Art 3 Proficient, Weeks 5-6 Egyptian Art

Essential Standards P.CX.1.4 Understand how personal aesthetic responses to art are influenced by culture.

1. All students must complete the assignments listed. All Honors level art students are required to take work home with them to finish. You may also come to the art room at these times to work on your artwork: 1. Before school: 7:30-8:00am 2. E block: ask Zoe for a pass 3. After school on Thursdays during Art Club: 3:25-5:00pm 4. With permission and notice, other days after school: ask Zoe if she is staying after! 2. Read chapter 7.2: pages 155-162 in Art in Focus, Egyptian Sculpture and Painting. In your sketchbook answer the Lesson Two questions on page 161: we will discuss them in class. 3. Cartouche assignment Learn about Hierglyphics and Cartouches: See the definition on page 159. http://www.artyfactory.com/egyptian_art/cartouche_lesson/cartouche_lesson.htm and books about Egypt Create a sketch in your sketchbook of your name in a cartouche. What does the frame around a cartouche represent? Why is it wrapped around the name? After this rough draft, make a final copy using the media and substrate you choose. It is due at the beginning of class tomorrow. 4. Learn about what Egyptians believed for an afterlife. Read the interview with an Egyptologist: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/afterlife-ancient-egypt.html Warning: there are images of mummified humans without their wrappings! It is not for the faint of heart. Discuss what you see in paintings about the afterlife. 5. Discover Egyptian artworks from the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York: Metmuseum Egyptian artworks 6. Read the assignment under Lesson Two Review: Visual Arts Journal in your textbook. Create a cartoon about your birth or what you think your afterlife will be like. You may make it using animation, comic book style, codex, or flat panel style. Think about who is there and important items are around. You will write about the event as the Egyptian artists wrote hierglyphics on their artworks. You may use any media and substrate appropriate. 7. Next Friday will be your Egypt Test: STUDY!

Egyptian Storytelling Name Grade Assessor A B D F 90-100 80-89 60-69 0-59 Requirements Created cartoon story about your birth or 18-20 16-17 12-13 0-11 met afterlife in great detail Several interesting characters, objects, 18-20 16-17 12-13 0-11 and layout, appropriate scenery Story is written around images 9-10 8 6 0-5 Craftsmanshi Skillful use of media: neat, clean, 36-40 32-35 24-30 0-23 p attention to contour lines, detail, and legibility of words Artistic Vision Thinking outside the box, Superb 9-10 8 6 0-5 craftsmanship or details, lengthy Egyptian Storytelling Name Grade Assessor A B D F 90-100 80-89 60-69 0-59 Requirements Created cartoon story about your birth or 18-20 16-17 12-13 0-11 met afterlife in great detail Several interesting characters, objects, 18-20 16-17 12-13 0-11 and layout, appropriate scenery Story is written around images 9-10 8 6 0-5 Craftsmanshi Skillful use of media: neat, clean, 36-40 32-35 24-30 0-23 p attention to contour lines, detail, and legibility of words Artistic Vision Thinking outside the box, Superb 9-10 8 6 0-5 craftsmanship or details, lengthy

Egyptian Storytelling Name Grade Assessor A B D F 90-100 80-89 60-69 0-59 Requirements Created cartoon story about your birth or 18-20 16-17 12-13 0-11 met afterlife in great detail Several interesting characters, objects, 18-20 16-17 12-13 0-11 and layout, appropriate scenery Story is written around images 9-10 8 6 0-5 Craftsmanshi Skillful use of media: neat, clean, 36-40 32-35 24-30 0-23 p attention to contour lines, detail, and legibility of words Artistic Vision Thinking outside the box, Superb 9-10 8 6 0-5 craftsmanship or details, lengthy