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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

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#13 Barbara Kruger (b. 1945)

3/30/2018

In your sketchbook, document this Artist Spotlight by #, name/dates, image (sketched or printed), and credit line info.

Since you have already learned about Barbara Kruger through the Scholastic magazine reading/assignment, there will be no further questions. Please keep those notes for reference and review.

If you are still curious about Barbara Kruger's work, here is some information about an installation at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.

Untitled (We don't need another hero)
1987
Photographic silkscreen/vinyl
90" x 117"
Courtesy: Mary Boone Gallery, New York

#12 - Audrey Flack (1931 - )

3/7/2018

Marilyn (Vanitas)
1977
Oil over acrylic on canvas
8’ x 8’

Read this article and take good notes: Audrey Flack: Breaking the Rules
Look at the additional images provided in the article, especially "Jolie Madame," also shown below.

Watch this video and take good notes:

AFTER CAREFULLY REVIEWING THE RESOURCES ASSIGNED ABOVE: Answer the following questions completely and with specificity to the provided resources, previous Artist Spotlight information, personal reflection, and additional research as needed:

Define each of the following terms: Allegory, Appropriation, Juxtaposition, Kitsch, Oeuvre, and Old Master.
What are the "rules" that Audrey Flack broke? (including the one "rule" that earned Flack specific criticism, beyond that of her male counterparts).
Both the article and the video covered a lot of ground... What have you come away with in terms of new or reinforced knowledge, inspiration, curiosity, thoughts, questions, etc.?

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Art 2/Artist Spotlights

#13 Barbara Kruger (b. 1945)

#12 - Audrey Flack (1931 - )

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