is a strong demand for teamwork and support of one another. (There will be introductory instruction to Adobe Photoshop and Graphic Design with approval of MacIntosh workstation and Adobe inclusion if approved). Class maximum size restricted to 10.
*Students will enhance independent art projects separate from classroom projects to
strengthen portfolio.
*Students will seek visual stimulation from outside galleries and other artistic sources.
*Students will utilize current technological tools to enhance digital organizational skills.
*Students will create an atmosphere that is conducive to peer support.
WHY?
High School Art Education comprises of the standards. As a public teacher of the arts I am an advocate to teaching the standards which include techniques and processes, art history, criticism, media exploration and manipulation and overall an art appreciation for the majority of high school students.
It is my belief that 95% of these students gain knowledge of history, processes, media, criticism and aesthetics. It is my belief that 5% of those students are truly gifted in art and only gain their minimum potential due to the limitations posed on them in a traditional art classroom. Although creativity is encouraged as much as possible in an art room, they are bound by instructional formats, project guidelines and technical expertise that is necessary in a public school art room. This minority population naturally needs to develop these skills as well, but are far more capable of taking it to the next level. These are students that wish to create art because they share a love of it and wish to pursue it in life.
I would like to arrange the ‘Portfolio Prep’ class as a formal collaboration between teacher and students. It is a shared experience of seeking art through gallery exploration and to be inspired by current working artists that are expressing their vision of the world around them. The Portfolio Prep class would maintain it’s objective as being the first foundation for future artists: portfolios, art educational opportunities, promotion of the arts through fundraisers, peer support for each other and a safe place to grow as artists with a supportive structure built in one another.
Some of our core work would revolve around using MacIntosh hardware and Adobe suite software. I have submitted a successful proposal on the strengths of MACs in the current collegiate and working world; I believe we can address that need for future visual artists and designers. I do have large concerns for students that are going into college for the arts with no knowledge of MacIntosh operating systems.
COMBO by Blu and David Ellis
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Illustrator/Portrait Artist Mike Wimmer Visits Susquehanna!
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Some images of Mr. Wimmer’s illustrations and his visit to our classroom!
Kyla Kemmerer Artist of the Month for October, Times Tribune!
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Kyla will be featured as the Artist of the Month for October, a most coveted month indeed! Kyla received her recognition as being selected as 1 of 12 finalists to be featured during the 2009 calendar year. Look for her section during the first week of October in the Scranton Times Tribune!
Scroll to the bottom of the page link provided here and click on OCTOBER to see Kyla online!
Scholastics 09 Exhibit!
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Fun Fun Fun!
Thank you to all family members who are so supportive!
CONGRATS!
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Congrats on 4 scholastic acceptances….
Kaitlin Callendar with a Silver Key and a GOLD Key!
Megan Garcia with a Silver Key!
Kyla Kemmerer
Molly Edwards
The Scholastic Show will be on display at Marywood University.
Reception and Awards will be Saturday, Jan. 17 at 1pm/Student Building.
Congrats Susky Students!
Scholastics 09-is on it’s way…
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This year will be marked as the first time Susquehanna Community H.S. will be entering the scholastic in two new categories: Graphic Design and Photography.
Graphic Design Entries:
Megan Garcia, inspired by another Russian Constructivist Poster, Megan photographed various objects, including her own hands and created a photo-montage design poster for the 2010 Scholastic Entry Competition.
Kyla Kemmerer completed a drawing of John Lennon built from MULTIPLE photo references, (not just one folks, she recreated him the way she wanted to see him!) and she scanned the photo into photoshop and designed a poster in homage to John Lennon.
Kaitlin Callender took on the challenge to create a poster for our NYC trip in the spring. Kaitlin followed basic design strategies learned in class and has been exploring photoshop with her own personal copy! Kaitlin worked with the the Art-Educator from home, via Facebook chat, photo upload and critique suggestions…talk about a new way to do things!
Molly Edwards is entering the yearbook photo contest and her images capture an amazing insight to Foreground, Midground and Background. Playful, colorful and perfect for any yearbook and a perfect entry to any photography contest.
Dylon Beamer is entering his Charcoal Popcorn…and we are awaiting new entries.
Remember, Entries and forms are DUE the first day we come back from school!!!
DID you get your entries in??
PHILLY 08
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Hauling a larger crew this year to Philadelphia’s National Portfolio Day…the students get a first look at the opening of a larger world before them…
CD ART
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Artists, Illustrators and Designers USE elements and principles of art to create effective work. These pieces are well planned, executed and worked repeatedly until satisfaction is reached. Repetition, shapes, color, balance, line, texture—they are all obvious in translation.
