Art History CollageJonathan Caruso

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!

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.

Art history web sites for researchThese 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

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.

Mona Lisa

Artist: Leonardo da VinciTitle - Mona LisaMedium - Oil on canvasSize - 2′ 6″ x 1′ 9″

FIRST SLIDE

Woman with Ermine

Artist: Leonardo da VinciTitle - Woman with ErmineMedium - Oil on canvasSize - 1′ 9″ x 1′ 3″

SECOND SLIDE

American Gothic

Artist: Grant WoodTitle - American GothicMedium - Oil on beaverboardSize - 2′ 5″ x 2′ 1″

THIRD SLIDE

Comedy / Tragedy Masks

Artist: Thalia and MelpomeneTitle - Comedy / Tragedy MasksMedium - MasksSize - n/a

FOURTH SLIDE

Blue fog in the Forest

Artist: Leonid AfremovTitle - Blue fog in the ForestMedium - Oil paintingSize - 2’ x 2’ 6”

FIFTH SLIDE

Van Gogh self-portrait

Artist: Van GoghTitle - Van Gogh self-portraitMedium - Oil paintSize - 2′ 2″ x 1′ 9″

SIXTH SLIDE

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 a halloween party. Then I will put the Comedy and Tragedy masks on the American Gothic couple and put vincent van gogh on the pitch fork like a prop. The Blue fog in the forest will be the fall background to keep the halloween theme. This will be funny because they will all be wearing masks and it would be like a party.