Ceramics - Frida Kahlo

Art One - Color Theory survey

Follow the link below and complete the survey.  You don't have to put in your email address if you don't want.

Which question and color comparison was the most interesting?

http://www.colormatters.com/color-symbolism/global-color-survey

Ceramics - Masks from Around the World

Watch the following video.  It's about 6 minutes long.

Which one is your favorite and why?  What country is it from?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81za2GhQbuU

Art One - Radial Symmetry

What are you looking at?  How was this made?

Ceramics - Empty Bowls Project

Below is from the Empty Bowls website to further explain the project.

Why should FPD participate?

Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger and was created by The Imagine Render Group. The basic premise is simple: Potters and other craftspeople, educators and others work with the community to create handcrafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread. In exchange for a cash donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity.

It is the collective genius of all the people involved that has made Empty Bowls what it has become. Events have now taken place across the United States and in at least a dozen other countries. Many millions of dollars have been raised and donated to hunger-fighting organizations. We could never have imagined all the things people have done or all the ways the project has touched people.

Each individual or group organizing an event designs it around the needs of their own community and is responsible for their own event. We ask that all such events are called Empty Bowls so that the idea can continue to spread. Please make your event inclusive, insist that it maintain a high level of integrity, include an educational component to raise awareness, and give the money raised to an organization helping to feed people in need.

The largest hunger-relief organization in the United States, Feeding America, reports that the nation’s food banks could soon be overwhelmed by demand. Statistics show that 1 out of 8 Americans struggle with food insecurity every day. Millions of people have lost their jobs during the most recent recession and the number of food stamp recipients has increased dramatically. Your help is needed now more than ever.

Please find the time, make the commitment, get involved. Your single effort can have a profound impact.

“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year but when you volunteer, you vote everyday about the kind of community you want to live in.”

-Marjorie Moore

Art One - Blog 3 - Mandala

Tibetan monks create a mandala (sand painting) as a ritual.  Watch this short video.  What do you think about the image and the symbolism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QItAyepAnI

All Art and Ceramics Students - letter

I need your signed letters by tomorrow!  It will pain my heart to give you a "0" but...... I will.  I would much rather give you a 100!!!

All Art Students

All late blog comments are due by Friday, December 14.  I will check these during mid terms and will add or adjust the grades accordingly.  Late posts will receive half credit and I will drop the lowest one.

Ceramics and AP 3D

Art One & Art Two - Cezanne

Paul Cézanne; 1839–1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" cannot be easily dismissed.
Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects.

Ceramics and AP 3D - Tea Pot video

Watch the following video about the teapot exhibit at the Craft Museum.  Watch it to the end.  These are non-functioning works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqlC7zqX9b0

Art Two - Goings

Art One - Guernica

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on 26 April 1937, during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish Republican government commissioned Picasso to create a large mural for the Spanish display at the Paris International Exposition at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris.
Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. This work has gained a monumental status, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace. On completion Guernica was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely acclaimed. This tour helped bring the Spanish Civil War to the world's attention.

Art Two - Richard Estes

Art One

Pablo Picasso - Spanish painter, sculptor and printmaker.
This short video shows work from his Blue and Rose Periods as well as his Cubist style.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQTO0BakU6c

Ceramics and 3D AP Art

Art Two - Kandinsky

Art One - Vincent van Gogh

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdipFMJckZOM

2D AP - Georges Seurat

Ceramics - Slab Construction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xp5wslox0Y