Know the Artist!

Submitted by: Anonymous

Web Quest- Artist of your choice!

 

Scenario:

You have been chosen to curate a museum exhibit for a famous artist (of your choice). This exhibit will have a CD-ROM available (which you will design using PowerPoint®) and an on-line exhibit of your design (using Microsoft Expression Studio, Dreamweaver , or Seamonkey Composer). Use the following Internet resources to find at least five works for your presentation and provide links on your "Virtual" exhibit page to more images. You will also design a student hands-on project for children viewing the exhibit at the museum (you will make a sample project inspired by the artist selected).

 

[NOTE: You can buy Dreamweaver at the Adobe Software Page. Dreamweaver is what I'm using for The Incredible Art Department website.]

1. Select your artist. You will receive a BONUS for selecting a "Living Artist" - but you must write e-mail to use images. Lesson requirements. (Alternate lesson - Shoe Box Gallery)
   
   

2. Begin searching using the following sites:

• Artcyclopedia - You can do a Search by artist, art style or movement, medium, and subject. Quality site with links to other sites on the Web about your selected topic.

• Carol Jackson Gerten- Fine Arts
  Scanned art images- some biographical information about artists.

• Mark Harden Artchive- scanned art images

• Olga's Gallery - this site has pop-up adds.

• Art History on the Web. by Chris Witcombe, Sweet Briar College.

Still need more information? Try these search sites.

• Need it Quick?  Ixquick Metasearch has become a favorite of mine. You can also search anonymously.

• Try Dog Pile! This site will search from other search engines, too.

• Ask Jeeves - Find additional sites. Enter the name of your artist in the box--click ask.

• Yahoo - enter artist's name in box-search in art category

• Google will give you more than you will ever need!

• Bing - Microsoft's venture into the search business.

• Metacrawler - This search combines several search engines.

• Duck Duck Go - Another anonymous search engine.

Click here for lesson requirements. | Poster lesson.

Click here for sample Web Page- Pablo Picasso

Click here to see if I have a quote by your artist.

Need to add music? Visit this template.

Copyright information (rules for fair usage on the Internet)

Copyright Law in the Electronic Environment (Archive) - Thorough explanation - scroll down to summary.

All Rights and Wrongs- Copyright Information Think Quest site created by kids! "Kids making websites will need to understand why copyrights, trademarks and licenses are important... Art rights and wrongs is an especially important topic in the digital age." See Copyright Kids - excellent site.

Know the Artist Sheet

KNOW THE ARTIST: FACT-FINDING SHEET

These are the minimum requirements for a "C" or better

 

1. Name of the Artist (of course!)

 

2. Birth- year and death- year (month and day optional…but maybe after all of this work you will want to celebrate your artist's birthday!)

 

3. Find a brief biography (maybe 150 to 200 words). Save into your Art Tech Folder--and save the URL (you must have the Web address)

 

4. Find a biography with more information for those who wish to learn more. Save into your Art Tech folder and save the URL. You will only put a link to this longer biography from your web page--but may include it on your Hypermedia (PowerPoint®).

 

5. Find a photograph or portrait (even a portrait by another artist!)--This will be used on the Web page, PowerPoint® and poster.

 

6. Select a minimum of five works by this artist for your "Museum" exhibit and "Virtual Museum". Remember--YOU MUST HAVE THE URL FOR THESE IMAGES (The Web address) and the facts about the works (when created, what medium, how large, etc.).

 

7. Know what style of works your artist created. Are you able to describe at least one of the works in detail so others are also able to understand? What media did he/she use? What general subject matter interested your artist?

 

8. Find at least five Web sites with more information for your artist. Save these links into a Word Document as "Name of artist - links". These will be put on Web page and on PowerPoint.

 

9. Create a timeline with a minimum of five events from your artist's life and a minimum of five world events and/or art related events. Artists are greatly effected by what is going on in the world around them. Placing the artist somewhere in time is crucial to understanding the artist's work. History and art go hand-in-hand. Your timeline will be a list in sequence by year. Merge the artist's life with the world events.

 

10. BONUS: Find music relating to the time period of your chosen artist.

Name of Artist

Name of Artist

Born (year)- died (year)

Biography         Featured Works          Timeline                Internet Links

 

Copy and paste your brief biography here	insert photo or portrait here
Featured works here (insert three or four images)--give credit where the images can be found--add link to sites
Timeline: Key Moments in Life
Links on the Web (with annotation)

Music Worksheet

Name:

Computer:

Know the Artist: Music Resources for Web page and PowerPoint

Use this sheet to record your findings. Open into Dreamweaver or FrontPage® to edit. You may copy and paste from Web sites. Copy and paste URL.

 

Title/Description	Composer	Performer(s)	Web Address (where did you find the file?)
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5

 

Instructions

1. Use the Internet search for music files for your Web page and PowerPoint – look for midi files first (as these are the easiest to insert)

2. Pick up to five files – You may also search for CD’s that might be available. Our Lima Public Library has a large selection of CD’s.

3. Print this off to take to this off to take to the Lima Public Library, if you wish. Save this file into your Art Tech folder –Edit in Front Page.

4. ASK the music experts in our building for help! (Music Teacher) has always had an answer for me (he likes to help).

5. Save midi files (or mp3 –I will find out how to transfer to Wave for Web pages... this is all new to me—I will learn along with you!)

Note: to print you will need to set the print properties to landscape (horizontal). Print only page 1.

 

[Lesson Requirements]