Williams Art, J. Lindquist

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Kehinde Wiley at the Harn

4th and 5th grade tudents studied the life and art of Kehinde Wiley. This project was inspired by a painting which was purchased by the Harn Museum of Art for the permanent collection. 4th graders went on a field trip to the Harn to see "The Dogon Couple" original and were blown away! The trip was funded through a Foundation for Success grant that Ms. Lindquist was awarded this year.

Here is Roderick with a drawing of himself as the Ingres' portrait of Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne, painted in 1806.

David did his self-portrait after Eugene Delacroix's portrait of Baron Schwiter painted in 1827.

Art Club Celebration!

We just had our last art club session which once again ended with the now famous "Edible Art" project. It was a great season of Art Club and I hope all members will keep up their sketchbook assignments over the summer.

Mathew with his cookie design - Nice symmetry!

Sana's designs look delicious!

Thank you to the Pizza Hut on Main Street for the donation of personal pan boxes - perfect.

August with his paper mache mask. That's a key for a nose!

Cada, Mathew, Jenaya and Cassie.

Chloe and Sydney with their paper mache masks.

Good job everyone!

Friday, May 6, 2011

A picture is worth 1000 words!

4th Grade Students

Art photography as prompts for writing

Henri Cartier-Bresson

French, b. 1908, d. 2004

Lunch Atop a Skyscraper (1932)

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photographtaken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction, the photo Resting on a Girder shows the same workers napping on the beam.

Migrant Mother (1936), Dorothea Lange
For many, this picture of Florence Owens Thompson (age 32) represents the Great Depression. She was the mother of 7 and she struggled to survive with her kids catching birds and picking fruits. Dorothea Lange took the picture after Florence sold her tent to buy good for her children. She made the first page of major newspapers all over the country and changed people’s conception about migrants.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Surrealist Photography

4th graders are preparing for their field trip to the Harn Museum of Art. We will be

Highlights from the Photography Collection: Faces and Figures

Nov 9, 2010 – July 3, 2011

This exhibition of about 50 photographs explores representations of the portrait and the nude over the last century. Central to all the selected photographs is a concern for identity. In some cases subjects are treated with specificity as unique individuals while in other cases identity is addressed in more general terms through idealized perfection or association with broad cultural groups. The installation includes portraits of renowned figures such as Pablo Picasso, James Joyce and Mikhail Baryshnikov as well as portraits of anonymous individuals such as Irving Penn’s image of two Nepalese women and Edward Curtis’s image of a Native American woman. For the latter examples, details of costume and dress provide clues to the sitters’ identities. The exhibition also addresses concepts of the nude and the naked by juxtaposing idealized images of the human form (such as Ruth Bernhard’s Classic Torso) with images of figures in various stages of undress by Steven Meisel and Anne Noggle. These themes are further explored in portraits and nudes by famed photographer Andy Warhol. The exhibition is made possible by the Sidney Knight Endowment.