Art 2 – Transactive Writing Portfolio Assignment
What: We will be in the computer lab this week working on completing the required transactive writing portfolio assignment. You will need to choose an artist from the list below and create a feature article about that artist and their work. In creating your feature article, some research will be required. Some of these artists listed below are active in more than one kind of media, so you will need to choose which type of work you will discuss in the article.
Audience: People who read the School District Newspaper (mixed audience of young & older readers)
Why: A feature article spotlighting the work of an
important modern artist will be published each month in an effort to educate
the citizens of
NOTE: You will be getting a daily work grade for each day we are in the computer lab. If you are not on task for any reason, points will be deducted from your daily work grade (60 points) as well as your finished portfolio grade (200 points). You will need to print out each day your finished work for me to review. These papers will be stapled together along with the daily grading rubric to track your progress.
Choose
Painters: Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Audrey Flack, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, Andrew Wyeth, Grandma Moses, Mark Ryden, Richard Dibenkorn, Jean-Paul Basquiat, Edward Ruscha, Alice Neel, Anselm Kiefer, Sidney Goodman, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, Stuart Davis, Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, Keith Haring, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall
Printmakers: M.C. Escher, David Hockney,
Photography: Annie Liebovitz, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman
Mixed Media/Installations/Etc. : Yoko Ono, Keith Haring, Osamu Tezuka, Takashi Murakami, Yayoi Kusama, Judy Chicago, Damien Hirst, Red Grooms, Ed Kienholz, Damien Hurst
Sculptors: Claes Oldenburg, Henry Moore, Richard Serra, Alexander Calder, Robert Smithson, Barbara Hepworth, Louise Bourgeois, Ron Mueck
Architects: Frank O. Gehry, I.M. Pei, Michael Graves, Antonio Gaudi
Electronic Media:
PACING
GUIDE
Before you begin, look over the
guiding questions handout that goes along with this assignment to help you in
your writing.
Day 1: (BEGINNING RESEARCH/BIOGRAPHY/
Biography
Section must include the following information:
·
Birth
date (month/day/year) and birth place
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Education/schooling/jobs
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Important
art events/exhibitions
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*Transitions
in Artistic Style – (*some artist’s style
will evolve and change over time.
Example: Picasso’s Blue &
Rose Periods, Cubism, etc.) You will
need to note that in your article if your chosen artist has transitions in
style.
·
Death
date (if applicable)
·
Find
a statement or quote by your chosen artist concerning their art/life as an
artist.
·
Find
an image of your artist, either in the form of a photograph or self-portrait to
put into your feature article in the biography section. Save that image in your
user’s folder for insertion later into the article.
Day2: (BIOGRAPHY/INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHS) If you didn’t get finished researching the biographical part of your artist’s life, then you must finish it by the end of today’s class period. Once you are finished with the biography part, you will need to spend the remaining class time working on developing the introductory paragraph of the article and following paragraphs. Remember, the introductory paragraph should “grab” the reader’s attention and make them want to read more about the subject that follows. Once you’ve done that, you can spend the next few sentences briefly introducing the reader about the artist and why they are important. You can include information on what kind of style their work is, and their preferred medium to work in.
Day 3: (DESCRIPTION & ANALYSIS) Today’s class should be spent doing the following things: describing, analyzing the selected work of your artist for the feature article. Description is a DETAILED factual account of what you see in the work. You should spend at least one paragraph (at least 3 sentences) describing what the selected work looks like. Once you’ve done that, you will need to move on to the analysis of the artist’s work. In analyzing a work of art you are explaining how the artist has used the elements and principles of art in the piece. Your article will need to address how your artist has used four (4) elements of art and (4) principles of art. Discussion of each element or principle of art should be one paragraph in length. If you finish this before class is over you can move on to the interpretation part of the writing. (see Day 4).
Day 4: (INTERPRETATION & EVALUATION) Today’s class should be spent finishing up the last part of the feature article if you haven’t done so already. You will need to interpret the work, which means you explain why the artist did what they did, so to speak. Try to answer, “What kind of mood, feeling, or idea is being communicated by the artist?” in this section. Explain how does the artist’s work reflect the environment or culture in which it was created? What about it makes it ultimately “modern”? Lastly, you will move on to the Evaluation part of the writing. In your critical evaluation, what makes this a successful work of art? What are some of the characteristics about it that make it important for us to take note of? Finish your feature article with a good, solid closing paragraph about your artist and their work.
Day 5: (POLISHING/REVISING/REFINING) This class you must spend fixing grammatical errors, typos, revising, polishing up your writing. There should be SIGNIFICANT improvements in your writing by the time you get to this point in the piece.
You will need to print out TWO (2) copies of your finished work. One copy is for my files, the other is for the library to file. You will also need to fill out the portfolio completion form and staple that to your copy for the library.