Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Ceramics - Blog 14

Have you thrown your wheel thrown piece yet?  Seniors, you are not exempt.  Hopefully, you have already done it.  I will text you when your teapot has been fired so you can come by and glaze. 

See you all tomorrow!!!

Tesch and Sydney - Blog 14 - Homer

Look at the work of Winslow Homer.  Recreate one of his works in your BEAUTIFUL sketchbook.

Art Two - Blog 14 - Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) - British
In his celebrated collages, Richard Hamilton explored the relationship between fine art, product design, and popular culture, setting the stage for Pop art. His most iconic work, Just What Is it that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (first example below, 1956)—a scene comprised of images cut from magazines ads, showing a semi-nude couple in their living space—was produced for the groundbreaking exhibition “This is Tomorrow,” organized by the Independent Group at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in 1956. Throughout his career, Hamilton continued to break down hierarchies of artistic value, making silkscreens of Mick Jagger’s drug arrest, producing studies of industrial design objects (like toasters), and designing the cover of the Beatles’ 1968White Album.

The above collage is his most famous.


Art One - Blog 14 - van Gogh video

Art One - Blog 2 - van Gogh
A mid to late 30s man gazing to the left with a green coat, gray tie and wearing a straw hat

Watch the following video.  It is a group of Vincent van Gogh's paintings set to Don Mclean's "Starry, starry night" song.  Van Gogh was a Dutch artist who lived in France for the most productive years of his life.  He was born in 1853 and died in 1890 - only 37 years old.  Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.

Grab a comfy chair and enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1ih3Q9otE

Thursday, May 8, 2014

AP - Blog 13

Come to my room at 8:15 tomorrow.  Bring money for lunch.  Brad Thompson will be here at 2:00 to assemble portfolios.

We are DONE!!!!!!!

Ceramics - Blog 13 - Glaze

What is the plan for glazing your teapot?

Art Two - Blog 13 - Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils and collage. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden moved to New York City at a very young age and went on to graduate from NYU in 1935. He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South. Later, he endeavored to express the humanity he felt was lacking in the world after his experience in the US Army during World War II on the European front. He later returned to Paris in 1950 and studied Art History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1950.
Bearden's early work focused on unity and cooperation within the African-American community. After a period during the 1950s when he painted more abstractly, this theme reemerged in his collage works of the 1960s, when Bearden became a founding member of the Harlem-based art group known as The Spiral, formed to discuss the responsibility of the African-American artist in the struggle for civil rights.
 


Art One - Blog 13 - Picasso video

Art One - Blog 3 - Picasso



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7liV4O9-4

Watch the above video and tell me which painting you like the best.  The least?