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Sketchbooks offer great insight into artists' lives. They are personal statements that are, sometimes, never meant to be seen. 
Design Instruct has compiled some of the most beautiful sketchbooks of contemporary artists. They are magical :)

"The sketchbook is—to borrow a term from the new millenniums’ popular discourse—an artist’s BFF. It’s a diary for the visually inclined—a place where artists can most comfortably explore their personal thoughts, work out their visual needs, practice, maintain a visual history, and hopefully create the unpolished work that will eventually lead to amazing work for the world to see." (Shane Ward)


enjoy

Top: Raphael and Donatello
Bottom: Leonardo and Michelangelo

           This was a phenomenal exhibition and it's HUGE! If you're a Kubrick fan this is so worth it to see! Beautifully put together, lots of pages from scripts, and original props!

              Stanley Kubrick was known for exerting complete artistic control over his projects; in doing so, he reconceived the genres in which he worked. The exhibition covers the breadth of Kubrick’s practice, beginning with his early photographs for Look magazine, taken in the 1940s, and continuing with his groundbreaking directorial achievements of the 1950s through the 1990s. His films are represented through a selection of annotated scripts, production photography, lenses and cameras, set models, costumes, and props. In addition, the exhibition exploresNapoleon and The Aryan Papers, two projects that Kubrick never completed, as well as the technological advances developed and utilized by Kubrick and his team. By featuring this legendary film auteur and his oeuvre as the focus of his first retrospective in the context of an art museum, the exhibition reevaluates how we define the artist in the 21st century, and simultaneously expands upon LACMA’s commitment to exploring the intersection of art and film.


(From http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/stanley-kubrick)

                  Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy introduces the work of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), one of the most popular artists of the past, rivaling in fame both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. The stories of Caravaggio's life are legend, more myth than history, describing traits of personality, including passion and brutality, that came to describe the unique qualities of his work. The exhibition, made up of 56 works in all, including a record eight works by Caravaggio himself, covers the evolution of his style. Caravaggio's legacy is expressed in work by about twenty artists from Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands who carried into the late 17th century the strangeness, beauty and raw emotion of his work


(from http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/bodies-and-shadows-caravaggio-and-his-legacy)

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Early Renaissance quizzes have been graded for Period 3! 
Good work!

Period 5...still workin' on yours but I'm getting there!

EDIT 1/3/13: First batch of research paper grades are now in GBW for Period 3. A lot of them are graded but I'm slowly inputting. Sorry Period 5- you're going to have to wait a little bit longer.
EDIT 5:05pm: Second batch is out period 3! 18 more to go. I also realized I left some at school that I wrote grades in but don't have them here with me. Those will be out on Monday.
EDIT 1/4/13 8:16pm: Third batch is out Period 3!
EDIT 1/5/13 11:35am: Period 5, your research papers are being inputted today and tomorrow! Finally!
EDIT 1/6/13 11:30am: Period 5, first batch out! Look for more after lunch time.