Fauvism

I don't know why these are sideways and I can't fix it and it's really annoying, so sorry about that.

I can't really explain to you what Fauvism is, except that I LIKE IT! It was an era like impressionism or mannerism or something like that, you know? I'm sure I'll learn about it in Art History next year. But we've been doing a series of projects based on it, which are posted below, and then we did a self-portrait which my teacher has, so I'll post it later. We started with a copy of a fauvist painting, and then we had to paint it as closely as possible color wise and such to help us see that yes, there were a lot of high-chroma colors (bright or intense, less grey) but there were also low-chroma colors (more grey) and that there actually was a ryhme and reason to the color choices (for example, blue from shadow, not for sunlight). While we were painting it we had to make a color grid of the colors we used. Then we made a rythm collage of only horizontals and verticals that represented the paiting. Then we did a self-portrait using the same color scheme in a fauvist style.










This last peice is completely different, and is actually almost all my own. We had to do a project that really had no guidelines based on the trip we took to the Brooklyn Museum, and this is what I came up with based on Monet's "Houses of Parliament, Effects of Sunlight" and on split-compliment ideas from class. I thought it came out neat, and then it turned out we really didn't have to do it, so we got extra credit. Whoot. Mine is the first one and Monet's is the second. Haha.






I went to another Purim party today! That's where I was last night. Maybe I'll have time to write about all that later. Purim is a Jewish holiday. I went and did my film project on it.

Now I'm gunna get back to the homework I am procrastinating... yea!