Calligrams: Art I Beginning
Student Artwork
Objective:
Students will create calligram self-portraits using words that describe themselves.
Vocabulary: Calligram, value, line quality, vector
Historic Artists Used: Commonly used in Islamic art.
Contemporary Artists Used: John Sokol, Calligramorama
Surrealist Idioms: Art I Advanced
Student Artwork
Objective:
Students will choose an idiom or cliche to represent themselves and then illustrate the chosen phrase.
Vocabulary: juxtaposition, surrealism
Historic Artists Used: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte
Contemporary Artists Used: Bram de Winter, Carrie Ann Baade, Marco Escobedo
Graphic Novels: Art II
Student Artwork
Objectives:
1. Students will create a graphic novel page featuring how the student would change the last 30 minutes of a popular movie.
2. Students must use 5-9 image boxes and 3-8 narrator boxes.
Vocabulary: composition, panel, frame, gutter, bleed
Contemporary Artists Used: Georges Jeanty, Leigh Dragoon