Influential Artist Assignment Quarter 2, English 11 This quarter, we are researching influential artists. We are answering the following essential questions: 1—How do individual’s experiences influence their artistic expression? 2—How do artists influence culture? Each student will pick their own artist, a painter or a writer, to research. You will need to pick from a class list to broaden your cultural horizons. Ms. Wiley will provide a list for you to choose from. I will assign you someone if needed. For this assignment, we will be avoiding performance artists like musicians and actors, even though they are technically artists. You will be writing and submitting a quality, edited short research paper and delivering a visual presentation to the class. Your paper will be 3 to 5 pages, double spaced. Your paper needs to have the following sections, which should be organized with the following headings in order: 1. *Background/ influences of the artist. Questions to answer are: where he/she grew up, what was his/her childhood like? Where did he/she go to high school, college and perhaps master’s/doctorate programs? How did other artists influence your artist? Did he/she get famous while alive? When and How? How did he/she die? How did his/her background influence his/her art? 2. *Style of Art: Tell about what type of art your artist does with detail and descriptive writing. For painters, you can cut and paste their work into your paper. For writers, you can include quotations and excerpts from their work. Share at least three examples. 3. *Artist influence on Society: Tell about how your artist influenced society/culture. Use specific examples. 4. *Artist influence on you: Tell about how the artist influenced you. 5. Bibliography: We will be using MLA style for quotations and bibliography. Your bibliography has to have at least 5 resources listed that are reputable and not Wikipedia. You will be taking notes to create the bibliography and adequate notation within the paper. Your name__________________________ Period_________Your artist_______________ Please save and submit with your work Rubric for your paper (125 pts.) _____ 50 pts. Integration of 5 diverse resources with proper quotations, paraphrasing, and bibliography. ______ 25 pts. for proper syntax. 5 pt. deduction for each run on and sentence fragment. ______ 25 pts. for proper punctuation ______ 25 pts for having complete sections (4 sentences minimum) for each Total points: ________ / 125 Comments: Rubric for your presentation _____20 pts. Show the class examples (at least three) of the artist’s work, with examples explained _____25 pts. Create something original influenced by the artist and share it with us. _____10 pts. Tell about the artist’s background _____10 pts. Tell about the way the artist influenced YOU and SOCIETY _____10 pts. Speech includes all requirements and is at least 2 minutes with good volume, preparation, and eye contact/ Total points: ______/75 Important Dates to Remember Project Assigned, November 7th Mrs. Scott note taking presentation in upper D computer lab, November 12th Note taking and research day: November 14th (Upper G lab) Note taking and research day: November 19th (Upper G lab) 20 notecards due: November 20th Drafting the paper starts on November 21st (Upper G lab) Drafting the paper continued, November 26th (Upper G lab) First, complete draft due Monday, December 1st Revisions and editing, December 5th (Upper G lab) Final draft paper due: December 8th Presentations (everyone ready to present on Dec 8th): December 8th, 9th, and 10th Visual Artists/Painters Claude Monet Rene Magritte Hieronymous Bosch Jackson Pollock Jan Vermeer Rembrandt Vincent Van Gogh Salvador Dali Paul Gaugin M.C. Escher Joan Miro Gustav Klimt Frida Kahlo David Hockney Leonardo Da Vinci Dorothea Lange Keith Haring Roy Lichtenstein Pierre-August Renoir Michelangelo JMW Turner Andy Warhol Katsushikas Hokusai Wassily Kandinsky Georgia O’Keefe Edvard Munch Mark Rothko Henri Matisse Willem DeKoonig Diego Rivera Pablo Picasso Bansky Paul Klee Writers William Shakespeare HP Lovecraft Gabriel Garcia Marquez Flannery O’Connor Homer Marcel Proust Maya Angelou John Steinbeck Mark Twain Charles Dickins Charlotte Bronte Samuel Beckett Jack Kerouac Kurt Vonnegut TS Eliot Jane Austen Edgar Allen Poe Franz Kafka William Faulkner Fyodor Dosteovsky Anton Chekhov Leo Tolstoy Emily Dickinson Harriet Beacher Stowe James Joyce DH Lawrence Gertrude Stein Ernest Hemingway Harper Lee Toni Morrison William Keats