Research of three artists
Outcome 1: Collect influences, inspiration and images
Identify three artists who can be connected by a theme and work in the same art form.
They are going to be used to create a themed exhibition for in your Unit 3 SAC.
Ensure that information about the artists and artworks is easily accessible and reliable. For example, is the artwork part of a major museum collection? Can you find resources about the artwork on the internet or in books? For this task, it is important that information about the artist and artworks can be directly accessed.
What are your artists’ cultural and historical context?
We don’t make artwork in a bubble. We react to the things happening around us, our culture and environment.
Fra Angelico was an Italian painter, one of the greatest 15th-century artists, whose early Renaissance works embody a serene religious attitude.
What has influenced your
your 3 artists?
This is about what motivated them to make their artwork. Find out about the artist’s personal experiences/ artists they worked with or admired that have influenced their art making.
Angelico was influenced by his fellow friar St. Antoninus Pierozzi,
He was influenced by Masaccio's use of architectural perspective.
What is their visual language and style?
Fra Angelico approached religious scenes with a serene style, and made use of the innovations in perspective and three-dimensionality that were characteristic of the early Renaissance
The workmanship of the gilded haloes and gold-edged robes is exquisite and all very Gothic
He modeled with light and intense, brilliant colors.
Research the artist’s process, materials and techniques.
What are the materials, techniques and processes they use?
Make sure they all link to each other by theme. Eg. all figurative, interiors, ink works etc.
Example Artworks:
Fra Angelico
Select two artworks by each artist. Print high-quality images of the artworks and place them in the centre of separate pages in the Visual Arts journal.and record the didactic information for each artwork. (title, date, medium, size and URL)
Virgin of Humility, Giovanni da Fiesole (Fra Angelico), 1433-1435
https://www.museunacional.cat/en/giovanni-da-fiesole-called-fra-angelico-madonna-humility-around-1433-1435
Ca. 1426. Tempera on panel. Height: 162.3 cm; Width: 191.5 cm
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-annunciation/f8e45a6f-7645-4e53-9fd5-cbdae7e8faac
Try to find reproductions of the artworks that show the artworks presented in a gallery space to understand the artwork’s scale and relationship to the environment.
Make detailed observations/ notes in the Visual Arts journal about the two artworks. Identify
Brainstorm ideas inspired by each artwork that will lead to experimentation and art making
Practical art trials to be done when we return to school.
Task 6: Choose one experiment inspired by each of the three artists to investigate and make visual responses. Keep the visual responses contained and manageable – try not to be too ambitious at this point. These exercises are designed to get you thinking and making.
Task 7: Alongside an image of the result for each experiment, place an image of one of your previous artworks and the artwork that inspired the experiment. Compare the three images and discuss the artist's visual language, your previous artwork’s visual language and the visual language in the new response.
Task 8: Make notes about each experiment and evaluate the characteristics and properties of the materials you used. What are their inherent characteristics?
Task 9: Re-evaluate the patterns, links and connections between each experiment; what are the characteristics of your visual language? And how does it compare to the visual language of the artists you have been inspired by?
Task 10: Identify and discuss the selected artworks' big ideas or universal themes and compare these to the visual responses you have created. What are the similarities and differences?
Task 11: Conceptualise and Make one artwork inspired by the visual responses you have created.