Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Art Shows around Memphis via Go Memphis!.com

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Maysey Craddock: "Natural Course,"

peregrinations•
gouache & thread on found paper
17.25x21
2010

David Lusk Gallery, 4540 Poplar (Laurelwood): Maysey Craddock: "Natural Course," Tuesday through Dec. 23. Opening 3-5 p.m. Dec. 5. 767-3800. davidluskgallery.com

D'Edge Art & Unique Treasures, 550 S. Main: Kim Baldock: "Mosaic Tiles," 6-9 tonight, during Art Trolley Tour. Exhibition ends Tuesday. Call 521-0054.

Memphis Botanic Garden (Visitors Center Gallery), 750 Cherry Road (Audubon Park): Artists in Residence Exhibition. Artwork on display, available for purchase through Jan. 3. Opening reception, 2-4 p.m. Sunday. Free admission. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sunday. 636-4100.

Shops of Saddle Creek, South, 2055 West St. (at Poplar) in Germantown: WinterArts 2010 — The South's Premiere Holiday Artists Market. Handcrafted gifts by the region's top artists: blown, kiln-fired and lamp-worked glass; paintings, metalwork, turned wood, functional and sculptural ceramics, jewelry, fiber and more. Open Saturday through Dec. 24. winterartsmemphis.com.

David Perry Smith Gallery, 703 New York: "Gifts for the Holidays." Wednesday through Dec. 31. Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Dec. 3. Exhibition features new "Gift Sized" paintings by Greg Gustafson, Andy Reed, Laura Painter Stafford, John McIntire, Mary Reed and John Sadowski. Call 347-3541. davidperrysmithgallery. com Opening reception for Elizabeth Eggleston's "Handmade Jewerly," 4-8 p.m. Thursday.

Taken from Go Memphis! - Check it out the original link here!

Remember class!

Bring back any material from any art show you attend and receive 5 extra credit points added onto your grade!

Art News! The Diamond Encrusted Skull by Damien Hirst on Display at Palazzo Vecchio

Damien Hirst's Diamond skull. EPA/WHITE CUBE.

FLORENCE.- The diamond encrusted skull, For the Love of God, by British artist Damien Hirst, which gained iconic status following its first exhibition in 2007, is on display at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence from 26 November 2010 to 1 May 2011.

Promoted by the Comune di Firenze, Assessorato alla Cultura e alla Contemporaneità and the Musei Civici Fiorentini, the event was conceived by Memoria srl, is curated by Francesco Bonami and is being produced and organised by Arthemisia Group.

For the Love of God is a life-size cast of a human skull in platinum, entirely covered by 8,601 VVS to flawless pavé-set diamonds, weighing a total of 1,106.18 carats. Set into the forehead is a large pear-shaped pink diamond, known as the Skull Star Diamond. The teeth are those of the original skull, which was purchased by Hirst in London, and dates back to the eighteenth-century.
Read the rest of the article here from ArtDaily.com ....

6th Grade WARM-UP and Day TWO Fantasy Landscapes (11-30-10)

watercolors, 12 x 16 inches

http://www.janetchui.net/image.php?id=86&medium=watercolors

Describe this piece of art to me. What kind of art is it? What elements of art does this piece have within in it that we have talked about before?

Today we are working on translating our sketch of our fantasy landscape onto our larger piece of paper to begin our tempera painting. Remember we are emphasizing our foreground, middle ground, and horizon line/eye level in this piece of art. The group will also review how we use warm/cool colors and illusion of depth in our paintings.

Click here to review what we've learned about so far about fantasy landscape painting!

Just as a reminder... our GLE and SPIs.

GLE: The student will learn about spatial relationships by creating a fantasy based landscape tempera painting using foreground, middle ground, and horizon line/eye level. The students will also review warm/cool colors and illusion of depth in their paintings.

SPI: 6.2 spi.4, 6.2 spi.5

7th Grade Warm Up and Day TWO Futuristic Furniture Designs (11-30-10)

How are these furniture designs futuristic? How can we make them look normal to us?

Today we are translating our futuristic furniture design sketches to larger sheets of paper. We are remembering to use scale and proportion in our designs to make them as realistic as possible.

Information and images of mid-century modern furniture designers to aid in creating images of furniture design.

Don't forget your GLE and SPI for the week!

GLE: The student will study and look at images of interior and furniture designs to understand scale and proportion of furniture and interior design through pencil drawings of a futuristic piece of furniture and room design of their dream space.

SPIs: None Listed.

8th Grade Warm Up and Day TWO - illustrators and Animators Remix (11-30-10)

WARM - UP:

Describe this piece of art work to me. What elements of art are being used? What colors are being used?

(Remember to use your terms such as warm/cool colors, complimentary, secondary and primary)

Since we were below par for our behavior yesterday we are reviewing our material of illustrators and animators.

Click here to return to the original material.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

6th Grade Warm Up for 11-29-10

Machinery of the Stars

by alexiuss

Describe the elements of art that are in this piece of art. What kinds of colors are being used? What type of painting is it?

Remember all warm up work must done in paragraph form, written in your own words, and not copied off of any person or from any book.

