Drawing and Painting Livoti to 11-14

Monday Aim: How can you begin to add color to your landscape? Do Now: Following the technique demonstration, write a brief statement about what techniques you will apply to your artwork. HW: Due Friday 11-14: Create a detailed drawing of one of the following points of view: Your room as it would appear through a key hole, your room viewed from inside of a closet within your room, or your room viewed from under the bed

Tuesday No Classes

Wed Aim: How can you work in an open studio to apply color to your landscape? Do Now: Practice techniques in your sketchbook for creating implied texture

Thurs Field trip- complete coverage work

Friday Aim: How can you continue to work in an open studio to create your landscape Do Now: Flashback Friday art analysis: Art of the Sublime HW due today

John Martin The Great Day of His Wrath Oil on canvas

Scholars have debated the term ‘sublime’ in the field of aesthetics for centuries. Many more artists, writers, poets and musicians have sought to evoke or respond to it. But what is the sublime? Is it a thing, a feeling, an event or a state of mind? The word, of Latin origin, means something that is ‘set or raised aloft, high up’. The sublime is further defined as having the quality of such greatness, magnitude or intensity, whether physical, metaphysical, moral, aesthetic or spiritual, that our ability to perceive or comprehend it is temporarily overwhelmed. The best-known theory published in Britain is Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). Burke’s definition of the sublime focuses on such terms as darkness, obscurity, privation, vastness, magnificence, loudness and suddenness, and that our reaction is defined by a kind of pleasurable terror. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the sublime was associated in particular with the immensity or turbulence of Nature and human responses to it. Consequently, in Western art, ‘sublime’ landscapes and seascapes, especially those from the Romantic period, often represent towering mountain ranges, deep chasms, violent storms and seas, volcanic eruptions or avalanches which, if actually experienced, would be life threatening. Other themes relate to the epic and the supernatural as described in drama, poetry and fiction, for example, by Homer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, as well as more contemporary authors, such as Byron and Mary Shelley. Arguably the greatest source of the sublime for European art is the Bible, which begins with the creation of the world and ends with apocalypse and the Last Judgement.