Sounds fine

This week’s online assignment was made by Ava St. Pere. I was going to ask you post a link to the song, but then I thought better about it.

If you had to create a visual piece inspired by any song, what would it be and why? How would you go about it?

I would definitely create a piece inspired by Cherry Bomb by Tyler the Creator--any song off of the album really. Probably The Brown Stains of Darkeese Latifah. Cherry Bomb is this weird hodgepodge of sounds and textures that's also somehow really ingeniously calculated. My dad once described it as "being attacked by a bunch of angry clowns." That's kinda my inspiration: A bunch of colorful clowns dancing bears style on a black background splattered with red, in my head it looks like the movie Dumbo. They're all decorated with pom poms and holding unorthodox weapons like water guns and pokeballs that are sticking out from the canvas. It's a strangely vivid idea, but that's why I like Cherry Bomb, The Brown Stains in particular. It's vivid.

USI Art Day

USI Art Day

On February 23rd USI will be giving free workshops in art.I think you should go. Students that have gone in the past have enjoyed it even if it is just a joinery class. So, heres the link with course descriptions. You don’t have to go of course, which would be a bummer, since a lot of you want to pursue arts that you just can’t do here at Sig. Remember, this isn’t a school sponsored event and it is your business to get there and leave, I will not be there.

Link to registration To make it easier to register, I hyperlinked the registration form.

So heres your assignment. If your going, comment that you are going and what class you signed up for. If you aren’t, tell me what class had interested you the most.

Talking art times

Select one realist, one Impressionist, and one Post-Impressionist work of art. Discuss how the Impressionist work built on and deviated from the style of the realist work. Next, discuss how the Post-Impressionist work built on and deviated from the style of the Impressionist work. 

If you can I would like you to select art not from the lecture, but pieces you looked up on your own. Provide links to each. As always, try not to repeat answers before you. This is worth 30 points.

For sophomores, this next project is going to be linocut valentines. They are going to involve text so I want you to start thinking of imagery that goes with it, as well as a nice short text line. You don’t HAVE to do the one you write down of course.

The effects of art in your career

Why Med Schools Are Requiring Art Classes

This article posits that arts are integral in teaching medical students empathy and observation and that it is good. I mean, I’m an art teacher so I know all too well how taking classes in college based off of critical thinking, creativity, and observation can have a profound effect on all majors. But I want to hear it from you.

For this assignment I want you to tell me what you plan on going to college for, not necessarily your proposed career and I want you to write about how information learned from this article can help you. Even if your post isn’t great, I really want you to read the article as I found it to be very informative.

A reminder about posting, square space hates google chrome and make sure to use your last name.

Ketchup Week IB

Here is an opportunity to complete missed online assignments for half credit. That may not sound like a lot, but an extra 5-30 points can be the difference between a B+ and an A. Post which ones you caught up on here. And remember, Chrome and desktop is being finicky for posting. So exhaust your options before emailing me.

Comparative Study

Next week we will be completing our comparative study’s. Now what is that? It is a document about 20 pages long detailing a comparative analysis of 3 art pieces by at least 2 artists. It can be a bit arduous and a lot to take in but it is a lot simpler than you might imagine.

First here is a link you might find helpful, https://mrchads.weebly.com/comparative-study1.html It has descriptions of what IB is looking for as well as examples, we will further discuss this in class next week.

Here is another link https://ibpublishing.ibo.org/server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=d_6_visar_tsm_1408_1_e&part=4&chapter=1 it is to the IB website with their official descriptors and examples. Also if you haven’t checked out the IB website you should, theres a lot of helpful info on there and ya’ll are in or have had AP research, so feel free to look stuff up on your own.

Once you have read those you will need some art, and it is essential that you get this as early as possible, and to stress the importance of this assignment I am making it worth 30 points. Here is what you will need.

One art piece each by three artists. You are going to make a comparative analysis so make sure they are from different time period’s and Cultures. I would also like you to post a link. Here is my example.

