ART@FPD: January 2020

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Below are more examples of Picasso's work (in chronological order). Thoughts?

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Art One - Glazed Pottery

We will be glazing your clay pots after they are dry and fired once. Here are some examples of glazed pieces of pottery. What do you think?

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Ceramics - Free Form Sculpture

Jean (Hans) Arp

Sculptor
Jean Arp or Hans Arp was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet, and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper.
Born: September 16, 1886, Strasbourg, France
Died: June 7, 1966, Basel, Switzerland
Below are examples of his work. What do you think? How is it similar to your free form clay work?

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

All Art Students - Empty Bowls

The Empty Bowls event is this Friday evening in the lunchroom. It is our annual ceramic sale and soup dinner to raise money for Macon Outreach and Daybreak Ministries. If your parent would like to purchase your piece ahead of time, please have them send $10 BEFORE THURSDAY at lunchtime. I will offer a preview sale to the teachers for Thursday afternoon. Otherwise, all work will be available for purchase on Friday evening. It will be $10 to eat and a piece of pottery or $5 just to eat. All money goes to charity!

Also, if your parent volunteered to bring soup, dessert, bread, etc., please remind them about the email I sent out last week.

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Art One - Picasso and Stravinsky

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist. (1881-1973)
Igor Stravinsky was a Russian born composer. (1882-1971)
Leave a comment about their art and relationship.

They were both pioneers within their own movements, but Picasso and Stravinsky tend to be most famous for their pre-war output, (think The Firebird for music, and Guernica is a huge painting) and their wartime and post-war work is often less discussed.

They became friends in Italy just before the First World War in 1917, brought together by Sergei Diaghilev, the savvy impresario of the Ballet Russes who was toying with the idea of commissioning a ballet. The two men immediately hit it off and spent a great deal of time immersing themselves in the popular culture of Rome and Naples.

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Picasso is on the right and Stravinsky is on the left.
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Picasso's drawing of Stravinsky 1920.
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Picasso and Stravinsky on the left.

Stravinsky and Picasso continued their friendship by exchanging small pieces of art by mail. Stravinsky wrote a five bar sketch of clarinet music for Picasso on a hotel telegram, in a clear effort to capture the essence of his friend’s Cubism (one of Picasso's art movements). He used complicated rhythms, and also turned the telegram on its side so that the horizontal lines became vertical. This presented a new and surprising perspective on the familiar object whilst also physically cutting through his music. The piece, though barely a piece at all, explores Cubist ideas in a musical context.

The first real collaboration between Picasso and Stravinsky was ‘Ragtime’. Picasso’s cover art uses one continuous line which loops around into the figures of two musicians, whilst also cutting into and through their silhouettes. Stravinsky’s music is also full of movement - assimilating the ‘ragtime’ flavor, and he disrupts the traditional frame of the music with complicated additive rhythms and heavy use of dotted notes and triplets.

Both the music and the drawing are full of movement; you imagine that Picasso drew the sketch in one fluid motion. If you look closely at the heads of the two musicians you can almost see a complete treble clef and a pair of barred quavers, signs that Picasso was integrating Stravinsky’s symbols with his own.