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Friday, 13 April 2018

Spelling City About Mobile or Computer Games



What the activity is: Created Word List on Spelling City
Why you created it: Most of the class are playing mobile games and me and my group decided to get the words of the games we play and also know well the meaning of the words. T
he purpose is to enjoy the game and also learn.
Reflection: We shared any of our ideas about what we know about the games.

Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Year 11 1.2 Art History


Vincent Van Gogh



Image result for vincent van gogh a visit to mediterranean  
A Visit to the Mediterranean 

The artist has described with joy
his visit to the Mediterranean 
shore near Arles at the fishing village 
of Sainte-Maries, where he painted 
for several days. It was a new world
for him, and he responded to it with
his usual eaterness and excitement.

Created: 1 June 1888, Arles
Size: 50.5 cm x 64.3 cm 
Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Medium: oil on canvas 



Related image 
 The Garden of Asylum

Van Gogh arrived in Saint-Remy on
May 1889 and stayed for just over a year.
During that time, his work was interrupted repeatedly 
by periods of mental disorder that could
disappear after a few days or several weeks. 

Created: December 1889 
Size: 72.0 cm
Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Medium: oil on canvas


A painting of a scene at night with 11 swirly stars and a bright yellow crescent moon. In the background there are hills, in the middle ground there is a moonlit town with a church that has an elongated steeple, and in the foreground there is the dark green silhouette of a cypress tree and houses.

A Starry Night

Van Gogh first tackled the topic of a starry night
in Arles when he depicted a view over the Rhone.
He had painted it on the spot at night with a gas 
lamp. He called the painting 'a poetic landscape'

Created: June 1899 
Size: 73.7 cm x 92.1 cm 
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Medium: Oil on canvas





Monday, 26 February 2018

Art 1.2


1. Claude Monet

     Woman With A Parasol, Facing Left

The artist intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait. That woman represents his wife and son.
Created: 1875
Size: 1 m x 82 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: National Gallery of Art East Building



The Water Lily Pond

These water lilies painting was the smaller series of eighteen views over his other painting, the Japanese footbridge over his pond.
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 93 cm x 74 cm
Created: 1899
Medium: Oil Paint

 Impression, Sunrise

The painting is attributed to giving rise to the name of the Impressionist Movement.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 48 cm x 63 cm
Location: Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris
Created: 1872

2. Leonardo Da Vinci

The Mona Lisa
     This woman dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day is a remarkable instance of Leonardo’s technique of soft, heavily, shaded modeling. The Mona Lisa’s enigmatic expression Which seems both alluring and aloof, has given the portrait universal fame.
Created: 1503
Size: 77 cm x 53 cm
Location: The Louvre
Medium: Oil on wood

The Last Supper
The painting represents the scene of the Last Supper of Jesus and his apostles, as it is told in the Gospel of John. Leonardo has depicted the consternation that occurred among the Twelve Disciples when Jesus announced that one of them would betray him.
Size: 4.6 m x 8.8 m
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie
Medium: fresco-secco

La Bella Principessa
The portrait which is used of coloured chalks and ink, on vellum, of a young lady in fashionable costume and hairstyle of a Milanese of the 1490’s.
Created: 1495-1496
Size: 33 cm x 23.9 cm (13 in x 9.4 in)
Medium: trois crayons (black, red, & white chalk), laid on oak panel
Location: Vinci, Italy


3. Pablo Picasso


Sylvette

Finding her appearance appealing, Picasso created 40 works inspired by her. This portrait is one of the last long series.
Created: 1954
Size: 97.2 cm
Location: Rotterdom
Medium: Mixing paint like newspaper and sand, powdered pigment


  Mother & Child

This painting was inspired by Picasso’s own life. Picasso’s treatment of mother and  child is not sentimental, but the relationship  between the figures expresses serenity and stability.
Location: Art Institute of Chicago Building
Size: 1.43 m x 1.73 m
Created: 1921
Medium: Oil Paint

Girl with mandolin
This artwork was one of Picasso’s early Analytic Cubist creations. Picasso’s ideas lead him to paint the subject as she sat down in front of him and he analyzed his subject.
Created: 1910
Size: 1m x 74 cm
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Medium: Oil paint