Art History & Mixed Media
Assignment Description
Your assignment is to use the many online resources to do a virtual tour of art museums around the world. You will learn to analyze a work of art and then recreate it in your own way using what you have available at home.
Learning Objectives:
I can tour an art museum virtually.
I can evaluate an art piece critically.
I can recreate an art piece using found objects.
I can photograph my work to appear as it does in real life.
Practice and Inspiration
Week 1: Virtual Art Museum Tour & Art Analysis
Directions:
Select one or more of the museum links provided to virtually explore an art museum.
Spend at least 30 minutes exploring the virtual museums.
Select at least one work of art that you are inspired by and want to recreate for your art piece.
4. Complete the art analysis worksheet for the artwork of your choice.
Museum Links:
Analyzing a Work of Art
Analyze Your Selected Work of Art
Select the work of art that you are inspired by from your museum tour.
Analyze the art work using the worksheet here.
Think about how the artist uses the elements of art to develop their style.
Think about the meaning behind the piece.
Fill out the worksheet provided on Google Classroom- in complete sentences!
Elements and Principles of Design- These can help with the "Analyze" portion of the assignment
Week 2: Photographing and Planning
Learning Target: I can photograph my artwork.
Why? To document how your artwork appears in real life.
How? By learning to use proper lighting, angle, and editing.
Video Instructions:
The goal of this week's assignment is to do two things:
1. You will sketch out the art piece you are going to reproduce, analyze the composition, the colors used, and make note about what objects you have around the house that can mimic these shapes and colors.
2. You will use the following photography strategies and practice by photographing your sketch and uploading it to Google Classroom.
Planning:
Directions:
1. Choose a work of art from your virtual museum tour. This should be one you want to recreate with found objects (see examples below).
2. Create a full page sketch of the art piece, in color if possible. It doesn't need to be "perfectly" drawn, the purpose is for planning and thinking things through.
3. Make note of shapes and colors you see- take notes on your sketch of what objects you have around your house that could mimic these shapes and colors.
4. Begin collecting materials.
5. Photograph your sketch using the techniques below and upload it to Google Classroom.
Example:
With Bonito Parrot and Butterfly
Frida Kahlo (Mexican artist, 1907-1954)
1941
Photographing your Art Work:
Especially because we are working digitally, it is important to photograph your work with careful consideration of a few techniques. Please look through the following information so that you can successfully document your work. Your goal is for your photograph to be only your artwork and to appear just as it does in person.
Things to think about when photographing your work:
Lighting- do you have enough light so that your work is visible and clear?
Angle- the clearest angle to photograph your work is head on. You get distortion if you photograph from the side or another odd angle.
Cropping- try to have your art piece FILL the frame of the photo. It doesn't do your work justice to see all the surrounding space. You can also edit the photo on your phone and crop out extra space.
Click on this link for more information:
Summative Assessment
Week 3: Recreate Famous Artwork With Found Objects
Learning Target: I can recreate an art piece using found objects.
Why? To closely observe composition and color
How? By collecting materials that mimic color or texture to the original art piece and arranging them in the same composition.
Directions:
1. Select one work of art from your virtual museum tour to recreate using found objects.
2. Pay attention to composition and color.
3. Use any materials that you have around the house, be creative!
4. Photograph the art piece, post it to Google Classroom.
Examples:
