Grade 9 analysis activity

Here is another 'Image of Beauty'. What do YOU think? 

Let's look at some elements and principles of Art to inform our opinions. This is called 'analysis'.

Weeping Woman with Red Hat

Picasso

Identify & describe each of these terms in a sentence with colourful adjectives: (TWO of each if possible……?)     

(20 marks content + 5 for style = 25 marks)
This mark is for your CASS year mark, and you will get 'unseen' activities like this in your exams.

1.positive shapes

2.negative shapes

3.geometric shapes

4.organic shapes

5.patterned shapes

6.textured shapes

7.plain shapes

8.high contrast between shapes

9.low contrast between shapes

10.bright shapes

11.dull shapes

Texture and van Gogh

For my Grade 10s .....

Vincent van Gogh, Cottage Garden 1888 - reed pen, quill, and ink over graphite on wove paper, 24 x 19-1/4 inches Private Collection, Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art

Analytical activity:

Look at the above image, then try out some of the textures on scraps of paper. (Hint: read the list of materials above)

Try making some of these pens (make your own!)....

How to make a reed pen

Feather quill pens

• Glue these scraps to a poster.
• Explain how you made them in words.
• Write down what they represent in the drawing.
• Now write a paragraph on van Gogh's use of texture. (Include the name of the drawing and the date) (How long is a paragraph???? ..... about 60 words to 1/2 page)

Here is a link to the van Gogh Gallery site ..

Gallery

Textures

A drawing instructor named Hilary Gomes has 'pinned' some wonderful art .... 
Please have a look!

Hilary Gomes link