Advanced Art: Life, Animals, People, and Art

Tiffany Bozic

Tiffany Bozic is an acute observer.  Her animal and plant life paintings are self-portraits.  According to her, the paintings are linked with her personal life emotionally.  She studies nature and its behavior which in turn helps her to create visually stunning and surreal works of art.

 

 What color scheme is present here?  How do you know?  Analyze this work.  What do you see?  Explain what you think it means.  What elements and principles are being used?

 
 What color scheme is present here?  How do you know?  Analyze this work.  What do you see?  Explain what you think it means.  What elements and principles are being used?

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Surrealism

Observe the 2 Surrealist paintings above.  One is an older painting by Rene Magritte (you learned about him in class) called Time Transfixed and the other is Rain Spell by Temporary Peace.  Keep in mind that Time Transfixed was created in 1938 and the Rain spell was created sometime within the last 10 years.  

1.  In your opinion, how has Surrealistic painting changed from Magritte's time to recent works?  Give examples. 

2.  What subjects or objects within the paintings suggest things that were important from the time periods?

3.  Make comparisons, what do both have in common?  What is different?  

4.  How do both paintings follow the characteristics of Surrealism?  (Dreamlike state of mind, fetish, and items that don't belong.) 

Make sure you answer intelligently and in complete sentences.  Also don't forget to respond one other person's respond.

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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ADVANCED ART CLASS: LA LOTERIA

La Loteria Unit is here!  

 

 

Your Task: 

You are to look up the several image of La Loteria Cards.  When you find 3 that you like.  (These will be the same 3 that you will base your artwork on).  You will develop a riddle for each one.  See examples above.   You will type your riddles into the comment box.

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*Your blog response must have your correct name and your class period. (or else how do I know who you are?)

Pop Art Characteristics

What Are the Key Characteristics of Pop Art?

• Recognizable imagery, drawn from popular media and products.
• Usually very bright colors.
• Flat imagery influenced by comic books and newspaper photographs.
• Images of celebrities or fictional characters in comic books, advertisements and fan magazines.
• In sculpture, an innovative use of media

Observe the images below and using the information above determine whether they are Pop art or not.  Choose a minimum of 3 images.  Write your responses below (4 sentence minimum). 

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HOW TO POP ART

Hey all,

The following is information intended to supplement what we have learned in class.  Please take the time to view all the videos and read all of the information.

The key characteristics of Pop Art

•Recognizable imagery, drawn from popular media and products.

•Depiction of popular consumer products.

•Usually very bright colors and high contrast.

•Flat imagery influenced by comic books, newspapers, photographs.

•The use of Ben‐day dots.

•Images of celebrities or fictional characters in comic books, advertisements and fan magazines.

•In sculpture, an innovative use of Media.

The following links are to videos that will provide information, ideas, techniques, and ways on how to begin your Pop Art Chucks work of art.

A GUIDE TO POP ART

WHAT IS POP ART?  TATE KIDS

HOW TO DRAW A POP ART PORTRAIT

HOW TO DRAW POP ART LIPS

LADY GAGA POP ART

HOW TO DRAW POP ART PICTURES

Once you have watched all of the videos, describe how you plan to complete you Pop Art Chucks in a comment below.  (minimum 5 sentences).

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COLOR: VISUALLY APPEALING

This week I would like top to think about how color affects the decisions you make.  Many of us are attracted to specific color combinations.  Because of this attraction color is a very helpful in sales and marketing.  Consumers love attractive packaging designed with amazing color combinations.

In this same manner, graphic artists love to work with color because it is appealing to the eye.  Website designers are always looking for the best ways to attract people to their websites.  The link below will take you to a website that has various samples of website designs.  

WEBSITE COLOR SCHEMES

Your task is to:

Choose the one Website Design that appeals to you the most and answer the following questions:

What is the name of the design?

Why have you chosen this design?  Explain.

What first attracted you to this design? Explain.

What color schemes are present in the design?  How do you know?  Explain.

What else caught your eye?  Explain.

Was the rule of thirds used?  Explain.

How does the layout of the design work with the color?  (movement, focal point, contrast, rule of thirds, pattern, shape, etc?)  Explain.


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*You have one week to complete blogs
*All questions must have a response. 
*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 and your class period. (or else how do I know who you are?)

COLOR SCHEMES

IDENTIFY ALL OF THE COLOR SCHEMES ASSOCIATED WITH EACH PAINTING BELOW.

The work above by Piet Mondrian displays what color scheme?  Explain.

What color scheme did Picasso use in the painting above?  Explain.

What color scheme did Monet us in the painting above?  Explain.



***********************REMEMBER NEW RULES***********************************
*Blog responses are due Sundays, no exceptions.
*You have one week to complete blogs
*All questions must have a response. 
*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 and your class period. (or else how do I know who you are?)