Art Centre: May 11-15, 2009

Art Centre: May 11-15, 2009
Central Technical School Art Centre:
Year Two: Week Thirty-one

Monday – Art History

Sculpture Garden (http://www.torontosculpturegarden.com/) proposals were shown and discussed.

Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (1818), Caspar David Friedrich

Romanticism Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/r/romanticism.html

Romantic Artists
Antoine-Jean Gros - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Jean_Gros
Francisco Goya - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres
Eugene Delacroix - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix
J.M.W. Turner - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_M_W_Turner
Caspar David Friedrich - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
Thomas Cole - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cole
Frederic Bartholdi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Bartholdi
Henry Fuseli - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuseli

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Proserpine" (1877)

The Pre-Raphaelites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre_Raphaelite

Romantic Musicians and Writers
Alfred Lord Tennyson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Lord_Tennyson
William Wordsworth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth
John Keats - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
William Blake - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_blake
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart
Joseph Haydn - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydn
Frederic Chopin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopin
Franz Lizst - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizst
Pyotr IlyichTchaikovsky - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchaikovsky

Wednesday Painting Class

Critique of more paintings done at home – mine is now finished and entered in the watercolour contest here at school.

Work on new assignment – a painting that illustrates a view of the Art Centre. Here’s my subject…

Wednesday Photography Class

Presentations on photographers - Photographers presented today:

Duane Michals - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Michals

Jerry Uelsmann - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Uelsmann

Thursday Sculpting Class

Websites for sculptors:

Hanneke Beaumont - http://www.hanneke-beaumont.com/
Stepping Forward - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr6uhjEtSQ0

Juan Munoz - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Muñoz
The Last Conversation Piece - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5802081218918376476
Tate Shots - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xrjA6-0zI


Presentation: African Empires

National Museum of African Art - http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/tradition1.html

Contemporary Sculptors with African influence

Amedeo Modigliani - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Modigliani
Pablo Picasso - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso
Alberto Giacometti - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacometti
Constantin Brancusi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brancusi

Worked on ecorche - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Écorché

Friday Life Drawing Class

Albrecht Durer – My Agnes

Cross contour drawing – with a model.
Nine 2-minute gesture drawings, four 5-minute cross contour drawings and one
40-minute cross contour drawing (in two parts)

Links:

What is cross contour drawing - http://drawsketch.about.com/od/drawinglessonsandtips/ss/crosscontour.htm

Cross contour drawings 1-5 - http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nlewis/drawing/drawwork/xcontour2.html

Cross contour drawing exercise (an apple) on video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7pspVdTvOU

Cross Contour drawing tutorial - http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=463334

Cross Contour Drawing - http://www.paintonmycanvas.com/drawing_lessons/cross_contour_drawing

Cross contour drawings – good examples - http://www.udel.edu/artfoundations/drawing/crosscontour.html

(Images from http://images.google.ca/)