What is the limit of art?Web Quest

TRIMESTRAL EVALUATION9th GRADE

VISUAL ARTSTHE VICTORIA SCHOOL

Criteria Criteria A Knowing and Understanding:

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the postmodern art, including concepts, processes, and the use of site-specific terminology.

Criteria C Thinking Creatively: Demonstrate a range and depth of creative-thinking behaviors.

Criteria D Responding: Construct meaning related to the postmodern views and transfer it to new settings.

Key Concepts

Culture:

“The concept of culture I espouse. . . is essentially a semiotic one. Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretative one in search of meaning.”

Clifford Geertz

Key Concepts

Context:

The facts or circumstances that surround an event or situation. Contexts that might have a social, political, religious or economic focus.

IB MPY Arts Guide

Key Concepts

Infography:

An information graphic (infographic) is a visual representation of a data set or instructive material. An infographic takes a large amount of information in text or numerical form and then condenses it into a combination of images and text, allowing viewers to quickly grasp the essential insights the data contains. Infographics are not a product of the Web, but the Internet has helped popularize their use as a content medium.

Some examples….

Some examples….

Choose two artists…(They cannot be from the same

context)

Michelangelo Pistoletto Claes Oldenburg Christo Javacheff Nam June Paik Dan Flavin Taller 4 Rojo Eva Hesse Jannis Kounellis Wolf Vostell Doris Salcedo Mario Merz

Richard Long Leon Ferrari Jeff Koons Guerilla Girls Yayoi Kusama Maria Teresa Hincapié Lotty Rosenfeld

Exercise

According to the key concepts, choose two artist from the list and establish cultural or contextual connections between them (like period, social, economical or political circumstances…).

Establish visual connections regarding to theirs art works (like use of color, compositions, media or techniques…). Use many art pieces to make the relation.

Build up two infographies or mind maps, one regarding to context and the other to the relation with theirs art work, giving more visual elements that text.

Resources

Internet, TVS library data bases, books, articles…

It must be the corresponding citation per each source, according to APA system (even the images).

Bonus track

There must be an accompanying text with the conclusions of the exam (exactly 300 words).

The conclusions and the infographies must be send on Friday March 6th. They can be scanned/pictured or made in digital format:

http://www.masquenegocio.com/2013/02/15/9-sitios-web-crear-infografias-gratuita/

Good luck…

Bibliography La fabrica de la creatividad. (n.d.). Retrieved from

http://lafabricadelacreatividad.blogspot.com/2012/09/infografia-mapa-mental-buzan.html

Florida, R. (2013, May 1). La clase creativa. Retrieved February 1, 2015, from http://garagelabx.blogspot.com/2013/05/la-clase-creativa-richard-florida.html

Janssen, C. (n.d.). Information Graphic. Retrieved February 1, 2015, from http://www.techopedia.com/definition/27808/information-graphic-infographic

Caamaño Cistaro, P. (2010, October 8). POL-ART RETRO II: Infografía de Andy Warhol - Año 2001. Retrieved February 1, 2015, from http://pol-art.blogspot.com/2010/10/pol-art-retro-ii-infografia-de-andy.html