These are some examples of Effective CD Album Art…
Polynesian Art
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VISIT Referenced Artist: Rob Deut: 
Other:
The “M” Project
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The “M” Project is a senior project/computer fair project by Megan G.
This will be the blog posting journal of her experience from script to children’s book dummy.
Intro to the K Project…
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Welcome.
The K Project is a senior project/computer fair project by Kyla K.
This is the beginning of a study of script - to storyboard - to film experience.
National Portfolio Day
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National Portfolio Day in Philly, November 23rd, Sunday…
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Congrats to 9th Grader Morgan Ofsharick!
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Congrats to 9th Grader Morgan Ofsharick!
Morgan entered her 8th grade 2-pt perspective project into the Hartford Fair and WON BEST OF SHOW!
She also entered a chalk pastel sunset she made over the summer and got First prize and Judge’s Delight.
Morgan is one of our rising stars in art with super supportive parents, I’m sure we’ll see more about her!
(I enter our students into the regional scholastics and national portfolio day every year, the local fairs are up to student interest)
ART II DESCRIPTION
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Prerequisite: Art I.
Drawing & Painting experience. Important to have built initial components of Art I core fundamentals.
(you don’t take trigonometry before you take algebra!)
Expect:
*Fast Paced, Still Life Observations, Illustration Assignments.
*Charcoals, Pencils, Washes, Ink, Acrylics, Oils, Gouache, Watercolors, etc.
*References to Principles and Elements of Art such as Value, Color Theory, Line, etc.
ART I DESCRIPTION
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Exploring all the Elements and Principles required for creating, analyzing and critiquing art.
Highly structured around gaining solid foundations of art-making through critical thinking and creative decisions.
Expect referencing textbook in classroom and hands-on projects.
7th GRADE SYLLABUS
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OP ART: Measurements and Critical Thinking
IMPRESSIONISM: Color theory and Subject Composition/Art history
FIGURE: Muybridge meets Haring, Gesture/Proportions
FACE: Self- Portrait using Measurement strategies/symmetry practicum (Roy Lichtenstein exemplar)
10th GRADE SYLLABUS
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VISUAL ARTS
Graphic Design and Logo
Pop Art and Printmaking
Illustration and Scratch-art
Distinguishing Details between Artists
THEATER ARTS
5W’s: Charlie Chaplin
IMPROV and BASIC THEATRICS
BROADWAY: Hairspray and SHOWBUSINESS
PERFORMANCE: Cirque De Soleil, involvement in business aspects
What’s YOUR moleskine sketchbook look like?
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Did You Know?
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NYC Spring 2008
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The Flying Machine Design Studio
Dan Moreton with Scholastic Books
Sony Music’s Art Director, Maria Paula Marulanda
Chip Kidd
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Chip Kidd
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Jake Barton, Local Projects
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Salvador Dali In Persona
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Pop Surrealism
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Surrealism -Rene Magritte
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Scholastic Exhibit at Marywood
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Ellen receives the Gold Key and will advance to Nationals in NYC…
The Silver Key Recipients…
Amanda Depew, (mrs. g), Kaylin Lindquist, Kayshia Kruger and Heather Bixby
Proud family of Depew’s…
Our sabers on the wall…
Molly researching for next year…
It’s even bigger then this….
CONGRATULATIONS SCHOLASTIC WINNERS!
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Congratulations to all our Sabers! Last year, we had 1 acceptance…this year we had FIVE!
Not only have these students been selected….Our group has taken FIVE SILVER KEYS and ONE GOLD KEY!
Ellen Biegert’s Gold Key will proceed to the National level for competition in NYC.
You have been selected as part of the regional best! Your work will be displayed at Marywood University with your awards ceremony being held prior to the art exhibition opening.
KUDOS and BRAVO!
PERFORMANCE ART
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PERFORMANCE ART
BLUE MAN GROUP
CIRQUE DE SOLEIL
POTTERY VIDS
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PINCH POT
SMOOTHING COILS
GLAZING
LOADING A KILN
UNLOADING A KILN
RAKU FIRING
ROMARE BEARDEN
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African-American in the Harlem Renaissance Movement in the U.S. with strong focus on shapes.
INTRO TO CLAY
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Clay is a naturally occurring material, composed primarily of fine-grained minerals, which show plasticity through a variable range of water content, and which can be hardened when dried or fired.
