Color Theory ReVamp!

For this week you must go to the website link below and write two paragraphs summarizing any new information about color theory that was not covered in class.

COLOR THEORY: For designers

For those of you that I talked to about your summative assessment, you will need to write a 1 page summary of the the website.  And also complete the blog. 

Pop Art

Andy Warhol's soup can, considered a game changing work of art, still mesmerizes viewers today.  Warhol once said that he wanted to "be a machine," and he concerned himself with removing all traces of the human hand from his works of art.  He switched his techniques in order to give his work a precise machine generated look.  For instance, look at the soup can painting above, it looks as if it was printed instead of being a painting.  Why would an artist do this?  Make an educated guess to as to why you think Warhol changed his way of making art? Help me to understand your thinking by providing details. 


***********************REMEMBER NEW RULES***********************************
*Blog responses are due Sundays, no exceptions.
*You have one week to complete blogs
*No more going back to make up blogs
*Each response must be a paragraph (5-10 sentences)
You must comment on someone else blog (agree, disagree, add to it, or make them understand your point of view)
*Your blog response must have your correct name (or else how do I know who you are?)

San Francisco Graffiti Art: COLOR

Hey all,

Since we have been working with color, this week we will be looking at some good old San Francisco Graffiti Art!

Please observe the images below and respond to the following questions as best as you can.

In this particular image you should be able to notice how the cars in the foreground actually seem to be a part of the graffiti piece.  Why is it that they work well with the graffiti?  What color schemes are present?  How do these color schemes make the work stand out?

The is piece really makes use of what element of art?  This element really emphasizes ____________ within the piece.  Describe how color is being used in the background?  Color Schemes?

What dominant color scheme is present here?  Are there any other color schemes?  If so, what are they?  How does the use of yellow affect the work?

There is a very dominant color scheme here, what is it?  Within two of the colors there are other color schemes within, what are those?  How does the overall use of color help with the composition (the way the piece looks or is organized)?

REMINDER:
February 20th will be the last day to make up any blogs from blogs 1-4 that you are missing. 

Welcome Back Kidz!

Did you encounter or see anything artistic while on your break?  If so, please describe and explain in 2 or more sentences.  If not, then think really hard and try to remember.  If you still don't know, then explain in 2 sentences or more something that your learned in semester 1. 

Observe the works of Pat Perry below and answer the questions.  

 Pat Perry

 A Place That's Set Apart, ink and acrylic on paper, 2012

Out in the Yard, ink on paper, 2012

Write down 3 words that come to mind when looking at the above paintings.  Explain why you have chosen the 3 words.  Answer in complete sentences. 

What are three major elements of art used within the work titled, A Place That's Set Apart?   Explain how each is used in complete sentences. 

Other than having been created by the same artist, both of these works of art have many things in common.   Think of at least two everyday things that they have in common and explain them in 2 or more sentences. 

Now that you have examined these works closely, what can you tell about the artist?  Does he work with a theme?  Do his works have meaning?  Explain in complete sentences. 

Advanced Art: Ist Sketchbook Assignment.

 Read the example below and then use the template to create your own "Where I'm From" Poem.  This will be attached to the first page of your sketchbook. 

Where I'm From

By George Ella Lyons (1993)

I am from clothespins,
from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
I am from the dirt under the back porch.
(Black, glistening,
it tasted like beets.)
I am from the forsythia bush
the Dutch elm
whose long-gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.

I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,
          from Imogene and Alafair.
I'm from the know-it-alls
          and the pass-it-ons,
from Perk up! and Pipe down!
I'm from He restoreth my soul
          with a cottonball lamb
          and ten verses I can say myself.

I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch,
fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost
          to the auger,
the eye my father shut to keep his sight.

Under my bed was a dress box
spilling old pictures,
a sift of lost faces
to drift beneath my dreams.
I am from those moments--
snapped before I budded --
leaf-fall from the family tree.

“Where I’m From” Pre-Writing

On a separate piece of paper, use the following categories to list specific details related to you. The key is making this as specific and personal as possible. Use nicknames or words that only you or your family use. Don't worry about readers not knowing what you're talking about.

a) Parents’ names and/or the names of close relatives

b) Special foods or meals

c) Family-specific games or activities

d) Favorite songs

e) Stories, novels or poetry that you'll never forget

f) Phrases that were repeated often

g) The best things that you have been told

h) The worst things that you have been told

i) Ordinary household items

j) Family traditions

k) Family characteristics (i.e. everyone has brown eyes)

l) Family tendencies (i.e. everyone tends to laugh a lot)

m) Religious symbols or experiences

n) Specific stories about a specific family member that influenced you

o) Accidents or traumatic experiences

p) Losses

q) Joys

r) Location of memories, pictures, or mementos

 Name__________

The WHERE I'M FROM Template

I am from _______ (specific ordinary item), from _______ (product name) and _______.
I am from the _______ (home description... adjective, adjective, sensory detail).
I am from the _______ (plant, flower, natural item), the _______ (plant, flower, natural detail)
I am from _______ (family tradition) and _______ (family trait), from _______ (name of family member) and _______ (another family name) and _______ (family name).
I am from the _______ (description of family tendency) and _______ (another one).
From _______ (something you were told as a child) and _______ (another).
I am from (representation of religion, or lack of it). Further description.
I'm from _______ (place of birth and family ancestry), _______ (two food items representing your family).
From the _______ (specific family story about a specific person and detail), the _______ (another detail, and the _______ (another detail about another family member).
I am from _______ (location of family pictures, mementos, archives and several more lines indicating their worth).

Animo Watts Visual Arts/Mobile Mural Lab Project

Hello all,

I just wanted to share an amazing project that has come to fruition between Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy and Mobile Mural Lab.

Mobile Mural Lab is an awesome program run by David Russell and Robert Del Hoyo who are exceptional artists that have earned M.F.A degrees from Otis College of Art and Design. 

The Mobile Mural Lab (MML) collaborates with artists, organizations, cultural institutions, schools, and communities to facilitate interactive mural painting programs, events and workshops.

Together with students from Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy, Mobile Mural Lab has given the opportunity for our school to further provide current and future students a vision of "a college bound culture" both philosophically and literaly.

Mobile Mural Lab came to our school and worked with my 11th and 10th grade students to produce the mural below.  

Please take the time to view the following pictures below and also visit the MobileMuralLab page for more info about them.  I highly recommend them to any one and any school that wants an awesome interactive arts project.

Black Painting No. 34 1964

Ad Reinhardt
American, 1913–1967
Black Painting No. 34, 1964
Oil on canvas, 1.530 x 1.526 m
(601/4 x 601/8 in.)

 In the 1950's Ad Reinhardt, began limiting the colors in his paintings and then eventually only painted black on canvas.  His all black paintings took a lot of work to create.  To create them he mixed reds, blues, and other colors with black creating slightly different color tones within the black painting.  These color changes could be seen as the viewer looks closely at the painting.  Reinhardt created this painting without leaving many brushstrokes.  His pictures are static—“timeless” he called them.  He insisted they were the ultimate paintings.

 Your Task
The statement below is meant to explain this black painting.  What do you think it means?  Try to figure out it's meaning by reading each sentence and comparing it to the painting.  

1. Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
11. Painting as central, frontal, regular, repetitive.
18. Brushwork that brushes out brushwork.
20. The strictest formula for the freest artistic freedom.
21. The easiest routine to the difficulty.
23. The extremely impersonal way for the truly personal.
24. The completest control for the purest spontaneity.


—Ad Reinhardt, from “25 lines of words on art: Statement,”1958