From ThinkWatson.com, Critical Thinkers Through History is a nice visual timeline that show photos or images of some of the greatest critical thinkers in human history. What do Sigmund Freud, Henry Ford, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Marie Curie have in common? They were great critical thi
A few days ago I posted my first installment in the comprehensive assessment of dyslexia series, discussing common dyslexia myths as well as general language testing as a starting point in the dyslexia testing battery. (You can find this post HERE). Today I would like to discuss the next two steps in dyslexia assessment, which are
Conocé la obra de arte visual de Víctor Enrich. Toma a la arquitectura como un concepto de expresión humana y lo complementa con el arte.
Udacity presents, How to Pick Your First Programming Language infographic. Your decision depends a lot on where and the job you are aiming for. Check out the graphic for some tips. If you haven’t picked your first programming language, the programming world is your oyster. Yet with evangelists
Start with folding paper into 6-8 boxes. Trace hand with pencil. Trace finds with pencil. Outline hand with black permanent marker. Marker line = change color Pencil line = change design * no solid colors * no white, black, or neutral I taught the 6th graders the difference between cool and warm color on the color wheel. I assigned them the task of using a tracing of their hands to fill in with warm or cool colors only. I challenged them to use lines only, but allowed them to use shapes as well as part of their designs. As part of the advice, I had them only get a collection of whatever colors they work working with at one time (a pile of warm only or a pile of cool only) so they do not accidentally grab the wrong color and mess up the lesson goal. 6th grade 2023 Madelynn, Anden, Emilia, Shaylee, Alissa, Olivia Shaunna, Victoria “Jeremiah”, Addison Bella G., Harper, Tatum Sunshine Eduardo-6th grade 2022 Melanie C.- 7th grade 2022 Elva- 6th grad Fall 2021 Kinslee, Kylar, Evy, Adelyn, Kenix & Emily Jazmyn and Kelly Kalie R., Vanessa A., Zane S. & Avery 2021 6-8th grade above, 1st period 2020 Jaylee, Isac, Josie Michael, Francisco and Jorja My teacher examples for the 6th grade... Warm hand with Cool Background Cool hand with Warm Background 2 student examples from 6th grade To See more student artwork on this project or others from my school webpage, visit... http://classroom.mineolaisd.net/webs/seatont/hot_and_cool_hands.htm One of the easiest ways to do neat designs with minimal effort is in video below. Use a lighter shade of the warm or cool color solid in background, then go over the solid with a darker color. This looks like it takes a long time and hard work, but is actually pretty easy. Or, use thick stripes rather than solid....
Michael Hutter is a German painter, a visual artist in the classical meaning of the word.
A helpful infographic for soon-to-be parents. The Importance of Childhood Education infographic from SchoolTutoring Academy takes information about kids with early childhood education and attention and compares them to kids who did not. But it isn’t all bad news for moms, the i
From Knewton comes and infographic about The Flipped Classrom. It’s a good explanation of one theory behind changing the classroom environment. I don’t know how widespread it is, but the results from Detroit look impressive. Many educators are experimenting with the idea of a
So, I absolutely LOVE the anchor charts I’ve been seeing on blogs and on Pinterest. Apparently, anchor charts are supposed to be minimalistic so as not to confuse the children with extra inf…
Wow, some incredible captures of buildings designed by the great architect Louis Kahn, photographed by Naquib Hossain. In fact Naquib has a small website dedicated to Louis Kahn which he has coined a “Visual Archive”, quite fitting for this particular series. If you’ve not seen it before I’d recommend having a browse here, it’s basically a homage to Louis Kahn and his works through a collection of photographs. Interestingly enough ...
