Art Lessons for Junior High week of 5/11-5/15 Getty Challenge and Victor Nunes
For all junior high. Recreate a famous work of art challenge. The Getty Museum in LA came up with the idea and it has spread all over the world and social media.
Goal: Use composition to recreate a famous artwork. This challenge was issued by The Getty Museum in Los Angeles for people in quarantine to recreate famous artwork using items they have at home. Search the internet to find an artwork. Use items around the house to recreate the famous artwork. Get creative and include your personality. If you are stuck on ideas, google Getty Museum Quarantine Challenge for inspiration.
Tips for creating your work of art: -find great art that you like and is school appropriate -you need to include 3 objects, pets, or people Now that you’ve found your inspiration, pick the objects you’d like to use. Any objects are fine: from a blank piece of paper to your most elaborate hat. You can stick to 3 and see what you come up with, but you’re welcome to use as many as you would like. Enlist a pet. Get your dogs, cats or bunnies into the mix. Make a face, strike a pose. If you’re interested in re-creating a portrait or group scene, pay attention to the facial expressions—they really make it. If you’re reenacting a scene with multiple figures, pay attention to the poses. You are recreating the artwork so the placement of objects and poses is important. Pay attention to lighting. Try to imagine where the light in the artwork is coming from and orient your composition so a window or lamp is casting similar light onto the scene. In bright daylight, windows offer a blue-tinged light, while most lamps cast a warmer glow. Photograph Use a smartphone camera or a digital camera to take a photo (if you’re posing, have a member of the household do it for you.) Insert a copy of the original artwork beside your recreation. Think abstractly. If you’re having trouble re-creating an artwork’s appearance, try focusing on shapes over colors. Make it snackable. Edible art counts too. Why not make a Magritte on toast or even a pancake? Or how about a sculpture out of strawberry? Send your recreation along with the original to me by Wednesday 4/13. Check out the gallery for this weeks video gallery. Finally, here are a few examples for inspiration!!
For 6th and 7th grade only Thursday assignment Victor Nunes is a retired art director from São Paulo, Brazil. He is known for turning every day objects and simple contour lines into works of art, like the ones below. Go on a scavenger hunt in your house to find 3-5 objects. Use those objects to come up with your own drawings! You will need paper and a pencil. Due Friday 5/14.