Analysis of Artists

1. Where to access this PowerPoint
Presentation
• http://www.slideshare.net/jemaniedixon/anal
ytical-review-of-artistspresentation1
• Moodle

2. Learning Aims
1. The aim of this lesson is to share opinions and knowledge with other
group members with a common purpose, task or goal to work to work
towards a deeper level of understanding each individuals chosen artists.
2. The aim is to share good practice through paired work to analyse each
students artists in regards to composition, subject matter, content,
mediums, techniques, texture, and colour in order to create a deeper
level of understanding how to analyse art work.
3. The aim also is to share good practice and build confidence when using
interpersonal skills.
4. The aim of the pairing strategy is to differentiate instruction by providing
students time and structure for thinking on a given topic, enabling them
to formulate individual ideas and share these ideas with a peer.
5. The aim of the session is to gain skills and knowledge in order to be able
to annotate about their chosen artists.

3. Learning Outcomes
1. Define the lesson aims and outcomes
2. Identifying key words to use in annotation of
artists
3. Define the words composition, balance, content,
mediums, techniques, texture, and colour in
regards to art work
4. Analyse art work using words such as
composition, balance, content, context,
mediums, techniques, texture, and colour
5. Share opinions and thoughts with the group.
6. Reflect on notes taken to begin annotated draft
of own artist

4. Write down your peers ideas and answers throughout this lesson.
Listen for key words in the video to consider when
analysing art work
It is important to take notes

5. Analysing Artwork

6. What key words were mentioned in the video?

7. Composition – symmetry/ balance:
composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art
Subject Matter:
Is the literal, visible image in a work the subject of the artwork, e.g., still life, portrait, landscape etc.
Content:
Is the communication of ideas, feelings and reactions connected with the subject.
The emotional or intellectual message of an artwork.
The expression, essential meaning, significance, or aesthetic value of a work of art.
Mediums
Charcoal, Ink, paint, paper, canvas, pencil, marker, chalk, graphite, pastel, stencil, wax, fabric,
varnish, crayon, spray painting
Techniques
Painting, lino, dry cuts, mono printing, dripping, dragging, texture, layering, smudging, drawing,
spray painting, hatching, stippling, collage, light, shade, stamping,
Colour
Used to create emotions. To create harmony or contrast. To set a visual path. To produce rhythm
or to create emphasis on one or more particular areas.

8. David Hockney ‘My Parents’
Composition:
Subject Matter:
Content:
Mediums:
Techniques:
Colour:

9. What does Juxtaposition mean?
Placing things side by side especially when using contrasting
elements
In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect,
particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used. The viewer's attention is drawn
to the similarities or differences between the elements.
Visual Examples
• The use of agressive mark-making in contrast to an area of very controlled shading
• Light and dark, organic and man-made,
Abstract Examples
• Weakness’s and strength, love & hate, belief an denial.
Meret Oppenheim 1936
'Luncheon in Fur‘
The perplexing juxtaposition of fur
and teacup unsettles the viewer,
as we question form and function.

10. Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio: Supper at Emmaus
Date of Birth: 29 Sep 1571 (Italy)
Focus: Paintings
Art Movement: Baroque
Composition:
Subject Matter:
Content:
Mediums:
Techniques:
Colour:

11. Georgia O'Keeffe : Red Canna
Date of Birth: 15th November 1887 (America)
Focus: Painting
Art Movement: American Modernism
Composition:
Subject Matter:
Content:
Mediums:
Techniques:
Colour:

12. Jim Dine: Tools & Dreams
Date of Birth: 16th June 1935 (America)
Focus: sculpture, painting, printmaking & assemblage
Art Movement: Abstract Expressionism.
Composition:
Subject Matter:
Content:
Mediums:
Techniques:
Colour:

13. Peter Doig: The Architect's Home in the Ravine
Date of Birth: 17th April 1959 (Scottish)
Focus: Painting
Art Movement: Magical Realism
Composition:
Subject Matter:
Content:
Mediums:
Techniques:
Colour:

14. Raul Lazaro:
Date of Birth: 29th February 1980 (Spanish)
Focus: Collage
Art Movement: Magical Realism
Composition:
Subject Matter:
Content:
Mediums:
Techniques:
Colour:

15. Composition:
Subject Matter:
Content:
Mediums:
Techniques:
Colour:
Roy Litchenstein: Interior with Waterlilies
Date of Birth: 27th October 1923 (America)
Focus: Painting
Art Movement: Pop Art

16. • http://www.avampatoart.com/profiles/jim-
dine.pdf
• http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highli
ghts/highlight_objects/pd/j/jim_dine,_piranes
is_24_colored.aspx

17. American artist Georgia O'Keeffe
Date of Birth: 15th November 1887
Focus: Painting
Art Movement: American Modernism
O'Keeffe was very much drawn to
the abstract - and abstracting
aspects of the flowers she would
vastly enlarge the fragment of the
flowers.
As the shapes swell and taper across
the plane, they pulse with colour
and energy, suggesting the artist's
continuing fascination with themes
of natural vitality.
She explores the elements of colour,
shape and texture of the objects she
paints. She was preoccupied with
simple forms in her flower paintings.
Colour is often bold, frequently
carefully modulated but tends to
come across as somewhat 'flat'.

18. Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio
Date of Birth: 29 Sep 1571
Focus: Paintings
Art Movement: Baroque
Caravaggio's style of painting is
easily recognizable for its
realism, intense chiaroscuro and
the artist's emphasis on co-
extensive space. Caravaggio had
a remarkable talent for
extending the action of his
composition beyond the picture
plane and into the viewer's
space. In the Supper at Emmaus,
for example, the viewer is
almost like a fifth actor in the
scene; the arms of the apostle
on the right stretches into our
space, while the teetering basket
of fruit could almost fall to the
viewer's feet
Chiaroscuro (kee-ar-uh-SKYOOR-
o) is the use of strong contrasts
between light and dark, usually
bold contrasts affecting a whole
composition.

19. Jacques Louis David
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
and His Wife Marie-Anne-
Pierrette Paulze.
Oil on Canvas