Claes Oldenburg and his wife, Coosje Van Bruggen, are known for their large-scale sculptures. Often these sculptures show food and everyday objects, such as thumbtacks. He creates two types of sculptures: large-scale projects and soft sculptures.
Soft Sculptures
Large Scale Projects: Think about each sculpture’s texture, details, and environment.
Student examples:
Did you know that art always changes something? Another word for change is transformation. Think about when you make a painting. Do you start with supplies and end up with something like this? Well, maybe not just like this.
Art is all about transformation. Cornelia Parker is an artist who takes items, like forks and trombones, and transforms them into sculptures. Click the photo for video.
Today, you’re going to take two, 2-D (flat) pieces of paper and transform them into a 3-D sculpture.
The fifth grade is preparing to do paper mache masks and we need some help! Please donate any clean buckets, pails, or tubs that you may have at home. Anything that will hold a glue mixture will work. An extra special “thank you” if you can donate the matching lid!
The kindergarten is learning about functional art forms, which means it’s art that can be used. They will learn that basket-making is a functional art form. Students will learn to draw a basket and then fill it with their favorite picnic supplies.
Here’s how baskets are made:
What will you pack in your basket?
Student examples:
Opt Art, or Optical Art, is a style of art that creates an illusion to trick your eyes. Opt Art can be on paper, painted on a wall, or even a street. Street artists all over the world create Opt Art, or 3-D Street Art, that people can interact with.
Edgar Muller made a large 3-D Street Artwork called: The Crevasse. What would you do if you saw a giant canyon like this on the street? Would you play in it, be afraid to go near it, or pose in a funny way?
Here’s another 3-D Street Artwork that visitors can be a part of. Look at how much fun people have pretending to be in the library!
4th & 5th graders: Julio Jimenez tells how he got started creating Optical Street Art. He started by drawing on paper, just like you!
How can you do that? Here’s how!
Now, it’s your turn… (photos below)
Southside students, would you like to participate in an art contest? Entries are due near the start of school, so don’t forget!
Click the image to go to www.celebratingart.com
Why Enter???
Win Prizes
Receive Recognition
Each student may enter one art piece for each contest.
Must enter online. Do not mail art as it will not be entered in the contest or returned.
Contest deadlines:
December 10, 2014, extended February 5, 2015, April 9, 2015, August 22, 2015 ***This is the upcoming school year, but art can be turned in any time before August 22nd. If you’d like me to upload your work, please turn it in before Monday, August 17th.
Prizes: Ten winners in each grade division K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 for each contest and their art teachers will share over $5000 in prizes. Winners will also receive a free copy of the art book which includes their work. Other entries of merit will be invited to be published in our full color art book. Teachers who have 5 or more students published will receive a free copy of the book that features their students. Types of art: Any art that can have a still digital image. Paintings, computer graphics, sculptures, drawings, etc. Take a picture of your art. This is not a photography contest.
Best Art Tips: Make sure the art is yours and original- not traced or copied. If your artwork is on paper, it should be unlined paper. Lined notebook paper doesn’t photograph as well as solid-colored papers.
I am so excited to go to Washington D.C. with the 5th grade next week. I am even more excited to give four, one-hour tours of the National Gallery of Art. Students will see some of the artists and artworks that we’ve been studying since kindergarten. I can’t wait!
The National Gallery of Art’s Visitor Page
Do you recognize some of these artworks? Which ones do you want to see?
This is Leo Villareal’s installation artwork, Multiverse. It’s a “tunnel” between the East and West Buildings. He made this! This is an artwork! Walking through it always makes me feel like I’m in a music video!
The 2nd grade will use their knowledge of color families to weave a paper quilt. They will learn that Appalachian artists make quilts as a functional form of art. Functional art is art that can be used, such as quilts, pottery, and rugs.
Quilting has become more than functional art, it’s now a way for artists to express their emotions, feelings, and ideas. When art expresses ideas it’s called artistic expression. Which quilts do you think are functional and which are artistic expression?
Here are some student examples of our Color Family Quilts. Will our quilts be functional or for artistic expression?
If you really like quilting there’s the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky. It is an amazing art museum!
Your turn…Steps: (Yours will have different colors than the photographs.)
**All “Steps” photos from http://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/
The third grade will learn about Jeri Redcorn and her functional pottery. Jeri is a Caddo Native American who uses traditional techniques to create her pottery. The first grade studies the Caddo, too.
Here is Jeri Redcorn’s site, she even had artwork at the White House! (click photo link) How do you think this pottery is used? What textures, colors, and shapes do you see?
From the National Museum of the American Indian: How Jeri Redcorn became a potter, how she helps other people create pottery, and how she feels about her artwork.
Student examples, from above:
BEST ART TIPS:
The first grade will listen to “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister. We will look at the illustrations and talk about how they help us understand the story. Students will learn that art that tells a story is called narrative art. Narrative art doesn’t always have words like illustrations do. We will discuss what we think is the moral of the story. Students will create their own narrative artworks retelling their favorite part of “The Rainbow Fish”.
Here are some of the illustrations in the book. What story do you think these illustrations are telling?
Click the photo for a reading of “The Rainbow Fish” by Ernest Borgnine.
Student examples:
Steps:
Ms. Baird's Art Class 