All students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the subtractive drawing method,texture, and value, while completing an animal scratchboard assignment. 


Agenda for today: 
Start on scratch board
In-progress critique Next week
Project due May 4th


Upcoming: East Arts Walk May 14th
-If you want a T-shirt for this event, make sure that you request one by the end of today!

All students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the subtractive drawing method,texture, and value, while completing an animal scratchboard assignment. 


Alexis Rockman (born 1962) is an American contemporary artist known for his paintings that provide rich depictions of future landscapes as they might exist with impacts of climate change and evolution influenced by genetic engineering.

Would you consider this artist to be a social activist? How does Alexis Rockman use animals to influence the viewer?

All students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the subtractive drawing method, texture, and value, while completing an animal scratchboard assignment. 

Check out these of amazing animal scratchboards!

Agenda for today:
Finish subtractive texture worksheet.
Start sketching your animal
Get sketch approved before getting your scratchboard!

 Iconic animal paintings

How do these artists use visual texture to create visual interest?

All students will be able to learn about the surrealism art movement, juxtaposition, foreground, middle ground, and background, while creating a mixed-media collage.

Today's agenda:
Last day to work in class on your surreal collage painting!
Critique of your projects will be on block day. 
If you get done early you can explore the materials for our next scratch board project.
Surreal Paintings are due Block Day.


René Magritte Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values), 1952, Oil Painting

"I don't paint visions," he once said. "To the best of my capability, by painterly means, I describe objects — and the mutual relationship of objects — in such a way that none of our habitual concepts or feelings is necessarily linked with them."

Here, the artist presents a room filled with familiar things, but he gives human proportions to these formerly unassuming props of everyday life, creating a sense of disorientation and incongruity. Inside and out are inverted by his rendering of a skyscape on the interior walls of the room. The familiar becomes unfamiliar, the normal, strange; Magritte creates a paradoxical world that is, in his own words, "a defiance of common sense."

When he first saw this painting, Magritte's dealer, Alexander Iolas, was violently upset by it. Tellingly, the artist replied, "In my picture, the comb (and the other objects as well) has specifically lost its 'social character,' it has become an object of useless luxury, which may, as you say, leave the spectator feeling helpless or even make him ill. Well, this is proof of the effectiveness of the picture."

Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/27665#ixzz3XF7cjqVB 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

All students will be able to learn about the surrealism art movement, juxtaposition, foreground, middle ground, and background, while creating a mixed-media collage.
Today is the end of the grading period!
Surreal project is due next block day! Critique at the end of class.

“I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse… I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist,” 
― Leonora Carrington

“I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.” 
― Leonora Carrington

“You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.”
― Leonora Carrington

Her fascination with the early 19th-century art movement started well before meeting her lover, the artist Max Ernst. Their relationship became a great source of pain for her after he fled the Nazis, leaving her behind. It sparked a mental breakdown

All students will be able to learn about the surrealism art movement, juxtaposition, foreground, middle ground, and background, while creating a mixed-media collage.

Free write warm up: Watch the following video and write down anything that comes to mind about the work of Dorothea Tanning. How does her work make you feel, does her work have a common theme? How is her work considered surrealism?

Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 – January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. She was married to fellow Surrealist Max Ernst.

Critique for this project will be during block days next week.

All students will be able to learn about the surrealism art movement, juxtaposition, foreground, middle ground, and background, while creating a mixed-media collage.

How and why does art react to what is going on in the world?

The Persistence of Memory  is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí, and is one of his most recognizable works.

Directions: Get into groups of four to five and create a visual aide about this painting to share with the class. The visual aide must answer these questions. You may use drawings on your poster. You may also use your phone to look up additional information about this painting. 

1. Include the title, artist and date. 
2. Describe what you see in the picture. include art elements and subject matter.
3. Now interpret the image. What is the artist trying to say?
4. How and why does art respond to what is going on in the world? Think about what was going on in the world during 1931. 

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Critique for this project will be 
All students will be able to learn about the surrealism art movement, juxtaposition, foreground, middle ground, and background, while creating a mixed-media collage.


Vladimir Kush (born 1965) is a Russian born surrealist painter and sculptor.

How does Vladimir Kush use juxtaposition in his artwork?

All students will be able to learn about the surrealism art movement, juxtaposition, foreground, middle ground, and background, while creating a mixed-media collage.

René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fall under the umbrella of surrealism. His work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.