Hurricane!

Hi everyone!
   I know you're all disappointed that school was cancelled today so here's a picture of you guys all working hard.  Love it...you all look so studious!  I hope you're working on your "eye" for homework this week (after all you get an extra day)!

 

and then a shot of Emma's portrait....

Also, here's a piece by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei with a link to a story about his parody of "Gangnam Style"  especially for Gage

 

What do you think about this piece? What do you think he's trying to say?

POP ART PROJECT!

Here are just some of the results of our awesome POP art project...

Emma

Cam

Katie S.

Nick

Sabrina

Masterpiece Monday

Hi!
 It's only Friday and I'm already posting Monday's Masterpiece! Go me!
Here's a "still life" by Picasso..... what do you think of it? How would you describe it? What do you see in the still life?

Our quote this week is also from Picasso...

“I paint objects as I think them,

not as I see them.” 

Deep huh?   What do you think he really means?  What does painting like you think not like you see look like in reality???

Art 2- Masterpiece, QOTW, and Homework

We are still focusing on Still Life so I chose one of my favorite artists, Frida Kahlo.  Most of her work is narrative, it tells stories of her life with lots of self-portraits but her still life paintings are just as interesting.

 Frida Kahlo   "Still Life with Parrot and Flag"  1951

Our Quote of the Week 

 "Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it." - John Baldessari

SKETCHBOOK:  homework due Monday October 15th

Draw, from direct observation, "an object that is very important to you" *** NO CELL PHONES, COMPUTERS OR TECHNOLOGY TYPE OBJECTS...also no cds, drawings of photos, or 2D things

Still Iife Time!

Here's our current still life and everyone looking so studious drawing using viewfinders.

Art 2: Masterpiece Monday Week 5

We are going to go back in time from our friend, Andy Warhol to our new friend, Paul Cezanne !

Still Life with Skull (1895-1900)

Cezanne painted close to 200 still lifes in his lifetime.  He focused mostly on household objects and fruits.  He liked the challenge of creating great works of art using simple everyday objects.

His friend says he took great care with setting up a still life. “No sooner was the cloth draped on the table with innate taste than Cézanne set out the peaches in such a way as to make the complementary colors vibrate, grays next to reds, yellows to blues, leaning, tilting, balancing the fruit at the angles he wanted, sometimes pushing a onesous or two-sous piece [French coins] under them. You could see from the care he took how much it delighted his eye” 

Our quote of the week also comes from Cezanne "  With an apple I will astonish  Paris"

What do you think he meant by this?  Can you astonish us with a simple object?