Find out on the web! We all seek meaning and purpose in our lives. Many artists have addressed mood, meaning, and purpose in their art. Let's try to find some of these artworks on the Internet and see what we can learn from them. (Cyber Search).1. What does art show us about life? Explore one of the web pages about Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Berry, former province, France Berry (bĕrē`), former province, central France. Bourges, the capital, and Châteauroux are the chief towns. , a medieval book of illustrations: www.ibiblio.org/wm/rh/ www.thebeckoning.com/art/limbourg/limbourg.html humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/heures.html Who were the artists? What is the purpose of this book? Look at the calendar illustration for the month of your birthday and describe what you see. What are people doing in the artwork? What themes and events in life are usually associated with this month? What can we learn today about people's viewpoints on life at the time it was painted? 2. What do people make art for? Let's let's Contraction of let us. look at some African art African art, art created by the peoples south of the Sahara. The predominant art forms are masks and figures, which were generally used in religious ceremonies. objects: web8.si.edu/nmafawebdb/ www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/ipi/ipi.htm www.seattleartmuseum.org/Exhibitions/LongSteps /web/default.htm www.africanart.org/html/exhibitions.html Can you find something that you are curious about? What is it? How do you think the artist made it? What do you think it was used for? How could you find out more? 3. Can art express feelings? Look at your favorite art website or look at some images by Henri Matisse Noun 1. Henri Matisse - French painter and sculptor; leading figure of fauvism (1869-1954) Henri Emile Benoit Matisse, Matisse : www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/ www.artchive.com/artchive/M/matisse.html www.nga.gov/cgibin/psearch?Request= A&Person=21250 Can you find an artwork representing a happy mood? A sad mood? What other moods can be expressed? Find at least one more on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . 4. Visit one or more of these web pages featuring paintings by Vincent van Gogh: www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/main_az.htm www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/ www.artchive.com/artchive/V/vangogh.html Look at several works by this artist. Pick the artwork that interests you most. What moods do you think the artist is trying to express in this painting? What features in the artwork made you think that? How was the artist able to convey these moods to the viewer A program that displays the contents of an electronic (digital) file. Viewers may be stand-alone programs or components within a larger program. They are widely used to display images downloaded from BBSs, online services and the Internet. ? 5. Some artworks This article is about the software drawing application. For art objects, see work of art. ArtWorks is an advanced vector drawing package for RISC OS created by Computer Concepts (now Xara) in 1991. It has been developed by MW Software since 1996. are not as easy to analyze because they are nonobjective, that is, they don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. show any people, places, or things. Many modern artists work nonobjectively to express their unique ideas and feelings. How does an artist communicate this way? Can you explain how these artworks express ideas and feelings? www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/ www.artchive.com/artchive/P/pollock.html www.abstractart.20m.com/Jackson_Pollock.html Now that you've you've Contraction of you have. you've you have you've have finished the CyberSearch, think about the images you've seen and what you have discovered. Can these artists influence you in creating an artwork about yourself? 6. What are important themes in your life today? Imagine you are going to represent them in a drawing or painting. What will it look like? Will it show people, places, or things or would it be nonobjective? If you use subject matter, what will it be? What colors will you use? What will the lines look like? How will you organize the parts within your artwork? What moods, messages, and ideas do you want viewers of your work to see? |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion