VIRTUAL ART CLASS FINAL PROJECT: GETTY MUSEUM CHALLENGE

REMOTE LEARNING ART FINAL

Good Morning Everyone - I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful holiday weekend!
 
Thank you to everyone who has reached out to me during my unfortunate shoulder injury. Although I am not healed yet I am on the road to recovery. I wanted to remind you all that I am still missing assignments and to please go over the list below and be sure you have submitted everything – especially seniors!

POSTS + ASSIGNMENTS SO FAR

4/5 Hello + Welcome: Introduction, Syllabus etc.
4/6 Monday Art Mission: Still Life Self Portrait
4/8 Wednesday Watch: Prehistoric Stone Age Art
4/10 Fragment + Fortify Friday: Norman Rockwell 
4/13 Monday Art Mission: Color Theory w/ Color Wheel Still Life or Color Wheel Collage
4/15 Wednesday Watch: Medieval Illuminations
4/17 Fragment + Fortify Friday: The Dark Crystal
4/20 Monday Art Mission: Contour Drawings + Google Pictionary 
4/22 Wednesday Watch: Earth Day + Environmental Art
4/24 Fragment + Fortify Friday: COVID19-Themed Murals + Graffiti Related To Coronavirus
4/27 Monday Art Mission: Review + Catch Up
4/30 Wednesday Watch: Gothic Architecture
5/1 Fragment + Fortify Friday: May Day + The RGB Colorspace Atlas
5/4 Monday Art Mission: Color Therapy Altar + Guided Meditation
5/6 Wednesday Watch: Elements of Art Questions
5/8 Fragment + Fortify Friday: The Story of Flowers
5/11 Monday Art Mission: Meditation Practice
5/27 Art Final: Getty Museum Challenge (seniors this is optional = not required)

NAVIGATION

On our Art Blog each post has its own page.
So if you need to go back to a prior post from earlier in the month, please:

1. Scroll all the way down until you reach the “<<Previous” button at the bottom left. 
2. Go back using the “<<Previous” button until you find what you are looking for. 
3. And then use the “Forward>>” button on the right to navigate to more recent posts.
 
If you have questions about this please let me know or ask a classmate for help.

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The project I post today is your FINAL so I am giving you TWO WEEKS to complete it which means I want you to really put some time and effort into this one = pull out all the stops and show me your amazing imaginations and just how creative you can be.

Like many cultural institutions, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is closed due to the spread of the coronavirus. But during this challenging time, the Getty has found a way to keep people engaged with their art—even though they can’t see it in person. They’ve challenged their social media followers to “recreate a work of art with objects (and people)” from the comfort of their own homes. And the internet did not disappoint!

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After the museum shared some examples of this art challenge with its own staff, Twitter users began replying to the Getty with their artistic recreations. Some used their pets as stand-ins for the human subjects in art history, and everyone had to get creative about how they saw everyday items. One person used a dustpan to represent a blue house found in a Chagall painting, while another used half a dozen rolls of toilet paper to mimic the poofy shape of a powdered wig in an 18th-century Parisian painting. These types of recreations will make you laugh, and then they’ll have you looking around your own home to see what you could conjure up for a masterpiece from history.

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During COVID-19 shelter in place a playful challenge has been issued on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to re-create your favorite art using just objects inside and outside your home, clothing and even makeup + face paint.
 
The Getty isn’t the only account that’s promoting this type of creative challenge, but it has become so popular that it’s now known as the “Getty Museum Challenge.”

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The challenge was inspired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and a brilliant Instagram account called Between Art and Quarantine, but adapted with the invitation to use digitized and downloadable artworks from Getty’s online collection. The world has been delighted by countless creative interpretations of iconic artworks — from Jeff Koons using a pile of socks, restaged Jacques-Louis David with a fleece blanket and duct tape, and MacGyvered costumes out of towels, pillows, scarves, shower caps, coffee filters, bubble wrap, and—of course—toilet paper and toilet rolls.

The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw.

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Cézanne and Vermeer have been a popular sources of inspiration, especially Still Life with Apples (done to perfection with household pottery and gin) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (restaged with selfies and grandma, pug, or lab). Grant Wood’s American Gothic seems to capture the current socially distant mood, while Munch’s The Scream is appropriate for all ages and apparently tastes good on toast.

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PEOPLE RECREATE WORKS OF ART WITH OBJECTS
​FOUND AT HOME DURING SELF QUARANTINE

And now it's your turn to respond! To get you inspired… throughout this post I have included a roundup of just a few of the thousands of ingenious and hilarious re-creations of art from Getty—and other world collections—people have shared throughout Corona Virus Quarantine.

