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Hello IB Art! Welcome to our (almost certainly) Temporary online home! Here is your latest assignment:

All three projects should be explained in the context of the comparative study. If you've gone in a different direction as you've worked describe that journey as part of your comparative study. You must relate what you've done to the artists that you've studied though (//minimum// 2).
 * FINAL PROJECTS & COMPARATIVE STUDY Due BY June 3:**






 * Due Monday April 18:**

1.Watch this video: [|Discovering Art: The Search for Meaning] This will help reinforce the ideas of FTC (FORM-THEME-CONTEXT) that we discussed in class. If you are not able to watch it online, please come get a copy from me. media type="youtube" key="GwYbBG0FoxM" width="560" height="315"

2.Go to [|Mr. Reverman's ISB IB Art Site] and learn how to use the Art-o-matic. Watch the video there for instructions on how to take the [| Art O Matic Template]and save it to [|our class google drive].

3. Select a single work of art from one of the artists that has influenced **the selection of your theme**. Run that Work of Art through your own attempt at the ART-O-MATIC.

Please do not save this for the last minute- we are using new websites and they may not work perfectly at first!


 * Due April 12: You must complete parts 1-3 by this date.**



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 * //DON'T FORGET THAT ALL OF YOUR MYTHOLOGY WORK (PROJECT & SCREENS) ARE NOW OVERDUE.//**


 * Due Feb 24:**

Visually and textually analyze traditional art or craft from the culture from which your myth originates. You should find a legitimate source of information here (journals, art books, school databases, etc).

1. In your technical investigations, practice some of the techniques that you see. 2. Write about the significance and importance of that art form, citing your original sources. 3. Imagine ways that you could incorporate this style/technique/approach in your own work. Write, and sketch/paint your answers in your Visjos.


 * Due Feb 19:**

Please come to class with a well resolved rough draft of your final composition. A well resolved drawing means: 1) It should be constructed from well selected reference photos (pasted in your book and cited when not your own, but your own as much as possible). 2) Your composition reflects a good understanding of design (with reference to the elements & principles or other organizational design). 3) You consider a color palette. 4) You have put some time and care into the rendering of your drawing. In other words, this should be more than a quick sketch.

This composition does NOT have to be your final design, but it is a STOP on your journey there. You may be considering doing this in any medium, and are encouraged to begin to think about how you might incorporate printmaking into your final idea as well.

If you did not complete the last assignment, please have that as well.


 * Due Feb 17:**


 * This assignment (is / should probably be) based on the previous assignment via the questions below:**

You should have 20 Thumbnails of composition designs (about 2 minutes a piece x 20 = 40 minutes). You should have 3 more comprehensive sketches based on your thumbnails (about 7 minutes each = 21 minutes)
 * Additionally** - I'd like you to think about the [|Kara Walker talk we listened to in class] (listen again if you'd like, its just under 2 minutes). What does she say about how she subverts the mythology of her culture? Choose one of your final compositions and discuss why your idea shows how your //ancient// myth serves as a commentary on modern society.

Answer the following question however you’d like in a combination of text and image:
 * //Pre-Break assignment://**

1. What is the main lesson from your myth? What is it trying to tell you about what it means to be human?

2. How is that relevant in your life?

3. Read the headlines from a newspaper/website in whatever section interests you (politics, environment, arts, sciences, business, etc). Stick to legit news sources (BBC, Guardian, The Independent, Bloomberg, New York Times, etc). Apply your myth to something that you read about in the paper. If there is a current issue that you are familiar with that isn’t in today’s paper - no problem, find a recent article on the subject. Find something that is relevant to the meaning of your myth.

4. Do a sketch of what your myth that satirizes your current event topic.

5. Do a sketch of your current event topic that shows a danger or darkness of not understanding what your myth is trying to say.

6. Do a sketch of your current event topic that shows the power of understanding the meaning of your myth in this modern context.

7. Do a sketch of your myth in which the main character is compared to someone alive today (could be famous or an everyday person).


 * Due Feb 3:**


 * **Most of you have not finished your mini project. YOU MUST FINISH YOUR MINI PROJECT.**
 * **Some of you have not completed your Myth Research & Preparation. YOU MUST FINISH YOUR MYTH WORK AND PREPARATION.**
 * **Finish your MYTH collages for next class. Any questions about what you can include - the answer is probably YES- but feel free to ask on the wechat.**

Welcome Back from Break! You SURREAL project is due at the end of NEXT WEEK (not this week). YOU ARE WELCOME.

In the meantime,your homework for next class is to: 1) Go to the icarus titanpad page here to read and discuss the poems: https://titanpad.com/icarus 2) Choose a MYTH for yourself to create a project around (based in your own culture).


 * Due Nov 25:**

Take your developed surrealist ideas and try different thumbnail compositions.

Start with 20 small thumbnails in which you take the same idea and rearrange it: 30 seconds each (total time: 10 min). Choose 3 compositions and develop them further: 5 minutes each (total time: 15 min). Choose 1 final composition and develop it for class (total time: 10-15 min)

Use the keynote below to start your ideas of creating new compositions:




 * The total time for this homework should not exceed 45 minutes.**

Using your color pencils & waterbrush, do a quick sketch in two contiguous circles - one that represents a dream and one that represents a memory. In the overlapping space- take one element from each. It could be something specific (like a person/place/thing) or something as simple as a form, a color palette, a pattern, etc. Explain in or around each segment what you have created and what it means to you.
 * Due Nov 19:**

Example: My Memory Circle: : The parrot balloon that followed my mother around my house when I was 13. My Dream Circle: An imaginary landscape of a Japanese garden with a path that winds up a hill. The intersection : A parrot balloon that I am following up the path of a steep Japanese garden.

Resources on Pinterest: [| https://www.pinterest.com/dsgran/]

[|Resources on Perspective]


 * Due Thursday, Oct 29:**

EXAMINE one of the artists works that you've chosen for this project. Using the sheet that I gave you in class today, think about how the artist makes meaning using the various elements & principles of design in coordination with the recognizable images in the work of art itself. Write **IN PEN** about this next to the work. You should also think of ways that you can visually analyze the work. I am going to be intentionally obscure with what I mean by 'visually analyze'. I want to see what you come up with. Might be a small prize for the most interesting visual analyzation!
 * ANALYZATION: The process of examining individual parts to see how they come together to form the meaning of the whole.**


 * Due Tuesday, Oct 22:**



List 5 things that you are afraid of. Can’t think of anything? Here are some things to be afraid of: phobialist.com Choose something from your list that are afraid of and do a sketch of it. Use reference photos* or draw from life. That means you have to look at it. Sorry. Sketch it from a few different angles (at least 3). Repeat this another three times in a medium (or combination of mediums other than pencil) -practice in a medium that you might like to use for this project. As you work, make notes on some connections that you think of between this next project and your previous project. Write down anything and everything. You don’t have to commit to it just because you wrote it down.
 * Due Tuesday, Oct 20.**
 * CITE YOUR IMAGES.