tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519972956439665932024-03-14T06:15:00.018-04:00Art VoicesPatriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-47122427105062881662016-01-26T17:12:00.003-05:002016-01-26T23:51:32.406-05:00The Nature of ThingsTime can cause one to change in both positive and negative ways. A blizzard can also provide time for introspection. While I have "quit" this blog and also no longer teach a section of 2-D design at Montgomery College, I read a comment by Paul Klee today that made me reflective.<br />
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<b>"<i>Make your pupils acquainted with nature, let them see how a butterfly becomes a butterfly, so that they may learn to be as rich and versatile and original as nature itself."</i></b> <br />
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Klee was a great teacher and a prolific artist. The myriad colors, and the repeating geometric forms that he frequently combined with sharp lines were essentially abstractions that rendered the simplification of naturalistic forms. He sought out nature for inspiration.<br />
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Paul Klee – Flowers in the Night – 1930<br />
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The following images are student works from a few years ago. They had
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In this exercise they created patterns using biomorphic shapes. <br />
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The students are asked to work from direct observation of natural forms but in today's world that does not always happen. Sometimes we had a break in the park adjacent to the school and would gather all manner of windfall. For some this was their first "hands on" contact with nature. <br />
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Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-63799875893960243872015-09-05T14:16:00.000-04:002015-09-05T14:16:23.894-04:00Nothing doingIf you have arrived at this blog you will notice that nothing has been posted here for several years. While I no longer publish blogs I have not "cancelled" this site out because the name of this blog will somehow be "traded" to someone, or several someones down the line.<br />
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I know this because I once had a blog devoted to my work which was titled with my name. When I ceased using it someone else began using it....strange to have one's name associated with another's thoughts and photos. I wrote to that person and had no reply and also contacted Blogger without a response or action despite following their protocol.<br />
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Also, some of my photographs on this blog have "disappeared"....I give up. There are quite a few images of my students work still posted so enjoy!<br />
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Patricia Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-10364131665961181242012-09-05T11:31:00.000-04:002012-09-05T11:33:49.150-04:00Drawing ExpectationsTomorrow is the first day of class for the two sections of two-dimensional design at the community college that I will be teaching, but I still have a fuzzy glow from the summer class that I taught in basic drawing. How fortunate was it to be with a group of amazingly committed students...and how fabulous to see them gain skills and confidence over a five week period!<br />
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Our students are a diverse lot, both in age, cultural backgrounds, and art experience. On the one hand there are students with years of art experience and instruction, and on the other there are those that have never considered the act of drawing! In a college such as ours, students must have one art class in order to qualify for their associates degree. Often this class is the last minute choice for frantic students. Sometimes it is the class of choice for a recently retired person who had promised themselves that they would make room for art in their lives once they had time in their schedules. For those who expect to make their art their profession, this is a foundation course.<br />
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I had a lot of students who had no previous experience who took off like rockets...Sometimes I had to reassure students that they could could do it if they persevered. It is difficult for some to understand that the basic exercises of blind contour and gesture drawing can actually help one build great hand/eye coordination.<br />
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I use a lot of analogies to sports and tell them to consider me their coach. After the interminable basic exercises we move along into developing skills in sighting and the use of wet and dry media.<br />
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We explore the elements of line, shape, texture, and value as well as design principles. Composition and simple perspective can challenge many but will ultimately help them to achieve what they wish.<br />
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Whether they are "kissed by angels when they were born" with incredible talent (developed or latent) or just your average run of the mill busy person, with or without learning disabilities, drawing is something that humans can do. We are communicators after all and it is an ability that is a part of each of us.<br />
