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