Tag: artist study

  • Michelangelo art history lesson

    Michelangelo art history lesson

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    Michelangelo is famous for many things. He was a brilliant artist, and I deliberately use artist because he was great at painting AND sculpture. His David is one of the most famous sculptures ever, there are hundreds of postcards for it, many in questionable taste. Then there is his famous Sistine Chapel painting, there are…

  • Artist Studies

    Artist Studies

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    I love artist studies. We usually keep them short, one to two days, and attempt to recreate the artwork of the artist or their style. This often means we create truly unique art, but it’s so much fun. I thought it would be helpful for all of you to collect all of our Artist Studies…

  • Frida Kahlo artist study

    Frida Kahlo artist study

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    I remember learning about Frida Kahlo in high school. I forget exactly where I learned about her, if it was part of history class or maybe just a random thing I learned, but the big things I took away from learning about her: she really liked her uni-brow and she painted a lot of self-portraits.…

  • Diego Rivera artist study

    Diego Rivera artist study

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    As we studied Mexico, we learned about their two most famous artists and turned it into history lessons, well art history, but I don’t have an art history landing page… Hmmm…. I need to create that since I’ve actually got a fair number of them. Focus Ticia, we’re talking about the Diego Rivera art history…

  • Edvard Munch art history lesson

    Edvard Munch art history lesson

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    When I was in high school, my youth pastor used The Scream as the theme for a youth retreat. And then it became a thing in pop culture. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that, but there are all sorts of great parodies of The Scream (which I’ll link to some in this art…