Artist Statements
What?
What did I make?
What materials did I use?
What is happening in this art?
How?
How did I make my artwork?
What were the steps to create it?
What was my favorite part of creating my artwork?
What tools and techniques did I use?
What happened along the way?
Why?
Why is this artwork special?
What does it tell my viewers?
What is the title of my artwork and why?
Why is this artwork meaningful to me?
What did I express in my artwork?
Influences
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Connections
Who or what inspired my artwork?
What motivates me to make art?
Does my work communicate a personal or social issue?
“I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. I’ll get an inspiration and start painting; then I’ll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.”
-Grandma Moses (1860 -
1961)
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else… Nobody really sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time… So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.”
-Georgia O’Keeffe
“This picture shows the image of daylight streaming among the clouds. I devised patterns not only in the same size, but also combined those of various sizes.”
6th grader
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