New Art Activites and Games

As you spend time enjoying the Holiday recess time, you may want to explore these art activities while you have extra time at home:

Art Activities and Games Links

ENJOY!

New Projector

The projector that DonorsChoose.org donated has helped my students explore more thoroughly designs and drawing techniques, which are available on the Internet.

Please consider helping my art class with further donations using this link:

http://www.donorschoose.org/ms.wawa



Art Club Schedule 2012-2013

These are tentative dates which fall on the last Wednesday of each month for after school meetings.  The schedule is from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Art club students may come to the art room during school hours when their homeroom teacher permits it.

Month	Dates
January	30
February	27
April	24
May	29

Additionally, beginning with the month of March we will meet each working school Monday from 3:00pm to 4:00pm.

Please keep this schedule handy for reference.  I will communicate cancellations, if there are any, as soon as possible.

Ms. Wawa

Art Club Students:

The Art Club will not be meeting today.  Please go home at 3:00pm as per your regular schedule.  I will announce the date for our next meeting.

I apologize for this inconvenience.

Ms. Wawa

Integrate the Arts, Deepen the Learning

Critical thinking, risk taking, and collaboration -- along with academics and discipline -- are just some of the areas where Bates Middle school educators report big improvements since integrating the arts across all subject areas.

Parents: click here to watch this informational video

Keep those hands happy!

Parents, please consider helping our art classroom by clicking here:

My Teacher Page at DonorChoose.org

Go ahead  PaInT  yOur  WoRld!!!

Parents, please read this article:

STEM to STEAM: Art in K-12 is Key to Building a Strong Economy 

(S=Science, T=Technology, E=Engineering, a=art, M=Mathematics)

"With global competition rising, America is at a critical juncture in defining its economic future. I believe that art and design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st century in the same way that science and technology did in the last century, and the STEAM movement is an opportunity for America to sustain its role as innovator of the world."

Ten Lessons The Arts Teach

Ten Lessons The Art Teach

by Eliot Eisner


1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.


2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.


3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.


4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.


5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.


6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.


7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.  All art forms employ some means through which images become real.


8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.

When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.


9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.


10. The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

The Significance of Art Video

Watch HERE this telling documentary about the significance of art in our society.

Welcome Back Tiger Artists, 

Parents and Guardians!!!

I am elated at the prospects of this new school year!  In the meantime that I confirm the art club meeting dates, do look at this inspiring video about art to get you in the proper starting spirit.  All paws up!!!

Click on the following site:

The Importance of Art in Education

Some of the World's Most Famous Paintings

One of the highest honors for an artist is to be considered and regarded as a master. They desire to produce artwork that is remembered forever. The following are the most famous paintings of all time, recognized by many folks who hail from all the corners of the world.


Click on these links for details: Famous Paintings , a list of the top 20 and World Famous Paintings.




Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

Last Meeting of the Year!!!!

The Art Club will hold its last meeting Wednesday May 16 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm.

At 2:00 pm, please show up with your art club member cards and line up in front of the art room #803.  Also bring all your artwork with you.

If you cannot stay, you can either pass by for 5 minutes or come to the art room later during the week.

Let's finish the year with a Bam!!!!

I thank you for your attention.                         

Ms. Wawa

Meeting Cancelled

Unfortunately our scheduled meeting has been cancelled as per the school's administration.  However, please continue to work on your art projects for the end of the year show.  As you finish them please bring them over to the art room.  It is really important that you get to have at least one piece of art work entered at the end of the year art show.

See me at the art room if you need further details or clarifications.


Ms. Wawa

Next Meeting

The Art Club will be meeting this Wednesday April 25 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm.

At 2:00 pm on Wednesday, please show up with your art club member cards and line up in front of the art room #803.  Also bring all your artwork with you.

      

Make sure that you only stay if your parents know that you are going to leave at 3:00 pm.

I thank you for your attention.                         

