Research+Requirements



=**Biographical Information**= As you are doing your research, answer the following  =Images= As you are doing your research SAVE FIVE (5) images of the artist's work to your disk (or folder on server). For each image, record the follwing:
 * Artists Research Project - Research Requirements **
 * 1) Place/date of birth
 * 2) Place/date of death
 * 3) Primary type of artwork (ex: painting? drawing? sculpture? printmaking? ceramics)
 * 4) Media (what materials are use?):
 * 5) Style or period of art?
 * 6) Short definition of that style or period (see Artlex or Artcyclopedia)
 * 7) Interesting/Personal information on the artist
 * 8) Three other artists who work in this 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?
 * 9) Favorite Quote
 * 10) Biography Resources (minimum of three -use authoritative sites and/or books). Include author, title, date, URL (for sites), publisher (for books), page numbers.
 * Title
 * Date created
 * Media
 * Size
 * Location (museum/collection)
 * URL/ site name (or book source if scanned)

=**Critique**= Choose one of those pieces of art and answer the following questions:  =**Timeline**= (include some key world events that may have influenced this artist) : Sources for timeline
 * 1) What is the subject matter?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Genres. Is this a still life (group of things)? a portrait (a painting, drawing or sculpture of a person)? or a landscape/seascape/cityscape (picture of the land/water/city)? other (explain)?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Style/form: Is this artwork realistic (as real as possible)? abstract (distorted reality)? non-objective (as far from reality as possible)? symbolic? functional? other (explain)?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Description. Identify the sensory qualities (art elements). Can you identify a color scheme? Why do you think the artist might have chosen the colors she/he did? Do they make sense? What kind of lines did the artist use? How does the texture add to the work? etc.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Discuss the formal properties - use of design principles.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Interpretation. What do you think the artists was trying to say? Why do you think he/she chose this subject?
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What feeling does this artwork give you and why?
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What part of the artwork is your favorite and why?
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Judgment: Defend this as a work of art using one of the theories of aesthetics (or combination): Art as Realism - Art for Formal Properties - Art as Expression - Art as Functional