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Art 3/Artist Spotlights

You will be introduced to selected works of art and artists as they relate to the curriculum. In your sketchbook:
1. Complete a thumbnail sketch of the work
2. Document the #, heading, and credit line
3. Review all provided resources - take notes
4. Answer the questions completely and with specificity; complete sentences should reveal the question (write legibly or type/print)

Entries started in class must be completed as homework by the same day/next week

MORE ART HISTORY!

#4 Another Old Master - DUE Nov. 5

10/29/2018

Access the Art 3 student websites in order to review the AWARENESS POSTS (AS#3) that were created about the old masters whose is being copied (due 10/29/18).

Domenico Ghirlandaio: Elizabeth
Leonardo da Vinci: Ria and Natalie
Albrecht Dürer: Alex
Raphael: Shreya, Rylan, and Helen
Parmigianino: Raina
Tiepolo: Ada
François Boucher: Lucy, Amelia, and Maya
Eugene Delacroix: Julianne
Mary Cassatt: Genisus

Choose an Old Master to study by creating an Artist Spotlight entry in your sketchbook (this is AS #4). Follow the standard directions, including answering the provided questions completely and with specificity to the provided resources, notes taken, personal reflection, and additional research as needed. Make sure to consider how this information is relevant to your current work and practice.

#3 Your Old Master - DUE Oct. 29

10/15/2018

NOTE: this is a WS assignment

For Artist Spotlight #3, please create an AWARENESS POST (on your website) about the old master whose work you are copying (click this link to access the full directions).

Once posted, classmates will be assigned an artist(s) to investigate using the standard sketchbook "Artist Spotlight format," including answers to the questions you have asked.

#2 Donatello (1386 - 1466)

10/1/2018

Full name: Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi
Fun fact: Donatello was an apprentice to Lorenzo Ghiberti

David (front and rear view)
c. 1440
bronze
158 cm (approx. 5' 2")
Museo Nazionale de Bargello
Florence. Italy

FIRST unsupported standing bronze statue cast during the Renaissance.
FIRST of three famous Davids sculpted during the Renaissance: #2) the more conventional bronze by Andrea del Verrochio (1475); #3) the famous statue of David by Michelangelo (1501-4).
Another famous version includes the Baroque statue by Bernini (1624) (remember the qualities of Baroque art? You can clearly see them in Bernini's statues, yes?)(Reminds you of the transformation of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic statues, yes?)
Based on the Biblical story of David, the young, Jewish fighter killed the Philistine giant, Goliath, in single combat and armed only with a sling and a few pebbles = Allegorical reference to the Republic of Florence.
Iconography: 1) Sword of Goliath in his right hand, 2) Rock in other hand, 3) Foot on Goliath's severed head

Statues of "David" by Donatello (1440), Michelangelo (1501-4) and Bernini (1624)

Any study of the "Old Masters" begins in the Italian Renaissance. Your drawing project is designed to help you better understand this critical time period - because understanding the context of the times will help you make a better drawing. It is in this era that the definition of art - and role of the artist - begins to change significantly. This change is critical to the continued evolution of art. Do you know what these specific changes were?

AFTER CAREFULLY REVIEWING THE RESOURCES ASSIGNED ABOVE: Answer the following questions completely and with specificity to the provided resources, notes taken, personal reflection, and additional research as needed. Make sure to consider how this information is relevant to your current work and practice.

We have gone back in history a bit with Donatello... compare the birth/death dates of Donatello with Raphael, who you just studied, in order to put their lives into perspective within the period known as the Italian Renaissance.
Why is Donatello considered to be such an important artist?
The video covered a lot of ground. What did you know, what did you not know, what did you find to be of particular significance?
Review the vocabulary list your were given - are you able to add to any of the definitions based on the information provided here...? Do it!

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Art 3/Artist Spotlights

#4 Another Old Master - DUE Nov. 5

#3 Your Old Master - DUE Oct. 29

#2 Donatello (1386 - 1466)

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