1. Cultural Connection Parody Your project challenge:  Brainstorm a list of themes for your painting based on a societal, personal or cultural issue.  From a master work, create a parody that would exemplify the issue.  Use a minimum of 8 tempera techniques.

2. Appropriation Appropriation in art is the use of pre- existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts). In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of human-made visual culture. Notable in this respect are the Ready mades of Marcel Duchamp.

3. Kehinde Wiley - Contemporary

4. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne, 1806, Oil on canvas; 102 x 63 3/4 in. (259 x 162 cm), Musée de l'Armée, Paris (5420). Kehinde Wiley, Ice T, 2005, Oil on canvas, 243.8 x 182.9 cm (96 x 72 in), Private collection, courtesy Rhona Hoffman Gallery, © Kehinde Wiley. - See more at: http://www2.corcoran.org/30americans/artists/kehinde-wiley#sthash.hTq8Uhuf.dpuf

5. More Examples

6. Michelangelo Buonarotti - Renaissance

7. Leonardo DaVinci - Renaissance

8. Eduard Munch – German Expressionism

9. Salvador Dali - Surrealism

10. Rene Magritte - Surrealist

11. Grant Wood – American Folk

12. Norman Rockwell – American Folk

13. Where do we go from here? Complete the brainstorm / question and intent sheet for ideas on social, political, personal, or cultural issues. Search for a master work online or in a book. Print a colored version and document your image and plan in sketchbook. Plan what techniques would be best for your painting intent.