Art I Art History

PowerPoint Project

A. Select an Artist

Stylistic Category/Period:Renaissance

Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

Stylistic Category/Period: Baroque

Caravaggio

Artemesia Gentileschi

Rembrandt

Caravaggio

Artemesia Gentilischi

Rembrandt

Stylistic Category/Period:Impressionism

and Post-Impressionism

Claude MonetMary Cassatt

Georges Seurat Vincent Van Gogh

Claude Monet

Mary Cassatt

Georges Seurat

Vincent Van Gogh

Stylistic Category/Period:Expressionism

Constantin Brancusi

Edvard Munch

Constantin Brancusi

Edvard Munch

Stylistic Category/Period:Surrealism

Salvador Dali

Rene Magritte

Salvador Dali

Rene Magritte

Master of Many 20th Century Styles:Pablo Picasso

If you choose Picasso identify each artwork with the appropriate style in which he

worked:

Blue Period

Cubism

Rose Period

20th Century Neoclassic

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Stylistic Category/Period:Pop Art

Roy Lichtenstein

Claes Oldenburg

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

80 x 68 inches

48 x 48 inches48 x 48 inches

48 x 48 inches

Claes Oldenburg

Andy Warhol

Stylistic Category/Period:Organic Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Study this SAMPLE POWERPOINT

PROJECT

B. Create a PowerPoint Presentation

Jan Vermeer

Beetle BaileyArt I

2nd PeriodMarch 1, 2008

The Bourgeois Baroque Period is characterized by art for middle class

people. Everyday scenes and objects are the main subjects.

Bourgeois Baroque Style1600-1700

Birth date: 1632Death date: 1675Place of Birth: Delft, NetherlandsEducation/Training: Unknown

About the Artist: Jan Vermeer

Interesting Facts About Vermeer• Lived in Delft, Netherlands and seldom traveled

outside of the city

• Painted only 35-40 paintings!

• Wasn’t famous until almost 300 years after his death!

• Made his living as an owner of a hotel and picture gallery

• Had 15 children!

• Used a camera obscura to set up and draw his compositions

The basic camera obscura consists of a room with a small opening, the images are projected both upside down and reversed.

Officer with a Laughing Girlc. 1657Oil on canvas

This map and room appears in many of Vermeer’s paintings.

View of DelftOil on Canvas

1659-60

• This is one of Vermeer’s few landscape pictures.

• It was painted looking through an inverted telescope!

Young Woman with a Water Jug1660-62Oil on canvas

This is the first Vermeer painting to become part of an American collection.

Girl with a Pearl Earring1665

Oil on Canvas

• This painting inspired a 1999 novel, Girl With a Pearl Earring,, about a modest Dutch maid who becomes a model for the painter Johannes Vermeer.

• The book was made into a movie in 2003 starring Scarlet Johannson and Colin Firth.

The Art of Painting1665-67Oil on canvas,

This may be a self portrait of Vermeer, but no one knows for certain.

This painting is signed twice, but probably not by

the artist!

The Geographerc. 1668

Oil on canvas,

References

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/camera_obscura/co_two.html (February 19, 2008)

www.wga.hu (February 19, 2008)

www.artlex.com (February 19, 2008)

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C. General Guidelines

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• When doing an image search look for pixel size.

• Best images have at least one dimension between 500 pixels and 1000 pixels.

Image Size is Important

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70 x 66 pixels

512 x 484 pixels

AVOID ENLARGING

630 x 523 pixels

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• As much as possible use the font sizes in the template.• You may change them if necessary.• You may change font style, HOWEVER, follow these guidelines.

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your images.

Background colors should not be bright colors (yellow, orange, red, etc.).

Neutral colors are good (like this tan).

Use ONLY ONE backgroundin your presentation.

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Background colors range from very light to dark (use white letters if you

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