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<br />Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-79894951148549616232012-01-09T23:38:00.000-05:002012-01-09T23:38:40.489-05:00Along the banks of rivers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xQmYBJX3Hwc/Twssa_qCeSI/AAAAAAAAJP0/AsEKFzAkNG0/s1600/IMG_4422-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xQmYBJX3Hwc/Twssa_qCeSI/AAAAAAAAJP0/AsEKFzAkNG0/s640/IMG_4422-1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>What will we do when we no longer have a supply of fresh water? For many in the world obtaining the minimum amount of water for daily usage is a constant struggle. Soon many more of us will find that this will become our communities' most critical challenge.<br />
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Since the 1960's artists from all corners of the earth have been engaged in activist, collaborative and ecological aesthetics. A <u><b><span style="color: black;">brief</span> </b></u>list includes: <a href="http://theharrisonstudio.net/">Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison,</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mJoYbxsCIY">Mary Miss</a>, <a href="http://www.keepersofthewaters.org/lwg.cfm">Betsy Damon</a>, <a href="http://www.basiairland.com/">Basia Irland</a>, <a href="http://www.navjotaltaf.com/">Navjot Altaf</a>, <a href="http://patriciajohanson.com/">Patricia Johanson</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnd5hFn0Ro">Susan Jennings</a>,<a href="http://www.jaanikapeerna.net/home.html"> Jaanika Peerna</a>, <a href="http://www.confluenceproject.org/about/">Maya Lin</a> and <a href="http://blog.massmoca.org/2009/07/30/dantes-odyssey-not-inferno/">Simon Starling. </a>Museums such as the Hudson River Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art's FLOW White River Festival celebrate and point to the need to protect waterways. Was it last year that the city of Boulder, CO celebrated their <a href="http://bcn.boulder.co.us/basin/ditchproject/?Ditch_Art">Ditches </a>throughout the community including works by 40 local artists? (Note that you can click on names to learn more).<br />
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Reading a recent blog by book artist <a href="http://leijonstedt.com/general/visual-diary/contributing-to-the-world-rivers-project">Mia Leijonstedt </a>I learned about <a href="http://www.leetracy.com/">Lee Tracy </a>and her <a href="http://worldriversproject.posterous.com/">World Rivers Project</a>. Participants around the world have taken lengths of white cloth and dipped them into rivers. These are dried and sent back to the artist who embroiders the names of the rivers on them then sews them into a continuous curtain. Having developed a taste for working with fibers since attending two workshops with <a href="http://www.indiaflint.com/">India Flint</a> my studio contains a lot of textiles.<br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the house that Rachel Carson built near this watershed, and where she wrote <i>Silent Spring</i>. I took the picture at one of their annual open houses. Her work in calling attention to the deleterious effects of DDT was an act of incredible courage and perseverance during an era when industries prevailed over the rights of individuals and communities. The <a href="http://www.rachelcarsoncouncil.org/">Rachel Carson Council </a>continues her mission at the house today disseminating information about toxins and sustainable alternatives for a healthy world. </span></td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.com8Rachel Carson Greenway Trail & NW Branch Trail, Silver Spring, MD 20902, USA39.0598478 -77.020082399999978-20.7143972 163.44866760000002 90 42.511167600000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-85180916346638973342012-01-06T01:10:00.000-05:002012-01-06T01:10:52.406-05:00Captured by light<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I received a package today from a friend containing a trove of old photographs that she collected in Russia.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wonder about the subjects of these pictures. Some of the images were shot in studios but most are snapshots.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">These are my favorites because they record fragments rather than official moments.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The subject is usually a family group enjoying an outing in the sun.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some make me wonder. Is this child in a hospital? Did she survive her illness? Are these dispassionate people her parents?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cameras record moments now lost. </span><span style="font-size: small;">What story can these frozen creatures tell?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">As we segue from texture to the final art element, color in our 2-D design class, the students needed an easy exercise. I think that this was the simplest method for conveying the concept of complementary color arrangements. </span></td></tr>
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If you are going to go to the effort to design and sew a quilt you may as well dye your own cloth.<br />
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Here are sets of textiles that will be turned into artists quilts.<br />
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Now the next challenge is composition. Fortunately we had some inspiration from Karen Schultz's exhibition at Blackrock Arts Center.</div>
