National Visual Art Standards that this project meets:
Creating: Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work.
VA:Cr1.2.8a Collaboratively shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using a contemporary practice of art and design. VA:Cr2.1.8a Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing. Presenting: Interpreting and sharing artistic work. VA:Pr6.1.8a Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences. Responding: Understanding and evaluating how the arts convey meaning. VA:Re8.1.8a Interpret art by analyzing how the interaction of subject matter, characteristics of form and structure, use of media, art-making approaches, and relevant contextual information contributes to understanding messages or ideas and mood conveyed. Connecting: Relating artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context. VA:Cn10.1.8a Make art collaboratively to reflect on and reinforce positive aspects of group identity. VA:Cn11.1.8a Distinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity. |
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Step 1: Read about Contemporary Art
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Step 2: Watch 10 Contemporary Artists
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These links were taken from the Art Guru at https://www.artedguru.com/videos.html
Jin Kim - Gray tone ceramics
Typewriter Artist Pushpin Art Shadow Art Garbage Bag Art Phil Hanson at Work making Burger Art Theo Jansen "Living Sculptures" Single Sheet Paper Cut Art Reverse Graffiti Dirt Painting Shepard Fairey - Obama Hope Poster Shepard Fairey - Different Than above Money as Art Arthur Ganson Moving Sculpture Paper Artist/Designer Ra Paulette Cave Sculptures Moshe Safdie - Architect KAWS |
Clark Little - Photographer
Marchello Barenghi - Realistic Drawings: multi-media Icheon Ceramics - Several Masters [More Here] Marela Zacarias - Patterned sculpture (Window screen & joint compound) Street Art - (2 Female Artists) Swoon & Olek Eric Standley - Laser cut paper Micro-Organism Art - Klaus Kemp, master of Victorian diatom arrangement Bamboo Art - Japan Glass Weaving by Markow & Norris Bruce Riley - Resin Painter Steven Spazuk - Painting with Fire and Smoke Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces Jack Storms - Glass Sculpture |
Kendra Haste - Wire Sculptures
Yayoi Kusama - Installation Art Karina Smigla-Bobinski - Installation art Maggie Taylor - Digital Artist and photographer Wood Mirror by Daniel Rozin Art & Environment - Zaria Forman (7 min.) Maurice Sendak - 1966 interview (15 min.) , Another 1985 (6 min), and 2013 (17 min) Matthew Reinhart, Pop up book artist and engineer Marc-Antoine Mathieu: Zooming in on a graphic novel. (4.03 min) Architecture: Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder's tilting house Titus Kaphar: Race in art (13 min) Brian Dettmer: Book Sculpture Artist Daniel Rozin: Mechanical Mirrors (STEAM) |
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Step 2: Dissecting Contemporary Art to Find Meaning
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Step 3: Discuss Themes & Ideas within Contemporary Art
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Students interpret artworks by analyzing how the subject matter, visual elements, formal composition, media, and relevant contextual information interact to convey meaning.
Students investigate how these contemporary artists engage in artistic practice, considering their use of materials, approaches to content, and how they choose to present their artworks for an audience. |