Tuesday, December 18, 2012

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:


ENJOY!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

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:




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

Monday, November 26, 2012

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

Friday, November 16, 2012


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.



Saturday, October 20, 2012

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


My Teacher Page at DonorChoose.org

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Go ahead  PaInT  yOur  WoRld!!!


Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Parents, please read this article:


(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.




Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Significance of Art Video

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


Sunday, August 19, 2012

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:

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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

Monday, April 23, 2012

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

Thursday, April 12, 2012

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

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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.)
prehistoric
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.)
ancient near east
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.)
ancient egypt
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.)
prehistoric aegean  ancient greece 
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)
ancient rome
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)
  indian china korea japan
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)
islam
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)
early medieval
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)
  early italian cinquecento
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)
north renaissance
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)
baroque south
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)
enlightenment
Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur
David, Ingres, Greuze, Canova
Enlightenment (18th century); Industrial Revolution (1760–1850)
Romanticism (1780–1850)
romantic
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)
realist impressionsit
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)
fin de siecle

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)
early modern
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)
early 20th C
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)
dada neue
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)
ab-ex
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– )
po-mo
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)
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