Ms. Wawa

History of Art Resources

The history of art is immense, the earliest cave paintings pre-date writing by almost 27,000 years! If you're interested in art history, the first thing you should do is take a look at this table which briefly outlines the artists, traits, works, and events that make up major art periods and how art evolved to present day: 

Art Periods/ Movements	Characteristics	Chief Artists and Major Works	Historical Events
Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)	Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures	Lascaux Cave Painting, Woman of Willendorf, Stonehenge	Ice Age ends (10,000 b.c.–8,000 b.c.); New Stone Age and first permanent settlements (8000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)
Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.)	Warrior art and narration in stone relief	Standard of Ur, Gate of Ishtar, Stele of Hammurabi's Code	Sumerians invent writing (3400 b.c.); Hammurabi writes his law code (1780 b.c.); Abraham founds monotheism
Egyptian (3100 b.c.–30 b.c.)	Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb painting	Imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti	Narmer unites Upper/Lower Egypt (3100 b.c.); Rameses II battles the Hittites (1274 b.c.); Cleopatra dies (30 b.c.)
Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.–31 b.c.)	Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural orders(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)	Parthenon, Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles	Athens defeats Persia at Marathon (490 b.c.); Peloponnesian Wars (431 b.c.–404 b.c.); Alexander the Great's conquests (336 b.c.–323 b.c.)
Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)	Roman realism: practical and down to earth; the arch	Augustus of Primaporta, Colosseum, Trajan's Column, Pantheon	Julius Caesar assassinated (44 b.c.); Augustus proclaimed Emperor (27 b.c.); Diocletian splits Empire (a.d. 292); Rome falls (a.d. 476)
Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. 1900)	Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the Floating World	Gu Kaizhi, Li Cheng, Guo Xi, Hokusai, Hiroshige	Birth of Buddha (563 b.c.); Silk Road opens (1st century b.c.); Buddhism spreads to China (1st–2nd centuries a.d.) and Japan (5th century a.d.)
Byzantine and Islamic (a.d. 476–a.d.1453)	Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic architecture and amazing maze-like design	Hagia Sophia, Andrei Rublev, Mosque of Córdoba, the Alhambra	Justinian partly restores Western Roman Empire (a.d. 533–a.d. 562); Iconoclasm Controversy (a.d. 726–a.d. 843); Birth of Islam (a.d. 610) and Muslim Conquests (a.d. 632–a.d. 732)
Middle Ages (500–1400)	Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic	St. Sernin, Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres, Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto	Viking Raids (793–1066); Battle of Hastings (1066); Crusades I–IV (1095–1204); Black Death (1347–1351); Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)
Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)	Rebirth of classical culture	Ghiberti's Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael	Gutenberg invents movable type (1447); Turks conquer Constantinople (1453); Columbus lands in New World (1492); Martin Luther starts Reformation (1517)
Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430–1550)	The Renaissance spreads north- ward to France, the Low Countries, Poland, Germany, and England	Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden	Council of Trent and Counter-Reformation (1545–1563); Copernicus proves the Earth revolves around the Sun (1543
Mannerism (1527–1580)	Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature	Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, Cellini	Magellan circumnavigates the globe (1520–1522)
Baroque (1600–1750)	Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious wars	Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of Versailles	Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants (1618–1648)
Neoclassical (1750–1850)	Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur	David, Ingres, Greuze, Canova	Enlightenment (18th century); Industrial Revolution (1760–1850)
Romanticism (1780–1850)	The triumph of imagination and individuality	Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin West	American Revolution (1775–1783); French Revolution (1789–1799); Napoleon crowned emperor of France (1803)
Realism (1848–1900)	Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air rustic painting	Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet	European democratic revolutions of 1848
Impressionism (1865–1885)	Capturing fleeting effects of natural light	Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas	Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871); Unification of Germany (1871)
Post-Impressionism (1885–1910)	A soft revolt against Impressionism	Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat	Belle Époque (late-19th-century Golden Age); Japan defeats Russia (1905)
Fauvism and Expressionism (1900–1935)	Harsh colors and flat surfaces (Fauvism); emotion distorting form	Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Marc	Boxer Rebellion in China (1900); World War (1914–1918)
Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl (1905–1920)	Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new forms to express modern life	Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, Severini, Malevich	Russian Revolution (1917); American women franchised (1920)
Dada and Surrealism (1917–1950)	Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the unconscious	Duchamp, Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, de Chirico, Kahlo	Disillusionment after World War I; The Great Depression (1929–1938); World War II (1939–1945) and Nazi horrors; atomic bombs dropped on Japan (1945)
Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) and Pop Art (1960s)	Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression without form; popular art absorbs consumerism	Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein	Cold War and Vietnam War (U.S. enters 1965); U.S.S.R. suppresses Hungarian revolt (1956) Czechoslovakian revolt (1968)
Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970– )	Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles	Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid	Nuclear freeze movement; Cold War fizzles; Communism collapses in Eastern Europe and U.S.S.R. (1989–1991)

Reference:

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/art-history-timeline.html
For more details go to: http://iris.nyit.edu/arthistory/pptshows.html