2009 NAEA Convention Cathy Tanasse: Alternative Journals

1. 2009 NAEA ConventionCathy Tanasse: Alternative Journals Contact Information: Glacier Peak High School 7401 144th Place SE Snohomish WA 98296 360-563-7607 Cathy.Tanasse@sno.wednet.edu Snohomish School District

2. Alternative JournalsCathy.Tanasse@sno.wednet.edu

3. Alternative Journals:What’s the big Idea? Alternative Journals Combine: Left and right brain abilities, Verbal and visual learning, Theory and application of concepts, Planned and spontaneous expression, Technical skill and creative communication

4. Alternative Journals:How do you do start? First…Get or make a book. Hand-made books, notebooks, composition books, sketchbooks encyclopedias, textbooks, college catalogues, children’s books, reference books… Check libraries, thrift stores, book stores, friends, garage sales, college recruiters, portfolio days, conferences for FREE books and magazines!

5. Alternative Journals:Two Page Spread Using a two page spread layout is very important in the journal entries (which can be a challenge with beginning students) and works well with learning the four kinds of balance in the principles of design. Formal Informal Symmetrical Radial

6. Art 1 Art 2 AP Art Art 1 Art 2/Advanced Art AP Art Alternative Journals: Three Parts • Content: What do you want student to learn? • Art 1: Elements and Principles (Texture/Movement/Rhythm) • Art 2: Artist/Art Movement (William Beckman) • AP Art: Concentration investigation • Media: What do you want students to use? • Art 1: Yarn, burlap (textural materials) • Art 2: Bleach on construction paper and individual choice of media • AP Art: Individual Choice of mixed media • Process: What do you want students to do? • Art 1: Apply texture and movement/rhythmto entry • Art 2: Integrate artist information and media • AP Art: Create a study for a portfolio piece

7. Various Entry Examples:

8. Elements of Art • By using the language of visual art, you have a precise vocabulary with which to express your ideas, • and develop the ability to make and defend aesthetic judgments. • Elements of Art are what we use to make art--Use these definitions in your entries: • valuE – The art element that describes the darkness or lightness of an object. • coLor –An element of art that is derived from reflected light. The sensation of color is • aroused in the brain by a response of the eyes to different wavelengths of light. • Color has three properties: hue, value and intensity. • shapE – A two dimensional area that is defined in some way. While a form has depth, a • shape only has height and width. Shapes are either geometric or free-form. • forM – Objects having three-dimensions. Like a shape, a form has height and width but it • also has depth. Forms are either geometric or free-form. • spacE – The element of art that refers to the emptiness or area between, around, above, • below or within objects. Shapes and forms are defined by space around and within • them. • liNe – A mark drawn with an art tool. Although lines can vary in appearance (they can • have different lengths, widths, textures, directions, and degree of curve) they are • considered one-dimensional and are measured by length. A line is used by the artist • to control the viewer’s eye movement. There are five kinds of lines: vertical, • horizontal, diagonal, curved and zigzag. • Texture – Element of art that refers to how things feel or look as if they might feel is • touched. Texture is perceived by touch and sight. Objects can have rough or • smooth textures and matte or shiny surfaces.

9. Principles of Design • Principles of Design are how we use the elements: Use these definitions: • Balance-Principle of design concerned with equalizing visual forces or elements in a work of art. If a work of art has visual balance, the viewer feels that the elements have been arranged in a satisfying way. Visual imbalance makes the viewer feel that the elements need to be rearranged. There are four types of balance: Formal, Symmetrical, Informal or Asymmetrical, and Radial. • Variety – Principle of design concerned with differences or contrast. • Harmony – The principle of design that creates unity by stressing similarities of separate but related parts. • Unity – The quality of wholeness or oneness that is achieved through the effective use of the elements and principles of art. Unity is created by simplicity, repetition, proximity and continuation. • Movement – Principle of design that deals with creating illusion of action or physical change in position or guiding the viewer’s attention through the art. • Proportion – Principle of design concerned with the size relationships of one part to another. • Emphasis – Principle of design that makes one part of a work dominant over the other parts. The element noticed first is called dominant; the elements noticed later are called subordinate. • Rhythm – Principle of design that indicates movement by the repetition of elements. Visual rhythm is perceived through the eyes and is created by repeating positive spaces separated by negative spaces. There are five types of rhythm: random, regular, alternating, flowing and progressive.

