Grade 10 Culminating Unit

Part A: Artist Research using Legitimate Sites

You will choose 3 specific artists to research further and analyze a piece of artwork that represents their own unique
perspective, environment or places they documented. You may use artists that you have learned about in the course if you
think their style is effective and interesting to you personally. Find an artist to research further using legitimate sites such as
MoMa collection, Google Cultural Institute or other legitimate sources. If you are not sure if is legitimate, check for ads, a
publication date, author name, more information about the people/person publishing. If it is not legitimate, do not use it! *The
artist’s style should be something you would like to try with your own piece.
You must write this in your own words. Copy and paste will result in a mark of “0”.
Artist’s Name Artist 1: Frida Kahlo Artist 2: Andy Warhol Artist: 3: Keith Haring

Place of Birth: Born - July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Born - August 6, 1928 in Born - May 4, 1958, in
Date of Birth: Mexico City (Google Arts & Culture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Reading, Pennsylvania (The
*Date of Death:
2018) (The Art Story, 2018) Art Story, 2018)

Title, Medium, Date for ONE artwork:
What is their style? How do they apply
the elements and principles of
design? (be specific, name the top 3)
Death - Died on July 13, 1954
(Google Arts & Culture, 2018)
Title - My Grandparents, My
Parents and I (Family Tree) (MOMA, Cans
2018)
Medium - Oil and tempera on zinc
(MOMA, 2018)
Date - 1936 (MOMA, 2018)
Style - Surrealism, Cubism,
Symbolism, Modern art and Magical
Realism (Dazzedgitial, 2018).
Death - February 22, 1987
in New York, New York
(The Art Story, 2018)
Title - Campbell’s Soup
Medium - Synthetic
polymer (MOMA Learning,
2018)
Date - 1962 (MOMA
Learning, 2018)
Style - Pop Art
Andy Warhol’s style
consists of taking popular
Death - February 16, 1990 in
New York, New York (The
Art Story, 2018)
Title - Crack is Wack
Medium - Graffiti (Keith
Haring, 2018)
Date - 1986 (Keith Haring,
2018)
Style - Pop art,
contemporary art

*Please note: Plagiarism on your culminating will result in a mark of “0”. Everything you submit must be
your OWN WORK.
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Frida’s style is very unique, as many culture and commercial Keith Haring’s style consists
of her portraits are of her with some processes in order to create of simple cartoon like
surrealist additions. In addition, her work that appeals the characters. His artworks
style portrays the pain and general public (The Art normally create awareness
frustration Frida has experienced History, 2018) about AIDS, as Keith haring
during her whole life, as well as the had that disease (The Art
challenges she has faced at being a Elements and Principles History, 2018)
woman. She inspired many female of Design - Campbell’s
artists by her paintings. (The Art Soup Cans, 1962 (MOMA Elements and Principles of
History, 2018) learning, 2018) Design - Crack is Wack
(Keith Haring)
Elements and Principles of - Pattern
Design - My Grandparents, My - This artwork - Harmony
Parents and I (Family Tree) (MOMA, uses patterns, - Keith uses
2018) as the harmony in this
Campbell artwork by just
- Balance - Symmetry soup can is using two
- In this artwork, Frida being colours. The
uses balance repeated whole
exceptionally well, as countless of background is
the whole image is times. This orange and the
symmetric. If you split changes the illustrations are
the canvas into two, artwork from all black, which
you can notice how being a simple gives the
there are 3 people on can of tomato artwork a sense
each half of the soup to of unity and
painting and how the something harmony. If
backdrown looks bigger that is there were
almost the same. This more more colours,
is the definition of aesthetically they would
symmetry, if split on pleasing. crash together
the line of symmetry it - Space making it not
looks the same. Frida - This artwork look as

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achieved this by uses space harmonious as

making her painting exceptionally it does with just
balanced on both well by having orange and
sides, rather than just each can on a black
having the subjects separated - Line
spread randomly square and - Line is used all
across the canvas. leaving white through this
- Value space around artwork, as the
- Frida Kahlo uses value the can. That illustrations on
in a lot of different creates the orange
ways in this piece. The emphasis on background are
definition of value is to the can itself, just lines. There
use different shades of making the is no form,
the same colour in artwork look which means
order to make shapes, better. In they are flat.
objects and subjects in addition, the The only
a painting look 3D and space reason why we
realistic. For example, between each know what
the dress her mother is square is all each shape is
wearing uses value the same is because of
perfectly. In the throughout the the lines Keith
creases of the dress, whole piece, drew. This
you can see how the which makes painting overall
colour is darker, which the whole relies on lines
is the shadow of the artwork look because of it
clothing. The same balanced. being flat.
goes for the rocks at - Contrast - Contrast
the back of the - Contrast is - This principle is
painting. They look being used in also being used
very realistic and 3D this piece by in this artwork
because Frida made using different by creating
the coloured the colours for contrast
shadows darker and different parts between the

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How do they show their own
perspective? What is the subject of
their artwork?
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the highlights lighter, of the can of black of the
giving a more realistic soup. Red illustrations and
feel to the painting. and white the orange of
- Texture contrast each the
- This element is used other, which is background.
very well here, and it why the cans Even though
also links back to look so the contrast is
value. This painting aesthetically not that big, it is
has a lot of simulated pleasing and still there which
texture everywhere, why they makes the
such as the sea, the catch artwork way
plants and the rocks. someone’s more
Even though they are attention. interesting.
just painted into a Apart from
canvas, they still look that, there is
as if they were 3D. For some golden
example, when looking in the can too,
at the cacti, you which stand
imagine they are very sout since it is
spiky just because of very different
the way they were to the red and
painted, when in reality to the white.
they are just drawn
and 2D.
Friday shows her perspective on her Andy shows his perspective Keith Haring shows his own
family, family values and her of the world by uniting both perspective of the world
heritage in a very unconventional art and pop culture through his paintings. For
way. She recreates her family tree together, which is pretty example, the Crack is Wack
but very weirdly and in a very much the definition of the mural represents one of his
unrealistic way. For example, the style he helped create friends and how he got
dress her mother is wearing as well called “pop art”. For addicted to crack. He uses
and the clothing everyone is example, his painting of his artworks to express
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What do you like most about this
artwork/artist’s style and why?
How do you plan to apply this artist’s
style/technique/ in your own artwork?
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wearing. They are typical Mexican
clothing, which connects back to her
roots. In addition, she is also
sharing her perspective of where
she was born, which tell us more
about her childhood. The subject of
this artwork is the family tree as a
whole, as I think she wanted to
accentuate family.
What I really like about this artist's
style is that almost always she
includes herself in the artwork. That
way the person seeing the art is
able to connect the artwork to
Friday’s life. What I also really like
about her artworks is the way she
makes them unconventional and
“weird”. She adds a lot of
components, such as random
objects and different backgrounds in
order to get her message through,
which is something I really admire.
I am not sure how I would like to
implement Frida’s style in my
artwork. I would like to add those
specific elements that make the
artwork say something about the
artists, such as Frida and her family
tree. That is why I will try to
incorporate something that is
connected to my life in order to
Marilyn Monroe shows pop
culture (she was the most
famous actress at that time)
mixed with a canvas in
order to create one of his
most famous pieces.
What I really like about this
artist is the simplicity of his
art. No one ever considered
a can of tomato soup to be
art, but Andy Warhol did.
Another thing that I really
like about him is the way he
uses colours and contrast.
It has always caught my
attention on how he was
able to create any subject
with 2-3 colours (Marilyn
Monroe painting),
I would like to apply this
artist’s technique into my
artwork by using pop art
techniques, such as
complimentary colours. I
have always been attracted
to artworks with bright
colours, which is why I
would like to do that in my
Krause
himself as well as his
surroundings. That is why
many of his artworks
consisted on AIDS
awareness, because it was
such a big part of his life it
ended up impacting his style.
What I like about this style,
just like Andy Warhol's is that
simplicity of it. They are just
lines forming shapes, which
in my opinion is really simple.
It amazes me how much a
person can do with just lines,
which is why his style is one
of my favourites.
I will try to apply this artists
style in terms of colour. H
uses very simple colours,
normally primary colours, so I
am going to try to do
something like that in my
final artwork. I am going to
try to keep it simple in terms
of colour to make it look
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MLA Citation: 2 minimum/artist
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teach the viewer a little about
myself.
Dazed. “The Powerful Personal Style of
Frida Kahlo.” Dazed, Dazed Digital, 28
Apr. 2017,
<www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/
35745/1/frida-kahlo-fashion-style-
clothing-nikolas-muray-portraits>
“Frida Kahlo - Google Arts &amp;
Culture.” Google, Google,
<www.artsandculture.google.com
/entity/m015k04>
“Frida Kahlo Biography, Art, and
Analysis of Works.” The Art
Story,
<www.theartstory.org/artist-kahlo-
frida.htm>
Krause
own art project. That way I more aesthetically pleasing.
can show the viewer a little
bit more about my
personality.
“Andy Warhol Biography, Art, “Crack Is Wack, 1986.”
and Analysis of Works.” The Bio | Keith Haring,
Art Story, <www.haring.com/!/art-
<www.theartstory.org/artist- work/108#.WyfcnKczZnI>
warhol-andy.htm> “Keith Haring Biography,
“Andy Warhol Shot Art, and Analysis of
Marilyns.” Arthipo, Works.” The Art Story,
<www.arthipo.com/andy <www.theartstory.org/arti
-warhol-shot- st-haring-keith.htm>
marilyns.html>
“MoMA Learning.”
Willem De Kooning.
Woman I. 1950–52 |
MoMA,
<www.moma.org/learn/
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Kahlo, Frida. “Frida Kahlo My moma_learning/andy-

Grandparents, My Parents, and I warhol-campbells-soup-

(Family Tree) 1936.” Willem De cans-1962>

Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52 |

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