DISCOVERING AN INTERESTING PAINTER

DISCOVERING AN INTERESTING PAINTERCreating Your Power Point Things you should know:Your presentation should be on an artist (living or dead) that you admire or find interesting.You may work alone or with ONE other person.You need to decide who you will work with and sign up for and artist TODAY.You will have the next 2 class periods to research and create your PowerPoint presentation.You will be presenting your PowerPoint to the class.

Your task will be to create a PowerPoint Presentation to present to the class.

Have a minimum of 10 slides.Contain relevant, correct information.Be in your own words except where correctly quoted.Have a visual element on each slide.Be creative, interesting and match the style of your artist.Have NO MORE than 2 or 3 sentences of text on each slide.Have a Works Cited slide at the end listing sources where you got your information.Contain a 5 question quiz at the end. The questions should be relevant and test to see if students were listening to your presentation.

Your PowerPoint should:

The following are ideas for interesting artists you could use for your PowerPoint presentation. If you dont know any artist you want to research, write down the names of 4 or 5 that seem interesting to you. If you want to use anyone not on this list please check with Ms. Shuler BEFORE you begin.DISCLAIMER:Finding an artist that doesnt create the occasional offensive or even pornographic artwork is very difficult. I have tried but simple can NOT look at every piece of art that an artist ever created to make sure it is school appropriate. In your research you may come across artwork that is offensive. The school tries to block these images but sometimes they get through. If you run on to a work that offends you just click out quickly and move on. If it is really offensive let the computer lab person know so they can block the site. Good luck!Likes to use optical illusions in her artBRIDGET RILEY

Focuses on very large portraits.

Chuck Close

Started painting at 71 and painted until she was over 100 years old.

Grandma MosesFamous Mexican muralist.

Diego RiveraPainted to deal with the pain in her lifeFrieda Kahlo

Famous for using popular images.Andy Warhol

Famous Fantasy artist.

James ChristensenHearts, hearts, and more hearts.

Jim DineLikes the unusual.

Max ErnstBright, intense colors and peace messages.

Peter MaxTries to make his paintings look like a photo.

Ralph GoingsCartoon images.

Roy LichtensteinLoved the unusual.Salvador Dali

Master of light.

Rembrandt Van RijnUnique street artist.BANKSY

Famous for their illustrations of the Lord of the Rings.

Hildebrandt brothersA new kind of Pop Art.

Takashi MurakamiGraffiti artist

Lee QuinonesLoved to paint small town America.

Grant WoodPainted haunting images of rural American life. Used egg tempura.

Andrew WyethOne of the best wildlife artists today.

Carl Brenders Painted scenes of the settling of the American West.

Fredrick RemingtonLoved to paint large close up pictures of flowers and bones.

Georgia Okeefe Wanted to capture his impression of the world around him.

Claude MonetA Japanese artist who had a distinctive style.

HokusaiHe was called Jack the Dripper because he liked to drip paint onto his canvases.

Jackson PollackLoved haunting, emotional images.

Edvard MunchHe loved to paint romantic images.

John William WaterhouseFather of cubism.

Pablo PicassoHe was a master at painting light.

Jan VermeerLikes to hide images within images.

Bev DoolittlePainted realistic scenes from American life.

Norman RockwellOne of the Hudson River School Painters.Albert Bierstadt

Photo realist who painted urban life.

Richard Estes