DISCOVERING AN INTERESTING ARTIST Creating Your Power Point

DISCOVERING AN INTERESTING ARTIST Creating Your Power Point

Your task will be to create a Power. Point Presentation about an artist that influenced art history. � Things 1. 2. 3. you should know: Your presentation should be on an artist (living or dead) that you admire or find interesting. You will have the next 2 class periods to research and create your Power. Point. We will be looking at some of these presentations in class.

Your Power. Point should: � Have a minimum of 15 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 the main points of your presentation (not little trivial facts).

The following are ideas for interesting artists you could use for your Power. Point presentation. If you don’t 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 doesn’t 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!

BRIDGET RILEY Likes to use optical illusions in her art

Chuck Close Focuses on very large portraits.

M. C. Escher was famous for his math inspired art and tessellations.

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

Diego Rivera Famous Mexican muralist.

Frieda Kahlo Wife of Diego Rivera (and had awesome eyebrows )

Andy Warhol Famous for using popular images.

BANKSY Unique street artist.

James Christensen Famous Fantasy artist.

Bev Dolittle Likes to hide images within her art work.

Max Ernst Likes the unusual.

Peter Max Bright, intense colors and “peace” messages.

Ralph Goings Tries to make his paintings look like a photo.

Roy Lichtenstein Comic book images.

Salvador Dali Loved the unusual.

Rembrandt Van Rijn Master of light.

Sandy Skoglund Bizarre Installations.

Takashi Murakami A new kind of “Pop Art”.

Lee Quinones Graffiti artist

Grant Wood Loved to paint small town America.

Andrew Wyeth Painted haunting images of rural American life. Used egg tempura.

Carl Brenders One of the best wildlife artists today.

Fredrick Remington Painted scenes of the settling of the American West.

Georgia Okeefe Loved to paint large close up pictures of flowers and bones.

Claude Monet Wanted to capture his “impression” of the world around him.

Hokusai A Japanese artist who had a distinctive style.

Jackson Pollack He was called “Jack the Dripper” because he liked to drip paint onto his canvases.

Andy Goldsworthy Used nature to create art.

Edward Hopper Lonely Urban life.

Edvard Munch Loved haunting, emotional images.

John William Waterhouse He loved to paint romantic images.

Pablo Picasso Father of cubism.

Norman Rockwell Famous American Illustrator.