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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!

#1 Raphael (1483 - 1520)

9/24/2018

Full name: Raffaello Sanzio (or Santi) da Urbino

Read and take notes:

(adapted from https://www.raphaelsanzio.org/biography.html)

Raphael was one of the finest draftsmen in the history of Western art, and used drawings extensively to plan his compositions.
Raphael's art marks "a shift of resources away from production to research and development".
When a final composition was achieved, scaled-up full-size cartoons were often made, which were then pricked with a pin and "pounced" with a bag of soot to leave dotted lines on the surface as a guide.
Most Raphael drawings are rather precise—even initial sketches with naked outline figures are carefully drawn, and later working drawings often have a high degree of finish, with shading and sometimes highlights in white.
He was one of the last artists to use metalpoint (literally a sharp pointed piece of sliver or another metal) extensively, although he also made superb use of the freer medium of red or black chalk.
In his final years he was one of the first artists to use female models for preparatory drawings—male pupils ("garzoni") were normally used for studies of both sexes

Additional biographical information - read and take notes:
https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1818.html#biography

Watch, listen, and take notes:

This is a collection of Raphael's drawings - just look; pay attention to subject, composition, line quality, gesture, mark-making, and modeling of form.

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.

Raphael was the younger contemporary of both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo... compare the birth/death dates of these three artists and put this relationship into perspective.
Artists respond to what is happening around them... 1) What ground-breaking work of Leonardo da Vinci caught Raphael's eye in 1504? 2) What subsequent inspirations hit him in 1508?
The terms cartoon, metalpoint, humanism (humanist), and fresco were used in the assigned readings. If you can define these terms on your own, please do so on the Renaissance/Old Master vocabulary handout you were given. If not, look up the definitions. Then, read through the remaining vocabulary on the handout and define only the terms that you already know (write in your own words/leave the unknown words alone for now).

The Artist Spotlight Series

9/10/2018

What WAS Art? What IS Art? WHY is Art? What WILL Art Become....? HOW will YOUR art compare?

By now you are fully aware.... Art and art history are inextricably linked... This series will take you through selected periods of art history and will allow you to consider how and why art has changed over the years. This investigation may help you to answer the questions above, although you'll likely change and refine your answers throughout the year. As you consider the life, times, and innovations of each artist, think also about how this knowledge can affect the art that YOU will make.

Reminders:

The thumbnail sketches associated with these sketchbook entries will serve as opportunities to draw every day but they are separate from your "Daily Drawings."
A thumbnail sketch is small and quickly done BUT it should still be completed with effort and observation. Pay attention to contours, shapes, proportion, composition, etc. This type of observation helps you to better understand the work of art and how the artist may have approached their work.
Pay special attention to the ways that art has changed over the years - but perhaps you'll also notice similarities... what drives ALL artists?
We will only scratch the surface - art history is HUGE and it keeps growing. Take any opportunity to be curious about things that we are not able to cover in this course. AND don't forget what you learned in Art 1 and Art 2.

Remember...? The Art 1 Artist Spotlight series covered Prehistory, Ancient Greece, the Italian Renaissance, and a brief conversation about Modernism and the artists who broke the traditional molds. This hop-skip-jump approach offered the ability for beginning art students to reflect on what art is, why art looks the way it does, how art reflects and changes with cultural norms and shifts, and who some of the major players were.

Remember...? The Art 2 Artist Spotlight series started with a survey of Still Life painting before moving on to Baroque figurative painting, Photorealism, a review of Pop Art, and an Intro. to Neo-Pop and other contemporary modes of art production. The artists and styles/media/processes studied in Art 2 further supported the goals from Art 1 but with an added focus on new ideas and challenging media.

SO.... for Art 3, we want to build on this conversation. While European art will still be studied, we will shift our focus to America, which for a very long time did not have the influence in the art world as Europe did. There are obvious reasons why... but it took until the 1940s before New York City would rival Paris as a power player in the art world. So we want to talk about that fact and to understand that shift and what it meant for ART in general... and what it means for YOU.

Additionally, we will try to maintain a global focus while also discussing artists and time periods that may get overlooked and/or are directly related to class projects.

PLEASE NOTE: As an Art 3 student, you will also be charged with selecting and researching your own Artist Spotlights, as related to the current project and to be posted on your website.

To get us started, let's review:

Watch the video below
Take notes to document a general timeline of art history and any other important/interesting facts, bits of information, thoughts, etc.
Write a reflective response, which may include some or all of the following:

What did you already know - what information was review from Art 1 or 2 or other courses?
What information was totally new to you - what would you like to investigate further?
What are your thoughts on the content of this video - did the info. help to support or challenge your previous ideas about art?
Any other connections or reactions.

The 2 videos below are also really good to remind ourselves about the importance of art and the development of art history....

The video below is best watched in VR...otherwise, use a smart phone and physically move it around or use the track pad/mouse on a computer.

Art 3/Artist Spotlights

#1 Raphael (1483 - 1520)

The Artist Spotlight Series

What WAS Art? What IS Art? WHY is Art? What WILL Art Become....? HOW will YOUR art compare?

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