Tag: Wassily Kandinsky

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#Finally #Friday on the #Studio. #PlansForTheWeekend?

10 Things Creative People Do By: Randy Taran

1. Listen In: Listen to your intuition and capture your new ideas. Whether from your morning shower, nighttime dreams, when running, in the car, or in nature, keep an idea notebook and jot it down.

and ALL 10

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

http://treasure.diylol.com/uploads/post/image/507884/resized_dwight-schrute-meme-generator-you-are-doing-a-good-job-false-you-are-doing-a-great-job-7faad4.jpg

Goals:

  •  2.3Ad: Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people’s lives.
  • What is happening in your classmates work that you are truly glad to see happening? Write that out and then take a moment to give them encouragement and support.

What’s on your plate for the weekend? What have you got to work on? Website? Artwork? Job? 

Advanced Drawing: Composition and Meaning of a PAPER BAG.

https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/a100b-limesinbag_final500.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
  • How are you doing in the process? Where are you pleased? Where are you still struggling? BE SPECIFIC HERE! P.S. … SWITCH SPOTS – Nobody sits next to somebody you did yesterday!

What did MOVING to a different spot do for you today? More focused? Different focused? See if the weekend can get you back on track.

Drawing: Color, Shape, Meaning, and MUSIC!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

How can you use pastels? https://oilpastelsbymary.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/sunset-bursting-rays-final.jpg

Goals:

  •  2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What did you learn about the pastels from YESTERDAY’s experiments? What can you do today do you think? Share your thoughts with the class.

What did you find interesting about YOUR images and what did you find interesting about your neighbors? 

Studio Art 360: Drawing of the Still Life

How’s your studio space? http://nicolsonartanddesign.wikispaces.com/file/view/Serena-Mignani-Imago-Orbis3.jpg/416391612/640×380/Serena-Mignani-Imago-Orbis3.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Looking at the DRAWING what are you going to FOCUS ON today to resolve the drawing for Monday?

This is the last day of working on these drawings… where do you see yourself having a HIGHLIGHT in the drawing? Where do you see the CORE of the SHADOW? Where are the Midtones (lights and shadows)? Write out some SPECIFIC examples! 

COMPOSITIONS? Looking for a refresher? Let’s Look HERE!

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#100,000 Views and I #MissedIt! – Happy #Art #Thursday

10 Things Creative People Do By: Randy Taran

4. Let Your Senses Come Alive: Notice not only how things look, but how they feel in your hand, how they smell, the sounds surrounding you, even the nuances of taste. Don’t forget to listen to your gut — that’s an important sense too!

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

What’s YOUR Big Idea? http://big-idea.biz/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Whats-the-big-idea.jpg

Goals:

  •  2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
  • How do you see the growth of your work? What are two things that you see as STRONG developments as you have moved forward?

End of the day – one more day in class. How many more pieces do you need to get through for this batch of 3 concentration works?

Advanced Drawing: Composition and Meaning of a PAPER BAG.

WHAT? A Drawing? http://www.atlanticpapers.com/promo/graphics/CPSApaperBag.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.
  • Looking back on the past few days of work, what are you pleased with in the creation of the work? What are area that you are still being challenged with? STEP BACK – Comment in the continued progress of 3 works – (S.S. – BE AWARE OF YOUR COMMENTS!)

What did you take from the critique of your work? What did you add to the critique of your classmates work? What did you take away from the work of your classmates? http://www.atlanticpapers.com/promo/graphics/CPSApaperBag.jpg

Drawing: Color, Shape, Meaning, and MUSIC!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Pastels! TOTALLY recognizable – but WOW! http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/800/draft_lens2371648module82171261photo_1264884426Griz500.jpg

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • What do you know about PASTELS? Oil versus Soft? Cray-Pas?

What did you find interesting about YOUR images and what did you find interesting about your neighbors? CREATE an 8 Step page (like Watercolors from Foundations) to work through the different techniques. 

Studio Art 360: Drawing of the Still Life

COOL Objects! http://labrouge.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/due-inglesi-al-mambo-studio-of-giorgio-morandi-bologna-labrouge.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1P: Use multiple approaches to begin creative endeavors.
  • Take a LONG HARD LOOK at your composition. What is happening with the FIGURE? The GROUND? The POSITIVE SPACE? The NEGATIVE SPACE?

