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ARTIST
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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
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ART PROJECT/
MEDIUM
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MEDIA/
TECH
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Sept. 29
9:30am
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Rock Art of the
Southwest USA
Rock Art Story
Rock Art PwrPt
Art Project video
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Long ago, people traveling through the American
Southwest left mysterious designs upon the rock
faces of the canyons. The region in which we live
(Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico) has the
greatest concentration of rock art in the Americas.
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Student samples of Rock Art lesson
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Rock Art
Please gather palm-sized,
light-colored, flat, smooth
river rock for your student
projects
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Powerpoint
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Please
note
change in
date:
Nov. 3
9:30am
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Henri Rousseau
biography
powerpoint
art project video
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Rousseau (1844-1910) never studied to be an
artist and did not start painting until late in his
life. He painted jungle scenes purely from
imagination, never actually leaving France. He
is best known for his paintings of jungle
scenes, with a canvas full of hundreds of thick,
green leaves, flowers, and tropical animals.
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Wax resist
paintings
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Powerpoint
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Jan. 12
9:30am
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Wassily
Kandinsky
Kandinsky bio
Kandinsky ppt
art project video
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Kandinsky (1866-1944) took music and art
lessons as a child in Russia, but he did
not become a professional artist until he
was 30 years old. He gave up his job as a
law professor and moved to Germany to
study art. In those days, people thought a
drawing or a painting had to look like its
subject -- the more realistic, the better.
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The Impressionist painters started to paint pictures that didn't look
exactly real. Kandinsky was the first artist to take the final step away
from realism: he painted the first totally abstract pictures, paintings that
were pure designs, and believed that colors and forms had meanings
all their own.
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Abstract Art
using oil pastels
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Powerpoint
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Feb.9
9:30am
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Jacob Lawrence
Amy's lesson
Powerpoint
Biography
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Lawrence (1917-2000) didn't have a chance to go to an
art academy. Blacks weren't allowed at such schools
then. He learned art wherever he could, in classes
offered at after-school programs, libraries and
museums. Lawrence honored historical figures by
creating portraits of Harriet Tubman, Frederick
Douglass and other leaders. Lawrence, who died in
2000, was among the first African-American artists to
paint stories of his heritage.
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Painting -
Celebrating
Community
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Powerpoint
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Mar. 8
9:30am
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Henry Moore
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Moore (1898-1986) was a British artist who created
smooth, rounded sculptures and statues out of carved
wood and rock. Many of his statues look like humans
and families. Others are graceful abstract shapes. To
some people, Moore's sculptures appear to be eroded
by a thousand years of wind and water.
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Abstract "clay"
sculptures using
Crayola Model
Magic
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Powerpoint
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Apr. 19
9:30am
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Jackson Pollock
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Pollock (1912-1956) was an
American painter known for his
experimentation in painting
techniques and his abstract
style. Pollock wanted his
paintings to be different from
photography and tried painting
what he called "action painting"
with his entire body involved in
the motion.
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Pollock placed his canvas on the ground and then moved directly from
the paint can onto the canvas. He also used a stick to fling paint from
the can onto the emerging interwoven wild design. Sometimes he
would add other surprise elements into his action paintings like his
own hand prints or pieces of personal possessions.
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"Action" Paintings
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Powerpoint
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* From "Discovering Great Artists" by Kim Solga and Mary Ann F. Kohl. This book is available in the Visual Arts Resource Library at BTK,
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