Sketchbook Activities - Semester 2

Master Monday

Instructions:

Read the short article and underline any unfamiliar words.

Then answer the questions in complete sentences.

BYOB: Retrato de la Artista Primavera 2020, 2020

Fridman Gallery

Lucia Hierro, Sufrir o Sofreír, 2019

Courtesy of the artist

Lives and works in New York City

The title of Lucia Hierro’s series of digitally printed still lifes “Bodegón” (2015–present) refers to both the Spanish term for “still life” and the small New York corner shops more typically called bodegas. Bodega staples—an egg-and-cheese sandwich on a roll in hexagonally printed foil; a bottle of Fanta; a bright yellow package of Café Bustelo coffee—fill Hierro’s works, alongside items such as a Yale coffee mug, a Giorgio Morandi painting, and a New York Yankees cap. Altogether, the objects conjure city lives that cross economic and cultural lines.

The works also reconsider the legacy of Dutch still-life painters. It’s easy, Hierro thinks, to admonish the 17th-century artists for portraying objects acquired via conquests—olives from across the Mediterranean, for example, or Chinese porcelain. In Hierro’s aesthetic world, however, these objects and their politics become far more complicated.

Answer the following in complete sentences:

• Tell me something you noticed about the artwork or artist.

• Ask the artist a question.

• Give the artist quality advice.

Technical Tuesday: Grid

Wordy Wednesday

Create a Frayer Model and use one of your Monday underlined words.

Throwback Thursday

Reflect on this week!

• What were your accomplishments?

• What were your failures?