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Our second field trip took us north to Germantown, MD to the Blackrock Arts Center to see the recently opened exhibition of quilts by Silver Spring artist, Karen Schulz. Students are carefully examining her techniques and the structure of this particular work.<br />
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My favorite series are the peaches ripening on a screened porch , evidently a memory from her childhood.<br />
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We learned a lot as we move into art quilts and surface design on fabric.</div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">We are at the close of week one of a summer session course in crafts. Our focus is surface design on paper and textiles and the construction methods for making artist's books and quilts. We did a wide range of decorative techniques with paper and won't get to batik for two more weeks, but I couldn't pass up this wonderful opportunity for a field trip.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">We traveled by Metro into DC and were greeted by these young women, both trained in dance, at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia. For one week they are hosting the phenomenal exhibition, <a href="http://www.embassyofindonesia.org/events/pdf/batik%20exhibition.pdf">Indonesian Batik: World Heritage</a>. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">No demonstrations were going on during our visit but there was more than enough to stimulate the senses.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Please feel free to click on each image in order to see the remarkable detail and craftsmanship.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The rooms are dramatic but the floral arrangements brought one's eye down to pieces of cloth so beautifully worked.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">The Embassy is hosting the<a href="http://americanbatik.embassyofindonesia.org/"> American </a><a href="http://americanbatik.embassyofindonesia.org/">Batik </a><a href="http://americanbatik.embassyofindonesia.org/">Design Competition.</a>. Click here for details. If you wish to compete you will have to hurry, the deadline is August 1! There are some very remarkable prizes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="ext">The foyer of the embassy is ornate with a Tiffany glass ceiling over the grand stairway.<img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope that the excitement generated by this trip will last for another week when we begin our batik project.</span></td></tr>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When the design class assignments morph from a diet of lean lines to voluptuous shapes, everyone is happy.<br />
Like the art element line, <b>shape</b> can also be classified: geometric, biomorphic, actual, implied or amorphous. Here are two earlier posts about this element:<br />
<a href="http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/11/shape-families.html">http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/11/shape-families.html</a><br />
<a href="http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/11/taking-leap.html">http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/11/taking-leap.html</a><br />
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Students are asked to find shapes in their surroundings. Our classes meet in a renovated factory building with thoughtful and imaginative space.<br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Executed in inexpensive tempera paint, this student's rectilinear design was inspired by the exposed beams of the interior structure.</span></td></tr>
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<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" />There are several postings related to the design curriculum that I include in my classes here at our community college. I have written about line, the art element that students begin with in the past.<br />
Seemingly abstract to many of the non-art students, it is the beginning of our journey into dissecting what we see and how we create.<br />
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All lines are not created equal. There are the passive horizontals, the strength of the verticals and the power of the diagonal. There is an energy and beauty to curves. Lines have character and we can use them to transcribe the world around us.<br />
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<a href="http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/10/ar-103-line.html">http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/10/ar-103-line.html</a><br />
<a href="http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/11/horizontal-and-vertical-lines.html">http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/11/horizontal-and-vertical-lines.html</a><br />
