Artist Biography

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Artist Biography
Your name
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Summary

• When Where was your artist born?
• What type of artwork did your artist create?
• Compare how people viewed your artist while
  he/she was alive, to how we view your artist
  today.
• List 2-3 important artworks made by your artist.

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Life and Times of _______

• Add information here, about the time period when
  your artist was born.
• What was happening in the country that the artist
  lived?
• What was happening in the world during that time?
• Tell me about your artist in the beginning of
  his/her career.
• What type of artwork were they creating?
• Did your artist have different jobs before
  becoming an artist?
• Was your artist married?

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The Career of _____________

• Add information here, about your artist and their
  career.
• Did the artist change styles during his/her
  career?
• Did the artist work with others or did they
  mostly work alone?
• Did the artist become famous for a particular
  style of work?
• Did the artist create a very famous artwork(s).
• Did your artist travel

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The Significance of ________

• While your artist was alive, were they considered
  famous?
• Today, when we consider your artist and they
  artwork(s) they created during their lifetime, do
  we consider them to be more famous?
• Is there one artwork that people most think of
  when we think of this artist?
• In a short paragraph, write your opinion about
  this artist. Do you live their artwork? Do you
  think this artist should be famous, why or why
  not? If you could have one of their artworks,
  which one would you like to own?

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Images

• Include an image of your artist and at least 4
  images of artworks that your artist has created
  during their career.
• Include the title of the artwork, the date it was
  created and what type of artwork it is (oil
  painting, acrylic painting, bronze sculpture,
  clay, steel, mixed media, etc.,).

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Bibliography

• Be sure to identify the source of your
  information.
• Copying information from another source and
  failing to properly identify that the information
  isnt your own is PLAGARISM!!!
• PLAGARISM is a form of theft and will result in
  academic disciplinary action.
• If you copy you may get a ZERO!!