How have you worked today on the ideas of the positive and negative space? What are you doing to RESOLVE the image for tomorrow?

COMPOSITIONS? Looking for a refresher? Let’s Look HERE!

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#LateStart #Wednesday – How about bringing Mr. Korb a Bagel?

10 Things Creative People Do By: Randy Taran

7. Seek Out Challenging Tasks: Just for fun, challenge yourself with projects that don’t have solutions, like how to make a horse fly (no — we’re not talking unicorns) or build a perfect model of a part of the body. This opens the mind for all types of strategies, which helps generate fresh ideas.

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

Manage your online space – Art and Fear? Outdoors Work? Uploaded? http://www.happilyorganised.com/wp-content/uploads/online-presence-2.png

Goals:

  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making (Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.)
  • Do you need to update your ONLINE presence? Have you updated your BREADTH site to accommodate your two most recent works?

Halfway through the week and MONDAY will be with us soon. I am PROUD of the accomplishments – a lot of alone time. What ONE BIG COOL things worked out for you today? 

Advanced Drawing: Composition and Meaning of a PAPER BAG.

What are the DETAILS that you are adding to the bags? What’s the COMPOSITION looking like? https://img0.etsystatic.com/003/1/5635838/il_570xN.406903242_oiy0.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • What skills do you feel you are able to be rely on as you continue with this drawing?

What has been your most successful part of this drawing today? Where are you going to START tomorrow and 2 reasons WHY?

Drawing: Color, Shape, Meaning, and MUSIC!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866 – 1944) On White II (Auf Weiss II), 1923 Oil on canvas 41 5/16 × 38 9/16 in. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris Gift of Mrs. Nina Kandinsky in 1976 AM 1976-855 © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Georges Meguerditchian / Dist.RMN-GP © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Goals:

  • 2.1Ac: Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form.
  • Which COMPOSITION idea are you sticking to? Are you going with the SIMPLE (Melodic) or COMPLEX (Symphonic) idea? Explain how you are doing this and what your use of shapes and forms are.

What are 3 things that TALKING and THINKING about the reading by Kandinsky has helped you better understand about YOUR work and HIS work?

Studio Art 360: Drawing of the Still Life

Morandi’s table, objects and the PAINTING! http://mahoneystudio.com/images/blog/bg_11931367630963.jpg

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • HANG UP YOUR WORK ON THE CHALKBOARD – Two small bits of tape – and then sit down… HOW DOES IT LOOK from a few back. What looks different?

Where did you struggle with today’s drawing? Explain your thoughts here…

COMPOSITIONS? Looking for a refresher? Let’s Look HERE!

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#Dapper #Tuesday at #WUHS – What’s dapper about #you?

10 Things Creative People Do By: Randy Taran

8. Surround Yourself With Interesting People and Things: Spend time with diverse friends, listen to new music, see new exhibitions to broaden your horizons. Having unusual objects around you also helps you develop original ideas.

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

IDEAS? Are you running against a deadline? How did sharing your ideas yesterday help?

Goals:

  •  2.6 create multiple solutions to visual challenges that show understanding in relationships between composition and meaning of artwork
  • While looking at your classmates work, how do  you see the works needing to GROW? Do you see  yours growing?

What have you come up with? What materials are you planning on using? How does it fit into your current body of work?

Advanced Drawing: Composition and Meaning of a PAPER BAG.

Goals:

  •  1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.
  • What did you do last week to prepare yourself for in the design and execution of this still life / commentary work? What are you communicating in the work and how are you communicating that work?

What did you take away from the drawing today? What are you succeeding with?. (1, 3, 5).  

Drawing: Color, Shape, Meaning, and MUSIC!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

What’s the MAP of Kandinsky’s ideas talk about? http://img2.mappio.com/ewant/kandinsky-color-theory-4170-Large.jpg

Kandinsky at MAM – HERE

Goals:

  • 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.
  • What color scheme are you considering using n this work? How do you see that as helping communicate your message?

