Art Grade 8 Term 2, 2010 ASSIGNMENT Assignment Due: Friday 11 ...

Art Grade 8 Term 2, 2010 ASSIGNMENTAssignment Due: Friday 11 th June, 2010In‐class Poster Presentation on a PrintmakerYou may work in pairs or alone for this assignment. Posters will be displayed in class.PART ONEBiography of a PrintmakerYour assignment is to be well presented as a poster on cardboard. Information for Part One only may be presented inpoint form.The following artists are all printmakers. Margaret Preston, MC Escher, Andy Warhol.Choose one and find out the following (you can tick the boxes when this information is included in your assignment): Artist’s Name Date of Birth, Date of death Country of birth/where did they live? Some interesting information about them. What media/ materials did they use? What was their inspiration? What sort of things were the subject matter for their art making? Was the artist part of any particular art movement/genre? E.g. Pop art, impressionism etcPART TWOCritical Analysis of a PrintWrite a critical analysis of one of the chosen artist’s works. It may be a different artwork to any analysed in class. Manyof these artist’s woks can be found on the internet or in the library. On the following page are some key questions tohelp you analyse the artwork.Include a full colour copy of the art work you are analysing in you presentationHints: Response to the art work should be well thought out and presented in adiscussion or sentence format, rather than point form. For example:WRITE THIS!The artist uses cool colours such as blues,greens and purples in her painting. Paint isapplied with a small brushThe woman in the foreground forms thefocal point for the painting, with thepuppy and kitten much smaller and in thebackground.I like this painting because it is peacefulscene. The colours the artist had used arerelaxing and make the viewer feel the waythe woman must in the picture.DO NOTWRITETHIS!Colours‐ blue, green, purplePaintbrush ‐ littleWoman – big. pets ‐ littleI like this painting/ This painting isrubbish

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