Research & Multi Media Presentation assignment

Multi Media presentations

Process ONE:

Think about an artist whose paintings really move you.

You may like them a whole lot, you may question them a whole lot, or you may even dislike them a whole lot and might not know why.

Each student will research and deliver a 10 minute multi media presentation on a chosen or assigned painter from history. As the 'speaker' or lecturer, you will guide the class in learning new knowledge of what you have discovered about this particular artist's contributions to the trends in painting that have taken place.

While lecturing, students will take thorough notes from your lecture.

Following, all students are responsible for engaging in a thoughtful Q&A.

Included in your presentation, you will also give the class a URL in which everyone will read and be ready to discuss the following week, you will also lead a 5 minute discussion, prompting the class with questions.

The day of your presentation, you will need to send me the PPT or PDF of your lecture notes that includes all your slides, images and textual information electronically. Make sure that everything is in tip top order / grammar, spelling, etc.

The following areas need to include in your presentation:

Think of this as your checklist:

________ 1. Painter's name

________ 2. Date birth and death dates, nationality

________ 3. Geographical location

________ 4. The art style the artist's work fits into

________ 5. Add one interesting fact about the artist or their work

________ 6. Add one URL to an interesting essay you wish your colleagues to read. You will lead a discussion with your peers one week following, prompting us with questions.

________ 7. Place the URL in your sketchbook and all your notes gleaned from the research information you have found. Date.

Place the URL onto your PPT, add comments.

Select 3 paintings from the artist that has common subject matter throughout to deconstruct in a PPT to the class as a whole

Organizing your PPT:

________ 1. In your PPT, place the details of the painting on each slide

________ 2. Place the biographical information of the artist

________ 3. Place one fact you found interesting about the artist or their works

________ 4. Place a link to a URL of an article you want your colleagues to read and comment on their sketchbook, thus preparing for our next class discussion

________ 5. Complete a work cited bibliography at the end of your presentation

Painting deconstruction analysis includes the following:

________ 6. Speak about the paint handling throughout the 3 works

________ 7. Speak about the emotional quality of each work overall

________ 8. In one work, speak about the following:

i. The palette overall

ii. Intensity of the hue

iii. Light and shadow / directional light

iv. Texture overall

v. Composition of the work

________ 9. Identify how the paintings you've selected links to one (or more) of our class projects

________ 10. From your URL article, note 4 questions you wish to engage the class in a week following your presentation.

Your multi media presentation should have, at minimum, ten slides, noting each of the above areas of inquiry.

Here's an example:

Frank Auerbach b. 1931

- Born in Berlin, Germany naturalized to Britain

- Some people fit his figurative work into Expressionism, but he does not feel he is an expressionist painter.

- He paints his figures over and over again to become familiar with his subject.

Interesting Fact:

David Bowie bought and owned Auerbach's Head of Gerda Boehm as part of his private collection. After Bowie's death in 2016, this piece was among many put up for auction in November 2016. It sold for £3.8 million (US$4.7 million)

URL to an essay you wish your colleagues to read:

Frank Auerbach: A painter's painter of Horror and Joy

Include the essay URL and your comments of what you gleaned from the narrative.