Artist Research Project

Objective: Students will use POWERPOINT and the internet to create a slide show highlighting the life and work of an artist of their choosing from this list:



You may try http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html and http://www.artchive.com/

Slide 1:
Your Name
Artist’s Full Name
Country of Origin
Portrait or Photograph of artist

Slide 2

Biographical Info:

1. Place/date of birth:
2. Place/date of death:
3. Interesting/Personal information on the artist
4. Favorite Quote about or from the artist

Slide 3

1. Primary type of artwork (ex: painting? drawing? sculpture? printmaking? ceramics)
2. Media (what materials are use?):
3. Style or period of art?
4. Short definition of that style or period (see Artlex or Artcyclopedia):

Slide 4

1. Three other artists who work in this style (from the time period of the artist - or contemporary artists working in this same style). How is the work similar? How is the work different?
2. Timeline (include some key world events that may have influenced this artist) :

Slides 5 - 9

As you are doing your research SAVE FIVE (5) images of the artist's work to your disk (or folder on server). Place one image on each slide

For each image:

1. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site address:
   
2. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site name (or book source if scanned):
   
3. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site name (or book source if scanned):
   
4. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site name (or book source if scanned):
   
5. Title:
   Date: Media: Size:
   Location (museum/collection):
   URL/ site name (or book source if scanned):

Slides 10 and 11

Critique:

Choose one of those pieces of art and answer the following questions:

1. What is the subject matter?
   
2. Genres. Is this a still life (group of things)? a portrait (a painting, drawing or sculpture of a person)? or a landscape/seascape/cityscape (picture of the land/water/city)? other (explain)?
   
3. Style/form: Is this artwork realistic (as real as possible)? abstract (distorted reality)? non-objective (as far from reality as possible)? symbolic? functional? other (explain)?
   
4. Description. Identify the sensory qualities (art elements). Can you identify a color scheme? Why do you think the artist might have chosen the colors she/he did? Do they make sense? What kind of lines did the artist use? How does the texture add to the work? etc.
   
5. Discuss the formal properties - use of design principles.
   
6. Interpretation. What do you think the artists was trying to say? Why do you think he/she chose this subject?
   
7. What feeling does this artwork give you and why?
   
8. What part of the artwork is your favorite and why?
   
9. Judgment: Defend this as a work of art using one of the theories of aesthetics (or combination): Art as Realism - Art for Formal Properties - Art as Expression - Art as Functional

Slide 12

Biography Resources (minimum of three).