Contents - Architecture- Painting- Drawing- Sculpting

- Photography- Artist research, 2, 3

- Quiz- Video

ART Guide

Architecture

Bonnefanten Museum (Netherlands) Guggenheim Museum (NY)

Painting

The OwlBy Abby Diamond

Castle Howard: Temple and MausoleumBy John Piper

• Detroit Lions player, Cliff Avril The domino effect• Brian Duey John D Herz

Drawing

• Eco Friendly Chameleon. Eco Friendly Monkey.

SculptingEco-Friendly Animal Sculptures

• Dipsacus lacinatu False Hellebore• By Karl Blossfeldt By Imogen Cunningham

Photography

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Artist research

John Piper was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1903, the son of solicitor Charles Piper. He was educated at Epsom Collegeand trained at the Richmond School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art in London. He turned from abstraction early in his career, concentrating on a more naturalistic but distinctive approach. As a child, Piper lived in Epsom, at that time in the countryside. He went exploring on his bike, and drew and painted pictures of old churches and monuments on the way. He started making guide books complete with pictures and information at a young age.

Artist research

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the Bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.

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Artist research

Bernardo Bellotto called was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, andprintmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw). He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto.

Castle Howard: Temple and Mausoleum By John Piper

• Somerset Place, Bath, 1942, was painted following three nights of bombing in the city. It depicts an isolated night scene and is among the first of his paintings to achieve the theatrical lighting effects typical of his later work.

About Cameras

The ApertureIt is the opening of the lens. The bigger the aperture the more sunlight you let in making your object you a taking a photo of brighter.

The White balanceThe white balance is the process of removing unrealistic colour contrast in you picture. So for objects which appear white on a person is rendered as white in your photo.

The ISOWhen you change the ISO, you’re adjusting the cameras sensitivity to the light. The ISO can be anywhere between 24 to 6,500. Maybe even higher. The lower the setting makes it less sensitive.

Different lensesFor the 24 70mm lens you can use it for Parties, people, pets, holiday cheer, cars, sports (as long as you’re kind of close), architecture (as long as you are not TOO close), friends, and family and landscapes.

And for 50mm you get it with the wide aperture of f1.8, especially going from your typical kit lens which is usually f5.6, this lens gives you 3 stops . More light comes through the lens opening. This allows you to use either a faster shutter speed and avoid camera shake, or a lower ISO and avoid the noise you get from higher ISOs, or a combination of both. the 50mm lens is a great street shooting lens, not too wide, not too long. It also good for portraits it’s just long enough to remove distortion from your subject’s face and flatter them a bit more.

• The museum was founded in 1884 as the historical and archaeological museum of the Dutch province of Limburg. The name Bonnefanten Museum is derived from the French 'bons enfants' ('good children'), the popular name of a former convent that housed the museum from 1951 until 1978.

• In 1959, the museum moved from rented space to its current building, a landmark work of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the cylindrical building, wider at the top than the bottom, was conceived as a "temple of the spirit". Its unique ramp gallery extends up from ground level in a long, continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building to end just under the ceiling skylight. The building underwent extensive expansion and renovations in 1992 (when an adjoining tower was built) and from 2005 to 2008.

Quiz

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Question 1

What is the ISO?

A: The light sensitivity on your camera

B: A type of lens

C: A type of camera

Question 2

Who painted the Castle Howard: Temple and Mausoleum?

A: John D Herz

B: Pablo Picasso

C: John Piper

Question 3

What year was John Piper born?

1903

1945

2001

Question 4

In what year the Guggenheim museum moved from rented space to its current building

1905

1945

1955

Artist name Most famous piece

1. Leonardo Da Vinci The Mona Lisa

2. Vincent Van Gogh The starry night

3. Rembrandt The Jewish Bride

4. Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel

5. Claude Monet Water lilies

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