ART HISTORY & ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT:

You and your partner have been given a slideshow about an art period. You will both present this slideshow to
the class. Your instructions are below;

Read the information slide and learn about your art period.

Look at the artworks from two famous artists from your art period. There are two artworks from each artist.

Choose one artwork from this slideshow and complete the instructions on slide number 8 and 11.

Choose a second artwork from this slideshow and complete the instructions on slide 14.

When finished, try to make slide number 2 match your art period using different backgrounds, colours, fonts
or images.

Let your teacher know your slideshow is finished.

If you are confused or are not sure what to do next, check these instructions or ask your teacher.
High Renaissance

1475-1525
The word Renaissance means re-birth. Italian artists of this time looked back to the past classical beauty of ancient Greek
Art. They wanted to re-ignite the achievements of the past and held the beauty of the human form and realism as their
highest ideal. During this time wealthy patrons and families, such as the Medici family, gave a lot of money to the
development of the Arts. Themes in artwork involved stories from the bible so that the church could educate the largely
illiterate community in images and pictures. The artists also created works about ancient Greek and Roman mythology as
this was one of their inspirations. It was a time of great flourishing and development in Art, Science, Philosophy, Literature
and Music.
New discoveries and ideas occurred in Art for the first time. Perspective was used in painting to show depth and scale.
Artists used mathematical principles to work out proportions and size relationships between one object and another.
People were astonished to see a picture look as if it was 3D as prior to this the paintings had looked quite flat.
As more became known about anatomy, artists created ever more complicated images of the human body and showed
contrapposto, a complicated twist in the torso, to create drama and beauty in their works. Artists learned how to
foreshorten objects and anatomy in artworks so that the length and angle of something looked exactly how it appeared
to the artists eyes as they saw it. Leonardo Da Vinci mastered the use of sfumato where the edges of objects were softly
blurred and hazed so that they seemed to gently blend from one thing to another. Chiaroscuro was also developed
during this time as artists created great drama with the use of highly contrasting lights and darks.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Last Supper
Tempera, Mastic, Pitch, Gesso
1495
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Mona Lisa
Oil on Canvas
1503
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Creation of Adam
The Sistine Chapel
Fresco, paint on plaster
1503
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Statue of David
Fresco, paint, plaster
1512
TASK ONE:

On the next page is a list of describing words for all of the

ART ELEMENTS. Choose one artwork from your slide show
and find two describing words for each art element that best
describes your image. You can choose two descriptive words
from each column on the next page or come up with your
own.
On slide number 10, copy and paste the artwork and
complete your list of descriptive art elements for that work in
the spaces provided.
LINE TEXTURE SHAPE COLOR TONE SPACE
actual actual amorphous brash dark ambiguous
blurred bumpy closed bright light background
broken corrugated distorted calm medium closed
contour flat flat clear opaque deep
controlled furry free complementary transparent flat
curved gooey form contrasting dramatic foreground
diagonal leathery geometric cool subtle mid ground
freehand prickly heavy dusty even open
fuzzy rough isomorphic exciting contrasting positive
horizontal sandy light garish foggy negative
implied shiny linear monochromatic defined shallow
interrupted simulated massive muted ominous 3 dimensional
meandering smooth nebulous pale dappled 2 dimensional
patterned soft open primary strong crowded
ruled sticky organic saturated dominant vacuous
short tacky angular secondary illuminated empty
straight velvety natural subdued radiant distant
thick wet cluttered tertiary mysterious claustrophobic
thin glassy blockish tinted piercing cluttered
vertical undulating voluminous vibrant sprinkled organised
wide inferred floating warm foreboding segmented
Paste artwork here:

____________________, __________________ line

____________________, __________________ texture

____________________, __________________ shape

____________________, __________________ colour

____________________, __________________ tone

____________________, __________________ space

TASK TWO:

On the next page is a list of describing words for all of the ART
PRINCIPLES. Using the same artwork from task one, find two
describing words for each art principle that best describes your
image. You can choose two descriptive words from each
column on the next page or come up with your own.
On slide 13, copy the same artwork as slide 10 and complete
your list of descriptive art principles for that work in the spaces
provided.
SCALE BALANCE EMPHASIS CONTRAST MOVEMENT PATTERN UNITY
large top heavy focal point strong continuous whirling finished
small even dominant minimal sporadic blocked unfinished
intimate unbalanced feature tonal monotonous floral whole
miniature symmetry subordinate textural even varied cohesive
monumental asymmetrical zooming in dramatic repetition geometric harmonious
massive radial leading lines colour swirling random flow
life size equal eye catching jarring static cluttered disjointed
realistic unequal stimulating crisp agitated sparse unresolved
surreal dominant focused creative directional varied resolved
exaggerated uneven dramatic jarring flowing lines bold peaceful
epic toppling deliberate vibrant whirlpool ordered calming
unrealistic sloping highlighted sharp rippling flowing satisfying
tiny heavy directed subtle stillness tessellated complete

VARIETY PROPORTION
juxtaposed realistic
limited unequal
diverse alarming
broad even
jumbled generous
restrained enhanced
Paste artwork here: ____________________, __________________ scale

____________________, __________________ balance

____________________, __________________ emphasis

____________________, __________________ contrast

____________________, __________________ movement

____________________, __________________ pattern

____________________, __________________ unity

____________________, __________________ variety

____________________, __________________ proportion

TASK THREE:

VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES

Select a second artwork from your slide show and copy into slide
15. Answer the following 3 questions.

What is going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?

 What is going on in this picture?

Paste artwork here:

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?