The Nautilus house located near Mexico City is a unique shell shaped house designed by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain of Arquitectura Organica. The house design is very innovative, unusual and audacious. Javier Senosiain decided to bring the life aquatic into architecture. Inspired by the work of Gaudí and Frank Lloyd Wright, Javier Senosiain has brought to Mexico City another sparkling example of what he calls “Bio-Architecture” — the idea that buildings based on the natural principles of organic forms bring us back to local history, tradition and cultural roots, in turn creating harmony with nature. A young family with two children from Mexico City were tired living in a conventional home and wanted to change to one integrated to nature. The sculptural whimsical house features a striking entry cut into a wall of colorful stained glass. Each element has been carefully chosen to coincide with the organic theme of the building. Senosiain describes, “This home’s social life flows inside the Nautilus without any division, a harmonic area in three dimensions where you can notice the continuous dynamic of the fourth dimension when moving in spiral over the stairs with a feeling of floating over the vegetation.”
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So, I absolutely LOVE the anchor charts I’ve been seeing on blogs and on Pinterest. Apparently, anchor charts are supposed to be minimalistic so as not to confuse the children with extra inf…
Photographer and graphic designer Oliver Astrologo wanted to immortalize a famous Italian house located in Fregene, near his native city (Rome). In the 60’
Illustrator Felicia Chiao balances out her work as an industrial designer at IDEO with imaginative drawings rendered in copic marker and gel ink pens. Chiao’s fanciful worlds are populated with a repeating humanoid protagonist, as well as spirit-like black figures reminiscent of the symbolic creatures in Hayao Miyazaki films. The artist balances her charming aesthetic—cheerful details like daisies and friendly worms—with more evocative emotional themes. “Illustration has always been a way for me to destress and work through whatever emotions I’m feeling,” says Chiao. More
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I found this image on a far-flung tumblr. It really got me excited. What a cool map of drugs. (If you are the author of this image, please...
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Arthur Beecher Carles (1882-1952) is not well-known today and, as best I can tell, didn't attain first-rank artistic notoriety in his day. Here and there on the Internet I've found observers who assert that he was a great colorist and perhaps was a practitioner of Abstract Expressionism before it emerged as a movement. Carles is obscure enough that I had never heard of him until recently when I was searching the Hirshhorn Museum online listing of works in its collection and found some stunning images by the man. Let me quickly add that what looks great in a small area of a computer screen doesn't necessarily translate into an equally fine image when viewed in person, so I can't fully vouch for Carles' ability. One thing I noticed was how versatile Carles was. And how he would paint in different idioms at about the same time (both naturalistic and abstract in the 1920s, for instance) rather than doggedly pursue a stylistic theme as many artists do. I can't offer much biographical information. His Wikipedia entry is here and a Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts snippet is here (scroll down or else click on his name). It seems that Carles never sold many paintings, drank too much and suffered a stroke in 1941 that ended his career, such as it was. One of his finest works was his daughter Jeanne, who assumed her mother's first name and became known to the art world as Mercedes Matter, having married photographer and graphic designer Herbert Matter. Here are images of some of Carles' paintings in roughly chronological order along with a few comments by me. Gallery Frances Metzger West - pastel - 1907 A satisfying mix of a finely drawn head with modernist-inspired sketchiness, both done in the spirit of pastel. Silence - c.1908 Almost poster-like in its compositional simplicity and flat painting. Can we call the early 1900s Carles' "blue period?" Portrait of Katherine Rhoades - c.1912 Here Carles is about as minimalist as one can get while still making a convincing depiction. The Actress as Cleopatra (Mercedes de Cordoba, artist's wife) - 1914 Mercedes de Cordoba - by Edward Steichen - 1904 Carles' wife as painted by him and photographed ten years earlier by Steichen, who liked to use her as a model. The Lake, Annecy - 1911-12 This disappoints me because Lake Annecy is framed by a string of visually interesting mountains to its east, and here Carles turns them into a series