Clays exhibit plasticity when mixed with water in certain proportions. When dry, clay becomes firm and when fired in a kiln, permanent physical and chemical reactions occur which, amongst other changes, causes the clay to be converted into a ceramic material. It is because of these properties that clay is used for making pottery items, both practical and decorative. Different types of clay, when used with different minerals and firing conditions, are used to produce earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. Early humans discovered the useful properties of clay in prehistoric times, and one of the earliest artifacts ever uncovered is a drinking vessel made of sun-dried clay. Depending on the content of the soil, clay can appear in various colors, from a dull gray to a deep orange-red.
Clay tablets were used as the first writing medium, inscribed with cuneiform script through the use of a blunt reed called a stylus.
Clays sintered in fire were the first form of ceramic. Bricks, cooking pots, art objects, dishware and even musical instruments such as the ocarina can all be shaped from clay before being fired. Clay is also used in many industrial processes, such as paper making, cement production and chemical filtering. Additionally, Clay is often used in the manufacture of pipes for smoking tobacco.
Clay, being relatively impermeable to water, is also used where natural seals are needed, such as in the cores of dams, or as a barrier in landfills against toxic seepage. Recent studies have been carried out to investigate clay’s adsorption capacities in various applications, such as the removal of heavy metals from waste water and air purification.
PINCH POT
SLAB POT
COIL POT
THROWN POT on a POTTER’S WHEEL
Tim Burton’s Vincent
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Avenue Q–It sucks to be Me.
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PORTFOLIO DAY IN PHILLY!
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PORTFOLIO DAY IN PHILLY!
I AM PROUD TO BE YOUR EDUCATOR.
I AM PROUD TO BE YOUR ART ADVOCATE.
(your second, because your parents naturally, were your first art advocates!)
It’s not easy to put yourself out there to be judged. Actually, it’s probably the hardest thing you will do over and over and over again. Sometimes you walk with pride and sometimes you walk with a lump in your throat. I have been there and so has every artist that has ever met success. You can’t meet success without having to cross those obstacles…but the reason you meet success is that you dared to cross them in the first place.
Imagine: you are on a giant stone in the middle of the river…do you keep jumping to reach the other side or will you stay there forever alone, watching others take the leaps you want to so badly? It is okay to be afraid and it is natural to be afraid…but use fear as your motivator to learn, to grow and to understand your future with hope. In the end, you want one thing: to be happy making art…and that’s all that counts.
Some of you met success on your first stone and the next one seems closer…some of you found out that the stone is a little further away then you thought and now you may have to swim a little to reach it. ALL of us artists will do that from time to time—but it makes the JOURNEY, the ADVENTURE and the PRIZE all the more inspiring and rewarding. All four of you were brave even in fear, and you have all met success on this first venture. Be Proud of yourself. You have accomplished something that no student from Susquehanna has yet…you are the firsts to lead the way.
THEN DINNER!
Peter Max
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Peter Max (born October 19, 1937 as Peter Finkelstein) is an American Pop artist. Max was born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Shanghai, China and in Israel before his family settled in the United States in 1953.
The young artist trained in New York at the Art Students League, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts. After completing his studies, Peter Max opened a design studio and gained success as a designer for books, posters and products. Max closed his studio in 1964 and began making his signature colorful silkscreens.
DESTIJL and MONDRIAN
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Piet Mondrian was a DeStijl artist. His focus was simplicity through vertical and horizontal lines of composition and Primary Colors for strength.
His influence can be still seen and used today…
East Coast Art Colleges
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Alfred University School of Art and Design
www.alfred.edu
Arcadia University
admiss@arcadia.edu
www.arcadia.edu
Atlanta College of Art Atlanta, GA 30309 acainfo@woodruffcenter.org www.aca.edu
Bucks County Community College Newtown, PA 18940 215-968-8425 www.bucks.edu
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 undergraduate-admission@andrew.cmu.edu www.cmu.edu
College of Saint Rose Art Department Albany, NY 12203 faulk@strose.edu www.strose.edu
Corcoran College of Art & Design Washington DC 20006 888-CORCORAN admissions@corcoran.org www.corcoran.edu
Drexel University College of Media Arts and design Philadelphia, PA 19104 comad@drexel.edu www.drexel.edu/comad
