VACATION HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS for

John Kohn

ART 1, MEDIA ART AND PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT
Periods 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Artist Research

Find your name and assigned artist below.
Answer all of the question about your artist.
Research your artist online. Wikipedia should have most of the answers.

TYPE YOUR ANSWERS AND PRINT IT OUT TO TURN IN ON JANUARY 10TH AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.
ALSO, EMAIL ME THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AT jkohn@southwesternacademy.edu

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1. What is your Artists Name?  

2. When were they born?

3. When did they die?

4. What country is your Artist from?

5. Where did the artist go to art school or where did they get their training?

6. Which artist/artists influenced your artist?

7. Which art movement is he/she mostly associated with? (Renaissance, Realism, Surrealism,  Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Pop Art etc.)

8. When did this Art Movement take place(years)?

9. Which other artists were associated with this art movement? List at least 5.

10. Where did this art movement take place? (Paris, Florence, New York etc.)

11. Find one quote from the artist.

12. Find 5 paintings on line that you like the most from your artist. Write down the title’s for each painting and the year it was painted.

13. Which painting would you most like to copy for your project?

14. List common subjects or theme’s that are consistent in most of their paintings.

15. Where can one find his work? Is there a museum named after him/her? Where is it?

STUDENTS/ARTISTS

Period 2-ART
Cai, Shawn- Richard Diebenkorn
Dai, Elisa-Edward Hopper
Fu, Michael-Max Ernst
Homma, Yuri-Georgia O’Keefe
Karekezi, Amanda-Henri Matisse
Lee, Mirae-Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Pan, Kyle-Kenneth Noland
Pedersen, Kirsten-EDGAR DEGAS
Shi, Victoria-William Morris
Tong, Terence-Francis Bacon
Wang, Skyla-Roy Lichtenstein
Xia, Shawn-Jackson Pollack
Xu, Mu-Paul Cezanne
Yang, Shuqi-Pablo Picasso
Yu, Jerry-Andy Warhol
Zhu, Leo-MORRIS LEWIS

Period-3-ART
Makino, Masa-Pierre Auguste Renoir
Mangkuningrat, Adryan- Raphael
Pesquera, Jorge-Titian
Jin, Vivien-Joan Miro
Han, Chelsea-Rembrandt van Rijn
Kim, Min Sung-Caravaggio

Period-4 ART
Li, Rainbow-Marc Chagall

P-5-ART
Du, Rachel-Gustav Klimt
Krylova, Ellie-Johannes Vermeer
Avery, Demetry-Keith Haring
Xu, James-Durer

P-5-PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT
Kim, Min Sung

P-6-MEDIA ART
Brouke, Alexandra-Mary Cassatt
Glenn, Isaiah-Edouard Manet
Jiang, Fly-Edvard Munch
Lee, Jayden-Wassily Kandinsky
Lopez, Albert-Goya
Lupien, Hunter-Paul Klee
Ni, Kim-Sandro Botticelli
Renner, Carolin-Gustave Caillebotte
Zhang, Paul-James Whistler

P-6-PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT
Ji, Jie-Michelangelo
Wang, Nicky-Peter Paul Rubens