Ralph Slatton - A Matter of Comfort http://ralphslatton.com/gallery_animal/index.html USA 1998

Odilon Redon - Butterflies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odilon_Redon#/media/File:Odilon_Redon_006.jpg FRA 1910

Utamaro - Kitmaro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utamaro#/media/File:Yamanba_and_kintaro_sakazuki.jpg JPN 1800

This is where we start okay. It isn’t enough to just pick art you like. Try not to pick ultra famous and cliched art.

Visual Art Class, watch and post a link to a video about acrylic painting. Tell me about it

Seniors, Write a little blurb about your Comparative Study from last year, and what needs to be fixed. It is in the IB upload link on this website.

Curve Ball, Come Up With A Novel

Art, art, art, bleh. Lets write! In honor of national novel writing month, your assignment this week is to come up with the premise to a novel.

Tell me the Genre first.

In a couple of sentences come up with the premise.

Next list all of the characters and a brief written description of each.

Finally tell me who your target audience is.

This might make a fun assignment down the road where you illustrate the story. Someone just has to remind me.

Brawling with Botticelli

This weeks online assignment is courtesy of Olive Bouseman. For the record I would power-bomb Willem deKooning through a table.

Brawling with Botticelli:
If you were thrown in a wrestling ring and absolutely had to fight any artist from any time period who would you choose and why? 

I would probably fight Damien Hirst just because I think it’d be funny if he got punched and lost a tooth like in a boxing movie to then preserve it in formaldehyde and auction it off for millions of dollars. 

Here’s a wonderful article about many art history fights including some well known favorites such as Caravaggio just being an actual murderer but also some lesser known gems: https://hyperallergic.com/268251/from-michelangelo-to-marden-seven-fierce-fistfights-from-art-history/

Ask Anybody Anything (again) IB

The last one of these y’all did got deleted during that weirdness on squarespace a while back. So lets do it again! I remember there were some really good ones. If you can’t think of a new one, and still remember the old one, go ahead and post that.

I want you to come up with an art question to ask the class. Then answer it. (fake) bonus points for creative titles.

Unlimited Time and Money IB

This weeks online Assignment comes from Ryan Ruder.

You have an unlimited supply of money, time, and resources to make one art piece. What would you make? Think big.

I would make my own visual novel book series. The books would be set in the world of Aedoreas, a fantastical land full of Tolkien-esque nations and characters. The two main kingdoms, The Drakonhold Hegemony and the Sableclaw Dominion are in a constant state of warfare. The visuals of the novel would focus on the romantic geography of the setting. The Drakonhold capital is situated in the jaws of rough, red mountains. The city itself is on a plateau, with the foreboding steel castle looming over the squalid and poor slums beneath it. The Sableclaw city is surrounded by a massive forest with supernaturally big trees, and hugs a pristine southern coastline. I think the world-building of the novel could go on forever, so I think having infinite time and resources would help.

Mask or Print project

This month we are rotating projects between either mask for Dia de los Muertos or Printmaking for raditude. So tell me about it.

What is it?

Why is it?

How will it look when its done?

Lastly, I would like you to post a link to an artist related to your project. For Day of the Dead it could be sculptors, hispanic artists, up cyclers. For Printmaking its probably just going to be a relief artist, so make it a good one.

Ketchup Week IB

Here is an opportunity to complete missed online assignments for half credit. That may not sound like a lot, but an extra 5-30 points can be the difference between a B+ and an A. Post which ones you caught up on here. And remember, Chrome and desktop is being finicky for posting. So exhaust your options before emailing me.

Style IB

This weeks online assignment is brought to you by Ellison Mills. I think their is a lot of different avenues to pursue in this.

https://artgreet.com/art-styles/

What art styles do you gravitate your interest towards and why? 

I find the most interest in art deco. The influence of this movement in architecture has drawn my eye due its simplistic and modern aspects. Additionally, art deco gets a lot of attention in varying films, emphasizing the popularity of this style.

Keeping up with the Carravaggio's IB

This week's online assignment is brought to you by Sophie Nicholson.

