Students will demonstrate an understanding of how artists use art for social change while creating their own artwork about a chosen social issue.
What social issues affect you or speak to you. What social issues affect your community? A social issue is a problem that influences a considerable number of the individuals within a society. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's social issue is the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally just personal life or societal order. Agenda: Meet in assigned small groups and discuss the topic that you are making your artwork about. Discuss, how can you use art for social change? Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, and sexuality. Much of Kruger's work pairs found photographs with pithy and assertive text that challenges the viewer. Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. What is the role of arts in social movements? How do artists use their work to protest or bring attention to their ideas or concerns?
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Students will demonstrate an understanding of how artists use art for social change while creating their own artwork about a chosen social issue. What social issues affect you or speak to you. What social issues affect your community? A social issue is a problem that influences a considerable number of the individuals within a society. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's social issue is the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally just personal life or societal order. List of possible social issues you could choose from. Pawel Kuczynski is a polish artist and cartoonist whose satirical drawings are as thought provoking as they are interesting to look at. It’s no surprise as his work has a unique way of evoking deep thought, while the images he creates can be described as straightforward and simple.
“I’m an observer,” he said of where he gets the inspiration behind his work. “We all live together on (sic) this world, for so many years but we keep doing the same mistakes.” Watching the way we treat one another, the earth and animals has obviously inspired him to provoke conscious contemplation, though not every piece he does is intended to be a serious commentary. Often including jokes, he takes a light hearted approach on occasion to depict his musings, though his subjects by default are timely and painfully real. Which is precisely why Kuczynki’s work resonates so strongly for so many. He draws what he sees in the world around him, the same world we all share. By putting animals into his work with a satirical tone, we can look at these issues through a different lens. Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how to work with theme a through the creation of 3 artist trading cards.
Theme: What do you care about? What moves you? This miniature project will help you in the brainstorming process for the next project: Social Issue Posters Agenda for today: Create a miniature piece of artwork about something that you care about. The piece today does not have to be about a political statement. Due at the end of class today Day of the final
Agenda: Piper video Self assessment Artist statement Peer comment activity Studio clean-up Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to draw the figure proportionately, and how to use expressive line quality through the creation of a mixed-media figure drawing.
Last day to work on final projects! Final: Critique, Self Reflection, Clean up Below are high school examples of how students drew the figure to create meaning. Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to draw the figure proportionately, and how to use expressive line quality through the creation of a mixed-media figure drawing.
Warm up? POPCORN! How can you take your figure drawing to the next level? How will you make sure that your project is done before the final? How will you use line expressively? Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to draw the figure proportionately, and how to use expressive line quality through the creation of a mixed-media figure drawing.
"I have been making paintings with collage for approximately 30 years. The spontaneity of collage combined with the rigors of painting and drawing create multiple meanings whose sorting and unraveling drives the content. My subjects are improvisations and it is here where my humor, discomfort, incomprehension, and pleasure can coexist. This indirect method appeals to me because of the unpredictability and technical demands that it presents. The fusion of photographic images and paint generates tensions within the vocabulary of picture making which in turn becomes a further source of motivation and inspiration. Art history's endless examples of visual translation offer me a rich encyclopedia of visual forms upon which I improvise and reflect. I have divided the images into distinct subject headings in order to organize different bodies of work dating back to the early 1980's. You will see recurrent themes or motifs that I have revisited over the years, reexamined from new perspectives or modified by different technical applications." - Mary Lou Zelazny Through listening and drawing, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of proportion through the creation of a figure drawing.
Things to think about while looking at Wojciech's work: How does he use line variation? How does he make his lines look expressive? What medias does he use? Warm up Block day: Using charcoal, oil pastel and water, create a abstract work of art showing expressive line quality. You may add a figure, this should be done quickly! Wojciech Pelc’s paintings are all about the figure, the figure as metaphor. Pelc has a huge amount of work including film, graphic art, photography and sculpture all asking questions, his search for the truth about man and his relationship with the environment and each other, sometimes using biblical references other times merely using symbols and patterns found in nature. Through listening and drawing, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of proportion through the creation of a figure drawing.
What social issues affect you or speak to you? What social issues affect your community? What social issues would you want to raise awareness on? Diego Rivera was the most visible figure in Mexican muralism, a large-scale public-art initiative that emerged in the 1920s in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. During the Mexican Revolution that began in 1910 Diego Rivera used his talents as a painter to fuel the movement with passion. Widely known for his Marxist leanings, Rivera, along with Marxism Revolutionary Che Guevara and a small band of contemporary figures, has become a countercultural symbol of 20th century, and created a legacy in paint that continue to inspire the imagination and mind. Diego Rivera was born in December of 1886 and first began creating art and murals at the age of three after the death of his twin brother. Young Diego's parents caught him drawing on the walls of their home but rather than punish him for it they instead nurtured his growing creativity. They installed canvas and chalkboard on the walls and let Rivera create as he saw fit. The world in which Diego grew up in was a hotbed of revolution. Much like his art studies and chronicles the political atmosphere of the world around him, being a witness to Russian Revolution while traveled aboard as well as the Mexican Revolution upon his return home only helped guide Rivera's paintings to include this vital theme of life. Combining this timely influence with storytelling similar to Mayan stele Rivera created murals that told the stories of the people rather than the powers that governed over them. Through listening and drawing, students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of proportion through the creation of a figure drawing.
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." |
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