Artist Hero Post
Select an artist/photographer and learn about their work. What themes are important in their work? What materials do they use? What is their background? Post 3-5 images of their work, but select one to do a thorough analysis of using the questions below to guide you.
Analysis Guidelines for Artist Research:
How were the elements arranged to order and control:
Unity
Variety
Balance (symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial)
Harmony
Emphasis or Dominance
Rhythm and Movement
Contrast
Proportion/Scale
How do you feel when you look at the piece?
What viewer response does the piece evoke?
What is the mood of the work?
Does the work tell a story?
What do you think was the artist’s purpose for creating the piece?
Is it, or should it be, an important piece in art history?
How does the work fit into the historical time period in which it was created?
Has the piece had influence over other’s work?
Does the title make sense to the artwork? How does the title relate?
Select an artist/photographer and learn about their work. What themes are important in their work? What materials do they use? What is their background? Post 3-5 images of their work, but select one to do a thorough analysis of using the questions below to guide you.
Analysis Guidelines for Artist Research:
- Description
- Who is the artist?
- What is the title of the work?
- When was it created?
- What is it made out of? (media)
- What is the size?
- What is the setting of the work?
- Is it additive, subtractive, or cast?
- What is it? (include subject matter and note details)
- Analysis- Identify and describe the elements and principles of design that pertain to your piece:
- Line
- Color
- Shape
- Form
- Texture
- Space
- Value
How were the elements arranged to order and control:
Unity
Variety
Balance (symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial)
Harmony
Emphasis or Dominance
Rhythm and Movement
Contrast
Proportion/Scale
- Interpretation
How do you feel when you look at the piece?
What viewer response does the piece evoke?
What is the mood of the work?
Does the work tell a story?
What do you think was the artist’s purpose for creating the piece?
- Judgement
Is it, or should it be, an important piece in art history?
How does the work fit into the historical time period in which it was created?
Has the piece had influence over other’s work?
Does the title make sense to the artwork? How does the title relate?
Artists to Research: Drawing
Francis Bacon Jean-Michel Basquiat Hieronymous Bosch Emily Carr Mary Cassatt Marc Chagall Thomas Cole Salvador Dali Jim Dine Albrecht Durer Richard Diebenkorn Fransisco de Goya El Greco Grace Hartigan David Hockney Edward Hopper Jasper Johns Frida Kahlo Anselm Kiefer Gustav Klimt Kathe Kollwitz Judith Leyster Roy Lichtenstein Rene Magritte Henri Matisse Amedeo Modigliani Piet Mondrian Claude Monet Berthe Morisot Edvard Munch Alice Neel Georgia O‘Keefe Jackson Pollock Faith Ringgold Norman Rockwell Henri Rousseau Egon Shiele Georges Seurat Wayne Thiebauld Henri Toulouse-Lautrec Cy Twombly Vincent VanGogh Andy Warhol James Whistler Andrew Wyeth |
Photographers to Research:
http://troutmanart.weebly.com/photographer-research.html Diane Arbus Andre Kertesz Garry Winogrand Lee Frielander Alfred Stieglitz Dorothea Lange Robert Frank Edward Weston Henri Cartier-Bresson Annie Leibowitz Cindy Sherman Imogen Cunningham Walker Evans |