Structuring Your Artist Statement
Purpose of Artist Statement: to tell the story of how your thinking on your hero villain has changed, and how your two drawings capture that change.
Structure of Your Paper
Structure of Your Paper
- What were your initial impressions of your hero or villain?
- How did your first drawing capture that impression?
- What did you find from your research?
- Background information--where/when they were born, their childhood and how they became famous
- Facts that made you think differently about them
- How does your second drawing capture your research?
- What do the two images mean together?
- How do you think differently about humanity because of your research and completion of this art project?
Questions for Critique
- Does the author clearly explain each of the six steps (above)? Where could the author be more clear?
- Does the author transition from one step to the next? How would YOU go about fixing that?
*Example Transition from 2 to 3: After I researched, I found that my villain wasn't the bloodthirsty mongrel I had originally thought. Instead, he was a patriot who followed orders from his government.
- What parts of their paper confused you? How would YOU go about fixing them?
Helpful Writing Tips For Your Artist Statement
Titles:
Topic Sentences:
Beginning a Sentence:
- Major works, such as movies, plays, magazines, books, newspapers, company names, etc. all are ITALICIZED
- Minor works, such as song titles, article titles, chapter titles all are "put into quotes."
Topic Sentences:
- Definition: a summary of what your paragraph is about, also known as the MAIN IDEA.
- EVERY PARAGRAPH NEEDS ONE AS THE FIRST SENTENCE.
- one, two, three...ten, 11, 12, 13...100....1,000,000...
- [Author's credibility/job] [Author's full name] stated, "...." (Author's Last Name). See example below:
- EX: New York Times journalist Susan Parker stated, "Justin Beiber's new song is a waste of time" (Parker).
Beginning a Sentence:
- Don't start a sentence with And, But, or Or.
- Don't start with the symbol-form of a number, like "11"; start the paragraph with the letter-form: "Eleven".
- The first time you write a person's name, like "Angelina Jolie," write out her full name. Every time after that, write just her last name, "Jolie."