- Describe the elements and principles of a masterpiece from an American Artist.
- Research and analyze the chosen work.
- Use Flash to create a Mini-site using the information learned from your research.
California Visual Arts Standards
- 1.3 Research and analyze the work of an artist and write about the artist’s distinctive style
and its contribution to the meaning of the work.
- 1.4 Analyze and describe how the composition of a work of art is affected by the use of a
particular principle of design.
National Educational Technology Standards
- Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
Gather information...
- Choose an artist and art pieces or movement.
- Research your topic. Gather this information and save it in a word document, keep track of where you get this information (sources).
- Gather enough information to be able to write at least three paragraphs about the movement or artist of your choice.
- Save five images of work that exemplify the artists body of work or movement of art.
- Artlex :: "You'll find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references. "
- Artcyclopedia :: "The Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives: find out where the works of over 8000 different fine artists can be viewed online."
- How to Critique :: Artsedge offers, "... a sample set of focus questions for an art critique related to four major areas of art criticism: description, analysis, interpretation, judgment."
- Research Checklist :: Items to include as you research and write your paragraphs.