East Carolina University, School of Art and Design Jenkins Fine Arts Center Greenville, NC 27858 haneya@mail.ecu.edu www.ecu.edu/art/
Fashion Institute of Technology New York, NY 10001 www.fitnyc.edu
Hartford Art School, University of Hartford West Hartford, CT 06117 calafiore@hartford.edu www.hartfordartschool.org
Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 admissions@hartwick.edu www.hartwick.edu
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Kutztown, PA 19530 www.kutztown.edu
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Old Lyme, CT 06371 admissions@lymeacademy.edu www.lymeacademy.edu
Maine College of Art Portland, ME 04101 admissions@meca.edu www.meca.edu
Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD 21217-4191 admissions@mica.edu www.mica.edu
Marywood University Scranton, PA 18509 art@marywood.edu www.marywood.edu
Massachusetts College of Art + Design Boston, MA 02115 admissions@massart.edu www.massart.edu
Montclair State University Department of Art & Design Montclair, NJ 07043 moored@mail.montclair.edu www.montclair.edu
Montserrat College of Art 23 Essex Street Beverly, MA 01915 800-836-0487 admiss@montserrat.edu www.montserrat.edu
Moore College of Art and Design Philadelphia, PA 19103 admiss@moore.edu www.moore.edu
Mount Ida College School of Design Newton Centre, MA 02459 admissions@mountida.edu www.mountida.edu
New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University Boston, MA 02116 nesad1@suffolk.edu www.suffolk.edu/nesad
New Hampshire Institute of Art Manchester, NH 03104 admissions@nhia.edu admissions@nhia.edu www.nhia.edu
New World School of the Arts Miami, FL 33132 nwsa@mdcc.edu www.mdcc.edu/nwsa/
New York School of Interior Design New York, NY 10021 admissions@nysid.edu www.nysid.edu
Parsons The New School for Design New York, NY 10011 parsadm@newschool.edu www.parsons.edu
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA 19102 admissions@pafa.org www.pafa.org
Pensylvania College of Art & Design Lancaster, PA 17603 admissions@pcad.edu www.pcad.edu
Pratt Institute Brookyln, NY 11205 admissions@pratt.edu www.pratt.edu
Pratt MWP Utica, NY 13502 admissions@mwpai.edu www.mwpi.edu
Purchase College, SUNY Purchase, NY 10577 art+design@purchase.edu www.purchase.edu
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 02903-2791 admissions@risd.edu www.risd.edu
Ringling College of Art & Design Sarasota, FL 34234 admissions@ringling.edu www.ringling.edu
Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623 www.rit.edu
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston, MA 02115-5596 admissions@smfa.edu www.smfa.edu
School of Visual Arts New York, NY 10010-3994 admissions@sva.edu www.schoolofvisualarts.edu
St John’s University Jamaica, NY 11439 www.sjuart.co
Syracuse University School of Art and Design Syracuse, NY 13244-1010 admissu@syr.edu vpa.syr.edu
The Cooper Union School of Art New York, NY 10003 admissions@cooper.edu www.cooper.edu
The Pennsylvania State University, School of Visual Arts, University Park, PA 16802 jthurman@psu.edu www.sova.psu.eduu
The University of the Arts Philadelphia, PA 19102 admissions@uarts.edu www.uarts.edu
Tyler School of Art Temple University Elkins Park, PA 19027 tylerart@temple.edu www.temple.edu/tyler
University of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT 06601 ryelle@bridgeport.edu www.bridgeport.edu
University of Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo, NY 14260 yarwood@buffalo.edu www.ubart.buffalo.edu
University of Connecticut Department of Art and Art History Storrs, CT 06269 www.art.uconn.edu
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts North Dartmouth, MA 027470 admissions@umassd.edu www.umassd.edu
Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts (VCUarts) Richmond, VA 23284-3047 apandrew@vcu.edu apandrew@vcu.edu www.vcu.edu/artweb/
SKETCHBOOK GUIDELINES…
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Your sketchbook is yours to keep notes to yourself about this class.
Doodles, thoughts, anger, happiness…create and enjoy.
USE these to PLAN out other PROJECTS.
BE YOURSELF.
WORKS IN PROGRESS….
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SENIORS…Pre prepared to have 10 AWESOME drawings from still life, observation, etc. due by the end of the quarter.
JUNIORS…3 COMPLETED drawings from above.
BOTH: YOUR FIRST ASSIGNED DRAWING IS A SELF-PORTRAIT…representing yourself and WHO you are…think OUTSIDE of the box…EXPRESSION, PROPS, MIXED MEDIA, ETC…
ARTIST STATEMENT
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Ongoing creation…
WHO you are.
WHY you are compelled to create your work.
WHAT your artwork means/says.
1 PAGE. TYPED. ACCURATE GRAMMER.
Elements and Principals of Art/Design
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ELEMENTS OF ART:
Line- Line is the path of a moving point. Lines define the edges of shapes and forms.
Shape- Shape is an area enclosed by line. It is 2 dimensional and can be geometric or organic.
Form - Forms are 3-Dimensional. They occupy space or give the illusion that they occupy the space.
Color- Color is the most expressive element of art and is seen by the way light reflects off a surface.