What composition do you feel is working best for you to communicate the messages you are hoping? Why?

Studio Art 360: Drawing of the Still Life

Georgio Morandi’s space – how’s your work coming along?

Goals:

  • 10.1P: Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
  • Step back from your artwork and LOOK at it. What skill have you NEWLY developed as this drawing has come along? Is it VALUE? FORM? SHADING? OBSERVATION? Please explain the ideas in your new skills.

Of ALL the  work on your drawing you created today, what has been the most successful thing that you’ve accomplished? EXPLAIN! 

How about COMPSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

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#Monday in the #Artroom – Ready to #MidCrit?

10 Things Creative People Do By: Randy Taran

10. Know Your Strengths and Passions: Get to know what makes your heart soar, what makes you feel most alive and energized, and use it as fuel for the creative process.

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

Are you listening to me? http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/06/09/article-0-1A39E2CE000005DC-812_634x356.jpg

Goals:

  • 2.2Ad: Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.
  • What has been your biggest challenge from the past week worth of making art.  Today – get together for 10 minutes and talk with one another about the current work.

What were the biggest impressions you had from the classmate’s works? What were the most difficult things you felt as you presented your work? 

Advanced Drawing: Composition and Meaning of a PAPER BAG.

What’s in your PAPER BAG? https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5045/5381295922_20eeedcb36.jpg

Goals:

  • 3.1Ac: Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art and design in response to personal artistic vision.
  • Prop your images up and walk around the room WITH your goals page. Write out two things you see that you’d like to try and incorporate into your image. Add a comment to the sticky note in front of your classmates work.

How to you feel about the idea of getting feedback from your classmates? Did their comments HELP you? how or how NOT? 

Drawing: Color, Shape, Meaning, and MUSIC!

Kandinsky – Let’s look at the Milwaukee Art Museum Show too! https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/13570248174_0cb6714488_z.jpg

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Goals:

  • 3.1 reflect on how art differs and describe how it relates to history and cultures 3.2 apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in art and use skill to solve visual challenges.
  • Of the shapes we are using, which one is STRONG and why? Which shape describes a passive quality? Why?

How are you beginning to use the ideas of color and shape to communicate your ideas from your song?

Studio Art 360: Drawing of the Still Life

Georgio Morandi in his studio… Look at the work you are doing!

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What skills have you developed as you are creating your CUBE, CYLINDER, PYRAMID and LETTER in the drawing?

Given the opportunity to SELF EVALUATE… BASED ON CRITERIA you may set up for yourself… what grade would you say you have earned SO far in the drawing? 2 COMPLETE THOUGHTS as to WHY?

How about COMPSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

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#FridayThe13th in the #Studio – #GreatWork this week! Hope all goes well today! Muhahahahaha

What is Art? Agnes Martin “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Art In America (p.124, 1996) 

1. 7:25 – 8:05
2. 8:10 – 8:50
3. 8:55 – 9:30
4. 9:35 – 10:15
6. 10:20 – 11:00
5A. 11:05 – 11:35
5B. 11:35 – 12:05
5C. 12:05 – 12:35
7. 12:40 – 1:20
8. 1:25 – 2:00
Assembly 2:05 – 2:46

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

How is the work coming along? Working hard? Working Well? http://www.lvc.edu/art/images/4_studio_art_concentration.jpg

Goals:

  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making (Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.)
  • As you look at the CURRENT images you are making, what is NEW and INNOVATIVE about them that we HAVEN’T SEEN in the past works? Give 3 examples with explanations.

How did the hour go? Anything come from the one – on – one conversations with Mr. Korb?

Advanced Drawing:Discussion of Composition and Meaning.

What’s happening with your paper bag? How’s the colored pencil drawing coming along? Anything you think about as the colors from the watercolor show through? http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/apples-in-a-paper-bag-jubamo.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.2Ad: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices, following or breaking established conventions, to plan the making of multiple works of art and design based on a theme, idea, or concept.

    A: How are you doing in the process? Where are you pleased? Where are you still struggling? BE SPECIFIC HERE!

Reflect and WORK! One more class day – MAKE PHOTOGRAPHS.

