Kids study the work of Alexander Calder, famed american artist and sculptor, then make wire faces with coat hangers.
Physical strength is fundamental to manliness. It provides the backbone to virtue and honors our ancestors, among a variety of other reasons.
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"Orca", by wildlife artist Bill Prickett SWLA. Hand carved from birch plywood and selectively stained with ink.
Most of my schools will be looking at the Olympics at some point this term. I am no great sportsman, so this is my contribution - the Ancient Greeks - tragedy and comedy. This term is all about 3d and sculpture. Times are hard and resources are hard to come by, so we are starting off with card. Based on the theatrical masks of Ancient Greece, the class chose tragic or comedic characters. Eyes and a mouth were cut from a folded piece of card, with the emphasis on symmetry and mood. A second piece of card was used to make a nose and brow and glued to the face at an angle to form a realistic profile. Hair, beards and laurel wreaths were added using curled and scored card scraps. Bring on the clay!
I am always doing that which I cannot do. In order that I may learn how to do it.
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Меня потрясают две великие работы- Бернини Похищение Прозерпины и Пиета Микеланджело. Самое поразительное, что авторы в момент создания этих шедевров были молоды -23 и 24 года! Но эти вуали меня сразили наповал... ,хотя я не очень люблю тему надгробий.…
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I am always doing that which I cannot do. In order that I may learn how to do it.
The above masks were created by 3rd-5th graders. My 3rd-5th graders looked at the masks of artists Kimmy Cantrell and Eric "Straw" (Strawczynski). They come from completely different walks of life, yet have distinct parallels. Cantrell is an African American artist from Atlanta Georgia. Once a purchasing manager for Target, he decided on the heels of job change and divorce to reconnect with his love of clay. Vases evolved into bowls and bowls into his current niche, faces. Now as a full time artist, Cantrell creates clay masks with both tribal and Cubist influences. They have wonderful bold graphic shapes, interesting textures and eye popping candied glazes. I knew instantly my students would enjoy his primitive and edgy take on the human face. Minus a kiln, I decided to do a recycled cardboard approach to these masks. Literally a day before my class, I came across the fabulous work of Eric Straw from St. Martha Catholic School Artists (this is why I so love the give and take of art teacher blogging). What amazing luck to find an artist whose masks have both tribal and sometimes Cubist roots, bold features.....and that uses cardboard and only cardboard! Straw, (as his friends call him) who worked as a professor and researcher in social sciences, turned to antique toys to escape this left brained world. He not only became an expert in that genre but began creating his own marionettes, busts and masks. His work contains bold imagery as Cantrell's, combined with a lot of humor. This humor would go far with my spirited and lively group of 8 to 10 year olds. Today my students mapped out their face shape on cardboard and got to work on creating their unique facial features. Some did this directly on their cardboard. Others used remnants of cereal and cracker boxes and cut out their facial features. Paint and oil pastels were offered to add color to their masks. I took Kimmel's use of large nails on some of his masks a bit further. I offered keys, nuts, bolts, pennies, soda can tops, hooks and even fettucini noodles (the hair on the 2nd mask) and quite a few more items to echo the humor of Straw's pieces. Many of these items slip easily between the corrugated cardboard. My kids are off to a great start. I will have some wonderful unique masks to post next week.
Today we are making Picasso works of art to hang on our Christmas tree. This homemade tree ornament art project for kids of all ages is great at home or
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