Value- Value is the lightness or darkness of a surface. It is often referred to when shading but value is also important in the study of color
Texture- Texture is the actual surface feel of an area or the simulated appearance of roughness, smoothness or many others.
Space- Space is the illusion of objects having depth on the 2-dimensional surface. Linear and aerial perspectives are used.
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN:
Emphasis- in a composition refers to developing points of interest to pull the viewer’s eye to important parts of the body of the work.
Balance- is a sense of stability in the body of work. Creating a feeling of equal weight can create by repeating same shapes and Balance.
Movement-adds excitement to your work by showing action and directing the viewers eye throughout the picture plane.
Rhythm & Pattern- is a type of movement in drawing and painting. It is seen in repeating of shapes and colors. Alternating lights and darks also give a sense of rhythm.
Unity & Harmony - is seen in a painting or drawing when all the parts equal a whole. Your work should not appear disjointed or confusing. It is achieved in a body of work by using similar elements throughout the work, harmony gives an uncomplicated look to your work.
Proportion - or scale refers to the relationships of the size of objects in a body of work. Proportion gives a sense of size seen as a relationship of objects. Such as smallness or largeness.
Variety -refers to the differences in the work, You can achieve variety by using different elements throughout the work.
Principles of Design
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Custom created poster by J.Grabowski for Susquehanna Classrooms.
JO ELLEN TRILLING
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Currently on display at the AFA GALLERY in SCRANTON.
Photos taken by J.Grabowski with Artist Permission 4.6.2007
Not for Reuse / Material is copyrighted by Trilling.
Muybridge meets Haring Action Figures
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Eadweard Muybridge (April 9, 1830 – May 8, 1904) was an English-born photographer, known primarily for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated celluloid film strip still used today.
Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990) was a pre-eminent artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York street culture of the 1980s.
He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania but grew up in Kutztown and was interested in art from an early age. From 1976 to 1978 he studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art, a commercial and fine art school in Pittsburgh. Keith moved to New York City where he was greatly inspired by the graffiti art, and additionally studied at the School of Visual Arts.
Teacher Example:
Student Works:
(E. Acosta, M. Kemmerer, A.Dominick, 2007)
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
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Andy Goldsworthy resides in Britain, but travels all over the world to work directly with nature, using a variety of materials including leaves, twigs, flower petals, pinecones, sand, snow and stone. Much of his work addresses issues of growth and decay, seasonal cycles; and the idea that an artwork too has a natural life that eventually must end. Goldsworthy finds a richness of understanding in revisiting certain forms such as mounds, holes, arches, spirals, and lines each revealing a different facet of its constructive material.
We will be exploring his style, his philosophies and his techniques.
Sculpture
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3-D Sculpture:
Subtractive Process- Removal of materials from relief-surface to 3-D form.
Additive Process- Adding materials onto an armature or existing form.
Welcome to OILS!
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Take a look at this website and browse around to get familiar with the process…
There is a take home quiz this friday based on your reading over the weekend. The quiz centers around oil characteristics, safety hazards and brush health.
Projects this quarter:
1. Intro/to oils-Still Life Shell Study–Get to know the oils project!
2. Landscape- Plein Air and Underpainting, exploring blending techniques and dry brush work.
3. Surrealism- Dreamlike concept building of unlike things related to Surrealism.
4. Self-portrait- your “myspace” pic…
ANIMATION!
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This project involves the same processes as animators use to create painted cells. Cells are typically clear acetate. We will be using Acrylic paints for color, .005 Acetate for surface and ultra fine tip sharpie permanent markers for outlining. Students are to bring in a print out of a cartoon of their choice. We will trace the character on acetate and develop a controlled painting of the cell. Students will also use watercolor to create a background for the cell to overlay upon.
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
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SCULPTURER/PAINTER (Thank you, Wikipedia!)
In 1909, Modigliani returned home to Livorno, sickly and tired from his wild lifestyle. Soon he was back in Paris, this time renting a studio in Montparnasse. He originally saw himself as a sculptor rather than a painter, and was encouraged to continue after Paul Guillaume, an ambitious young art dealer, took an interest in his work and introduced him to sculptor Constantin Brancusi.
Although a series of Modigliani’s sculptures were exhibited in the Salon d’Automne of 1912, he abruptly abandoned sculpting and focused solely on his painting.
In Modigliani’s art, there is evidence of the influence of primitive art from Africa and Cambodia which he may have seen in the Musée de l’Homme. A possible interest in African masks seems to be evident in his portraits. In both his painting and sculpture, the sitters’ faces resemble ancient Egyptian painting in their flat and masklike appearance, with distinctive almond eyes, pursed mouths, twisted noses, and elongated necks.