Drawing: Color and Shape and MEANING!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

Improvisation #30 (Cannons) Vasily Kandinsky French, born Russia, 1866–1944 Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913 © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Goals:

  • 1.2Ac: Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art and design.
  • What ONE bit of theory has stuck with you as we have talked about the works and ideas of Wassily Kandinsky? Can you use any of his ideas on color and shape in your work as it is developed?

What NEW ideas do you have about COLOR and Shape in the art you are creating now that we have had some conversation and learning about the ideas of Wassily Kandinsky?

Studio Art 360: Develop Compositions for Final Drawing.

How are you doing in comparison to the image above? http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/083/6/0/still_life__basic_shapes_by_sundown-d4tqs12.jpg

Goals:

  • 7.1P: Hypothesize ways in which art influences perception and understanding of human experiences.
  • What are THREE areas in your still life drawing that are in need of Attention today?

Look back on the THREE areas of improvement, how did you do? Choose one and write 3 sentences about the success or failure! 

How about COMPSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

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#Thumbnail #Drawings, #DoYouEverFeelLikeAPlasticBag? or a #PaperBag?

What is Art? Agnes Martin “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.” Art In America (p.124, 1996) 

AP Studio Art: Concentration!

Goals:

  • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making (Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.)
  • What images have you made photographs of so far? What images have you yet to make photographs of? Is this taking you long? We are going to learn UPLOADING soon… hope you are READY.

What have been the problems that you had today with the editing of the images? Can you do this on your own? Do we need one more day in the lab to work? FRIDAY…

Advanced Drawing:Discussion of Composition and Meaning.

Ah – The PAPER bag – What does an OPEN bag mean? What does a CLOSED bag mean? What do your bags mean? http://chriseddins.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/paperbagstilllife-300×225.jpg AND http://www.micahsparker.com/images/mannequin.jpg

Goals:

  • 1.1 Ad: Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for ideas and directions for creating art and design that can affect social change.A: What skills do you feel you are able to be falling back onto as you move into this drawing?

What has been your most successful area of this drawing today? 

Drawing: Color and Shape and MEANING!

By The Way… Share your STILL LIFE DRAWINGS by visiting them HERE.

How do you READ these Shapes in your mind? What do they MEAN? http://littleguyintheeye.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/shapes-in-nature.jpg

Goals:

  •  2.3Ac: Redesign an object, system, place, or design in response to contemporary issues.
  • How are you using geometric shapes in your life? How do you relate meaning to them? What are some shapes that are dominant in your life?

What NEW ideas might you have had about COLOR and Shape in the art you were creating?

Studio Art 360: Develop Compositions for Final Drawing.

How about this for Still Life images? https://artwithkorb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/e3b27-stilllifepottery.jpg

Goals:

  • 4.1P: Analyze, select, and curate artifacts and/or artworks for presentation and preservation.
  • What are THREE types of compositions you can think of that you might want to try and create for your final drawing?

What are the three best things you are working on with this drawing so far? 

How about COMPOSITIONS? Looking for ideas? Let’s Look HERE!

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2 Great #ART shows to visit! #MAM and #WaterfordUnionHighSchool

Milwaukee Art Museum – Milwaukee, WI

As the summer comes upon us, I took in the opportunity to see a couple of wonderful art shows (and to help celebrate my Birthday – 42 if you are keeping score). The first exhibition I saw was the WASSILY KANDINSKY exhibition (Link Here) at the Milwaukee Art Museum. This was a GREAT exhibition of works from the early part of his career while he was experimenting with Impressionism and Post-Impressionism up through the Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), back to the Impressionist works through his works as a Bauhaus teacher and artist. WHEN you get a chance to go and see the work (there is NO OPTION here… you HAVE to go and see it – ask for family / student discounts). ALSO – Here is the LINK to the Kandinsky Inspired works the artists of our class created on Oil Pastels earlier in the school year. I bought the exhibition catalog (of course) and was NOT able to make photographs in the show so… (shhhhh…) here are a couple of images from the catalog.

