Hey, hey, hey. Hope you had a choccie fantastic Easter.
Thank you for joining me this holiday, to keep on top of WHTBD.
It seems a big ask, but you'll be pleased you did :-)
Enough talk, let's get down to business:
Firstly, we need to recap over the work covered on Early Renaissance portraits - mostly Leonardo's Mona Lisa and the rest of the crew, but also Piero della Francesca's Montefeltro double whammy - check back to Term One Week Eight and Nine for the images and links. We did also touch on the controversial Virgin of the Rocks 1483-1486 version and the 1495-1508 version, compare the two and at least have the visual differences clear in your mind. We will return to the images again at the start of next term.
New Learning for this session:
Leonardo: Last Supper and Adoration of the Magi
Paolo Uccello: Battle of San Romano (all three of them), St George and the Dragon, The Hunt, and his work on perspective.
On a slightly trivial note - here's a new way of looking at Uccello's St. George and the Dragon, written by Fanthorpe.
Holiday Viewing - Paolo Uccello
Private Life of a Masterpiece - Battle of San Romano (part 1 of 5). Check out the other 4 parts too, please.
Homework Viewing- Leonardo da Vinci
Private Life of a Masterpiece - The Last Supper (part 1 of 5). Check out the other 4 parts too, please.
Term One Week Nine
Kia ora kids
It's all down hill this week towards a chocolate filled Easter.
Make mine a Creme Egg!
For those back from camp with Ms Rogers and I, I trust you are well rested (and clean); as for the rest of you, I hope the extra time you gained at school was invested into 3.3.
Remember everyone, it's due this Tuesday, the 30th, in your Art History lesson.
So, down to business-
Firstly, we need to check we are all happy with the facts and notes we each have on Piero della Francesca. That includes covering the Montefeltro Portraits from the end of Week 8. If not, that's down to you to get that done.
This week, lovely Leonardo da Vinci.
The ultimate example of a Renaissance Man aka polymath: poet, inventor, scientist, painter, military engineer, singer and vegetarian.
During our three lessons together we'll be looking at the following works:
The Annunciation
Lady with an Ermine
Ginevra de Benci - obverse (front) and reverse ( back - duh!)
and herself Mona Lisa
Don't forget, it's important to keep making connections with the learning we have completed this term on Early Renaissance Art and everything new you'll grow to love in the topics to come.
Easy to recall, it all revolves around: Context, Style and Iconography (C.S.I.).
Anyway, have an eggcellent Easter - see you at the holiday lesson on Leonardo, completing portraiture and taking a close look at the famous Last Supper, plus the often overlooked Paolo Uccello.
It's all down hill this week towards a chocolate filled Easter.
Make mine a Creme Egg!
For those back from camp with Ms Rogers and I, I trust you are well rested (and clean); as for the rest of you, I hope the extra time you gained at school was invested into 3.3.
Remember everyone, it's due this Tuesday, the 30th, in your Art History lesson.
So, down to business-
Firstly, we need to check we are all happy with the facts and notes we each have on Piero della Francesca. That includes covering the Montefeltro Portraits from the end of Week 8. If not, that's down to you to get that done.
This week, lovely Leonardo da Vinci.
The ultimate example of a Renaissance Man aka polymath: poet, inventor, scientist, painter, military engineer, singer and vegetarian.
During our three lessons together we'll be looking at the following works:
The Annunciation
Lady with an Ermine
Ginevra de Benci - obverse (front) and reverse ( back - duh!)
and herself Mona Lisa
Don't forget, it's important to keep making connections with the learning we have completed this term on Early Renaissance Art and everything new you'll grow to love in the topics to come.
Easy to recall, it all revolves around: Context, Style and Iconography (C.S.I.).
Anyway, have an eggcellent Easter - see you at the holiday lesson on Leonardo, completing portraiture and taking a close look at the famous Last Supper, plus the often overlooked Paolo Uccello.
Term One Week Eight
Welcome to a very short working week.
School camp begins, watch out Kai Iwi Lakes here we come!
The main consideration for us is progress with 3.3, Media and Process. This week we are completing our charts in which we compare, I repeat, COMPARE, each process.
In our lesson we'll also be looking at how to write those dreaded 500 words too for Task 3.
Ms Rogers and I will help you with that, don't stress Mattie.
Do remember, due date is next Tuesday (30.03.10) in your lesson, no exception.
So for the real learning......the stunningly beautiful Baptism of Christ by Piero della Francesca.
