Renaissance Art and Batman? Really?

Follow the outline to create your power point about a Renaissance Artist and a work of art.  Use the questions below to guide your search and work:
 

 Slide 1.   What is the  name of the artist? Create list of biographical highlights of the artist’s life
 

Slide 2.  What is the name of the artwork?  (Provide a copy of the painting in the power point)  and why did you choose that particular piece?

Slides 3-5:   About the painting:
        What characteristics of Renaissance art does this work exhibit? 
(Here are some possibilities others have observed in Renaissance Art)
              Emphasis on human anatomy
              Realistic shading- soft modeling of the figure
              Correct proportions of the figure - more life-like
              Emphasis on showing three dimensional space
              Utilizing tools of perspective
              Architectural elements
              Showing emotions
              Interest in nature and the world around them
   ***What other characteristics can you find?***
       What is the subject or theme?  How does it relate to the beliefs and values  of the Renaissance man/woman?
       How would you describe the painting?
   ***Use at least three art elements***
             Line: a dot moving through space or across the picture plane.  Lines can be thin, thick, straight, curved, crooked, wiggly, jagged, light, dark…. How may other descriptive words can you think to describe a line?
            Shape: something created when a line encloses a space or when a line separated one area from another.  Shape may be organic or biomorphic , and geometric (circle, triangle, rectangle, square and so on)
            Color: the way we see light reflected from a surface or refracted through a prism.  Colors may be subjective (artist selects his/her own colors) or objective (what the eye actually sees).  See color vocabulary sheets for more information.
            Value:  Lightness and darkness of tones.  Adding white or black may change value in colors.
            Space:  Positive space is the subject of the work.  Negative space is the area around the subject.  Also- illusion of depth on a flat surface.
            Texture:  The way a surface feels or looks like it feels.  Textures may be real or simulated (made to look like a texture).  These are all texture words - smooth, rough, hard, soft, bumpy, scratchy, or velvety.  How may other texture words can you name?
   ***Use at least two principals of design***
           Repetition:  the use of an object or element is repeated to create rhythm.
           Variation:  changes in the way an object or element is repeated to prevent boredom or monotony.
           Focal point, dominance, center of interest: the first thing that attracts your eye to a work of art or what the artist wants to emphasize the most.  
           Balance:  elements of equal weight that appear on opposite sides of the work of art. These may be symmetrical (same on both sides), asymmetrical (balanced by not the same). And radial (all elements in a picture branch out in all directions from a common point).
          Unity:  All elements and principles work together to create the whole - colors, shapes are repeated.
          Movement:  real or implied movement.  The imaginary path the eye takes across the work of art.
          Contrast:  Dark against light.
   ***Use at least five descriptive words (see word lists provided in above ideas)

Slide 6: Concluding statement providing ways you consider yourself a Renaissance Man or Woman.