Ideas: The Traditional account of Christ Giving the instructions for the Creation of etchmiadzin

Materials: Colored Pencil, Ink, and water color

Processes: The Illuminated vision of the Church Signifies the beginning of a great beacon for the people of Armenia

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  1. Prof RobsonSeptember 30, 2020 at 6:46 AM

    Retake the latest photo please ASAP

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  2. Prof RobsonOctober 4, 2020 at 5:10 PM

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    1. Prof RobsonOctober 5, 2020 at 12:33 PM

      So I put your art before some other AP teachers. The reviews are priceless! Normally a question doesn't attract this many answers so that's great. Bottom line, you need to solidify your question and work on composition. Possibly finding a different way to work, this is fine for a first piece (once you finish it) but going forward you need to work on the rule of thirds, emphasis, and craftsmanship. Many ideas for doing that below! You're welcome!

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  3. Prof RobsonOctober 5, 2020 at 12:30 PM


    Some AP teacher’s take on your recent art. Really good ideas here…..
    Your idea:
    Ideas: The Traditional account of Christ Giving the instructions for the Creation of etchmiadzin

    Materials: Colored Pencil, Ink, and water color

    Processes: The Illuminated vision of the Church Signifies the beginning of a great beacon for the people of Armenia

    1. (me:) Process means how you used the materials, by the way. Your answer for process is more of a thought process


    2. Needs to unify the piece and create more movement by having more overlapping/convergence and .repetition. The two subjects are separated, which creates disunity- but could be linked by something connecting them by overlap/underlap, etc. There is not a lot of movement coming in from the edges of the paper, Other than the wash of gold color, which is hardly visible -too pale. Seems more like a surface treatment than active movement.

    3. If the SI is based on the Armenian church, look at your guiding question? Right now, it just seems like you are going with the obvious. Tell us what can learn about this time period and the church history.


    5. Your lack of direction might be an issue. With the new scoring guidelines skill is worth much less than it used to be. It’s the investigation.
    Look at different folk artists, and figure out their "why" - this page from the Folk Art Museum in NY might be helpful: http://collection.folkartmuseum.org/.../objects/images...


    Works – Works on Paper – Browse Collection – eMuseum
    6. Catholic Orthodox and early Christian church Art have a not dissimilar aesthetic to your work and it’s quite beautiful. But your SI seems so general that he may be hard pressed developing artwork other than repeating church imagery.


    7. What about having the student take a look at Harold Finister, Henry Darger, and even Kerry James Marshall’s work? They have nativist/spiritual iconographic elements woven into their pieces without merely recreating Church imagery.


    8. Maybe work with transfers and collage, AP is looking for topics and synthesis of idea The IDEA is solid work on materials and presentation

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  4. Prof RobsonOctober 5, 2020 at 12:31 PM

    9. I think you are off to a good start on this piece. There is a lot of white space around the church and Christ that needs some thoughtful work not just yellow rays. I would look at filling in the white space between the golden rays with patterns of blues for the sky and browns and greens for the earth. I might look at works by Klimt for some inspiration to take this piece to a finished work. And continue to explore his interest in the SI you chose.

    10. Come up with 20 questions about “the Armenian church” and you may find some more interesting ways to go with it. You may find what you really want to talk about regarding Armenian culture


    11. Look at Chagall. The floating figures are perfect for to study. Also, movement with shapes in a composition.

    12. That architectural form has a wonderful range of values.

    13. Can you experiment with other materials to find something he may be more skilled in? Maybe mixed media collage?


    14. Look at a great group he could join for feedback called Orthodox Iconography Students Association - Worldwide for critiques.

    15. What a great topic, especially with the current events in that nation! But you should narrow it.


    16. I do not see the history; Church architecture has changed overtime. The history of stained glass would be interesting. You could tweak the question and really find sone cool symbolic items... the communion cup, baptistry, candles, alters, branches of new religions emerging. or what was unique in Armenian worship or embracing of Christianity
    There are large amounts of Armenian artworks and textiles available for research will help fill in those blank spaces in the piece; and hopefully spark more ideas for the pieces to come. You need to figure out what it is you wants to say especially if you are using an iconic style. I'd love to see some personal voice coming through.
    Check Kehinde Wiley's paintings/personal voice.

    17. The strongest part of this piece is the watercolor in the church building. Maybe focus on the little pieces of the Architecture and how it reflects the beliefs.... fully form the inquiry question before you continue. This piece does not tell me anything. Keep exploring to get the full experience of learning to think and stretch creatively. If you want to draw people, practice as part of the revisioning & refining of your ideas...that will show your growth.

    18. Or what if this became part of an illuminated manuscript - use either calligraphy (English or Arminian) by hand or even digitally... maybe make a pressing out of the type so it has a hand written quality if Photoshop skills aren't great

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  5. Prof RobsonOctober 5, 2020 at 12:31 PM



    19. If it’s for the people, why not cut out the church and gold beams and weave them into a watercolor flag or banner of Armenians of the earliest time...or a map...(Jesus won’t mind, I’m sure). If it is about revealing to the people, bring in the people! ��
    Also, how HAS the Armenian church impacted history?? Looks like some major research could come about and result in many different possibilities like cut pieces of material for mosaic/collage and other approaches of the early church. Could be powerful 2D port if you push the synthesis ��
    20. I’m really digging this work. There is a wonderful naivete to it. My only suggestion is that the blue accords the bottom does not seem to belong.
    21.
    I really like it too. I love the values and the textures.
    21. The building is actually quite interesting; the figure takes a lot away. I would carefully exactly out the building and begin to think about collage. You can find relevant research, newspaper, scrapbooks paper with patterns related to the culture, design abstract patterns representative of the culture, related magazine images - even with just interesting textures and patterns. Do a million paintings of the building just like this and collage together. But it is not really AP level as is.
    22 I really like it. See if you can tie in Armenian history and present-day events.
    23. Composition -going forward grade him (aside from content) on his composition
    24. If it’s anything like Greek Orthodox religion, they celebrate anything and everything. Pick a celebration and explore it deeply! Explore symbolism in a wedding ceremony, a baptism, New Years, Easter. What about symbolism with the saints? I know that Greek Orthodox people not only celebrate the birthday, but also the person’s selected saint day. There is also a reason (ahem... excuse) as to why each food is served. If you have watched, you would be familiar with some of this. I think Armenians are similar with tradition and folklore too.

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  6. Prof RobsonOctober 6, 2020 at 12:54 PM

    More replies!
    25. The situation in Artsakh is displaying lots of parallels not to mention turkey is helping arzebaijan.
    Another suggestion could be that he can show how faith is important (or not) between generations. How does being a hyphenated American affect any of it? A lot of 1st and 2nd Gen armenians keep traditions alive and have strong ties to their motherland and are very active politically...he could explore that as well.
    26.This totally reminds me of illuminated manuscripts, perhaps have them take a look at them to use as inspiration. I dig the aesthetic!
    https://www.khanacademy.org/.../medieval.../a/vienna-genesis

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