It's a real crowd pleaser, and surprisingly large for a tempera painting
(take note those who used it for their 3.3 study).
You need to make sure you understand about Piero's use of hamony and balance through the Golden Section in this work.
Also very significant, his use of Naturalism in the local landscape- a religious scene, but in Piero's back yard.
If we get any extra time we can begin to take a closer look at the famous double whammy - Duke and Duchess of Urbino - Big Nose and Battista.
School camp begins, watch out Kai Iwi Lakes here we come!
The main consideration for us is progress with 3.3, Media and Process. This week we are completing our charts in which we compare, I repeat, COMPARE, each process.
In our lesson we'll also be looking at how to write those dreaded 500 words too for Task 3.
Ms Rogers and I will help you with that, don't stress Mattie.
Do remember, due date is next Tuesday (30.03.10) in your lesson, no exception.
So for the real learning......the stunningly beautiful Baptism of Christ by Piero della Francesca.
It's a real crowd pleaser, and surprisingly large for a tempera painting
(take note those who used it for their 3.3 study).
You need to make sure you understand about Piero's use of hamony and balance through the Golden Section in this work.
Also very significant, his use of Naturalism in the local landscape- a religious scene, but in Piero's back yard.
If we get any extra time we can begin to take a closer look at the famous double whammy - Duke and Duchess of Urbino - Big Nose and Battista.
Term One Week Seven
Well, this week the Biologists among us are away counting crabs, nice :-{)
The rest of us will be working on topics we had already started thinking about, last week.
Piero is still the man on everyone's lips. This week we'll turn our attentions to The Resurrection.
Make sure you watch the two parts from 'Private Life of a Masterpiece" for homework. I'll be questioning you all about it , so make some notes to help.
During lesson time, we'll be considering Piero's work on Foreshortening and Proportion and tying this together with Alberti and his clever ideas that rocked the painting world .
Don't forget that Venn Diagrams for 3.3 need to be ready for class this Friday. Let me know if you need help - not the night before - ehem Nicole!
Enjoy your week. See you in class - MrsG
The rest of us will be working on topics we had already started thinking about, last week.
Piero is still the man on everyone's lips. This week we'll turn our attentions to The Resurrection.
Make sure you watch the two parts from 'Private Life of a Masterpiece" for homework. I'll be questioning you all about it , so make some notes to help.
During lesson time, we'll be considering Piero's work on Foreshortening and Proportion and tying this together with Alberti and his clever ideas that rocked the painting world .
Don't forget that Venn Diagrams for 3.3 need to be ready for class this Friday. Let me know if you need help - not the night before - ehem Nicole!
Enjoy your week. See you in class - MrsG
Term One Week Seven - YouTube clips
Private Life of a Masterpiece: Piero della Francesca -
The Resurrection. Please watch both parts.
The Resurrection. Please watch both parts.
Term One Week Six
Welcome to Week Six and more disruptions. This week Year 13 are out of classes all day on Thursday and I'll be teaching Ms Roger's class on Friday, so watch out Rhys and Jono!!!!
We're all working frantically on our 3.3 Examine Media and Process. Don't forget that the Task 1 flowcharts have got to be ready for class on Friday 12th - on 'post it notes' , stuck onto A3, is fine. Please let us know before then if you're having problems setting the work out - email me here or catch up after class. To help a lot more with the Fresco aspect of the assignment, we'll be watching how Michelangelo probably painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Here's what else we're covering this week.....................
Piero della Francesca and his painting The Flagellation. Not a nice topic but a very important painting, that's for sure. He's our main man for Week 6, picture and quote of the week too.
Piero painted this while living in Urbino and working for the Duke, Federico de Montefeltro. We'll find out a little more about old big nose and what made him so influential.
Remember that book from last week, Della Pittura ( or De Pictura for the boffins) ? Leon Battista Alberti was first to write down rules of linear perspective for artists to follow, and we'll be looking at his Rules of Perspective and ideas of Historia - how to make a perfect picture.
And lastly, a little more sexy mathematics - the Golden Ratio, aka Golden Section and phi -
Euclid, Fibonnacci and Pythagoras - the dream team.
What happens when numbers, art and architecture come together for Piero ?
See the YouTube clip to appreciate how Piero portrays 3D shapes on a 2D surface. Wowzer.
YouTube Clips from Week 4
Me again, just in case you still need too watch these for your Perspective Q&A sheet - and those of us with YouTube problems at school. Watch the one at the bottom first and the top, second- sorry, I'm just getting the hang of this, should have them the right way around next time.
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