Printmaking

Over the next few weeks, the middle school art students will study Printmaking.

We'll start with relief prints and go from there.

Abstract Expressionism Art Movement Study Notes

Study the information below for the TEST! Remember to scroll down and study Josef Albers.

"Abstract Expressionism" is a vague term which refers to a general movement of largely non-representative painting, which flourished in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. The movement was neither wholly abstract nor expressionist and encompassed several quite different styles.

What years did the Abstract Expressionism movement take place? 1947-1965

ARTISTS
Lee Krasner (1908-84)
-wife of Jackson Pollock

Franz Kline (1910-62)
-known for his large black and white sketches/paintings
-painted large canvas that were mostly attached to walls
-used cheap commercial paints

Hans Hoffman
-influenced Jackson Pollock

Piet Mondrian
-know for his paintings of squares and rectangles using mostly primary colors with white backgrounds

Ad Reinhart
-colour field artist

Willem De Kooning
-born in Holland/Amsterdam

Robert Motherwell (1915-91)
-both an abstract expressionism and colour field artist

Mark Rothko (1903-70)
-born in Russia
-colour field artist
-know for his large paintings of floating color shapes with loose unlined edges.
-the leader in the Colour Field art movement.

Clyfford Still (1904-80)
-colour field artist

Barnett Newman (1905-70)
-colour field artist

Yves Kline
-colour field artist
Know for his painting “Blue Monochromatic”

Josef Albers (1888-1976)
-born in German
-part of Bauhaus
-came to Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC in 1933
-Professor at Yale University
-“Homage to the Square” series is his most famous works of art.

Paul Jackson Pollock
-January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956
-an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.
-Pollock died at the age of 44 in a car accident. In December 1956, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967. More recently, in 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London.
-Pollock himself began employing his splash/drip method in 1947, partly as a result of the surrealists' experience, and also (reportedly) after seeing how Navajo Indians in New Mexico made their sand paintings by sprinkling earth onto the ground to form intricate patterns.
-Peggy Guggenheim, one of Pollock's most important patrons helped Pollock, helped Pollock rise to fame.

Action Painting
Impulsive abstract painting technique during which paint is energetically splashed, or dribbled onto a canvas, usually placed face-up on the floor.It is principally associated with The New York School of American Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s, and with the painter Jackson Pollock (1912-56), dubbed "Jack the Dripper".

Online Art Encyclopedia

This is a wonderful online resource for parents and students.

Students, as always, ask your parents/guardians to be with you when you use the internet for Art related visits.

www.artcyclopedia.com

Thanks

Kirk Adam

What is an Art Movement?

Over the next few weeks, we'll begin exploring and learning about Art Movements, learn about Artists who were part of each movement and create Art based on each movement.

An Art Movement is a tendency or style in Art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of Artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within usually a number of years.

What is your favorite Art Movement?

I have to remind my students that favorite means one. With that said, its hard for me to choose one Art Movement that is my favorite, but since I have to, I would say, my favorite Art Movement is Abstract Expressionism.

For a timeline of major Art Movements, visit http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/

Comment below and share with me your favorite and your childs/charges favorite Art Movement.

Thanks,

Kirk Adam

Homage to the Square

One of my favorite Artists is Josef Albers.

Albers was a "Hard-edge" abstract painter who drew on his use of patterns and intense colors, while Op artists and conceptual artists futher explored his interest in perception.
An American, born in Germany, enrolled in Bauhaus, faculty of Black Mountain College, North Carolina, taught Robert Rauschenber, Design Department Head at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Most famous of all are the 100s of paintings and prints that make up the series Homage to the Square. In this series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with flat colored squares arranged concentrically. Albers used a palette knife with oil colors and often recorded colors used on the back of his works.

Middle School art class (10:45am) begin studying Josef Albers today. Please encourage your child to embrace Josef's art work.

To learn more about Josef Albers, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Albers

Kirk Adam

Your child should have these materials for art classes

1 watercolor set

1 sketchbook that is wire bound with 100 or more pages.

Thanks

Kirk Adam

Grandma Moses

Color Wheel

What is happening in Art Classes?

We are off to a good start with our second nine weeks.

Kindergarden classes are being introduced to colored pencils.

1-4 grades are working with watercolors and color studies.

5th graders are painting with watercolors.

Middle School Class I (10:45 am) is studying colors and working with watercolors.

Learn more about color studies by visiting http://www.worqx.com/color/color_wheel.htm

Middle School Class II (11:45 am) is studying Grandma Moses and doing a contemporary drawing based on Grandma Moses' painting "The Move". Learn more about Grandma Moses by visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma_Moses

Parents and Guardians, we still need for your child/children/charge/charges to have a watercolor set and a sketch pad (100 pages or more that is wire bound).

Thanks

Kirk Adam

Art Supplies 2010-2011

Parents are asked to supply students with the following...

1-Wire Bound Sketch Pad with 100 or more pages (blank pages, no lines).

1-Watercolor set.

Thanks!