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By Chris Houston and Joyce Valenza
Tasks///Assessment///Resources
Seniors! You are about to embark on a critical study of an artist or art movement you admire. Your explorations and evaluations should offer you a deeper background and appreciation for the work and enable you to share a wealth of knowledge with our class.
Select: Select three modern artists or an art movement about whom/which you are curious.
Examine: Examine examples of the artist's work or work representative of the movement. Consider design elements, historical period (what and who was going on), subject or composition.
Reflect: In your journals, reflect on your examinations, offer comparisons, and personal responses.
Project: Develop a thesis surrounding one of the artists or movement you have examined. (For example, Cezanne is justly called the "Father of modern art, because. . . .) Create a 15 to 20 minute original media presentation. This may take the form of a PowerPoint. video, slide show, or a Web presentation. Capture a minimum of twenty images which will present evidence to prove your thesis. The "medium may be the message." Use any available graphic elements--font, color, the artworks themselves--to convey the style of the artists or movements.
Present: As you present your images to the class, your presentation should
- what makes the artist or movement significant.
- indicate how the artist or the movement is representative of its time, environment/geographic space, gender, ethnic group. . .
- present critical facts about the artist's life or the history of the movement
- present your own critiques of the work
- discuss what art critics have said about the artist's work. Include relevant quotes.
Sample: "Yet Arbus's images of ordinary New York women, nearly always pictured alone, have a more disturbing effect. To an age that loves X-Files-style paranormal these average citizens seem to take on a fierce zomboid tone, staring out of their over made-up faces, hiding behind veils and costumes. They are anything but average." Bishop, Louise. "The Challenge of Beauty." Creative Review 17 p. 63 D '97
- use quotes from the artist discussing his or her work or quotes of artists' representative of the movement
In addition to websites, your research must include materials from art journals and books
Make sure that you present sufficient evidence to prove your thesis!
You'll will need to include a works cited list in your final product.
Please be respectful of copyright!
Assessment: Be sure to consult the rubric as you work on your project
Artcyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Artchive http://www.artchive.com
Art History Resources on the Web http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Beyond Books: Art http://www.beyondbooks.com/bbsuites/art11.asp
Grove Dictionary of Art http://www.groveart.com/index.html
Masters of Photography http://masters-of-photography.com/
GALENet Biography Resource Center http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC?locID=erde79591
WebMuseum Artists Index http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/
Wilson Biographies http://hwwilsonweb.com/
Yahoo! Art History Periods http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Art_History/Periods_and_Movements/
Yahoo! Masters: Painting http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Painting/Artists/Masters/
Yahoo! Masters: Photography http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Photography/Photographers/Masters/
Yahoo! Masters: Sculpture http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors/Masters/
Directory: Google: Artists http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Art_History/Artists/
Images from Art for College Teaching http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/index.html and from American Memory collections http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html
