OP ART: THE POWER OF PATTERN AND CONTRAST

Hey all observe the following images and answer the questions below:

1. In the first image, how do complementary colors add to the overall image?  How do they make the image work?  What other color schemes are present?  Where is the focal point?

2.  Explain how you think the second image was created?  How do the colors add to the illusion of depth?  Explain.

3.  And finally, in image #3, what drawing technique is used to create the illusion of depth?  You learned this in first semester.  Explain how it was used.

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Surrealism: Salvador Dali

Hello Kidz!

Salvador Dali, "Geopoliticus, Child Watching the Birth of a New Man"

You answer in a comment on this blog the following questions:

Remember Surrealism is:

a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Description:
1. What is the first word that comes to mind when you first view this painting?
2. How would you describe it?

3. Is there anything that stand out to you?

Analysis:
4. What kind of painting is this?  Is it a landscape, portrait, or?
5. Is it realistic, imaginary, or?
6. How is line and shape used?

Interpretation:
7. What is the message behind this work?  How does it speak to you? 
8. Explain the four components of Surrealism (they are listed below).

Dream like state of mind: a feeling of euphoria a sense of the surreal, out of reality.

Distortion: the manipulation of images or objects.

Juxtaposition or displacement: items out of place, items together that don’t belong.

Fetish: an obsession with something, an idea or object.

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Color Scheme Analysis

Observe the images below and answer the questions in the comment box.

 1.  Observe the image to the left.  What color scheme is present?  Which colors seem to be stronger? And how do you know?

2.  What color scheme is present here?  How do you know?  What effect are the colors making?

 3.  What color scheme is present here? How do you know?  Explain how it was made.

 4.  What kind of contrast is present here?  How would it make the viewer feel?  Explain.

5.  Observe the image, what can you tell about the thin rectangles within the larger rectangles?  How are the outer colors affecting the thin rectangle colors?





















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Pope Innocent X

The image on the left is called Pope Innocent X by Velasquez, 1650.

The image on the right is called Study after Velasquez Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon, 1953.  

Francis Bacon was an artist that created works of art that depicted images of pain, distortion, and emotionally raw scenes.  


How are these portraits similar?  Explain.   How are they different?  Explain.

Why do you think Francis Bacon would portray the Pope in this manner?  Explain.

What is the overall message in Bacon's work?  Explain.  Remember your answers are opinions.  There is no right or wrong answers. 

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Calder's Mobiles

 Alexander Calder

Calder's first New York City exhibition was in 1928, and other exhibitions in Paris and Berlin gained him international recognition as a significant artist. A visit to Piet Mondrian's studio proved pivotal. Calder began to work in an abstract style, finishing his first nonobjective construction in 1931.

In early 1932, he exhibited his first moving sculpture in an exhibition organized by Marcel Duchamp, who coined the word "mobile." In May 1932, Calder's fame was consolidated by the first United States show of his mobiles. Some were motor-driven, His later wind-driven mobiles enabled the sculptural parts to move independently, as Calder said, "by nature and chance."  Calder returned to the United States to live and work in Roxbury, Massachusetts in June 1932.

From the 1940s on, Calder's works, many of them large-scale outdoor sculptures, have been placed in virtually every major city of the Western world. In the 1950s, he created two new series of mobiles: "Towers," which included wall-mounted wire constructions, and "Gongs," mobiles with sound.

Calder was prolific and worked throughout his career in many art forms. He produced drawings, oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, gouache and serigraphy. He also designed jewelry, tapestry, theatre settings and architectural interiors.   Calder died in 1976.  (text from http://rogallery.com/Calder_Alexander/calder-biography.htm)

Calder's art today is known as kinetic art.  Art based on movement, time, and space.  

1.  How do you think that this type of art changes the way people look at art?  Explain.

2. What do you think about Calder's choice of colors?

3. Calder's work has also served the purpose of installation art.  How do you think that works like those above can change the environment of where it is installed?  How will people react?  

4. How would you react if one of Calder's works were put outside of our school?


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Portrait Drawing Time Lapse Video

Hello all,

Since we will be beginning a project that will incorporate both drawing and painting processes, I would like for you to watch the above video and answer the following questions.  

How does the artist begin the portrait?  What is interesting about the beginning process?  Explain.

Would you consider this a realistic drawing?  Why or why not?  

What materials does the artist use and how?

How does the artist manipulate or work with contrast (light vs. dark)?

Where are the highlights on the portrait?  Where are the darkest areas?

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Guerilla Girls

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While the Guerilla Girls were controversial and highly visible to the Art public' eye their identities remained concealed for a while. They set out to bring to light the long time gender discrimination in the world of art. The felt strongly that there was not enough art created by women in museums and galleries.

So they set out to use the piece above in protest and unfortunately were shot down because it was deemed to provacative. What are your thoughts on this?  Was the piece too provacative?  Why would they allow it on billboards were all could see them in the streets and not in a museum.  Do you think that women have equal opportunities in the art world?  Why or why not?   Explain your answers.