Grade+8+Sketch+List


 * __Grade 8 sketch list__**

7 sketches worth 3% each. **2 must be from Section I (Art History)**


 * __Each sketch should have:__**


 * Shading**
 * Texture and the other elements of Art (see poster on classroom wall)**
 * Fill the page**

Dec 2
 * __Due Dates:__**

=**Section I: Art History**= – Create at least 2 images that relate to the following Artists or Art Movements. **Create your own in their style.**



Ex. Movement (Famous Artist – Famous Painting, Year painting was made)

Renaissance

approx. 1300-1600(Leonardo daVinci – Mona Lisa, 1503-06)



=[|Impressionism]= 1860-1930+ ([|Claude Monet] – Water Lilies, 1920)



=Post Impressionism= 1886-1914 (Vincent VanGogh – Starry Night, 1889)



=Expressionsim= 1890-1960+ (Edvard Munch – The Scream, 1893)



=Pointilism= 1880’s-90’s(Georges Seurat –A Sunday on La Grande Jatte – 1884-86)



=(Neo)Realism= (Andrew Wyeth – Christina’s World, 1942)



=Non Objective Art – Abstract= (Wasilly Kandinsky – Composition VII, 1913)

=Surrealism,= 1920+ (Rene Magritte – The Return, 1940 )



M.C. Escher b.1898 - d.1972, famous printmaker known for his impossible illusions. Relativity, 1953 http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/relativity.html

=**Section II: Themes**=

Ocean Time Space Personality Science Politics The Maritimes Forest Pressure Recreation The Globe Discovery Identity Desert Jobs Beauty The Weather Animals Country City Emotion Life Plants Food Primitive Hardship Poverty Freedom

=**Section III: The Art Synector**= – Synectics is the Art of jump starting creativity by creating combinations of different ideas, materials into a single Art object.

Spin an object such as a pencil or paper clip inside the circle 2 to 3 times to choose numbered words at the bottom of the page to create a sketch __**inspired by**__ the two or three elements into a single image.