Composition

Composition Tips from marsha devine

STREET ART

 

J BREAVER (English)

View more PowerPoint from Rosa Fernández

From the correct point of view

From an incorrect viewpoint

Fantastic Paintings on PhotoPeach

• The art and history of street painting (PDF file - 7 pages).
• If you are interested in street art, you should know about Kurt Wenner as well.

Visual perception activities

• Eye Exercises for Better Visual Health: These activities are designed for improving your Visual Information Process Skills: Perception, Tracking, Focusing, and Eye Teaming.

Image and perception

Image and Perception from Rosa Fernández

Do not forget!

• Task 1: Find in the magazines in the classroom images of the different finalities we have studied. Cut them out and glue in a piece of paper.
• Task 2: Manipulating an image. 1st ESO. Find a large photograph you like: a favourite musician, car, landscape... Cut your picture into horizontal or vertical strips. Make the strips as wide as you like. Create a feeling of distortion by guing the strips onto the space provided, using a certain order you have previously decided. For example, light to dark, different heights, every third strip upside down, etc. Although it is a simple activity, it can have interesting results if you first think about what effect you wish to create. Here you will find some examples of Image manipulation:

• Task 3: Manipulating an image. 3rd ESO. You will have to create an Agamograph.(alternate images in accordion). You are going to be given two identical pictures (your photo). You have to paint them in Pop Art style: one of them in black and white, and the second one in colors. Then... we are going to create a 3D optical illution: an agamograph. Here you are some examples:

Check this article on the blog for more information about the task

Elements of art: DOTS

The visual elements of an image 1_POINT from Rosa Fernández

POINTILLISM

Georges Seurat invented the technique known as Pointillism, which uses tiny dots instead of broad strokes to put the paint on the canvas. The individual dots of red, yellow and blue are sucked in through your eyes and mixed up in your head to create a variety of shimmering shades.





Click here to see an hiperrealistic and pointillist video: http://vimeo.com/33091687.


DRIPPING ART
Jackson Pollock (Jack the Dripper) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting.



CINETIC ART
Alexander Calder is the most representative cinetic art sculptor.

Alexander Calder. Point from Rosa Fernández

Take a look to this wonderful mobiles by Julie Frith.

GEOMETRIC ART
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian-born artist who is often credited as being one of the first modern artists to create abstract art. Kandinsky's goal was to use brilliant color with geometric shapes, lines and points to create images that had no symbolic, figurative, or narrative elements.


DOTS, HUGE DOTS

Sonia Delaunay (November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design.

Sonia Delaunay from nivaca2

• Proyecto Agrega - El puntillismo. Pointillism. To work with pointillism online. In Spanish.
• Pointillism online fun!. Pointillism. Paint with a pointillator!!.
• Dripping con Agrega. Learn and enjoy.
• Pollock interactive. Dripping Art. It’s a simple click and move the mouse around affair, but the feeling of the paint splodging around is surprisingly pleasant. Each click changes the color. Enjoy!
• Miró en Agrega. Learn about Miró's paintings and go to his workshop.
• Mobiles, Calder style. Cinetic Art. Drag forms, create your own balanced mobile and make it move.
• Kandinsky's kaleidoscope. Geometric Art. Play around with the controls at the bottom right to create geometric art with a kaleidoscope motion!.
• Gaudi's mosaics. Observa los mosaicos del parque Güel y luego haz tú mismo un mosaico a mano (collage).
• Pixelator, "píxel" style.
• Post'it art creator. Another tool to work with píxeles.

• Kusama's world of dots. Work asYayoi Kusama.

Elements of Art

A lot of vocabulary, but do not worry, we are going to work with the elements of art one by one:

1. Listen to the first video and create a list of keywords in your notebook (Title: Elements of art-vocabulary).
2. Send a comment in this article with the list of words.

For the comment: 

Remember to write your NAME+ the first letter of your SURNAME + COURSE.

I will publish your comments when all of you have done the task.