INSTRUCTIONS
3 pages typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman, size 12 font
APA or
INSTRUCTIONS
3 pages typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman, size 12 font
APA or MLA Format
Submit file as PDF
Choose any artist that interests you. Below is an artist list but these are only suggestions; you do not have to choose an artist on this list. Please make sure you can find enough information about your artist to complete the paper. Label each section of your research project in bold within your paper.
Biographical Information
Please consider the following information. Each artist will have different information. These topics are suggestions, but most should be included in your research on any artist. Approach the biographical information how you choose.
Suggested Biographical Information about selected artist:
1. Place/date of birth
2. Place/date of death
3. Primary type of artwork
4. Media
5. Style or period of art
6. Short definition of that style or period
7. Interesting/Personal information on the artist
8. Favorite Quote
Artist Comparison/Contrast
Compare/contrast your selected artist to two (2) other artists who work in the same style (from the time period of the artist – or contemporary artists working in this same style). How is the work similar? How is the work different? Do these artists influence your artist and/or did your artist influence these artists? The artists can be from different time periods.
Contextual Understanding
Research two artworks created by your selected artist. Explain the context of each artwork by researching one of the contextual categories below (refer to chapter 5):
Historical Context
Social Context
Personal/Creative Context
Political Context
Scientific Context
Research Citation
Biography Resources (minimum of three -use authoritative sites and books). Include author, title, date, URL (for sites), publisher (for books), and page numbers. No Wikipedia. Cite in APA or MLA format.
Images
1 portrait or photograph of artist plus 3 images of art works created by artist.
Label each with the following information:
Title: Date:
Media: Size:
Location found (museum/collection):URL/ site name (or book source if scanned)
These images can be placed within your paper or at the end. The images do not count towards your three pages of information typed. Be sure to have three pages of typed information plus these images and your works cited page.
ARTIST LIST
(This list is only a suggestion. Please research any artist you are interested in but be sure there is enough information on the artist to complete this project.)
Albers, Josef
Arp, Jean
Bacon, Francis
Banksy
Blake, William
Botticelli, Sandro
Bourgeois, Louise
Brancusi, Constantin
Braque, Georges
Brugel, Pieter
Calder, Alexander
Cassatt, Mary
Celmins, Vija
Cezanne, Paul
Chagall, Marc
Chicago, Judy
Constable, John
Cornell, Joseph
Courbet, Gustave
de Kooning, Elaine
de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri
Degas, Edgar
Delecroix, Eugene
Duchamp, Marcel
Durer, Albrecht
Ernst, Max
Escher, M. C.
Fairey, Shepard
Foster, Norman
Frankenthaler, Helen
Gabriel, Dante
Gaudí, Antoni
Gaugin, Paul
Goya, Francisco
Hesse, Eva
Hirst, Damien
Homer, Winslow
Hopper, Edward
Johns, Jasper
Jones, E. Fay
Kahlo, Frida
Kandinsky, Wassily
Kienholz, Edward
Klee, Paul
Klimpt, Gustav
Krasner, Lee
Kruger, Barbara
Lin, Maya
Magritte, Rene
Manet, Edouard
Marshall, Kerry James
Matisse, Henri
Miro, Joan
Mondrian, Piet
Moore, Henry
Munch, Edvard
Murray, Elizabeth
O’Keefe, Georgia
Oldenburg, Claes
Ono, Yoko
Pelli, Cesar
Pollack, Jackson
Rauschenberg, Robert
Renoir, Auguste
Ringgold, Faith
Rivera, Diego
Rockwell, Norman
Rodin, Auguste
Rothenberg, Susan
Rothko, Mark
Rouault, Georges
Rousseau, Henri
Seurat, Georges
Sherman, Cindy
Smith, Kiki
Spencer, Lily Martin
Spero, Nancy
Stella, Frank
Titian
van Alen, William
Van Eyck, Jan
van Rijn, Rembrandt
Velazquez, Diego
Vermeer, Jan
Walker, Kara
Warhol, Andy
Whistler, James
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Rubric: Review the rubric found when you click into the drop box to understand how your Artist Research Paper will be graded. Contact your instructor with any questions before submitting your paper.
I prefer you to write about Chakila Hoskins but If you can’t or don’t have enough resources you can choose from the list I gave you just give me a heads up and I’ll give you further instructions. She also has a website divineartistries.com. I also sent you a picture of her biography.