FINAL: Artist Research Project

For your FINAL in Art History/Cultural Studies, please complete research on a visual artist and present your findings in a Google Presentation or Weebly.com site. Specifics are below:

Choice 1: 

Objective: Students will use GOOGLE PRESENTATION  to create a slide show highlighting the life and work of an artist from this list or their own choice:

Renaissance Artists: Leonardo Da Vinci, Sandro Boticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, Jan Van Eyck, Caravaggio, Bosch (or other of your choice)

Impressionist Artists: Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Cassatt, Seurot, Cezanne, Dega, Renoir, Pissaro (or other of your choice)

Cubist Artists: Picasso, Braque, Cezanne, Leger, Villon (or other of your choice)

Surrealist Artists: Dali, Ernst, Magritte, Miro, Duchamp (or other of your choice)

Harlem Renaissance Artists: Jacob Lawrence, Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Laura Wheeling Waring (or other of your choice)

Latin American Artists: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Jose Bernal (or other of your choice)

Other Modern Artists: Warhol, Wyeth, Jackson Pollock, Rodin, Basquiat, Banksy, Shep Fairey, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein (or other of your choice)

Images and Bios can be found at http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html and http://www.artchive.com/


FINAL PRESENTATION 

Slide 1:
Your Name
Artist’s Full Name
Portrait or Photograph of artist

Slide 2

Biographical Info:

1. Place/date of birth:
2. Place/date of death:
3. Interesting/Personal information on the artist
4. Favorite Quote about or from the artist

Slide 3

1. Primary type of artwork (ex: painting? drawing? sculpture? printmaking? ceramics)
2. Media (what materials are use?):
3. Style or period of art?
4. Short definition of that style or period (see Artlex or Artcyclopedia):

Slide 4

1. Three other artists who work in this style (from the time period of the artist - or contemporary artists working in this same style). How is the work similar? How is the work different?
2. Timeline (include some key world events that may have influenced this artist) :

Slides 5 - 9

As you are doing your research SAVE FIVE (5) images of the artist's work to your disk (or folder on server). Place one image on each slide

For each image:

1. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site address:
2. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site name (or book source if scanned):
3. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site name (or book source if scanned):
4. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site name (or book source if scanned):
5. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site name (or book source if scanned):

Slides 10 and 11

Critique:

Choose one of those pieces of art and answer the following questions:

1. What is the subject matter?
2. Genres. Is this a still life (group of things)? a portrait (a painting, drawing or sculpture of a person)? or a landscape/seascape/cityscape (picture of the land/water/city)? other (explain)?
3. Style/form: Is this artwork realistic (as real as possible)? abstract (distorted reality)? non-objective (as far from reality as possible)? symbolic? functional? other (explain)?
4. Description. Identify the sensory qualities (art elements). Can you identify a color scheme? Why do you think the artist might have chosen the colors she/he did? Do they make sense? What kind of lines did the artist use? How does the texture add to the work? etc.
5. Discuss the formal properties - use of design principles.
6. Interpretation. What do you think the artists was trying to say? Why do you think he/she chose this subject?
7. What feeling does this artwork give you and why?
8. What part of the artwork is your favorite and why?
9. Judgment: Defend this as a work of art using one of the theories of aesthetics (or combination): Art as Realism - Art for Formal Properties - Art as Expression - Art as Functional

Slide 12

Bibliography (Minimum of three sources you used)

Choice 2:

Using weebly.com, create a website on an artist (your choice) that includes the following

Artist Web Site

1. Historical background as it relates to the time period that the body of the artist’s work was completed.
2. What is the genre or period classification of work done by the artist.
3. What are the criteria used to classify the genre of the artist’s work.
4. A reflection on what you think about the artist’s work.
5. TWO critiques of specific artwork (symbolism, methods, finished product).
6. Was this artist recognized (fame, money) in his or her own lifetime? How has the artist's value changed over time? Why?
7. The impact this artist had on their time period and their impact today.
8. A picture gallery with at least 10 cited examples of the Artist's work.
9. Layout, colors, and style is creative and appropriate.
10. A complete bibliography of all resources must be included.
11. Follows Rubric and Scoring Guide requirements.