Entrance to the Kandinsky Show!
Interested in a catalog.
“Fragment for Composition VII (Center),” 1913, oil on Canvas.
“Achtyrka – A Neighboring Dacha on the Pond,” 1917, Oil on Canvas Board.
“Drawing for Arrow Shape to the Left” 1923, Pencil and India Ink on Paper. Look at the NUMBERS! MATH!

 Waterford Public Library -Waterford, WI

And the OTHER Show – This is a bit more local and accessible for everyone in Waterford, WI… I have taken the Drawing Student’s COMMUNITY Art Exhibition, special thanks to the Library Director Pam Belden and the library staff, and installed the COMMUNITY EXHIBITION (Link Here). The final works for the 2014 school year are based on the artists of the American Regionalists (Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper to name a few) as well as their personal photographs and studies of the community of Waterford, WI. Some of the images are VERY recognizable – Waterford ICONS – as well as images that are more PERSONAL to the individual artists. Please visit the official website (Link Here) to read more and go to the Waterford Public Library to see the works in person!

PLEASE – Give our artists some of your thoughts on the bottom of the page (comments). I will share your thoughts with the artists as the new school year starts up! ALSO – Subscribe to my blog page and continue to follow the arts and ideas as the summer goes along and the new school year begins up! Enjoy the summer!

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Genius, Color, and Matting artwork… are you up for the challenges?

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews

Art Foundations: COLOR and YOU!


Goals:

  1. 1.4 Analyse (break it down) and Define color schemes and how you use color on a daily basis.

Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and labels of the colors. What three colors can you use to mix ALL THE OTHER colors? In your GOALS SHEET…

Drawing: Genius Day (a bit longer than a day).


Goals:

  1. 1.1 Define and consider your PASSIONS through the media, techniques, and processes that you want to consider. Don’t forget about the 1.1.1 skill , 1.1.2 confidence and 1.1.3 awareness that you have and will use so that your ideas are executed well.

Working with Mr. Korb “out of the way/” Here are your “24 hours” of doing what you want with who you want in the way you want with the idea of a product being the end result and presenting being the final evaluation. What have you accomplished today and what do you need to accomplish tonight so that you can present tomorrow? The presentation is a huge factor. What did you intend to do? What did you intend to learn? Why is this a GREAT experience for you? How is having an assignment easier or harder for you? Lots to think about…

AP Studio Art: MAT YOUR WORK – Consider Duchamp


Goals:

  1. 6.3 use the principles and techniques of art with those from other discipline to PREPARE your WORK for QUALITY!

What are you doing this weekend to PREPARE for the next 1 weeks of WORKING on ONE BREADTH work based on the figure drawings that we worked on this week. How can you look at the Marcel Duchamp work of the world and resolve the image you have in front of you. Next week… resolution – Pastels, Conte, Charcoal? Whatever…

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TED says that COLOR sound beautiful!

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews

Art Foundations: Artist Statement – TURN IN SELF EVAL!

GOALS:

  1. 1.4 Define visual challenges using analysis.What are the colors that we, as painters / drawers use to make all the other colors? ANSWER ME ARTISTS!

Review with neighbors the relationships of the colors on the color wheel? QUIZ one another on the names, types and relationships of the colors.

Drawing: Collaborative Work – Figure this out – TOMORROW – GENIUS DAY!

http://abc.go.com/shows/modern-family/video/PL5520993/VDKA0_lu9sqex5

GOALS:

  1. Use Google Presentation and Docs (and the lab) to resolve your self evaluation and work collaboratively to support individual learning and to the learning of others.

BEGIN PLANNING FOR TOMORROW – GENIUS DAY – ALL WEEKEND to work – PRESENT on MONDAY! ?What? Yikes!

Working with Mr. Korb “out of the way” here are your “24 hours” of doing what you want with who you want in the way you want with the idea of a product being the end result and presenting being the final evaluation. What have you accomplished today and what do you need to accomplish… the presentation day on Monday…

AP Studio Art: FIGURES… just figures.

Goals:

  1. 2.3 create artworks that solve visual challenges of a figurative nature… WHAT DO YOU WANT TO EMPHASIZE TODAY?

How did things go today? Look at everyone’s drawings and make comments about their figure drawings in their binders.