Requirement:
Visit the Housatonic Community College Gallery and choose one or two artworks that are in the Burt Chernow Galleries in Lafayette Hall from Tuesday, March 29 through Tuesday, April 19. The exhibit features the HCC faculty's latest works in sculpture, photography; drawing, installation and painting. Discuss the similarities of the artwork. Concentrate on the basics of Art: line, color, form, size, texture, am hue. Make sure you use a lot of Art Terms to describe what you see. EXAMPLE: Yc can write about the differences using vocabulary we've learned this semester.
DIRECTIONS:
YOU MUST GO AND SEE THE SHOW IN PERSON: Housatonic Community College
900 Lafayette Boulevard, Bridgeport CT 06604
The essay has to include:
Cover page: title and picture of artwork; your name
One page in length,
Highlight Art Terms
BIO OF THE ARTIST,
VISUAL ANALYSIS,
HISTORIC CLASSIFICATION: What era of Art History does your artwork belong to? INTRO: one paragraph
BODY: 3 to 5 paragraphs
CONCLUSION: must have at least 5 to 7 sentences
Three footnotes from three different sources on a separate page.
Art terms:
• Aerial perspective a technique for creating the illusion of distance
• Basilica an early church/ a Roman building for public functions
• Chiaroscuro light and shadow used to create three-dimensionality
• Dome a vaulted roof erected on a circular base.
• Façade the front of a building.
• Patron the person who pays for the artwork.
• Quatrefoil a medieval frame
• Tempera a fast drying, water-based paint made with egg yoke
• Linear perspective mathematical system to create the illusion of depth
• Fresco a wall painting made of pigment and plaster
• picture plane the flat surface of a drawing or painting
• vanishing point a point where liner lines converge
• annunciation Angel announces to Mary she will give birth to Jesus
• Humanism pre-Christian sources that rely on intellect, rather than spirituality
• Buttress an external architectural support.
• Cella the main inner room of a temple.
• Chiaroscuro light and shadow used to create the effect of three- dimensionality.
• Contrapposto a stance of the human body in which one leg bears the weight, while the other is relaxed.
• Glaze a layer of translucent paint or varnish.
• Martyrium a church built over the tomb or relics of a martyr.
• Painterly using the quality of color and texture, rather than line, to define form.
• Pastel a crayon made of ground pigments.
• Pieta an image of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ.
• Sfumato the definition of form by delicate gradations of light and shadow.
• Asymmetrical lack of balance
• Baldacchino a canopy above an altar
• Camera obscura forerunner of the photographic camera
• Impasto the thick application of paint
• Minaret a tall, slender tower attached to a mosque.
• Vanitas transitory nature of earthly things and the inevitability of death
• Trompe l'oeil painting that deceives the eye
• Satyr a woodland deity that's half goat and half man
• Luminism 19th century style of painting emphasizing light on landscape
• Aerial perspective a technique for creating the illusion of distance
• Basilica an early church/ a Roman building for public functions
• Chiaroscuro light and shadow used to create three-dimensionality
Tom Brenner
Pipes
Pastel on paper.
Tom Brenner
Stoop
Pastel on paper.
Janet Hayes
Backyard Moonlight
Watercolor.
John Favret
In the Past
Acrylic on bristol board.
Andrew Prayzner
Untitled(Realism)
Oil on linen.
Andrew Prayzner
Untitled(Realism)
Oil on canvas.
Gus Moran
Pilgrimage
Oil on canvas.
Gus Moran
White Column
Mixed media on paper.