of ordinary-looking lumps. The Harpist Edna Phillips Rosenbaum - n.d. Woman in White - 1920 These two paintings show that Carles could do quite well at representational images, though adjusted using a whiff of modernist simplifying. Landscape - 1921 This paining is part of the Hirshhorn holdings, so I have to assume they got the date right. Very much in the later Abstract Expressionist spirit. Nude Reclining - 1921 Representational, but using a color set close to that of the abstraction shown immediately above it. Plus, they seem to have been done at about the same time. Woman with Red Hair - 1922 The drawing here is still pretty representational, but the colors are exaggerated, if not quite Fauvist distortions. Seated Woman with Upraised Arm - c.1927 Now we find one in the Fauve color spirit. Yet I happen to like it; it's the image that caught my eye and led me to explore Carles' work in more detail. Why do I like it? It's because, under all the color pyrotechnics, the visible drawing is pretty solid in the sense that the features of the face are proportionally reasonable, allowing for effects of perspective. I usually object strongly where an artist gives us sloppy drawing along with false colors. Ditto where the drawing is off and the colors are roughly natural (think Picasso's famous Les demoiselles d'Avignon). Reclining Nude - c.1931-35 Composition (Seated Nude) c.1931-35 In these early 1930s paintings Carles is back in proto-Abstract Expressionist mode using those strong colors he seemed to favor in those days. Abstraction - 1936-41 According to the Hirshhorn, this was Carles' last painting.
Andrea Serio's blog "Andrea Serio was born in Carrara in 1973. Oscillating illustrator, obsessive pastelist, cartoonist, pyromaniac, creator of wonderful record covers, Tarot card aficionado, billboard creator, painter, music, movie and literature buff from the very beginning (not necessarily in that order and preferably not separated), his attitude towards computers is hostiles, and he types on keyboards with one finger, like François Truffaut. His drawings have been featured in exhibitions like the Turin Book Fair, the Babel International Festival in Athens, TorinoComics, as well as the Lugocontemporaneo music and avant-garde contemporary artist festival. He has worked as a professor at the International School of Comic Books in Turin and Florence since 2012. He is currently working on his second graphic comic book and his first children’s book." Vimeo video on Andrea working
A tribute to America's Roadside Oddities and Kitschy attractions. Traveling on America's roadways, one finds a wealth of kitschy attractions - the only problem is, deciding which ones to stop and see!
Charles Burchfield, an American artist famous for his American Scene paintings of the 1920s and '30s, incorporated unique symbols into his work to express moods, sounds, movement, and sensations.
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The troupe of wild animals in Bruno Pontiroli’s paintings contort their bodies into backbends and handstands that would rival even the most accomplished gymnast. A wrinkly hippo balances on its tongue, a tiger arches its torso into a 90-degree angle, and a hyena rotates its hind legs in the air. The French artist (previously) notes that he begins the bizarre artworks with easily-recognized animals that he then shapes “like the way a child plays with modeling clay or a building set for instance,” morphing a simple depiction of a nimble lion or hare into a peculiar new reality. More
Njideka Akunyili Crosby uses a mix of collage, drawing and painting to create large-scale artworks with an emotive punch. The artist draws viewers into her works through details within acetone-transfer prints of small photographs takes from the internet and Crosby's own photographs, in addition to magazines and advertisements. The layers, patterns, and their varying degrees of transparency create dreamlike images that move in and out of reality. In this way, the works hint at the complexities of fantasy and actuality in everyday domestic life.
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Philadelphia-based artist and journalist, Alison Nastasi, has put together a collection of more than 50 snaps of famous artists and their feline friends in her book, Artists And Their Cats.
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Kangaroos, koalas, and the venomous platypus take on peculiarly acrobatic personas in a new series of oil paintings by Bruno Pontiroli (previously). In Expression Corporelle, the French artist renders a cast of gymnast-emulating animals native to Australia, each with unusually strong appendages and flexible backs. The creatures balance on their tails and bend at perfect 90-degree angles, defying physics in favor of warped perspectives and the opportunity to see the world from a different point of view. More