<a href="http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/11/curved-and-diagonal-lines.html">http://reformschoolart.blogspot.com/2009/11/curved-and-diagonal-lines.html</a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We begin with the line combination of horizontal and vertical.</span></td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tIDwUD8V6GY/TYD0OMA_U7I/AAAAAAAAHoU/gGMBpCPfh8s/s1600/IMG_0045-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tIDwUD8V6GY/TYD0OMA_U7I/AAAAAAAAHoU/gGMBpCPfh8s/s320/IMG_0045-1.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-VF_VH8IJ4FM/TX1mvgcVuZI/AAAAAAAAHYw/83kb18LfnuE/s1600/IMG_0029.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">We then move to diagonal and curved lines combined.</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note the beauty of the implied spaces!</span></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-10772894589011728702010-12-05T11:36:00.000-05:002010-12-05T11:36:40.987-05:00Bits and Pieces<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Earlier this fall we had a wonderful exhibition at the King Street Gallery at Montgomery College, "Beyond Text: Contemporary Book Arts". A popular art form, book arts and more specifically, paper engineering is a natural addition to the art curriculum for all age groups. Yesterday we had a brief workshop with <a href="http://www.popularkinetics.com/">Carol Barton</a> whose work is illustrated in this post.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Barton has been engaged in the process of exploring design through the manipulation of paper for thirty years and she is a natural and talented instructor. Her method of teaching is inspired: no rulers, no rules, quick cuts and folds and there you have it, some delightful results. Her Popular Kinetics website offers up excellent examples of her work, links to other paper engineers around the world and also serves as a gallery and a place where you can order her two books. </span></td><td class="tr-caption"><br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Catalouchee is a town that no longer exists. Located in the eastern section of what is now the Smoky Mountain National Park, only a few of the original buildings of that town still exist. The park maintains the outward appearance but the insides are in slow decay.</span></td></tr>
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In Two-dimensional Design we end the semester with color. Last week was the final exam. Students used color to explore the four seasons of Washington, D.C. We are located in the temperate zone (sort of). We have a definite winter, spring, summer and fall but most people only remember the summers. These are a bit hard to take....vicious heat and humidity.</div><br />
The final piece in this posting is not the four seasons but another non-objective color assignment. Again, we are working with inexpensive children's grade tempera paints. We might switch over to using Holbein brand acryla gouache which is a reasonably priced artist grade media. <br />
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This design exercise and the color work that the students are doing now is executed in children's tempera paint. If applied in several thin layers, the surface is flat and chalky. A simple but elegant surface.</div>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-72578469087599593532010-04-06T22:31:00.016-04:002010-04-06T22:40:40.608-04:00Spring Fever<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__tytx9XFShw/S7vun9qzjtI/AAAAAAAAEuY/hGtitPZrGDo/s1600/DSC05548.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__tytx9XFShw/S7vun9qzjtI/AAAAAAAAEuY/hGtitPZrGDo/s400/DSC05548.JPG" style="clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a></div> When the spring weather turns up the heat everyone begins to dream of summer. This kills motivation in the classroom so I just go with the flow.<br />
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It is a treat to say, you are all going outside today. We are beginning to study texture and making rubbings is a great way to start. Everyone is given a graphite stick and some newsprint and it turns into a giant treasure hunt to find an array of textures.<br />
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Since it is an open-ended assignment the collages that they make in this single class session vary in size and shape. Content also varies from one student to the next.<br />
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This design is made from a letter from the Burmese alphabet.<br />
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</div>Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-9077979076202226472010-03-11T23:01:00.001-05:002010-03-11T23:02:27.994-05:00Yellow is the Darkest ColorJust home from an evening at the Hirshhorn Museum attending a "conversation" about Josef Albers with design great, <a href="http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/chermayeff.html">Ivan Chermayeff</a>, museum director, Richard Koshalek, and curator, Valerie Fletcher. Currently on exhibition until April 11th is <a href="http://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/view.asp?key=21&subkey=444"><b><i>Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration</i></b></a> which includes close to sixty works that spans his long career in visual art and design.<br />
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This is the beginning of semester break so this event marks the kick-off! I have not seen the exhibit yet, or the exhibition, <b><i><a href="http://hirshhorn.si.edu/info/press.asp?key=90&subkey=449">Colorforms</a>. </i></b>I could not pass up this opportunity to see and hear Ivan Chermayeff talk about his former teacher, who was head of the design department at Yale University<br />
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My notes in the darkened room are not entirely reliable so I will not use quotation marks. He said that Albers was concerned with magic and opening your eyes. If 90% of how humans learned was through their eyes, hence they need to see well in order to understand the world. He did not really teach theory so much as observation. He also sought to open the eyes of others to emotional content.<br />
