Studio in Art

FINAL EXAM

Spring 2016

Your Final Exam has two parts:

  1. Part One/Artist Research and Artwork Creation: to be done in class from 5/18 through 6/8. This part asks the student to pick two artists to research, create artwork in the style of, and evaluate. This part should be turned no later than Wednesday, June 8th.
  2. Part Two/Written Analysis of Masterwork: to be done during each class’s double period session. Students will be asked to write about a famous piece of art (called a masterwork) using the same format they have used to write about their own projects all year. They will be given the same guidelines they have used all year. They will be able to use their binders as a resource to help them write, so they must make sure their binders are organized and are in class on the day of the exam!

Please remember that your Final Exam is worth 1/6 of your overall average for Studio in Art - it is equal in weight to an entire quarter! It is very important that you do your best and use your time wisely!

Research Schedule:

Students will have four days in the library to complete the research for Part One of the Final Exam. This is the research schedule:

  1. Period 5: 5/18, 5/19, 5/23, 5/24
  2. Period 9: 5/18, 5/19, 5/23, 5/24

Students who do not finish their research in the four allotted days will need to finish it in their own time. They may come to the art room to complete research during study halls or lunch if they would like to do it where I can help them if needed.

Double Period Schedule:

Students will spend the Double Period writing about the assigned masterwork. This is the Double Period Session dates and times:

  1. Period 5: Friday, June 10th from 12:50 to 2:20
  2. Period 9: Thursday, June 9th from 12:50 to 2:20

Students who have a testing conflict during their Double Period Session should let Mrs. Jennings know as soon as possible so other arrangements for taking their exam can be made.

Studio in Art: FINAL EXAM – Part 1 – Artist Research & Artwork

RESEARCH:Choose TWO artists from the Artist List (or if you have an artist you are interested in that is not on the list please check it with Mrs. Jennings). For each artist, please complete research using a DIFFERENT website for each artist to find & type up the following information:

  1. Artist’s full name (1/2 pt)
  2. Years the artist lived (1/2 pt)
  3. Describe the main type of art they made (Paintings? Sculptures? Drawings? Etc) (1/2 pt)

4. Find out the following about the artist’s style/movement: (1 pt)

a. Identify the art style or movement they were associated with (were they part

of Impressionism? Pop Art?Cubism?) If they were not part of a specific art style or

movement, please state that.

b. Define the style or art movement

5. List the characteristics associated with the artist’s style – list at least THREE (3 pts)

6. Find one piece of artwork by the artist and copy it onto the same page as your research.

Underneath the artwork, please list the title, media, and year created. Then specifically

identify where the characteristics of the artist’s style you listed in #5 can be seen in the

artwork. (5 pts)

7. Lastly, list the websites you used to gather your research. (1/2 pt) You may not use personal

pages made by average people about an artist for this Final Exam. You should use websites

specifically designed to give you more facts & information about an artist, such as:

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CREATE ARTWORK:After choosing your two artists & completing the research on each, you are ready to do the “art” part. Choose an object (such as an eyeball, a hand, a tree, an apple, etc.) and depict that object as your two chosen artists would. You will be creating two images – one for each chosen artist. Each image should:

  1. be 8”x 8”
  2. be created using a media that helps you to recreate the style of the artist
  3. depict the object as you think your chosen artist would have depicted it – USE AT LEAST TWO OF THE CHARACTERISTICS LISTED IN YOUR RESEARCH to help you recreate the artist’s style!!

After you have finished creating each image you must evaluate it by answering the following questions (please type):

  1. Label information: artist name (yours!), media used, title, your object
  2. Specifically identify the characteristics of the artist’s style you have used in your image and where they can be seen
  3. Explain if you were successful in recreating the artist’s style with your object & media choice – explain why or why not

Print the evaluation on the top half of a piece of computer paper. Glue the corresponding artwork beneath it on the same paper.

WHEN COMPLETEyour finished Final Exam Part One should be assembled in this format to hand in:

  1. First page: research on your first artist
  2. Second page: your example of an object in your first artist’s style and its evaluation
  3. Third page: research on your second artist
  4. Fourth page: your example of an object in your second artist’s style and its evaluation

Grading:Part One & Part Two will be added together for a total grade out of 100 points on your Final Exam.

