Art history

1. Art History Collage
Jonathan Caruso

2. This lesson will focus on learning how to combine
three famous artworks together so that they look
like one complete piece of artwork.
How will you do this...read on!

3. As you begin to research artworks you
should keep in mind that you will be
combining three artworks or parts of
them into one final piece so they look like
they belong together. See example
below of “Selfie with The Scream, Mona
Lisa, and Girl with a Pearl Earring”.
You can have a theme, be funny, scary
or sad…you have a lot of freedom to
create! You can also add things to
communicate your ideas, or message,
like the cell phone, and the students
peace sign with a picture of a hand in this
artwork.

4. Art history web sites for research
These are only a few sites you can use to look for artworks. You can look for art on other sites but you
must be able to document and list the artist name, title of work, size, date created, and medium. Along
with a copy of the original artwork. If you cannot find this information then don’t use it!
Also let me remind you that some of the sites may contain visual nude imagery, if you cannot handle this
maturely don’t view it, don’t point it out or share it with others!!! (I mentioned this in your syllabus)
Web sites:
http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks.html
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/beginners-art-history/a/cave-painting-
contemporary-art-and-everything-in-between

5. What next?
As you are researching visual images you will need to copy and paste the images
into this presentation (make a copy before you start work on this presentation).
You will create at least three slides (you can have more as you collect art to
consider for your project) add a visual of the artwork, drawing, painting, print…
add the artist's name, title, size, date created, and medium. Should look like the
example slide below (don’t use this artwork!)
You must use 3 different artworks from three different artists. You can mix and
match art history time periods (renaissance, modern art and indian art - as an
example) Make sure they work together to communicate your ideas.
Your project will be created on the ipad, you will find the artworks on google, save
them ot the camera roll and import them to SBE to transforma dn merge images.

6. Mona Lisa
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Title - Mona Lisa
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 2′ 6″ x 1′ 9″
FIRST SLIDE

7. Woman with Ermine
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Title - Woman with Ermine
Medium - Oil on canvas
Size - 1′ 9″ x 1′ 3″
SECOND SLIDE

8. American Gothic
Artist: Grant Wood
Title - American Gothic
Medium - Oil on beaverboard
Size - 2′ 5″ x 2′ 1″
THIRD SLIDE

9. Comedy / Tragedy Masks
Artist: Thalia and Melpomene
Title - Comedy / Tragedy Masks
Medium - Masks
Size - n/a
FOURTH SLIDE

10. Blue fog in the Forest
Artist: Leonid Afremov
Title - Blue fog in the Forest
Medium - Oil painting
Size - 2’ x 2’ 6”
FIFTH SLIDE

11. Van Gogh self-portrait
Artist: Van Gogh
Title - Van Gogh self-portrait
Medium - Oil paint
Size - 2′ 2″ x 1′ 9″
SIXTH SLIDE

12. Putting it together
I'm going to put Mona Lisa’s face on the lady with the ermine’s. After that I'm going
to erase the background of the lady with ermine and then put them both behind
the American gothic like they’re stalking them. This will be funny and make the
viewer laugh. I'm doing it this way because of Mona Lisa’s plain face and because
the lady with ermine is creepy.