Research Artist Parameters
You will choose 2 artists from the List below, and write a 1 page detailed description of their painting style and process, and find 5 images for you to post on blog. You are required to utilize the UNM Fine Arts and Design Library for your research in combination with an online artist website or museum archive or magazine for your images.
Here are some reputable sources for images:
books in UNM Fine Arts Library
Artist websites (found by googling the artists name)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Guggenheim Museum
Worcester Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
you get the idea...these days many museums have online archives
Archives with access through UNM Library System
JSTOR
Other Sources that could be useful:
easybib.com for citations
Art in America
you can also look at articles written on blogs for information on living artist's process on their work, please cite
Blogs and Website to Follow:
- The Jealous Curator
- Art Forum
- Art 21 Blog
- Art F City
- The Bomb
- Contemporary Art Daily
- Two Coats of Paint
- Painter’s Table: highlights writing from the painting blogosphere as it is published and serves as a platform for exploring blogs that focus primarily on the subject of painting.
- HyperAllergic: reviews of contemporary art, with info about artists.
- Contemporary Daily Art: One of the most famous art blogs, offering a real dose of inspiration to art lovers.
- Arrested Motion: Online magazine providing exclusive worldwide coverage of the low brow, urban and contemporary art scene on the daily.
- We Heart: We Heart explores the intersections between arts and culture, and lifestyle, living and travel.
- Beautiful/Decay: A former printed publication that now has an online home, sharing the same exciting content that made Beautiful/Decay a widely loved and revered creative bible.
- My Modern Met: My Modern Met is where art enthusiasts and trend-spotters connect over creative ideas
- Colossal: Colossal is a Webby-nominated blog that explores art and other aspects of visual culture. And it's bloomin' lovely.
- Drawn: Still one of the biggest and best blogs to go to for illustration inspiration, Drawn is all the daily dose you'll need to be inspired by a whole range of different artwork.
- IllustrationFriday: Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation.
- Brown Paper Bag: An interesting blog that celebrates beautiful illustration in creative and clever ways.
- Hi-Fructose is a quarterly print art magazine,focuses squarely on the art which transcends genre and trend, assuring readers thorough coverage and content that is informative and original.
- BOOOOM: It is Canada’s highest traffic art blog and an authoritative voice in the new contemporary arts scene, highlighting emerging talents, and launching the careers of many young artists internationally.
Requirements
1. Written component: please explore this artist and describe in your own words their style, what their typical subject matters is, how they paint, what kinds of materials they use, and what their process is. Please write 1 page max, 12pt font, double spaced, and post on blog. Please cite your book, website or online museum archive used with MLA format.*Remember the focus of this research is not on biography or just dates, but how they paint and what aspects of their life influenced their style-- such as where they lived, what jobs they did, or even where the paintings were made (if like landscapes).
2. Works by Artist: choose 5 images of works that you like by the artist, or hate, or find perplexing. Please give titles and information on size and medium, if possible. This information will usually be listed next to image on reputable sources such as artist website, in a book, or magazine.
The typical format for work information is:
Title (italics)
medium used (can be one or multiple mediums)
size of work
date made
When it is your week, post are DUE to be posted on the blog by Monday at beginning of class.
List of Artists
- Pablo Picasso
- Henri Matisse
- Claude Monet
- Paul Cezanne
- Eduard Manet
- Rembrandt
- Peter Paul Reubens
- Diego Velazquez
- William Hogarth
- Albrect Durer
- Titian
- Sandro Botticelli
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Grant Wood
- Salvador Dali
- James McNeil Whistler
- Andy Warhol
- Gustav Courbet
- Paul Klee
- Edgar Degas
- Gerhard Richter
- Egon Schiele
- Marlene Dumas
- Richard Siebenkorn
- John Marin
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Eric Fischl
- Anselm Kiefer
- Wangechi Mutu
- Elizabeth Payton
- James Rosenquist
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Jenny Saville
- Wayne Thiebold
- Peter Doig
- Yoskay Yamamoto
- Amy Sillman
- Marsden Hartley
- Joan Mitchel
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Nicolas de Stael
- Jonathan Lasker
- Lee Bontecou
- Julie Mehretu
- Phillip Taffe
- Erin Lorre
- Robert Motherwell
- Wendy White
- Charlene Von Heyl
- Jules De Balincourt
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Halal Pozanti
- David Schnell
- Sarah Cain
- Lisa Ruyter
- Aiko Hachisuka
- Alice Niel
- Andy Goldsworthy
- Carroll Dunham
- Chris Ofilli
- Dana Schutz
- Gina Beavers
- Henry Taylor
- Joan Brown
- Jon Wesley
- Nicholas Krusher
- Philip Evergood
- Robert Kushner
- Tala Madani
- Wilhelm Sasnal
- Alex Katz
- Sangram Majumdar
- Timothy App
- Allison Miller
- Berthe Moriset
- Sonia Delaney
- Elizabeth Murray
- Elaine DeKooning
- William DeKooning
- Mary Cassat
- Agnes Martin
- Joan Miro
- Jackson Pollock
- Victor Higgins
- Walter Ufer
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