10. Art 1 Grading Grid Example (Now I add an artist link as well.) • 1. ______OUT OF 20---date:9/20—LINE & VARIETY (wacky writing) • 2. ______OUT OF 20—date:9/27—VALUE & PROPORTION (magazine collage portrait) • 3. ______OUT OF 20—date:10/4—SHAPE & HARMONY (highlighted text) • 4. ______OUT OF 20—date:10/11—SPACE & UNITY (tape transfer) • 5. ______OUT OF 20—date:10/18—COLOR & EMPHASIS (ransom note) • 6. ______OUT OF 20—date:10/25—TEXTURE & RHYTHM /MOVEMENT (sgraffito) • 7. ______OUT OF 20—date:11/1 —FORM & BALANCE (pop-up) • 8. ______OUT OF 20—date:11/8 —PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TERTIARY COLORS (paper weaving) • 9. ______OUT OF 20—date11/15—COMPLEMENTARY, TRIADIC, ANALOGOUS COLORS (stamping) • 10______OUT OF 20—date:11/29—MONOCHROMATIC, TINT, TONE &SHADE (glazing) • 11______OUT OF 20—date:12/6—ISOMETRIC PERSPECTIVE (cartoon illustration) • 12______OUT OF 20—date:12/13—ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE (sfumato) • 13______OUT OF 20—date: 1/10—TWO POINT LINEAR PERSPECTIVE (passageway) • 14______OUT OF 20—date: 1/17—FREE CHOICE:____________________________(topic-technique) • 15. _____OUT OF 20—date: 1/24—FREE CHOICE:____________________________(topic-technique)

11. Art 2 Grading Grid Partial Example (Entries 1,2,3 were all due at the same time because I was crunched for time. The entries will continue to June.) • 1.______OUT OF 20—date:2/20 Shape, Rhythm-Jim Dine is an American Artist known for his series of Pop Art influenced series of artwork focusing on common place images in a variety of media. We will examine his artworks using shape to create rhythm. • 2.______OUT OF 20—date:2/20 Value, Proportion-Romare Bearden was a prolific collagist and prominent artist from the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated cultural traditions of African Americans. • 3. ______OUT OF 20---date:2/20 Color, BalanceFrida Kahlo, a Mexican Surrealist artist, painted autobiographical self portraits reflecting her tragic life. Kahlo used personal symbolism mixed with Surrealism to express her suffering through her work. Her use of the elements of color and shape to create balance will be discussed. • 4. ______OUT OF 20—date: 2/27 EgonSchiele - Austrian expressionist painter and draftsman, studied Vietta Academy of Fine Arts. Influenced by the French impressionists, then by Gustav Klimt , Schiele developed a taut, linear style, emphasizing attenuated anatomical structure in drawings and paintings that often have strong sexual subject matter. Best known for his gaunt self-portraits and erotic figure studies, he also painted haunting portraits of his contemporaries and dark, brooding landscapes. With Kokoschka , he was in the forefront of the Austrian expressionist movement—Encyclopedia.com • 5. ______OUT OF 20—date 3/6 Chen Chun Zhong, a Chinese landscape artist, uses the four Chinese “treasures”, ink stick, ink stone, brush and paper to create depth with atmospheric perspective. We will discuss the elements of value, shape and space which result in rhythm, balance and proportion. • 6. ______OUT OF 20—date:3/20 Edward hopper - American painter and engraver, b. Nyack, N.Y., studied in New York City with Robert Henri . Hopper lived in France for a year but was little influenced by the artistic currents there. His early paintings had slight success; he gained a reputation, however, through his etchings, which remain popular. The first one-man show of his paintings was held in 1920. Hopper excelled in creating realistic pictures of clear-cut, sunlit streets and houses, often without figures. In his paintings there is a frequent atmosphere of loneliness, an almost menacing starkness.--From Enclyclopeida.com