If you could resurrect one artist and give them a reality TV show, who would you choose and why? 

I'd choose Caravaggio because he was just as dramatic as his paintings. Not only is he remembered as being arrogant and rebellious, he literally just. Challenged people to sword fights. Randomly. Who does that? Caravaggio does. According to one of his biographers: ''after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with his sword at his side and with a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or argument, with the result that it is most awkward to get along with him''. After reading that, tell me you wouldn't love to see this man thrown into modern society and put on TV. I don't even watch reality television, but I would pay to see some sort of Keeping Up With Caravaggio. Aside from just his hypothetical value as a source of entertainment, I definitely would not be complaining if he could come back and make more artwork. It would be super cool to see what new stuff he'd make and how his art would change in reaction to the modern world.

Art Careers IB

http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/art-careers-list

Here is a pretty decent sized list of careers in art with write ups about a few of them. I would like you to pick one and write a quick paragraph about it. It doesn't have to be one you want to get into but that might make it easier. 

It has been interesting to see how some of your opinions on art has changed, lets keep that rolling for August.

What do you Want IB

Straight up, what do you hope to accomplish with this class? Why are you in art? How did you explain this to your parent/guardian/neighbor/dog/friend/cat? 

Curatorial Rationale IB

Here is your assignment before this whole thing becomes links.

Seniors: Write a Curatorial Rationale. This is just a rough draft so you can start writing down ideas that we have discussed or is still in your head. Use this as an opportunity to get the bad ideas out. This will be due Sunday. The next week you will comment on two different curatorial rationale's that have already been posted to help the process along.

Juniors: An artist statement is a declaration of artistic intent. It is your opportunity to not only describe your art series as a whole, but you and why you are here. It ranges from influences, but what you want to viewer to see or understand from your work. I would like you to take a piece of art you have made in this class, briefly describe it and give it a one paragraph artist statement. For help on what they look like, google is a good place to start. 

This is a two week assignment, so take your time.

Art and demo IB

In your sketchbooks I asked you to research only one art piece instead of an entire artist. Please post a link to that here with some accompanying text. Why you picked it, how it might inform your work, that sort of thing..

In addition to that post a link to a video on figure studies. Make sure it is appropriate and that it is relevant to what you are doing.

Please everyone don't post the same thing. Please. 

Unlimited Time and Resources IB

This weeks online assignment is by Ryan Ruder. Do not disappoint Ryan Ruder.

You have an unlimited supply of money, time, and resources to make one art piece. What would you make? 

I would make my own visual novel book series. The books would be set in the world of Aedoreas, a fantastical land full of Tolkien-esque nations and characters. The two main kingdoms, The Drakonhold Hegemony and the Sableclaw Dominion are in a constant state of warfare. The visuals of the novel would focus on the romantic geography of the setting. The Drakonhold capital is situated in the jaws of rough, red mountains. The city itself is on a plateau, with the foreboding steel castle looming over the squalid and poor slums beneath it. The Sableclaw city is surrounded by a massive forest with supernaturally big trees, and hugs a pristine southern coastline. I think the world-building of the novel could go on forever, so I think having infinite time and resources would help.

Ask anybody anything IB

This week I want you to post your own online assignment. Obviously make it art related and PG, but I want you to ask interesting questions, preferably with a supporting document and your own example of how it would be answered.

Heres my question which is its own type of response:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch

The Night Watch by Rembrandt is rad, but could it be better if instead of the ghost of Rembrandts wife, it was ham sandwich? What artwork would benefit from replacing one item with food?

Personally I think it could work, but you would need to suspend some amount of doubt and just go with it. An obvious example would be Grant Wood's "American Gothic" where you replaced the farmer with an ear of corn. I wonder if you could replace food with a person tho. Like Claes Odenberg's "Spoon Bridge" being replaced with just a big ol picture of his big dumb face.

Throughout the year I will pull from these and ask them. It may not even be for IB, could be for VA or FAC.