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THREE ART COLLECTION RESOURCES

​Use these websites to peruse the world’s foremost art collections:

1.  www.getty.edu/art/collection/

The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust. The $1.3 billion Center opened to the public on December 16, 1997 and is well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as THE GETTY, is an art museum in California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. The two locations received over two million visitors in 2016.

The main museum in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles features pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and photographs from the 1830s through present day from all over the world. The secondary museum, the Getty Villa, is in the Malibu neighborhood and displays art from Ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. 

2. www.metmuseum.org

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially THE MET is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,479,548 visitors to its three locations in 2019, it was the fourth most visited art museum in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. 

The permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 for the purposes of opening a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. The Fifth Avenue building opened on February 20, 1872, at 681 Fifth Avenue.

3. https://www.louvre.fr/en

THE LOUVRE, or The Louvre Museum, is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property… today approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 72,735 square meters (782,910 square feet). In 2019, the Louvre received 9.6 million visitors, making it the most visited museum in the world.

The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as the Louvre castle in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. Due to urban expansion, the fortress eventually lost its defensive function, and in 1546 Francis I converted it into the primary residence of the French Kings. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture.

Many museums have great online collections with images available to download and use for free: try LACMA, The Clark, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walters, MASS MoCA or the National Gallery… https://www.brushwiz.com/most-famous-paintings/ 

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ASSIGNMENT

• Get the people who live in your household involved – even your pets if you are able!
• You need to be innovative and creatively problem solve.
• Have fun and use a sense of humor when reinterpreting the work of art you select.
• Use ONLY school appropriate objects of course.
• Scroll further down for helpful TIPS and a slideshow of additional images.

Once you are all set up – take a couple photos and email them to me
Be sure to include:

1. The name of the work of art
2. The name of the artist who created the piece

 
DUE DATE Wednesday June 10th by midnight

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TIPS FOR QUARATINE ART CHALLENGE

1. Find Great Art You Like
The only tools you need for this activity are your imagination and a picture of a work of art you like or find interesting. Browse our online collections (resources listed above/earlier in this post) and search the keyword field for ideas (for example, “portrait” or “dog”). If you have a certain unusual item that you think would work well—like a globe, easel, or a special outfit, hat, or even a melted clock — you can start by searching for that, too.
 
2. Now that you’ve found your inspiration, pick the objects you’d like to use. Any objects are fine: from a blank piece of paper to your most elaborate hat. For the first few days to a week collect all of the objects you think you may need – some people even construct things to create objects or art to include.
 
Here are a few tips:
 
Enlist a pet. Get your dogs, cats, bunnies, and even ferrets into the mix. Here’s an example of a furry companion pretending to be a fox, complete with her toy used as a prop!
 
Make a face, strike a pose. If you’re interested in re-creating a portrait or group scene, pay attention to the facial expressions—they really make it.
 
If you’re reenacting a scene with multiple figures, pay attention to the poses.
 
For a family activity, look for a domestic or dinner scene.
 
Pay attention to lighting. Try to imagine where the light in the artwork is coming from and orient your composition so a window or lamp is casting similar light onto the scene. In bright daylight, windows offer a blue-tinged light, while most lamps cast a warmer glow.
 
Think abstractly. If you’re having trouble re-creating an artwork’s appearance, try focusing on shapes over colors.
 
Make it snackable. Edible art counts too. 
 
3. Photograph and email to me!
[email protected]
Use a smartphone camera or a digital camera to take a photo (if you’re posing, have a member of the household do it for you; if you live alone, use the front-facing camera on your smartphone, or the camera on your computer). You may want to do several and pick the best one. Then share with your family and friends the way you enjoy best!
 

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I look forward to seeing what you all create! And use each other for help and resources if you need some advance or feedback.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out as I am available through email, via p hone and happy to set up a virtual chat meeting as well.

The weather has been gorgeous so if you haven't completed your EARTH DAY/ENVIRONMENTAL ART assignment yet then now is the time to get that done.

I will include additional examples of the Getty Museum Challenge below as well as some new articles about it.

Thinking of you and hoping you are well.

Best,

Nicole Webster Clark

Additional links if you want to check out news coverage and also sources for today’s post:
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/04/03/people-are-re-creating-famous-artworks-with-their-pets-whatever-else-is-lying-around/
 
https://www.buzzfeed.com/louisekhong/getty-museum-challenge-recreate-artwork
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/style/art-recreation-challenge-coronavirus.html

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