Thank You!

We made it through the rain with smiles!
A very special thank you goes out to all the students that participated in the Fiesta Flambeau Night Parade Saturday Night. Even though the storm hit us hard, they kept smiling and waving at what was left of the crowd. As for the band, I admire your courage for continuing to play without missing a beat throughout the chaos of the evening. 

I would also like to thank all the teachers, parents and students that helped us put it all together.  We could not have done it without your help.

 

Week of April 15 - 19

Wowza! Time is just flying by. We only have five days to get our float completed......

Looking at Contemporary Art

What is contemporary art? 

Contemporary Art is art produced at the present point in time. Some art museums and collections define contemporary art as including all art since the end of World War II more specifically since 1945.

Look at the painting below and answer the following questions. **Remember: You must use complete sentences with correct punctuation! **

Ling Jian, Suspension in Melancholy

 1. Does the portrait display an attitude: calm, arrogance,      intelligence, humor? Why?

2.  Do you think the artist has tried to flatter the model, or would you consider the portriat not-so flattering, yet perhaps more revealing of the person's inner personality? Why? 


 

Happy Birthday, Eugene Atget!

 

• OCCUPATION: Actor, Photographer
• BIRTH DATE: February 12, 1857
• DEATH DATE: August 04, 1927
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Libourne, France

• PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France

Best Known For:

French photographer Eugène Atget recorded everything he considered picturesque or artistic in and around Paris, with an eye for strange and unsettling images.

"Eugène Atget." 2013. The Biography Channel website. Feb 12 2013, 09:35 http://www.biography.com/people/eug%C3%A8ne-atget-38199

- Look at the image below, then create a story of how you think the artist felt when the image was photographed, or write about the subject. 

  - Post your response in the comment box below.

Eugene Atget, Organ Grinder, 1898

 

Compare Two Photographs:

February 4, 2013

Point our similarities and differences within the two images below. Look at edges, value differences, use of space, subject, and mood.

Yousuf Karsh, Early Landscape, 1927

Ansel Adams, Oak Tree, Snow Storm, 1948

Welcome to 2nd Semester Art!

Blog Assignment # 1:

1. Write your Definition of what art is. 
       (do not give the dictionary definition!)

2. Based on your definition, decide whether the following items are "art":

    - a shell
    - a printed coffee mug
    - a photograph
   - a ragged pair of treasured jeans
   - a printed T-shirt
   - a film poster
   - a magazine advertisement
  
  State your reasons why or why not those items are considered "art."

*** Post your responses in the comment box below ***

Quote of the Week:

What do you think Miro' was trying to say with the following quote?   

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."

Joan Miro', 1893-1983, Spanish Surrealist

Idle Hands from Dana Harel

Idle Hands from Dana Harel 
Original Article published on Monday November 12, 2012 
http://www.juxtapoz.com 


Israeli-born and San Francisco-based illustrator Dana Harel's large scale graphite illustrations explore humans' places in the natural world. Using the repeated motifs of hands and wings, Harel's illustrations fuse the human body with plant and animal structures, provoking viewers to re-consider the human "hubris" as a dominant species.

Compare and Contrast the image above 

to MC Escher's Drawing of Hands Below:

Quote of the Week:

What do you think Schopenhauer was trying to say with the following quote?  

" We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages -- stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us." 

- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German Philosopher
(click on the link above to find out more information on Arthur Schopenhauer)

Quote of the Week:

What do you think Picasso was trying to say with the following quote? 

 
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into  the sun."



  - Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish Cubist Painter
 (click on the link above to find out more information on Pablo Picasso)

Quote of the Week:

"You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you can have, the better it is - unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far."                   - Alice Neel, 1900-1984, American Painter 

                                             (click on the link above to find out more information on Alice Neel)

Quote of the Week:

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." 

 - Vincent Van Gogh,1853-1890,Dutch Artist

(click on the link above to find out more about Vincent Van Gogh)

Paul Klee

"A line is a dot that went for a  walk."  

Paul Klee is a Swiss and German painter whose highly individual style is best known by an often childlike perspective and spidery hieroglyph-like symbols. Klee was heavily influenced by the expressionist, cubist and surrealist movements. Klee taught at the Bauhaus for ten years, where he became close with Wassily Kandinsky built a legacy teaching color mixing and theory.

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Quote of the Week:

"A Painter paints a picture with the same feeling as that with which a criminal commits a crime."

- Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, French Post-Impressionist

Happy Birthday, Frederick Remington!

Quote of the Week:

"Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way." - Winslow Homer, 1836-1910, American Artist

Quote of the Week:

 " An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed."

 - John Constable, 1776-1837, English Painter