His most precious muse however, is was his beloved Jeanne Hebuterne.
They painted one another, as she too was an artist. Her works were hidden for over 70 years by her brother. His many paintings of Jeanne, clearly exhibit his devotion and love for her. Upon his early death from tuberculuosis which was exacerbated by his alcoholism, distraught, Jeanne took her own life, as well as their unborn 8 month old child. They left behind a 19-month of daughter, who was raised by Amedeo’s sister. She grew up unknowing of her parents, but as an adult researched and wrote a biography on their tragic lives. Amedeo was 35, Jeanne was only 21.
GREAT ARTIST MOVIES
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This Unit involves a visual representation of Hollywood’s portrayal of the lives of great artists. The class has submitted parental permission slips. We watch the movies, each session followed by a discussion forum. The class then is given an essay assignment worth 100 pts. to be presented in a formal paper. During their work on the paper, they are then focusing on the style of the artist through an in class project that captures their techniques and motivations. The focus is for students to ‘live’ through the experience on film and reinterpret the art in their own means. This unit provides a high level of art analyzation, criticism, appreciation, writing and production.
POLLOCK
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: “Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” Already well-known in the New York art world, he had become a household name–America’s first “Art Star”–and his bold and radical style of painting continued to change the course of modern art. But the torments that had plagued the artist all of his life–perhaps the ones that drove him to paint in the first place, or that helped script his fiercely original art–continued to haunt him. As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral that would threaten to destroy the foundations of his marriage, the promise of his career, and his life–all on one deceptively calm and balmy summer night in 1956.
(POLLOCK ACTION PAINTING COLLAGE)
BASQUIAT
In 1981, Jean-Michel Basquiat catapulted from being an unknown nineteen-year-old graffiti writer to becoming one of the most successful, controversial, glamorous artists in the world. His shows were anticipated as the big events of the New York season, and his paintings were bought by the most powerful collectors and museums. Every aspect of his life became a subject for the media. By 1988, he was dead at the age of 27. Basquiat was described by The New York Times as “the art world’s closest equivalent to James Dean.” In spite of his success, this turbulent and talented young painter was also plagued by loneliness, self-destruction and the belief that people really did not accept him for who he was. As the first black contemporary artist to really succeed in the powerful white art world, his early death shows that he was a casualty as well as a phenomenal success.
(GRAFFITI ART MIXED MEDIA)
MAX
A fictional story, loosely based upon the post-WWI period when the young Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was an aspiring painter with a love for the classical periods. Set in 1918, the tale is based on an imagined relationship between young Adolf, and an influential Jewish art dealer and teacher, Max Hoffman, who did not encourage the future Nazi leader’s artistic abilities. A discouraged artist, who later scorned modern art, Hitler’s interests turn elsewhere–to hatred of Jews, and to Germany’s questionable future. The story presents the argument–could one teacher’s failure to encourage a young man to pursue his artistic endeavors be part of the root of the terror that came? Would the Holocaust have been prevented if Adolf Hitler had never stopped painting–and thus, was able to channel his creative energy?
(EXPRESSIONISM)
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
A speculative account of the life of Griet, a 16-year-old girl who appears in Johannes Vermeer’s painting of the same title. Set in 17th century Holland, Griet is employed by Vermeer as a housemaid to care for his six children, his jealous pregnant wife and his uncommunicative mother-in-law. Tensions arise when Vermeer’s wife grows jealous of her husband and the young maid, when the wife discovers that Griet borrowed her precious pearl earrings to sit for the now famous portrait.
(OIL PAINTING)
MODIGLIANI
It is 1919. The Great War is over and Paris nightlife is filled with dark passions and uncontrollable obsessions. In the café Rotonde, the refuge of the artistic elite, we find a table, unlike any other in history: Picasso, Rivera, Stein, Cocteau, Soutine, Utrillo and Modigliani. Jeanne Hebuterne was a beautiful young Catholic girl whose only fault, in her father’s eyes was to fall in love with Modigliani, a Jew. Driven by this religious bigotry, Jeanne’s father secretly sends their baby away to a convent in some far place. At the same time Paris is preparing for the yearly art competition. The prize is money and a guaranteed career. But, until this moment Picasso has never entered because he is Picasso. And Modigliani has never entered for that same reason. But now, Modigliani is cornered. He and Jeanne need to save their child. Drunk with anger, soaked by rain, he bursts into the Rotonde, and watched by Picasso, and all the others, he puts his name to the competition. Picasso then gets up and signs his own name. Paris becomes frenzied with excitement! And now it begins. A fast train moves through the night that shapes the lives of all involved. And as darkness falls, the artists take refuge before their blank canvases and begin to create their greatest work.
