Art I

Art History
PowerPoint Project

A. Select an Artist
Stylistic Category/Period:
Renaissance

Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Stylistic Category/Period:
Baroque

Caravaggio
Artemesia Gentileschi
Rembrandt
Caravaggio
Artemesia Gentilischi
Rembrandt
Stylistic Category/Period:
Impressionism
and
Post-Impressionism

Claude Monet
Mary Cassatt
Georges Seurat
Vincent Van Gogh
Claude Monet
Mary Cassatt
Georges Seurat
Vincent Van Gogh
Stylistic Category/Period:
Expressionism

Constantin Brancusi
Edvard Munch
Constantin Brancusi
Edvard Munch
Stylistic Category/Period:
Surrealism

Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte
Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte
Master of Many 20th
Century Styles:
Pablo Picasso
If you choose Picasso identify each artwork
with the appropriate style in which he
worked:

Blue Period
Cubism
Rose Period
20th Century Neoclassic
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Stylistic Category/Period:
Pop Art

Roy Lichtenstein
Claes Oldenburg
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein

48 x 48 inches

80 x 68 inches
48 x 48 inches
Claes Oldenburg
Andy Warhol
Stylistic Category/Period:
Organic Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright
B. Create a PowerPoint
Presentation

Study this
SAMPLE POWERPOINT
PROJECT
Jan Vermeer

Beetle Bailey
Art I
2nd Period
March 1, 2008
 Bourgeois Baroque Style
1600-1700

The Bourgeois Baroque Period is

characterized by art for middle class
people. Everyday scenes and objects
are the main subjects.
 About the Artist: Jan Vermeer
Birth date: 1632
Death date: 1675
Place of Birth: Delft, Netherlands
Education/Training: Unknown
 Interesting Facts About Vermeer
• Lived in Delft, Netherlands and seldom traveled
outside of the city
• Painted only 35-40 paintings!
• Wasn’t famous until almost 300 years after his death!
• Made his living as an owner of a hotel and picture
gallery
• Had 15 children!
• Used a camera obscura to set up and draw his
compositions

The basic camera obscura consists of a

room with a small opening, the images are
projected both upside down and reversed.
Officer with a
Laughing Girl
c. 1657
Oil on canvas

This map and room

appears in many of
Vermeer’s
paintings.
 View of Delft
Oil on Canvas
1659-60

• This is one of
Vermeer’s few
landscape
pictures.
• It was painted
looking through
an inverted
telescope!
Young Woman
with a Water Jug
1660-62
Oil on canvas

This is the first

Vermeer painting to
become part of an
American collection.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
1665
Oil on Canvas

• This painting inspired

a 1999 novel, Girl
With a Pearl Earring,,
about a modest Dutch
maid who becomes a
model for the painter
Johannes Vermeer.
• The book was made
into a movie in 2003
starring Scarlet
Johannson and Colin
Firth.
The Art of Painting
1665-67
Oil on canvas,

This may be a self

portrait of Vermeer, but
no one knows for
certain.
The Geographer
c. 1668
Oil on canvas,

This painting is
signed twice, but
probably not by
the artist!
 References

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/camera_obscura
/co_two.html (February 19, 2008)

www.wga.hu (February 19, 2008)

www.artlex.com (February 19, 2008)

C. General Guidelines

… Barbara Hepworth English, 1903- ...

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Image Size is
Important

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for pixel size.
• Best images have
at least one
dimension between
500 pixels and
1000 pixels.
… Barbara Hepworth English, 1903- ...
512 x 484 pixels - 15k - jpg
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512 x 484 pixels

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