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Albers allowed all types of students into his studio. His classes were open-ended and enjoyable creative sessions. He related his work to a larger context and cautioned that things are not always what they seem, so look and think. Students should not be easily satisfied and should be willing to reject their own work in order to reach a more satisfactory outcome. Perhaps the most heartening bit of information was that he felt that teachers are only justified in leading students if they themselves are students. Amen.Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-21797614234487926952010-02-10T13:36:00.001-05:002010-02-13T16:42:08.965-05:00Effet de Neige<span class="sectionContent"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In 1868, a reporter recalled an incident near Honfleur from the previous year: <i>"It was in the winter, during several days of snow ... It was cold enough to split stones. We perceived a foot-warmer, then an easel, then a man, swathed in three coats, his hands in his gloves, his face half frozen. It was Monsieur Monet, studying a snow effect."</i></span> </span><span class="sectionContent"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(House, John; Monet: Nature into Art; New Haven: Yale University Press 1986.)</span></span><br />
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Several years ago 63 winter plein air paintings by French impressionists were exhibited at the Phillips Collection in a show entitled, <i>Effets de Neige. </i>This exhibition also traveled to San Francisco, and Brooklyn and lives on in the memories of those of us lucky enough to have seen it at the time. Today, with blizzards raging on the east coast, it is even more meaningful.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Whenever weather is not the usual fare as in the mini-ice age of France in the mid-19th century, (and our current situation here in Washington, DC) our responses are heightened. The art serves as a visual record documenting both the excitement and challenges of the moment. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This monoprint created by a secondary student examines snow in a wood behind his home. Because extreme winter weather is unusual it is memorable. Our senses are heighten by the crisp temperatures, wind, flakes, ice, smells, and warm clothing. The landscape becomes changed and how we act on the land is different.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Having students record their responses to a major weather event especially with monoprints is an excellent way to preserve these complex feelings and responses to the natural world.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Diego Velasquez's <b><i>Los Meninas </i></b>is considered by some to be a modern painting. Executed in 1656, it captures a moment in time. The artist shows himself in front of a large canvas as he paints a portrait of the King and Queen of Spain, whose reflections can be seen in the mirror in the background. Visiting the salon is the Prince Margarita and her meninas or maids. But who is the nobleman exiting the room through a staircase in the background of the painting? Velasquez employs chiaroscuro, light and dark to lead the viewer's eye throughout the image. Below we can see Picasso's abstracted adaptation in black and white. The scale of his artist is gigantic!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pablo Picasso, Las Meninas, 1957 </span></b><br />
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Eve Sussman's video "89 Seconds at Alcazar" was exhibited at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Pairing a viewing of her work with an analysis of the painting and a recreation of the painting either as a tableau vivant, or as in Picasso's reinterpretation could make for a meaningful unit of art history for secondary students. <strike> Please scroll down to see the video.</strike> It is stunningly beautiful.Patriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238803337590070942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451997295643966593.post-30970340203923763332009-12-27T13:40:00.001-05:002009-12-27T13:41:41.484-05:00Color Works<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__tytx9XFShw/Szel16rBNmI/AAAAAAAADp0/LBuVkBYkn0Q/s1600-h/DSC04378.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__tytx9XFShw/Szel16rBNmI/AAAAAAAADp0/LBuVkBYkn0Q/s400/DSC04378.JPG" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">What can you do when you limit your palette? Students were asked to take a high contrast image, preferably one of their own, and transfer it twice. The finished works were rendered using a set of three analogous colors (colors that appear next to each other on the color wheel) plus black, white, or gray. The other palette consisted of a pair of complementary colors, allowing them to intermix the complements, or add black, white, or gray. Getting your values right works every time!<br />
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</div>The following three examples include using a simplified image and using four color ways: an achromatic palette of 7 tones from white to black; three analogous hues with the option of mixing in a bit of black, white, or gray; and two sets of tetradic color relationships. Tetradic color schemes employ four colors arranged into two complementary pairs.<br />
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