Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau = New Art in French

It is a style that is based on stylised plant forms and it is really very decorative.

The Art story website has some information on it that it would be useful to look at, as does artsy.net

In completing your Art nouveau research page it should have the following:

• Some drawing of Art Nouveau (does not have to be a complete pattern, but should be very detailed in what you do present and good quality)
• another drawing of a new leaf/plant form on the other side of the page
• 6 - 8 facts about Art nouveau that you peer check (try to stick to the sites I have given you)
• Colour used appropriately
• No off-task drawings on your work or in your books

There is this particular form that is the building block of Art Nouveau - It is called a 'whiplash'.

Make sure you identify this form in your Art nouveau drawing and can recognise it easily.

I will be MARKING these two sheets of research specifically for feedback for your first set of reports. 

Year 11 in 2017

What we are doing:

You need to start with your concept; by now you all should have 3 words added to the google tracking sheet we have shared with you. Those three words should help express a direction for the meaning behind your work.

You should all have a couple of Artist models that your teacher has directed you to look at. Many of you will have started some drawing around this too.

You should all know where the research document is located on the google site and be working through it with one image from one artist.

If that is getting hard and confusing consider first - if you do this three or four times with a compare contrast at the end of they year, we can in fact make sure it counts for research credits (1.1) with a few tweaks. Second - I will upload an exemplar of what it could look like so that you are a little less confused.

What used to be 9 is now 10

Welcome to Year 10 Art! How exciting. You are finally there.

Year 10 Art is cool because you get to be here all year. You have also chosen this space and time so you are all in the same position. It's a choice you have made to be here and that makes it different.

where we are starting:

If you go to the google site for visual arts (you know where that is) you should be able to navigate your way to Year 10. There is a course outline there and links to each term for our outline of work.

Term one is quite broad - it's about good drawing and composition basics. Learning that you can experiment with the media to learn and also develop new, techniques.

If you are in my class you know those two words:

Media and Techniques

We talked these through: Media - what it is made of, techniques - how the media is used to make it. 

In case you missed it, I took a photo of my terribly messy notes for the blog post you should all have to accompany your charcoal techniques page. 

Year 9 research page on Kowhaiwhai and Stylisation

Noticing stylisation around us:

So last lesson, we talked about stylisation and what that could mean in music as a way of trying to illustrate it.

From now, we need to see it from a visual perspective.

Below are some visuals that show stylisation happening to a visual form:


This is an example of stylisation of a rooster by a graphic designer called Maria Muzaffar. She is a graphic designer and was working towards developing a logo for a company.

With Kowhaiwhai, these forms came from a plant form.



Your task:

• Kowhaiwhai and observation of a leaf form should be complete on the one page
• 6 - 8 facts on kowhaiwhai should be on that page - peer check that these are accurate, I will check them over too. (use reputable, reliable sources of information) 
• Use your chrome book or phone to photograph this page and upload it on your blog. Explain what the page is and use 'labels'. Check with me or google if you are not sure what this means.

Michelle A in 9 TN February 2017.