Unit 7 MS Art

​Where
Art
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​Unit 7 - MS Art

Unit 7 Critical Thinking Question - Due Today 5/03

Unit 7 Quiz - Due next Friday - May 10

One Unit to go and the final
Last day of class - June 4
Only four days of class left.

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Assignment List

What will we learn?

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

1. Discover best practices for visiting an art museum

2. Understand proper etiquette for visiting an art museum

3. Learn about other places art may live

4. Explore reasons why we create, collect, and exhibit art

Still life is a drawing and/or painting of different objects which are arranged together and viewed from one specific viewpoint. Most of the time, these items are inanimate objects, like fruit, flowers, dishes, glasses, vases, furniture, etc.

​Still life

Representational Art is art that represents objects or events as they are seen in the real world. Still life, portrait, landscape/seascape, and history painting are all types of representational art. They all show things exactly how we would see them, or how they really are.

​Representational

Two types of art

Multiple Select

Representational art is: (more than one choice)

• still life

• portrait

• history painting

• landscape/seascape

They all show things exactly how we would see them, or how they really are.

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Representational art

When creating an arrangement of objects for a still life drawing, it’s great to use objects with different sizes, textures, shapes, and things of that nature. It’s like you’re creating a scene with these objects, and that scene is being frozen in time. Those objects don’t move and neither do you.

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Still life images:

focuses on lines and geometric shapes put together to create a work of art. It is more about the basic look of the overall piece rather than a representation of something. This is much like most abstract art.

​Geometric art was very popular in Greece around 900 BCE with drawings on things such as vases. It continues to be popular today,

​Geometric Art...

​Pointillism

Pointillism is a style of art that brings together lots of tiny little dots to form a picture. These small dots are very distinct and are pure in color. They are arranged in such a way that they create a visible picture. A very famous example of pointillism is A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. It’s a piece of art showing many people together at a park, all created using tiny dots. These tiny dots create people, clothing, umbrellas, lakes, grass, trees – the whole scene!

Imagine looking at a drawing of a person and being able to see multiple sides of that person in the painting or drawing. This is some of the idea behind cubism. Cubism shows objects from many different angles at once using different geometric shapes such as cubes, spheres, cylinders, and cones.

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Cubism

Surrealism

Surrealism is art that appears dream-like. Part of it might seem to come from the natural world, but then part of it seems abstract or as if it’s something you see in a dream.

Check out an artist named Salvador Dali. He was a really eccentric guy who created lots of surreal art works like “Persistence of Memory” which has clocks that look as if they are melting or “The Lobster Phone” which…use your imagination on that one before you look.

​Abstract Art

​The Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky is a big name in abstract art. He believed that color could show emotions and music. He thought that colors could not only show emotions but also specific instruments and sounds (red being a trumpet, light blue being a flute, dark blue being a cello, etc.).

Kandinsky thought that red was lively and confident; blue was deep and supernatural; green was peaceful; yellow was warm, exciting, or bonkers; and white seemed silent but full of possibilities.

​Critical Thinking Question

1. What do you think you should you do with pieces of art you personally create and love?

2. In your opinion, what do you think is the most important etiquette rule to follow when visiting an art museum? Why?

3. Have you ever been to an art exhibit, museum, or gallery? What does it look like? What does it sound like? If you haven’t, then please list some of the sights and sounds you imagine to be at an art museum.

4. What are three questions to ask yourself about a piece as you view the art?

5. Why might it be important for art to be exhibited for others to see?

Let's look at the lessons..... and take a trip to one.

Unit 7 Critical Thinking Question - Due Today 5/03

Unit 7 Quiz - Due next Friday - May 10

One Unit to go and the final
Last day of class - June 4
Only four days of class left.

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Assignment List

Poll

What do I need help with......

• Time management

• reading the lessons

• do you need to redo a quiz

• nothing - I am good