PAINTING FINAL Anticipated nal date and time: Thursday, December 20th, 9:49-11:05 You CANNOT be late and

you MUST stay until the period is over. Study a Master and recreate a famous work of theirs. Select an artist of choice. Study their work and create a project of YOUR own while pulling inspiration from the chosen artist or copy the master piece. For example: Van Goghs Starry Night, shown below. Option 1 You are not to copy the painting. I would like for you to pull inspiration from the original. It may be in the form of color scheme, line movement, painting technique, or subject matter. Be original and creative. Think outside of the box. Option 2 Select and copy the painting of a master artist.

Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh has risen to the peak of artistic achievements. Although Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life, the aftermath of his work is enormous. Starry Night is one of the most well known images in modern culture as well as being one of the most replicated and sought after prints. One may begin to ask what features within the painting are responsible for its ever growing popularity. There are actually several main aspects that intrigue those who view this image, and each factor affects each individual differently. The aspects will be described below: 1. There is the night sky lled with swirling clouds, stars ablaze with their own luminescence, and a bright crescent moon. Although the features are exaggerated, this is a scene we can all relate to, and also one that most individuals feel comfortable and at ease with. This sky keeps the viewer's eyes moving about the painting, following the curves and creating a visual dot to dot with the stars. This movement keeps the onlooker involved in the painting while the other factors take hold.

2. Below the rolling hills of the horizon lies a small town. There is a peaceful essence owing from the structures. Perhaps the cool dark colors and the ery windows spark memories of our own warm childhood years lled with imagination of what exists in the night and dark starry skies. The center point of the town is the tall steeple of the church, reigning largely over the smaller buildings. This steeple casts down a sense of stability onto the town, and also creates a sense of size and seclusion. 3. To the left of the painting there is a massive dark structure that develops an even greater sense of size and isolation. This structure is magnicent when compared to the scale of other objects in the painting. The curving lines mirror that of the sky and create the sensation of depth in the painting. This structure also allows the viewer to interpret what it is. From a mountain to a leafy bush, the analysis of this formation is wide and full of variety.

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching inuence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inicted (although no gun was ever found). His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still. Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life

Answer YES or NO to the questions under Grading Criteria.

Grading Scale A AB+ B BC+ C CD+ D DF 94-100 90-93 87-89 84-86 80-83 77-79 74-76 70-73 67-69 64-66 60-63 59-0 Grading Criteria Project grades will be determined based on the following. Preparation * Do you enter class on time with your materials ready? N * Do you enter class prepared to work? Y/N Quality * Do you complete projects to the best of your creative and technical abilities? N * Do you take initiative to go beyond what is expected? N Time on Task * Do you use all the time available for the assigned project? N Clean-up * Do you clean up tools you got dirty? Y/N * Do you put away materials you got out? Y/N * Do you leave your work area cleaner that you found it? N Y/

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Please answer the following questions. 1. What artist are you studying and what piece of work are you pulling inspiration from?

2. Tell me a little about your artist. Where from? What type or style of art did he/she practice?

3. Why did you choose this artist and this particular work?

4. How do you feel about your nal painting? What do you like? What do you dislike?

5. What are your thoughts of the class? Likes/dislikes.

6. If you could retake the class, what would you like changed?

7. Grade your instructor. What does Mrs. Paulsen do well in regards to teaching and managing the class?

What does Mrs. Paulsen need to work on?