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?
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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? You could be forgiven for thinking that these portraits are photographs, but believe it or not they’re actually drawings by Italian artist Emanuele Dascanio. Some of them take up to 780 hours to complete, and it’s easy to see why when you look at the artist’s amazingly lifelike creations. He draws them using a combination of charcoal and graphite and the subjects are often illuminated with a single source of light that gives every piece a certain renaissance quality about it. This isn’t just a coincidence however, as Dascanio was taught the oil techniques of the old renaissance masters by Italian painter Gianluca Corona. He then combined this knowledge with his own unique style in order to create the beautiful portraits that perfectly blend the classic with the contemporary. 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
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. 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.
Agenda: Warm up: write a response to Frida Kahlo's artwork. What is the main theme? How does she portray herself in her portraits? Charcoal demonstration, practice with the new medium in your sketchbook before starting on your final project. Frida Kahlo Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. Kahlo had a volatile marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered lifelong health problems, many caused by a traffic accident she survived as a teenager. Recovering from her injuries isolated her from other people, and this isolation influenced her works, many of which are self-portraits of one sort or another. Kahlo suggested, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best." 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.
Agenda: Start gridding your photograph 8x10 and final paper 16x20 Draw your grin as light as you can on your final paper Journal in sketchbooks: How would you describe Chuck Close's artwork? What obstacles did he have to face to get where he is now? Coming up on block day: Charcoal demonstration and practice session 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.
Agenda: Finish Chuck Close Packet Start gridding your photograph Meet the Artist Chuck Close 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.
Meet the Artist Chuck Close Charles "Chuck" Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Close is known for using creative and intricate patterns to portray a human portrait. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors.Chuck suffers from prosopagnosia (face blindness) and has suggested that this condition is what first inspired him to do portraits. |
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