Students will be able to Investigate art concepts such facial proportions, expressive mark making, the grid method of drawing by listening, writing, and creating a correctly proportioned grid portrait. How can you make your portrait more Unique? Why do Artists create self-portraits? Vocab recap: Proportions, expressive mark making. Alexa Meade (born 1986) is an American installation artist best known for her portraits painted directly onto the human body and inanimate objects in a way that collapses depth and makes her models appear two-dimensional when photographed. What remains is "a photo of a painting of a person, and the real person hidden somewhere underneath." She takes a classical concept — trompe l'oeil, the art of making a two-dimensional representational painting look like a real three-dimensional space — and turns it on its head by doing the opposite, making real life appear to be a painting. Klein Art class inspired by Alexa Meade
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All students will be able to Investigate art concepts such facial proportions, expressive mark making, the grid method of drawing by listening, writing, and creating a correctly proportioned grid portrait.
How can you make your portrait more Unique? Why do Artists create self-portraits? Vocab recap: Proportions, expressive mark making. Warm up: Create a miniature abstract artwork using charcoal while interpreting music All students will be able to Investigate art concepts such facial proportions, expressive mark making, the grid method of drawing by listening, writing, and creating a correctly proportioned grid portrait.
How can you make your portrait more Unique? Why do Artists create self-portraits? Vocab recap: Proportions, expressive mark making. Joseph Loughborough creates multilayered charcoal drawings depicting expressive “fleshy portraiture” of embracing and confronting couples. Currently, Loughborough splits his time between London, Paris and Berlin. "Honesty, expressionism and catharsis can be read from Loughborough’s impulsive and intuitive mark making, which strive to grasp a comprehension of the human condition." All students will be able to Investigate art concepts such facial proportions, expressive mark making, the grid method of drawing by listening, writing, and creating a correctly proportioned grid portrait.
How can you make your portrait more Unique? What characteristics of your portrait show who you are? Why do Artists create self-portraits? Vocab recap: Proportions, expressive mark making. |
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