Artist Inspiration

Showing evidence of thorough artist exploration and inspiration is an important element of evidence in your SI submission. While I know you are using other artists work to inspire your own pieces from your Digital Portfolio Submission, the AP scores don't see that. 

How can you visually show this exploration so they can quickly understand how you studied and found inspiration from other artist?

Explained further:

What should I write about for my inspiration?

• Explain research based around your artist or cultural inspiration

• Creatively discussed how you plan to use this inspiration in your work

• Techniques and style inspiration

• Meaning and metaphor inspiration

YOU COULD ALSO... 

Try to analyze your inspiration:

• • What is the artist intent for making this artwork?

  • What’s going on in this artwork?

  • What was your first reaction to this artwork? Why do you think you had the reaction? 

  • Describe the Elements and Principles in the artwork.

  • Which area of the artwork is emphasized by the artist? Why?

  • How does your eye move through the artwork? What choices did the artist make to make that happen?

  • What do you think was this artwork created for? Why do you say that?​

  • What emotions do you notice in the artwork?

  • What technique did the artist use to make the work?

Check out "Reading" Art tab and the Museum Visit tab for possible information you might include in an artist study/inspiration page. You could use either of these processes to create a quality screen to be used in your SI submission showing research and practice.

Possible Steps To Follow:

(these steps could be manipulated digitally too if you prefer)

1. Apply background using chalk (be sure to spray fix), marker, watercolor, color pencils, graphite, etc. 

2. A picture of the artist 

3. A picture of your favorite work created by the artist 

4. Materials (The substances that the artist manipulates.) 

5. Process (The ways in which the artist plays with ideas and manipulates or applies materials. Constraints within this category might include placing time limits, harnessing chance, creating opportunities for reflection, repeating themes or motifs, collaborating, exploring a material, or using a new/different technique.) 

6. Form (The formal elements, compositional arrangement, and the format of the artwork e.g., 2D, 3D, 4D,diptych.) 

7. Context (The circumstances that surround the artwork. Where, when, how, and for what purpose the work was made), including what was historically and socially present for the artist at the time the artwork was made. As the context of an artwork changes, so too does its meaning.) 

8. Content (The concept, big idea, or subject of the artwork Note: The visible subject matter is not necessarily the same as the content. For example, water lilies were often Monet’s subject matter, but light was his content.)