We are on to our second artist of the school year, Domenicos Theotocopoulous aka "El Greco", an artist who mastered the art of exaggerating the human shape in painting.
Objectives Students will identify characteristics of a painting executed in the Mannerist style. Students will locate abstracted shapes in El Greco's works. Students will question whether or not an artistic work containing abstractions of a subject can be beautiful and have value. Students create a simplified drawing of a figure whose shape has been or can be abstracted in the Mannerist style. Vocabulary Mannerism: an abstract style of art known for its exaggerated, long, slender figures. This stylization removes subjects from reality and gives paintings an unreal, or otherworldly appearance. The mood of Mannerist paintings id further amplified through the use of acidic colors (pale yellows, thin greens & icy blues) which appear in blocks. These simplified color shape blocks give these paintings a stacked, 2-dimensional appearance. Abstract: art forms derived by the simplification or rearrangement of natural objects to meet the needs of artistic organization or expression. In El Greco's work, figures have been abstracted by changing the proportions (the relationships of one part of the body to another) to elongate the human shape. Shape: an area contained within an implied line. Shape has 2 dimensions (length and width). Design in painting is basically the planned arrangement of shapes in a work of art.
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Our Hazeldale Hawks got the opportunity to become architects this month with our study of famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Students were given wooden block forms and were asked to design and then draw a building of their very own.
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