●Part One of the Final Exam is worth _66__ points

●Part Two of the Final Exam is worth _34__ points

Any Questions??

Please ask Mrs. Jennings!!

See examples on the next pages >

Stephen Baker - Period 2

Final Exam Part One: Research

First Artist:

  1. Name: M.C. Escher (MauritsCornelis Escher)
  2. Years lived: 1898-1972
  3. Main type of art: Printmaking – mostly woodcuts, wood engravings, and lithographs. He also created many drawings & sketches, but he is known for his prints.
  4. Escher was not part of a specific style or movement, but his artwork was influenced by the Surrealist artists and their ideas of dream worlds & fantasy. Surrealism is defined as: An artistic and literary movement, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention.
  5. Characteristics of M.C. Escher’s style, as seen in his prints, are:
  6. Mostly black/white/grey images – very little color
  7. Not a lot of “flat coloring in”, instead he creates shading with LOTS of lines
  8. Fantasy/Surreal subject matter – often includes strange people or animals
  9. Distortion of space so that you appear to see multiple views of one world at the same time
  10. Interlocking subjects (some specific pieces are called tessellations: they look like puzzles – other pieces just have sections that interlock in them)
  11. Subjects are stylized – realistic, but done in his own style & sometimes simplified (especially in the tessellations)

6. Example of Escher’s artwork:


Relativity, lithograph, 1953 / Characteristics seen in this piece from the list in #5:
●Whole image is black/white/grey
●Shade w/lines: seen in the walls & people
●Fantasy subject matter: people have no faces (look like weird robots) & the stairs defy gravity
●Distorted space: the stairs are going up, down, and sideways at the same time and people are walking on them all without falling off
●The stairs interlock to connect the different areas of the building
●People are stylized – they are his own version of what people look like
  1. Websites used:

Stephen Baker - Period 2

Final Exam Part One: Artwork

Artwork in the style of M.C. Escher:

  1. Stephen Baker, marker, Radioscape,object = radio
  2. I used many characteristics from Escher’s style: My image was created in all black & white. My shading is done with lines, which you can really see in the man as using lines to create light, medium, & dark areas. I tried to make the radios look like interlocking steps the way Escher interlocked his steps in Relativity. There is definitely a “fantasy” feel to my image, like you have woken up in a dream world with a giant hand holding a reflective ball and steps that defy gravity by going sideways. Lastly, my image is stylized – you can still tell that my subjects are radios, a tree, a hand, and a man but they are done in my own style and not super-realistic.
  3. I think I was very successful in recreating Escher’s style. As stated in #2, I was able to incorporate many of Escher’s characteristics into my piece. I was able to manipulate the radios to turn into interlocking steps as seen in Escher’s piece Relativity. Using a thin marker let me make lots of lines to create shading & detail like Escher, but also keep it black & white like Escher did. My work is also very neat and precise looking, like Escher’s art.

ARTIST LIST

-please choose TWO artists from this list to research-

Have an artist you want to research that’s not on the list? > just ask Mrs. Jennings!

M.C. Escher / Andy Warhol / Keith Haring
Wayne Thiebaud / Romero Britto / Frank Stella
Georgia O’ Keeffe / Vincent van Gogh / Edvard Munch
Georges Seurat / Marc Chagall / Bridget Riley
Peter Max / Takashi Murakami / Picasso
Claude Monet / Rene Magritte / Edward Hopper
Roy Lichtenstein / Ansel Adams / Piet Mondrian
Dr. Seuss / Gustav Klimt / Paul Cezanne
Wassily Kandinsky / Jackson Pollock / Paul Gauguin
Henri Matisse / Joan Miro / Paul Klee
Winslow Homer / Frida Kahlo / Edgar Degas
Salvador Dali / Jasper Johns / David Hockney
Franz Marc / Georges Braque / Janet Fish
Chuck Close / Norman Rockwell / Grant Wood
Diego Rivera / Romare Bearden / Henri Rousseau