New album by Calactus; an arty journey into other soundscapes

http://calactus.bandcamp.com/album/lost-space-memory-cake-2

1. Click on the link.
2. Press PLAY.
3, Close your eyes and be transported from Earth....:)

Students learning printing skills!!!

Album covers using ICT

Track from Lost Space (Memory Cake):    http://snd.sc/PHmUYW

The cover above and below is where I have used a friend's picture from their Facebook account and altered it with effects filters. See how much they have changed from the originals.

Masks Ahoy!!!

David Hockney landscapes

The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011(twenty eleven) (one of a 52 part work), 2011oil on 32 canvases365.8 x 975.4 in (929.1 x 2477.5 cm)

For the Year 8 project I am going to use the style of David Hockney. The above is a classic example of 1 point perspective.

A Closer Winter Tunnel, Oil on six canvases 182.9 x 365.8 cm overall

Link to the BBC's Andrew Marr interviewing David Hockney on the above body of work, with images:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018g2yz

WILLIAM KURELEK (1927-1977)

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/the-maze/10306

Landscape Resources

Click on link for more information:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=hockney+landscapes&hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&biw=1093&bih=471&tbm=isch&tbnid=ovN9A0IYazv30M:&imgrefurl=http://www.artknowledgenews.com/qlandscapes_from_monet_to_hockneyq_at_the_bellagio_gallery_of_fine_art.html&docid=77rpJykXBgwohM&imgurl=http://img.artknowledgenews.com/files2011apr/David-Hockney-Garrowby-Hill.jpg&w=700&h=593&ei=VPQPT-FZx6jxA8Tb3YIE&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=274&vpy=127&dur=1732&hovh=207&hovw=244&tx=139&ty=162&sig=106599984720163393457&page=1&tbnh=125&tbnw=154&start=0&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0

Click on the link for a definition and suggested landscape artists:

http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=447

Turner virtual tour:

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turner/gallery3d_ie.htm

Other landscape artists: Constable, Kandinsky, Monet, Picasso, Cezzane, Matisse, O' Keefe

Year 10 Investigating Art Movements

Choose two of the folowing art movements to research on two A3 sheets of paper, essay format or powerpoint:-

IMPRESSIONISM

http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=140

FUTURISM

http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=114

FAUVISM

http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=102

EXPRESSIONISM

http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=48

SURREALISM

http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=292

Use your A5 handouts for guidance, for example: name and study at least two artists from the art movement.

Don't forget to ask me if you have any problem completing the above art history task.

Good luck!!

Kokoschka, Oskar [Austrian, 1886-1980]

Self-portrait (Fiesole), 1948

Roy Lichtenstein

Click on the link below for the limited time programme on a pop artist:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074q0f/Roy_Lichtenstein_Pop_Idol/

Rococo

GAINSBOROUGH

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw03665/Sarah-Kirby-ne-Bull-John-Joshua-Kirby?LinkID=mp01706&search=sas&sText=gainsborough&role=art&rNo=0

HOGARTH

simply click on one of the images on the link below:

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/hogarths-london

CANALETTO

http://www.canalettogallery.org/biography.html

WATTEAU

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/watteau/

Baroque Movement

Artist
Johannes Vermeer
Year
c. 1669–70
Type
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24.5 cm × 21 cm (9.6 in × 8.3 in)
Location
Louvre, Paris http://www.johannesvermeer.org/biography/

Rubens

Samson and Delilah
about 1609-10

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/peter-paul-rubens-samson-and-delilah

A definition of what Baroque means:
http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=39

Caravaggio:

St. Thomas

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio

Velazquez:

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/diego-velazquez

Rembrandt:
http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/

Vermeer:

City, City; Calactus

Sketches; Calactus

Richard Billingham

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/richard_billingham.htm

The Northern Renaissance

The Peasant Wedding (1568)

Bruegel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder


Holbien:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Henry_VIII

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hans-holbein-the-younger-the-ambassadors

Durer: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer/

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1498 woodcut

van Eyck: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait

Bosch: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/hieronymus-boschus-bosch

Bruegel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder

David Hockney iPhone art link

Sistine Chapel, The Vatican

Click on title for a virtual tour of Michealangelo's master piece.

Below, the location of the Sistine Chapel:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Sistine+Chapel,+Vatican+City&hl=en&ll=41.904162,12.453883&spn=0.007554,0.02105&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.918331,43.110352&vpsrc=0&hq=Sistine+Chapel,&hnear=Vatican+City&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A

Link to Tony Cragg review in Edinburgh

Saw this exhibition in the summer:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/edinburgh-festival-reviews/8690554/Edinburgh-Festival-2011-Tony-Cragg-Scottish-National-GalleryHiroshi-Sugimoto-Dean-Gallery-Robert-Rauschenberg-Inverleith-House-review.html

Designing a house in a Japanese style

Cahrcoal drawing of Richard Long work