Expertise. Rebellion. Break-through technique.
Artists from vastly different eras share numerous characteristics. Thus students will discover several common threads as they write an essay that connects Caravaggio, Jackson Pollock and a street artist such as Shepherd Fairey, Banksy or Blek le Rat.
Criteria:
1) Briefly give each of the 3 artists a basic bio. The basics include
Who? What (they did)? When? where? and how? Blend, or integrate these bios. To throw down each bio in a block of facts does not represent 'A' level work.
2) Offer the characteristics that tie them together. Mention how they qualify as practitioners in the Fine Arts. You may also mention things that separate them.
3) Be specific: you must mention Pollock's abstract expressionistism, his drip painting. Mention Caravaggio's "radical naturalism which combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical lighting."
4) Allusions: refer briefly to playwrights Albee and Mamet, to choreographer Martha Graham, to composers Dylan and the Beatles.
5) Documentation: mostly, it's Wikipedia.
6) A snappy title and colorful opening are also important.
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