Art With a Voice Feature
Article
Introduction
This assignment provides students the opportunity to
explore different art movements, periods, and artists to find a style
or genre that they would like to emulate. After completing this
assignment, the content of which will go on the Historical
and Cultural Context site, each student will work in the style of
the artist researched in this project in subsequent works.
Essential Ingredients of
Article
- Title to capture our interest
- Byline
- Birth and death dates of artist
- Artistic movement with which your artist identifies (Romantic,
Realist, Impressionist, Victorian)
- Examples of art created by the artist which demonstrate the
traits of the artistic movement (at least five (05) major works if
a visual artist and at five (05) excerpts or quotes if a
writer)
- Picture of artist
- Brief biographical sketch of artist
- Discussion of how artist represents traits of the movement
with which he/she identifies (this is the focus of the
article)
- Works cited and citations for each quote
Due Dates
Select an artist who you would like to emulate, life
dates, artistic movement, representational art pieces, works
cited
8-31 - Completed draft of article text
9-04 - Revising and editing draft
9-06 - Production of article in Microsoft Word (with all
art work in either jpg or gif formats)
9-06 - Final article due for sharing and assessment and one
copy with all files emailed to: dkipperman@sdja.com
Artists to Consider
See Historical and Cultural Context at: http://www.writedesignonline.com/history-culture/context.htm
Art With a Voice Feature Article
Rubric
You have synthesized the essential ingredients: completley, mostly,
somewhat
- Title to capture our interest (3
points)
- Byline (2 points)
- Birth and death dates of artist
(2points)
- Artistic movement with which your artist identifies (Romantic,
Realist, Impressionist, Victorian) (5
points)
- Examples of art created by the artist which demonstrate the
traits of the artistic movement (at least five (05) major works if
a visual artist and at five (05) excerpts or quotes if a writer)
(15 points)
- Picture of artist (3
points)
- Brief biographical sketch of artist
(5 points)
- Discussion of how artist represents traits of the movement
with which he/she identifies (this is the focus of the
article) (10 points)
- Works cited and citations for each quote
(5 points)
Total 50 points
Site
Map | WriteDesign
Syllabus 2001-02 | Historical
and Cultural Context | Quotes
| WordList
| Glossary
| Graphic
Organizers | Rules
of Thumb | On-Line
Resources | Co-Teachers - Doug
and Melissa
| Gallery
E-Mail Doug at mrdoug@aznet.net
or Melissa at mjmckinstry@earthlink.net
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