Goals for Moving Forward

Personal: From here I want to analyze more types of art and eras. I would like to go to the Art Institute by the end of the break. I'll be taking pictures and doing a lot of thinking on the aspects of the art. I'd like to see if I can guess what era I'm looking at and see how the era influenced it.
Group: Over the break we will be thinking about how to move our project along. We need a change in direction.
School Improvement: I'll research the cost for certain companies and compare them over the break.

Pointillism Test Final Product

I finished my pointillism picture.

Here's the final product:

Personal Judgement: I think that this turned out alright. It could have been better, but I tried my best.
Judgement of difficulty: Pointillism is hard. You need to have some real patience to sit down and put little tiny dots everywhere. Not to mention if you want it to look like it's realistic in any way you need to think ahead a lot.

Important points: I remembered from art class that to create shading in pointillism you need to not only use another color, but place the dots closer together. This way you can create a gradual change from one to the other. While mine definitely isn't as gradual as it should be, it's an important thing to think about when doing pointillism.

That's about it. I'm going to go back to researching now. 

-Shannon

Pointillism Test

So I've been working on a pointillism drawing... I'll post my progress. It's nowhere near done but this is what I have so far:

-Shannon

Examples of Pointillism

Pointillism Examples:

A lot of famous pointillism was done by Georges-Pierre Seurat.

La Tour Eiffel (1889)

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884)

The Lighthouse at Honfleur (1886)

About Gray Weather (1888)

Circus Sideshow (1888)

Can-Can (1889-1890)

Another is by Henri-Edmond Cross.

L'Air du Soir (1893-1894)

I used this site to find these: http://www.ranker.com/list/pointillism-art-and-artwork/reference

New Research

Today I've decided to research a topic off of my list that interests me. 

Research Topic: Pointillism

Past knowledge of the topic: I know that pointillism is the use of small dots to create a bigger picture. I can't think of the name of it but I know of a painting that is very famous and is used for pointillism. I learned about pointillism in either 7th or 8th grade (more likely 7th) and took a picture of my sister to turn into a pointillism picture. It was a difficult way of doing art in my opinion. It takes a lot of time and precision to create art like that, I know from experience. I can't imagine how hard it is to do it for a real painting, as opposed to a marker drawing in art class.

RESEARCH

What is Pointillism?: "The theory or practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they blend together" (Merriam Webster).

Example of Pointillism: 

The painting to the right is called Sunday on La Grande Jatte. It was created by George Seurat, and became one of his most famous works. This is the painting that I had seen before. I was taught about pointillism using this piece of art.While it may look like a completely whole picture, if you look closely at it every bit of the picture is created with small dots. The picture here takes a closer look at a woman from the painting, near the ground where her skirt ends. You can see all of the miniature points that make up the skirt.

I'll update this soon and post more of what I find ASAP.
-Shannon

Progressing through the new plan

So, as I said last time I wrote on here, I've come up with a new plan.
Around two days ago I looked up eras and time periods in art. I found two links that seemed to have an accurate list of time periods, at least as a base. I'm going to look into them all.
Here are the links to the site with lists of eras:
-http://www.historyofpainters.com/movement.htm
-http://arthistory.about.com/cs/reference/a/art_history_one.htm
From these I created a table with five columns (Time Period/ Culture, Description of the time period, Major Events During that Time/ for that culture, Tools Used, and Subject of Art). In that table I'll be recording what I find about each time period so that I can compare it all later.
I believe that's it... I'm off to begin my research now. I'll post what I find soon.