DEC 13th: MAIL ME ART - My December Journey
Read this article Mail Me Art and look below:
Inspiration for all you potential artists and doodlers out there: Mail Me Art! Darren Di Lieto established Mail Me art several years ago opening it to both professional and amateur artists both adults and children. The idea is to send artistic work as mail. The address is incorporated into the art-piece as are stamps and the artist's address. A wide variety of materials and styles are used from postcards to envelopes, to padded post bags and boxes. Take a look at the gallery and site and be inspired.
The journey of ideas and maintaining connections via mail is at the basis of this project. We would like to explore as does Mail Me Art the journey of the envelope. Over your travels either:
decorate an envelope and mail it to us with symbols, images of the place where you are. Post from there! OR using a magazine/tickets/brochures/newspaper from your travels create an envelope and mail it to us from the country where you visit.
Send to :
Claire Psillides
International School of Kuala Lumpur
P.O.Box 12645,
50784 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Humanities teachers will display everything on your return. Look through the gallery and Mail Me Art site for inspiration. Take a photo of what you create. If you want to participate in the world-wide Mail Me Art project have a go and send it off before January 21st so as to reach the UK by the deadline of January 31st. Take a photo of your work to share with us and post it on your blog. Click here for the instructions: read carefully.
Have fun with this!
Nov. 19: PICASSO
Those of you who are familiar with Picasso may enjoy this digital morphing again by Phillip Scott Johnson:
Look at Picasso's painting of Guernica and think about what his message is. Guernica was a quiet village and on the day its attack the population was mostly women and children as many of the men were away fighting elsewhere. Guernica is painted in grey, white and black and is 3.5 meters by 5.7 meters.Picasso aimed to bring world attention to the bombing of the Basque town by the German bombers who were supporting the facist leader General Franco during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. According to PBS:
Read this article Mail Me Art and look below:
Inspiration for all you potential artists and doodlers out there: Mail Me Art! Darren Di Lieto established Mail Me art several years ago opening it to both professional and amateur artists both adults and children. The idea is to send artistic work as mail. The address is incorporated into the art-piece as are stamps and the artist's address. A wide variety of materials and styles are used from postcards to envelopes, to padded post bags and boxes. Take a look at the gallery and site and be inspired.
The journey of ideas and maintaining connections via mail is at the basis of this project. We would like to explore as does Mail Me Art the journey of the envelope. Over your travels either:
decorate an envelope and mail it to us with symbols, images of the place where you are. Post from there! OR using a magazine/tickets/brochures/newspaper from your travels create an envelope and mail it to us from the country where you visit.
Send to :
Claire Psillides
International School of Kuala Lumpur
P.O.Box 12645,
50784 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Humanities teachers will display everything on your return. Look through the gallery and Mail Me Art site for inspiration. Take a photo of what you create. If you want to participate in the world-wide Mail Me Art project have a go and send it off before January 21st so as to reach the UK by the deadline of January 31st. Take a photo of your work to share with us and post it on your blog. Click here for the instructions: read carefully.
Have fun with this!
Nov. 19: PICASSO
Those of you who are familiar with Picasso may enjoy this digital morphing again by Phillip Scott Johnson:
Look at Picasso's painting of Guernica and think about what his message is. Guernica was a quiet village and on the day its attack the population was mostly women and children as many of the men were away fighting elsewhere. Guernica is painted in grey, white and black and is 3.5 meters by 5.7 meters.Picasso aimed to bring world attention to the bombing of the Basque town by the German bombers who were supporting the facist leader General Franco during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. According to PBS:
'On April 27th, 1937, unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated on behalf of Franco against the civilian population of a little Basque village in northern Spain. Chosen for bombing practice by Hitler's burgeoning war machine, the hamlet is pounded with high-explosive and incendiary bombs for over three hours. Townspeople are cut down as they run from the crumbling buildings. Guernica burns for three days. Sixteen hundred civilians are killed or wounded.'
Picasso shows war as a brutal and destructive and through his images inspired by the attack on Guernica and builds an unforgettable collage of suffering:' Speculations as to the exact meaning of the tortured images are as numerous and varied as its viewers, and perhaps this was exactly Picasso's intention. A composition so compelling challenges our most basic notions of war as heroic, unmasking it as a brutal act of self-destruction.' (PBS)
Watch Lena Gieseke's 3D animation of Picasso's Guernica:
Watch this animation from a student at The Vancouver Film School. Spot the other artists but particularly note the references to Guernica:
How are artists able to 'speak out'?
How does this painting reflect some of the concepts of war we have been exploring in class?
What is the theme of Picasso's painting?
Go this zoomable version to explore the painting in detail.
Nov. 17: SPOT THE ARTIST
August 11 COLLAGE ARTIST: TEESHA MOORE
What is the theme of Picasso's painting?
Go this zoomable version to explore the painting in detail.
Nov. 17: SPOT THE ARTIST
For those of you who like art and may recognize some of these paintings take a look at the videos below of women assembled into an amazing digital morphing by Phillip Scott Johnson. Great cello music as well.
And for more self portraits by artists over 500 years by Philip Scott Johnson
500 Years of Male Self Portraits in Western Art:
Bored nothing to do? Visit an art gallery from around the world!! Look at the amazing list of international galleries from Canberra,Australia to Finland! Go in and explore. Look for paintings that could connect with the concept of heroes and journeys.August 29 ART GALLERIES
August 11 COLLAGE ARTIST: TEESHA MOORE