(MODIGLIANI PORTRAITURE)
PAUL KLEE
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20th c. Expressionist PAUL KLEE was a Swiss-born painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gently humorous works are replete with allusions to dreams, music, and poetry, Paul Klee, b. Dec. 18, 1879, d. June 29, 1940 are often classified in Expressionism, Surrealism and sometimes Cubism.
FRANZ MARC
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FRANZ MARC
was born on February 8, 1880, in Munich, Germany. He studied at the Munich Art Academy. Franz Marc was a pioneer in the birth of abstract art at the beginning of the twentieth-century The Blaue Reiter group put forth a new program for art based on exuberant color and on profoundly felt emotional and spiritual states. It was Marc’s particular contribution to introduce paradisiacal imagery that had as its dramatis personae a collection of animals, most notably a group of heroic horses.
Tragically, Marc was killed in World War I at the age of thirty-six, but not before he had created some of the most exciting and touching paintings of the Expressionist movement.
OP-ART
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Op Art - A twentieth century art movement and style where artists create the illusion of movement and space on 2-D flat materials; or “fooling the eye” to believe there is spatial planes.
OPTICAL=EYE-”art”. Known as Optical Art and Perceptual Abstraction.
GESTURE DRAWING
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Fast, sometimes furious! Drawing as quickly as you can, by looking at objects, and capturing their essence using much of your visual and memory skills as possible.
GESTURE FIGURE DRAWING
CONTOUR DRAWING
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Contour means “outline”, and presents exterior edges of objects. A plain contour has a clean, connected line, no shading and emphasizes an open “shell” of the subject. More complex contours can imply shading values through interior outlines (top right), may have line textures or be contrasted with mixed media. Pencil drawing, ball point pen and black markers are good practice tools. Contour is slow and more deliberate with no erasing. Begin with a focal point on the object and continue concentration as if the eyes were drawing the image. The pencil/pen, once placed on the paper stays there moving in a slow line development until the entire contour is completed. Eyes focus from object to paper without head movement.
BLIND CONTOUR: without looking at your paper!
CESAR SANTANDER: American Photorealist
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Artist’s Statement:
” I conceive an idea for a painting. I then arrange the objects and use the camera to produce the strongest photographic example of my original idea. Then I paint the photographic image. Superficially, I appear to copy the photograph, but I make many adjustments to the photographic image as I complete the painting. I try to impose my own vision by subtle adjustment of colours, edges and details so that the finished painting is the strongest representation of the original idea.”
Cesar’s Website
ALPHONSE MUCHA
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Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewellery, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what came to be known as the Art Nouveau style. Mucha’s works frequently featured beautiful healthy young women in flowing vaguely Neoclassical looking robes, often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed haloes behind the women’s heads. His art nouveau style was often imitated. However, this was a style that Mucha attempted to distance himself from throughout his life; he insisted always that, rather than adhering to any fashionable stylistic form, his paintings came purely from within. He declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more; hence his frustration at the fame he gained through commercial art, when he wanted always to concentrate on more lofty projects that would ennoble art and his birthplace.
(courtesy of Wikipedia)
ART NOUVEAU
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Art Nouveau - French for “The New Art.” An international art movement and style of decoration and architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, characterized particularly by the curvilinear depiction of leaves and flowers, often in the form of vines. These might also be described as foliate forms, with sinuous lines, and non-geometric, “whiplash” curves. Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918), Alphonse Mucha (Czechoslovakian, 1860-1939), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1861-1901), Aubrey Beardsley (English, 1872-1898), Antonio Gaudí (Spanish, 1852-1926), and Hector Guimard (French, 1867-1942) were among the most prominent artists associated with this style. The roots of Art Nouveau go back to Romanticism, Symbolism, the English Arts and Crafts Movement and William Morris (English, 1834-1896). In America, it inspired, among others, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933). The name is derived from “La Maison de l’Art Nouveau,” a gallery for interior design that opened in Paris in 1896. Art Nouveau is known in Germany as Jugenstil and in England as Yellow Book Style, and epitomizes what is sometimes called fin de siècle style. It reached the peak of its popularity around 1900, only to be gradually overtaken by art deco and other modernist styles.
CELEBRITY PORTRAITS
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Courtesy C.GehmanThis Unit focused on form and mass by charcoal subtraction techniques.
Graphic Design
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What is a Logo? How does our culture use logo’s in our society? What makes a logo successful? Can you recognize these popular logos below?
How do graphic designer’s brainstorm to create logo designs?
