Low Poly Self Portrait Artist Statement

Shanijah and Shaborn did a great job with their self-portraits:

Image Credit: Shaborn

Image Credit: Shanijah

Today’s essential question: What are some elements of a strong artist statement?

Over the next two classes, we will finish our low-poly self-portraits. We will then create a blog post with our finished projects, and an artist statement about our project that is at least 150 words long. Here are some examples of what I am looking for in an artist statement:

• Zion
• Viviam
• Darla

Final Blog Post Requirements

When you are done with your project, create a final blog post with the following:

• a PDF of your finished project
• a PNG of your finished project (so we can see the image in the blog post)
• An artist statement (minimum 150 words) about our project.
  Not sure what to write? Start by answering the following questions:
  • Describe your artwork
    • What does your artwork look like?
    • What is the subject matter? (What is it about?)
    • What art elements or principles are most obvious in your work?
  • What is the big idea behind your artwork?
    • Who or what inspired your artwork?
    • What is your artwork about?
    • How do you want people to feel when they view your artwork?
  • How did you create your art?
    • What media is your artwork made from?
    • Describe the process or steps you took to create your artwork.
  • Overall thoughts
    • What did you learn from creating this artwork?
    • Is the final piece what you imagined? How so?
    • What did you do well? What could you have done better?

Today we will:

• Continue working on our low-poly self-portraits
• Create a new blog post with the following:
  • PDF of our project
  • PNG of our project
  • artist statement about the project (if you finish the project today)

Everything Old is New Again

Today’s essential questions: What is Cubism? How does Cubism continue to influence art 110 years later?

Cubism

Our low-poly portrait project is based on an art style called Cubism. In Cubist artwork, objects are broken up and reassembled in a more abstract way. Instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from many viewpoints.

Here are some examples of Cubist portraits from 1909:

Head of a Woman, George Braque, 1909

Portrait of Fernande Olivier, Pablo Picasso, 1909

How are they similar to our low-poly self-portraits?

Why might an artist purposefully use this technique, knowing that it will not result in a realistic piece?

Today we will:

• Continue working on our polygon self-portraits
• Create a new blog post with the following:
  • a PDF of our progress
  • a PNG of our progress

Ms. Lawson is very impressed

These projects are turning out incredibly well. Many of you are creating college level work! Here are some of the strongest low-poly self-portraits so far:

What are some things that are working well in each of these self-portraits?

We will finish these projects by the time we leave for spring break. If you need extra time to work on these, please arrange a time with Ms. Lawson. Since this is the only project for this marking period, you must complete it by Thursday, March 29 in order to pass the marking period.

Alignment: How to Connect Triangles

1. Open the alignment palette. (Window -> Alignment)
   
2. Select the white arrow.  Hold down shift and select the points you wish to align. Points that are not selected should remain white, and points that are selected should change to a color.
3. Click vertical in the alignment palette. 
   
4. Click horizontal align in the alignment palette. 
   
5. Continue until you have filled in all the gaps between triangles.
   

Save your file as BOTH a PDF and a PNG and upload your progress to your blog.

Today we will:

• Continue working on our polygon self-portraits
• Create a new blog post with the following:
  • a PDF of our progress
  • a PNG of our progress
  • a few sentences describing how you feel about the project so far and anything you would like help with