6th Grade Assignment for 11-29-10 to 12-3-10 ( Fantasy Landscapes and Day One)

6th Grade Assignment for 11-29-10 to 12-3-10.

What is a fantasy landscape?

A fantasy landscape is just like any other landscape, a painting or drawing that takes places outdoors, but a fantasy landscape uses things we would not normally find in nature. Those things we would find there would be unusual colors for the grass, water, or sky with massive towering castles, the universe in the space, aliens floating in the clouds, as well as dragons, fairies, and other magical creatures hanging around.

Who are some artists who have created these types of paintings?

Frank Frazetta

Geiger

Day One: 11-29-10

Sketching your landscape painting:

The Assignment:

We will look at images of landscape photographs and sketch one of the photos to recreate one into a fantasy landscape painting. While looking at the images we will look for foreground, middle ground, and horizon line/eye level. The group will also review how we use warm/cool colors and illusion of depth in our paintings.

Stock Photos of Landscapes we will be using:

Remember!

We are looking at...

...Landscape paintings and turning them into fantasy landscapes.

...We are using foreground, middle ground, and backgrounds in our paintings.

...We need to find where the horizon line is located in our paintings.

...We're reviewing warm/cool colors with illusion of depth.

7th Grade Assignments for 11-29 -10 to 12-3-10 ( Interior Design and Day One 11-29-10)

Interior Designs

11-29-10 to 12-3-10

La Chaise by Charles and Ray Eames

SPIs: None Listed.

What is furniture design?

Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects ('mobile' in Latin languages) intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things. Storage furniture such as a nightstand often makes use of doors, drawers, shelves and locks to contain, organize or secure smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods.

What is interior design?

Interior design is a multi–faceted profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment.
The interior design process follows a systematic and coordinated methodology, including research, analysis, and integration of knowledge into the creative process, whereby the needs and resources of the client are satisfied to produce an interior space that fulfills the project goals

Day One: 11-29-10

Furniture Design

The Student will sketch a design for futuristic piece of furniture that uses scale and proportion in pencil on white 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Furniture Designers Charles and Ray Eames will be used as inspiration.

Who are Charles and Ray Eames?

Charles and Ray Eames were a husband and wife duo who made their mark in the 1950s. They began their careers staging television shows and magazines but later moved into architecture and furniture designs. They are best known for their chairs which feature organic shapes and lines.

The Assignment: Sketch your design on 8.5 x 11 inches for your futuristic furniture design. Use Charles and Ray Eames as your inspiration with their organic shapes and lines. Remember to consider where your furniture will go and how it will be used.

7th Grade Warm Up for 11-29-10

How would you design your dream room? Describe it in full detail to me. How would it look? What colors would you use? What kind of furniture would be in the room?

Remember all warm up work must done in paragraph form, written in your own words, and not copied off of any person or from any book.

8th Grade Assignments for 11-29 -10 to 12-3-10 ( Creative Jobs and Day One 11-29-10)

Creative Jobs/Careers in the Arts

GLE: The student will learn about and create art work based upon but not limited to the following creative jobs: Animators, Illustrators, Cake Decorators, Costume Designers, Tattoo Artists, Art Teachers, and Hair Artists through readings, videos, and images.

SPI's: None Listed.

DAY ONE: 11-29-10 - Animators and Illustrators

The student will learn about animators and illustrators such as Takashi Murakami, and Nara through videos and images by creating a creature based upon Murakami and Nara's art work.

What is an animator?

An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an animation piece requires the collaboration of several animators. The methods of creating the images or frames for an animation piece depends on the animators' artistic styles and their field.

What is an illustrator?

An Illustrator is a graphic artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually.

Illustrations have been used in advertisements, greeting cards, posters, books, magazines and newspapers. A cartoon illustration can add humor to humorous essays.

Who is Takashi Murakami?

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese Artist who is primarily known for his very anime, also known as Japanese Animation, style art. He has illustrated and animated many pieces of art for people such as the clothier Louis Vuitton and the rapper Kanye West that use very imaginative creatures.

Top: Kanye West's Graduation CD

Bottom: An installation at a Louis Vuitton Store

Who is Nara?

Nara Yoshimito is an artist who works closely with Takashi Murakami in Japan. He rose up in Japan's art world during the Japanese Pop Art Movement of the 1990s. He has worked on albums for Japanese music artists such as Shonen Knife as well as having his images go many products such as notebooks and folders.

Top: Nara's Studio.

Middle and Bottom: Paintings by Nara.

The Assignment:

Illustrate your own creature in the style of Murakami or Nara in marker on 11 x 8 paper.

Remember when you create your image.....

How do Murakami and Nara illustrate the bodies of their characters?

Are there a lot of colors being used in these images?

Where would your image go?

Who is it used for?

What does your image go on? Is it for clothing, purses, notebooks, or on a billboard?

Happy Illustrating!

8th Grade Warm Up Question for 11-29-10

What do the butcher, the baker, and candle stick maker all have in common?

Remember all warm up work must done in paragraph form, written in your own words, and not copied off of any person or from any book.

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