Dear SEP Families,
Many students in Session 3 really enjoyed working in cut-outs and collage in the styles of Matisse. These were some of my favorite pieces of the whole summer!
Students also found inspiration for their creativity in the Alexander Calder mobiles and embraced the idea of amplifying, rather than just re-creating, organic and natural forms. We studied Calder's giant mobile that hangs at the National Gallery in DC and how the mobile itself was designed and built to be displayed in that specific space. Students in this session easily related to the ways that physics, engineering, architecture, and design all came together to produce and display that piece.
In our study of Jackson Pollock, several students were inspired to combine the ideas of impressionism and expressionism, using Pollock's "action painting" method. Students were challenged at first to find the "expression" in Pollock's abstract expressionism. As we learned more about Pollock himself, students were able to relate to the ways in which he expressed himself in his paintings.
Many students in Session 3 really enjoyed working in cut-outs and collage in the styles of Matisse. These were some of my favorite pieces of the whole summer!
Students also found inspiration for their creativity in the Alexander Calder mobiles and embraced the idea of amplifying, rather than just re-creating, organic and natural forms. We studied Calder's giant mobile that hangs at the National Gallery in DC and how the mobile itself was designed and built to be displayed in that specific space. Students in this session easily related to the ways that physics, engineering, architecture, and design all came together to produce and display that piece.
In our study of Jackson Pollock, several students were inspired to combine the ideas of impressionism and expressionism, using Pollock's "action painting" method. Students were challenged at first to find the "expression" in Pollock's abstract expressionism. As we learned more about Pollock himself, students were able to relate to the ways in which he expressed himself in his paintings.
Resources for Continued Learning
Print
Web
YouTube (unlisted playlist of clips used in class)
Thank you for being a part of SEP 2016 Session 3!
- Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, by Leonard Shlain (William Morrow)
- Painting Abstracts: Ideas, Projects, and Techniques, by Rolina van Vliet (Search Press)
- The New Acrylics, by Rheni Tauchid (Watson-Guptill Publications)
- Rethinking Acrylic, by Patti Brady (North Light Books)
- The Collage Workbook, by Randel Plowman (Lark Crafts)
- Bold Expressive Painting, by Annie O’Brien (North Light Books)
- The American Eye: Eleven Artists of the Twentieth Century, by Jan Greenberg (Delacorte Press)
- Henri’s Scissors, by Jeannette Winter (Beach Lane Books)
- Meet the Artist! Alexander Calder, by Patricia Geis (Princeton Architectural Press)
- Action Jackson, by Jan Greenberg (Square Fish/Macmillan)
Web
- www.calder.org (Calder Foundation)
- http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/pkhouse/ (Stony Brook Foundation; Pollock/Krasner house & study center)
- http://www.moma.org/learn/kids_families/ (Museum of Modern Art, NY)
- http://www.moma.org/redstudio/ (designed by & for high school student artists)
- http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2014/matisse/index.html (interactive exhibit of Matisse’s cutouts)
- http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/education/kids.html (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
- http://www.nga.gov/kids/interactive/mobile.htm (used in class)
YouTube (unlisted playlist of clips used in class)
Thank you for being a part of SEP 2016 Session 3!
