Week 3 Term 3

Stuff you should know that we went over today:

Stylisation. You all should have chosen one of these four styles as your MAIN style to know

1) Kowhaiwhai (printmaking)
2) Art Nouveau (printmaking)
3) Manga (painting)
4) Pasifika (painting)


Further reading:
https://literacynz.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/teaching-maori-art-to-children/
https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/maori-art
http://www.designishistory.com/1850/art-nouveau/

Term three week one

Choices:

This first week is about getting to know 4 different movements of Art from a visual point of view. That means, you look at them and you can see what of the four movements of art they belong to.

We are also wanting to see some drawing from you, with an emphasis on looking after your page and setting it out nicely.

Eventually, you are going to decide which of these 4 movements of Art you will use as a focus. each one comes with a contrasting movement that you will then be directed to use (one choice, one given).

Why we are making art? To demonstrate your understanding of at least one of the school values - Commitment, Achievement, Resilience, Respect.

Keep this in your mind for week 2 as well. Which school value are you going to focus on?

Below is a sample of amazing sketch book pages. have a look, and consider what it is you are doing with your page.

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. 

Success criteria for making your design work:

9 BR recap

Stylisation

• Art Nouveau

• Kowhaiwhai

• Beatriz Milhazes

You should have a beautiful research page done and in your folders that I can check off.

There are things you should be noticing about both art movements and the artist chosen;

• forms are simplified, curves are amplified. 
• geometry, pattern and repetition all strongly feature in all 3
• there is no real use of three-dimensional space in any of these

Specific to each; Kowhaiwhai

- regulated circular curves

- principles of mathematics are employed exactlingly; rotation, scale, reflection, repetition, pattern

- the pattern, scale and proximity of the forms help to convey a story, whakapapa, or even emotion

Specific to Art Nouveau

- dominant tell-tale form is called a whiplash

- all derived from plant forms

- detail is more important than kowhaiwhai

Specific to Beatriz Milhazes

- patterns and forms are over-layed

- intersecting forms are a strong feature

- colour and layers of colour/texture are a feature

- composition is tightly balanced and intense

Welcome to Art 9 Br

Welcome back, lovely class. Today you need: a chrome book, a pencil and an A3 sheet of paper.

You will be researching stuff online first, please only use the links given. Otherwise you might just get confused.

When you come to Pinterest, you will need to make an account. Use your school email and password for this so you don't forget it and follow the Art department.

I have uploaded a slide presentation into your Art folder on google drive. You need to open this. 

This work can be done in pairs or individually up until slide 12. If you work in pairs make sure you share the one slide show with the other person.

At slide 12, you need to work on your own on a research page on paper with a pencil.

Good luck. If you have a blog for another subject, use it to upload your work from today and use labels to clarify that it is Art :-)

Printing Process

Design:



You should have a page that started something like this. We began with a leaf and moved into stylising it based on visual knowledge of two movements of Art:

1) K_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2) A _ _ N _ _ _ _ _ _

Transferring your design onto your wood:





You knew the size of your wood towards the end of that stylisation process. Howe you fit that design onto the wood is up to you. But do have a think about how the space behind the form you have designed can work with your design. Draw you lines thickly and clearly.

Cutting your block:




1) Fingers are never in front of the blade!
2) What you cut is going to print white, what you leave behind is going to print coloured.
3) There is always a way to fix your mistakes, don't biff your block without a decent discussion with your teacher first.
4) Classroom Tikanga absolutely demands you clean up your wood chips so that the cleaner does not have to spend more time in our room than he is paid for.

Printing your block:

You need a roller, perspex plate to roll ink onto, newspaper, paper to print onto and a spoon!
And patience...



Print off at least 5 copies, as you are a printmaker here, not a painter. These are not one-off Art works, they are able to be mass produced for everyone. And Christmas presents that you make are always better.

stylisations looking beautiful, moving into cutting woodcut prints out

Happy day today...

Back to Stylisation

This is a process, but it is not a linear, step-by-step one. There is room for all sorts of creative influence to arrive and be a part of the journey, as your head thinks things out with a pencil.

Last lesson, we looked at this process with an 'exemplar'. That is an example work that shows you a way of thinking something out visually. It is not the only way of making the art work, it is meant to help you get comfortable with trying out a new process by seeing it done by someone else.



This exemplar is the one we referred to on Friday. It is on the google site as well and you should be able to access it whenever you like.

Key things to remember before we start on Monday:

• This is not the only outcome
• I have referenced both Art styles studied; Art Nouveau, Kowhaiwhai
• The original koru come from the veins of the leaves being made prominent
• You use your leaf form to create your own stylised version
• One drawing is NOT enough work. It is a start. That is like writing one sentence and calling it an essay.

Your outcomes for the end of Monday's lesson are:

• A full page of ideas (plural).
• Excellent drawing skills, you all can, so you may as well show off.
• Something within that wonderful page that can be used as a print next week.