Critique for Monday

Genre and Genres: Genre painting is the depiction of subjects and scenes from everyday life, ordinary folk and common activities. It achieved its greatest popularity in seventeenth century Holland (the Netherlands) with the works of Jan Steen (1626-1679) and Jan Vermeer (1632-1675).

When used in the plural form, genres are the various categories of subject matter in the traditional academic hierarchy, in descending order of importance: history, megalography, mythology, religion, portraiture, genre (see the first sense above), landscape, still life, rhopography, and vernacular.

Medium

Tate glossary definition for medium: Can refer to both to the type of art (painting, sculpture and printmaking) as well as the materials are made from.

Dimensions

Height x Width of artwork is described

Critique Assignment:

Monday we will have a Critique of the Copy of Master Painting. In that presentation of your artwork, each student is to indicate the name of the Artist they have selected to copy. Present a printed out copy the artwork they copied. If appropriate, state the school of painting that the master artist belonged to. For example, if it is a copy of a Monet you would say he belonged to the “Impressionists”.

In your presentation please talk about the type of genre the artwork belongs to, for example does it belong to landscape, still life, and so forth.

Also talk about some of the challenges that you experienced in creating your painting as well.

Copy Master Painter Artworks

For your next assignment select a painting of a master painter you would like to copy. You may want to do research first to find an artist you like. Perhaps you already have a favorite artist; in that case all you would need to do then is to select one of their works of art to duplicate.

From the very beginning of time artists have used the technique of coping masters to perfect their craft. Strive for the same rhythm you might imagine the artist was working in. In addition aim for a similar composition, colors and brush size they used as well.

If you plan to use the overhead projector, do start with an image that is no bigger than 6-7” in width and height to start. The projector can then be used to fit the size of your canvas.

If you are uncertain about the image to copy, you may want to select two of them and then ask me to help you pick out the best one for this assignment.

You will have two weeks to complete this painting depending on its complexity.