A Sense of Place.

On class conferences you will fins a folder labeled ART.

Open it and look at ALL the images in the secondary folder labeled A Sense of Place.

Choose two paintings with very different MOODS and do the following:

• Paste them into a post on your blog. Be sure to include the artists' names. 
• Describe the moods of the two paintings.
• Describe HOW the artists created the moods using specific examples from the paintings and the vocabulary we've developed so far this term.

SOME famous paintings.

Below you will see some paintings that are considered famous and important to the history of painting. 

Select the one YOU think is most interesting and describe it in detail on your blog in terms of color, composition, and texture using the terms we've learned in class. Do NOT put the picture in your post. Use its title and the name of the artist and your description skills to "paint" the picture.

Do  little research on the painting. Find out who made it and where they are from. What is the painting about?

Then, describe why you chose this painting as the most interesting one and why you think it is considered important to the history of art.

Rites of Spring by Sandro Botticelli                  

The Mona Lisa by Leonardo daVinci
 

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

The Oath of Horatii by Jaques Louis David

Water Lilies by Claude Monet

 

American Gothic by Granty Wood

Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian

Desmoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp

Morandi vs. Van Gogh: Color

Below you see two paintings by Giorgio Morandi and two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh.

Describe the differences between the artists' choices of color palette and subject matter in these particular paintings.

Also, how does the choice of color palette influence or affect the subject matter?

Still Life, 1955, Giorgio Morandi

Still Life, 1955, Giorgio Morandi

Irises, 1890, Vincent Van Gogh

Sunflowers, 1888, Vincent Van Gogh