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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: 
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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.
ROMARE BEARDEN
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African-American in the Harlem Renaissance Movement in the U.S. with strong focus on shapes.
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…
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.
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
Posted 3 years, 7 months ago at 11:38 am. 0 comments
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
