Module 4: Celebration! – Discovering your Creative Self.

In this lesson you will learn that creativity is not something that only artists can do, but is an attribute of being
human.

Module 4 Major Capstone: For you to think about the Artist and art work that you critiqued in your
Research Paper. Create a video or power-point presentation that introduces the artist and describes
how the artist uses the elements and principles that you wrote about in your research paper. You may
add anything that you found interesting during your research to the presentation including images,
videos, and/or voice over. Be creative and have fun! This Capstone is not due until Week 15. I wanted
to give you time to start thinking about your presentation.

Discovery Links: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/15/creative-block_n_4943997.html

Terms to Define: Define all terms using the reading assignment and the internet. (use visual illustrations along
with title of work, artist name, and media.) This may be done using the web. I included the first term as an
example.

Art Nouveau- A decorative style that spread throughout Europe at the end of the of the 19 th century and in the
first decade of the 20th Century. It featured curved shaped derived from tendrils, plant stems, flames, waves,
and flowing hair. The name was taken from a shop in Paris that opened in 1895.

La Belle, Époque, Alphonse Muncha, Oil Paint

Neoclassicism – this was an aesthetic movement that was both influential and widespread in painting and
other visual arts, lasting around 100 years from 1760s to 1850s, and peaking in 1780s and 1790s. This style
pertained depicting classical themes and subject matter in somber linear design as well as including
archaeologically accurate settings and clothing. This based on art from Greece and Rome in antiquity, in which
feelings of harmony, clarity, restraint, universality, and idealism are evoked. Lastly, due to the nature and
aesthetic of this style, and what it is was trying to achieve, I noticed the use of chiaroscuro (value) as it portrays
not only a more real-looking image but also a more dramatic and theatrical image.

Jacques-Louis David, “The Oath of the Horatii”

Pre-Raphaelites – were a secret society of young artists (and one writer), founded in London in 1848.
They were opposed to the Royal Academy’s promotion of the ideal as exemplified in the work of
Raphael. This group was inspired by the theories of John Ruskin, which urged artist to ‘go to nature’;
as extension the pre-Raphaelites believed in an art of serious subject treat with maximum realism.

Le miroir de Vénus (‘The Mirror of Venus’, 1875) by Edward Burne-Jones

Bauhaus – this was movement that like its avant-garde nature appertains to a range of things from paintings
and graphics to architecture and interiors, originating form a school design called Walter Gropius at Weimar in
Germany in 1919. The Bauhaus movement championed a geometric, abstract style featuring little sentiment or
emotion and no historical nods,
and its aesthetic continues to
influence architects, designers,
and artists. This style includes
elements and principles of
design like color, variety,
shapes, rhythm, and lines.

Yellow-Red-Blue 1925, by
Wassily Kandinsky
Feminist art – in a category of art associated with the late 1960s and 1970s feminist movement. The intention
of artworks in this movement, is to highlights the societal and political differences women experience within
their lives.

by Guerrilla Girls

Pop Art – an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain,
drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Different cultures and countries
contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s. Despite not having a specific attitude or style, it can be
described as a diverse response to the postwar era’s commodity-driven value. It is said this a descendant of
the Dada movement. As seen in many arts movement that desire to make a statement, the artwork is eye-
catching; so, a lot of color and variety is present.

Look Mickey 1961, by Roy Lichtenstein

Post-Impressionism – a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and
1905, which was had the duality of an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that
style’s inherent limitations. This term was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry. The leading figures may
have started out as Impressionists, they rejected the objective recording of nature, instead opting for ambitious
expression.

The Starry Night 1889, by Vincent Van Gogh

Oceania – the visual art and architecture of native Oceania, including media such as sculpture, pottery, rock
art, basketry, masks, painting, and personal decoration. In these cultures, art and architecture have often been
closely connected.
Abstract Expressionism – Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting,
developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve
international influence. It is often characterized by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression
of spontaneity. So, negative space plays a huge role as things are suggested.

0 through 9, 1961,
by Jasper Johns