POP ART: ANDY WARHOL
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The POP ART movement was fueled to revolt against American Abstract Expressionism. POP ART drew attention to the enormous pull mass marketing and commercialism was having on the American society on a border of being satirical.
The main mover and shaker of the time was Andy Warhol.
Andy Warhol was known for his silkscreen technique, where he would choose subjects such as the Campbell Soup Can, Mickey Mouse, Elvis and Marilyn Monroe. These ICONS are forever immortalized in our senses as commercial symbols and thanks to Mr. Warhol, as Art.
We will analyze how Warhol used repetition to strengthen art, how color can alter mood and we will explore the basic fundamentals of printmaking.
ILLUSTRATION
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Children’s Illustration is one of the most difficult businesses to break unto…I am currently seeking my illustration Master’s of Fine Arts degree and can share with you many aspects of children’s illustration and how to learn more about it.
Our illustration project largely deals with etching and value changes through the variation of line.
FOUND OBJECT ART: Joseph Cornell
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The term found art—more commonly found object (French: objet trouvé) or readymade—describes art created from the undisguised, but often modified, use of objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a mundane, utilitarian function. Marcel Duchamp was the originator of this in the early 20th-century.
Found art derives significance from the designation placed upon it by the artist. The context into which it is placed (e.g. a gallery or museum) is usually also a highly relevant factor. The idea of dignifying commonplace objects in this way was originally a shocking challenge to the accepted distinction between what was considered art as opposed to not art.
Cornell, Joseph (1903-72). American sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.
He had no formal training in art and his most characteristic works are his highly distinctive `boxes’. These are simple boxes, usually glass-fronted, in which he arranged surprising collections of photographs or Victorian bric-à-brac in a way that has been said to combine the formal austerity of Constructivism with the lively fantasy of Surrealism. Like Kurt Schwitters he could create poetry from the commonplace. Unlike Schwitters, however, he was fascinated not by refuse, garbage, and the discarded, but by fragments of once beautiful and precious objects, relying on the Surrealist technique of irrational juxtaposition and on the evocation of nostalgia for his appeal.
CARL BRENDERS: Watercolor/Graphite
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Carl Brenders’ love for all creatures, from the friendly to the ferocious, is evident in his masterful attention to their every detail; nothing is overlooked. With his imagination, Brenders is able to get close enough to wild animals so that he can almost feel their textures. Consequently, his work has a tactile reality, giving us the sense of having been where even the most intrepid of field guides have not ventured. Of this ability Brenders says, “A painter is a privileged being, because in his imagination he can come very close to the animals he paints. In reality, one can never come this close to wild animals, particularly if they are predators.”
Brenders’ insistence on anatomical perfection in his paintings stems from his philosophy that nature, itself, is perfection: “That is why I paint the way I do with so much detail and so much realism — I want to capture that perfection,” he says.
The wildlife images of Brenders’ art are first created from pencil sketches; from these sketches his mixed media paintings of watercolor and gouache are completed with a technique he has developed during the last 25 years. His paintings, encompassing every intricacy of nature, devote equal attention to the detail of the wildlife subject and its habitat as well as to the mood created by the light.Courtesy Mill Press Pond
TIWI BARK ART
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Originated in the TIWI Islands off the coast of Austrailia. Secluded by high winds and insane waves, the TIWI peoples culture has been carried through traditional customs from generation to generation through song, dance and ART.
BARK ART was created by the TIWI using natural elements found around them: Bark, tree branches, ground ochres…they used basic earth picments: black, red, white, green and oranges. Bark Art is characterized by strong geometric patterns, bold colors and sometimes animal-spirits.
SURREAL DREAM
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Surrealism was an art movement largely formed as a direct result from Sigmund Freud’s pyscholanalytic interpretations of dreams and what do they mean…Leading artists of the time were: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and DeChirico.
This project is a collage project loosely guided and drawn to a narrowed focal point of meaning and interpretation. There is an introduction to JUXTAPOSITION (the way objects are placed next to other objects for visual effect)
5pts. Graffiti
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Check this place out in Long Island City, NY!
JANET FISH
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JANET FISH IMAGES FOR THE PAINTING CLASS
Fish, Janet, (b. 1938), was born in Boston. Her grandfather, Clark Voorhees was an American Impressionist, her father an art history teacher, and her mother, Florence Whistler Fish, a sculptor and potter. She studied sculpture and printmaking at Smith College and Skowhegan Summer School. She was one of the first women artists to receive her MFA from Yale University in 1963.
Fish received her first one-woman exhibition in 1971 where her work sold out before the opening, and during the next several years became an established New York artist.
