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Artist Bioboard

 
This project is a visual, written, and oral project that will give a summary of an artist's life and work, in addition to a personal critique on one of the artist's creative works. These elements listed below must be arranged on a presentation board and will contain these elements.

My Presentation Board

1. Artist Name

2. Portrait or picture of the Artist

3. The selected masterpiece you will critique

4. Additional historical pictures and other examples of his or her work

5. Artist Biography - 3 paragraphs on the artists life - Which includes life dates, personal influences, schools and education, places lived and worked, Artistic Movements involved in, motivations if known, and artwork titles of famous works and why they were revered.

6. Personal Critique - 5 paragraph critique that will analyze a selected masterpiece. You must address the historical importance of the work, analyze it symbolically and through the elements of design (line, shape, form, space, color, value and texture) and the principles of design (balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm, and pattern). Fully describe the work, explain the art movement or artist style the work is classified under. Talk about the public reaction to the work as well as your personal judgement about why you chose this piece to present and talk about. Make sure this critique is written in a standard essay format with a thesis, introductory paragraph, 3 minimum body paragraphs and a concluding paragraph. Refer back to the Artist Webquest for format and content.

Please use the Helix Style Manual for Papers and Cite(minimum or 4 citings) on both written papers

 

You are graded on 4 areas

Oral Presentation - 20pts Possible

Visual Presentation - 20pts Possible

Artist Biography- 20pts Possible

Written Critique - 40pts Possible

Plagiarism is a failing offense, please use your own wording.

Artist Bioboard Check List

Oral Presentation - 20pts

Did you speak for a minimum of 3 to 5 minutes?  
Did you make eye contact with audience?  
Did you cover the artist life, artwork critique, and images shown?  
Did the presentation flow with no repetition, ums, or pauses?  
Did you grab the audiences attention with entertaining information?  
Were you able to answer the questions asked by the audience?  

Presentation Board - Visual - 20pts

Does it contain the required elements? Artist Name, Self Portrait or Artist Picture, Critiqued Masterpiece, other artwork by your artist, historical imagery, artist biography and critique.  
Is the board arranged and crafted neatly and creatively?  
Is the Artist Name easy to read and the visual appropriate?  
Is your name and period labeled on the back?  

Artist Biography - 20pts

Do you address all of the questions asked in section 5?  
Is the writing format in Helix Style Manual Format for Written Papers?  
Have you checked your grammer, spelling and language?  
Is the paper a minimum of 3 paragraphs?  
Did you cite at least 4 references and use the MLA format?  

Artwork Critique - 40pts

Do you address all of the questions asked in section 6?  
Is the writing format in Helix Style Manual Format for Written Papers?  
Have you checked your grammer, spelling and language?  
Is the paper a minimum of 5 paragraphs?  
Did you cite at least 4 references and use the MLA format?  

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