E block: Homage Project homework and blog

Go to the wordpress blog

http://www.homageartist400.wordpress

and comment on at least three other blogs before Tuesday.

Comment on an element or elements of a particular artists work that your peer has choosen to post.

Free photo image site

Copyright free photographs for reference!

http://www.pics4learning.com/

E block: Homage Project homework and blog

Due Monday 1/24: your subject for how you want to start your project ( possible ideas) and.... don't forget to check out your new wordpress homage to an artist and post away... let me know if you have questions.

http://homageartist400.wordpress.com

I sent you your login and password to your ma email.

G block: hand drawing

Do your hand holding an object or if you did that last time, do the master copy... in pencil, lifesize in your sketchbook: Due Monday! and have fun practicing. I am very impressed with your growth!

Copyright free photographs for reference!

http://www.pics4learning.com/

C block: L, A,C,N,

Homage to a Modern or Contemporary painter 400 level

· MUST BE A PIVITOL PAINTER OF THE 19^TH/ 20^TH CENTURY

· ARTIST MUST HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO ART HISTORY

· THIS IS NOT A COPY, BUT SHOULD SHOW YOUR INVESTIGATION OF THE ARTISTS WORK/PROCESS

1. Research element ( gathering of information, who to emulate, painting study/sketchbook work)=) You are graded on preparedness, and sketchwork.

What you need to have in your sketchbook by Wednesday for the group discussion in your sketchbook

What medium(s) does this artist work in? What medium do you prefer?

What are this artist’s favorite subjects? What is your favorite subject(s) in art?

In addition to gathering pertinent information on your artist, download and print out images of three of the artist’s

works for further study.

Possibilities: Choose a subject area of interest

The list of artists and subject matter:

Figure/portraits

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Käthe Kollwitz

Paula Rego

Egon Schiele

David Hockney

Henri Matisse

Frida Kahlo

Edvard Munch

Andrew Wyeth

Landscape/Cityscapes

Charles Scheeler

Edward Hopper

Vincent van Gogh

Georgia O'keefe

Pop Art

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Roy Lichtenstein

Jasper Johns

Andy Warhol

Abstraction/Cubism

Jackson Pollock

Picasso

Juan Gris

Robert Rauchenberg ( also could be pop art)

Surrealism/Dreams

Joseph Cornell

Rene Magritté

Lenor Fini

Salvador Dali

C block: Level 1: y, a, e.g., k, d, c, kt,z, l, l

In your sketchbook: select two historical artists whose use of paint in portraiture inspires you; write about the color, use of paint, and psychology of the portraits. The writing should be a page.

Due: Friday Jan 21st

I selected a handful of painters below who you might find intriguing:

Parsons

Frida Kahlo

Vincent Van Gogh

Gustav Courbet

Others include: Chuck Close, Lucien Freud,

Tamara de Lempinka, Elizabeth Vigee Lebrun