HISTORICAL INSPIRATION
Edward Hopper Early Sunday Morning Oil on canvas, 1930 35 1/4″ by 60″
Artist Edward Hopper (1886-1967) created somber portraits of modern life in America. Famous for his painting Nighthawks, he depicted desolate urban scenes and haunting rural landscapes. Hopper's oil paintings, watercolors, sketches, and etchings expressed a sense of human detachment. Resisting popular trends toward abstract expressionism, Edward Hopper became America's most important realist of the 20th century.
In New York and other large cities, Hopper painted restaurants, motels, gas stations, and railroads. He highlighted the color and texture of brick, concrete, and glass. By focusing on architectural details, he emphasized human estrangement. For most of his adult life, he spent summers in New England. He painted scenes of lighthouses, seascapes, and rural villages in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. As in his urban streetscapes, he explored themes of transience and decay. Often working in watercolors, he painted desolate roads, lopsided telephone poles, and vacant houses.www.thoughtco.com/edward-hopper-biography-4165484 |
CONTEMPORAY INSPIRATION
Dale Kennington Some Days It Don't Pay
Dale Kennington's unique realist works present "snapshots" of everyday life that force viewers to examine these events in new and interesting ways. Her paintings appear to capture moments in time, but in fact Kennington combines multiple events to create imagined worlds and lives. This style reflects the artist's belief that it is the everyday rituals that define what makes us human and provide structure to society.www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/e-105
Kennington’s paintings were known for their slice-of-life realism. The artist often painted on very large canvases and even had a series she painted on large folding screens. She pulled snippets of inspiration from everyday life – a floor pattern from one location, a light shining through a window, a piece of fabric, the sight of a couple sitting in a Paris café. Never knowing when inspiration would strike, Kennington kept a camera or smartphone nearby.www.dothaneagle.com/lifestyles/local/new-book-documents-work-of-artist-dale-kennington/article_c948ca34-7ecd-11e7-8251-3b9cddda14b0.html |
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Sketchbook Notes
Although you will only choose 1 medium for this project, you will need to take the sketchbook notes from all 4 media options for use on the exam. Sketchbook Notes are indicated by red lettering. Media Options Graphite Pen & Ink iPad Colored Pencils |
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Iconic Architecture
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Interior Room
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Zoom In Overview - Find an interesting piece of architecture and create a composition by zooming into an intricate area. Below are a list of features that could be chosen.
Columns Doors Windows Carvings Post and Lintel Gargoyles Corbels Arches |
Iconic Architectural Style Overview - Choose an architectural style that easily recognized by most people. It can be ancient like Gothic Architecture or something more contemporary, like the mid-century modern pictured above. Below are several styles, but there are many more.
Gothic Victorian Mid-Century Modern Neoclassical Classical Colonial Craftsman Colonial Tudor |
Interior Room Overview - Design one room in your dream home. Be sure and include floor, wall and window treatments. Add furniture, fabrics, accessories, and lighting.
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