You will analyze an artwork that will inform your drawing and your ability to read art. Becoming visually literate teaches you to dig beneath the surface of what you see to determine something’s meaning, its value to society and its function. 

Find answers to the following questions in your investigation:

1.   What is the piece entitled?

2.   What medium is used to create it?

3.   How big is it?

4.   When was it made? Was it made during a specific art movement?

5.   How would you describe what you can see to a person who cannot see?  Include details.

6.   What elements of art or principles of design are dominant in the piece?

Elements- line, shape, form, space, color, texture and value

Principles-rhythm, movement, pattern, balance, proportion, variety, emphasis and harmony

7.   Is there a color scheme? What is the composition like in terms of balance or strong lines running through it?

8.   Look at the subject of the piece. What does it evoke or say to you? This is something that you will want to research as the time period could give you lots of info regarding the era in which it was created. What were the societal norms at that time?

9.   Why or for what purpose was this piece created? This is the function and purpose of the piece. Was it meant to be decorative, educational, functional, promote social mores, religious ideas, or raise awareness of an issue?

10. What is the cultural significance of the piece?

Use the Art Story in the Library Guides on the portal, Google Art Project or any other scholarly website. Refrain from using Wikipedia.

The questions are worth 10 points each. Write the answers as a narrative in complete sentences. Make sure to cite your sources for both the image and the research sources in your sketchbook.  Put the URL for the image underneath it. 

 

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500 words max.

Required writing for each piece in your exhibition

Four sentences

Measure in cm

See p. 69/231 

Format see p. 86/231

Assessing writing see p. 73/231

What was your idea? What did you do? What was the final result?

 

 

Sample:

 

 

 

    I have entitled this work, “Babe, Don’t”. The colored pencil drawing, depicts my husband, Jason, and was inspired by Alfred Steiglitz’s photographs of his wife, Freida Kahlo. While we are sitting in close proximity here, at a local diner sharing breakfast, I have attempted to create a disconnect between the audience and subject. I chose to use a symmetrical, frontal view, like that of van Gogh’s “Portrait of Joseph Roulin”. With his face, down, not looking at the viewer, I attempted to convey Jason’s dislike for being in photographs and the center of attention. 

See p. 59-61/231

Assessment see p. 62-3/231

Externally graded

Worth 40%

9-18 screens in a PPT

Two forms of art from two of the three columns but be included 

Look at examples on the Online Curriculum

 

Experimenting, Exploring, Practice of different skills, Media

 

Reflect on your own processes

 

Evidence of investigation 

 

Every image in the PP and VAJ must be cited appropriately: Title, Artist, Date and Source following MLA

 

You may include photos of your work, in progress, in your PP but must note that you took the photo yourself

 

When your work has been influenced in your work, even in PP, you must include it in a bibliography

 

Nothing resolved(meaning completed work to be included in the Exhibition) can be in the PP. If you make a work and have to restart it, you can place the first version in the PP

 

Even digital work, should be screen shot at the end of each working session for the PP. You may included your story board of digital work

 

Stylized work, such as anime, must be original, based on people you know/with local references, not in the style of another artist or character. Stay away from Lucky Charms - no hearts, clovers, flowers, repeated themes that are cliche 

 

You may include text boxes on the slide to describe your process or thoughts on the image(s) especially if your handwriting is illegible or unclear in a photo. 

 

Two forms of art from two of the three columns but be included 

 

You could research the history of an everyday object you want to learn more about with multiple pages of art, research, artwork including the subject matter and/or include works of artists 

 

There should be a visual and written balance on the screens

You can group like work on a slide, for example - drawing from observation, experiments with media, exploring sculpture, 

 

You may want to work in your VAJ in landscape format, to better fit the PPT format

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CS - Externally Assessed/worth 20%

●       Students analyze and compare different artworks by different artists comparing at least three pieces of art, at least two should be by different artists. Use contrasting cultural contexts and eras.

●       10 - 15 screens in a Powerpoint Presentation for S.L.

●       Your work in your exhibition may be inspired by the Comparative Study.

●       See p. 51/231

●       Selected pieces are the student’s own choice and should not be influenced by the teacher

●       Pre-assignment to find your artists: Start with a PPT, creating a list of 15 artists of interest(one slide per artist), clump the artists by era/time period in groups of five (Ex.: five rennaissance artists, five contemporary artists, etc)

●       Be sure to include subject specific language

●       Formal Analysis - EOA & POD see p. 54-5/231

●       Comparative Study Assessment points and possible structure see p. 95-108

●       Visit https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/?hl=it for ideas

●       One slide should contain a venn diagram 

●       To find quotes by artists go to www.theartstory.org {�3�J�

Internally assessed (40%)

(Work to be marked from each screen submitted)

Assessment see p.73-4/231

 

A - Coherent body of works

            A coherent collection of works which fulfills artistic intentions and communicate clear thematic or stylistic relationships across individual pieces

 

B - Technical competence

            Curatorial rationale, the submitted works, exhibition text (for each work) and photographs/videos (for each work) with effective application and manipulation of media and materials and formal qualities

 

C - Conceptual qualities

            To what extent does the work demonstrate effective resolution of imagery, signs and symbols to realize the function, meaning and purpose of the works, as appropriate to stated intentions?

 

D - Curatorial Practice

            To what extent does the rational justify the selection, arrangement of a group of artworks within a designated space? ogle�y���N