Look!
It’s Monet! But these pictures are made from bits of rubbish! They reminded me of the work we saw in Here Comes the Garbage Barge.
I learned about the artist, Tom Deininger, from CRAFT, who learned about him from Nag on the Lake, who learned about him from Twisted Sifter.
Pondering this medium for our upcoming Pop Art unit…
Putting together postcards for my former students heading off to middle school!
Ladies and gentlemen, please remember that you can always contact me anytime you need to. You’re a part of our classroom community indefinitely.
When we went to the Seattle Art Museum in spring of 2010, we had a chance to see some of the pieces at the nearby Olympic Sculpture Park. One of the works that caused a lot of conversation was “Untitled” by Roy McMakin:
The black chair looks like one of the plastic ones you can get at WalMart, but it’s metal, just like the white “paper” box.
When my significant other Toby was in San Francisco for WordCamp last weekend, he sent me these neat pictures. Look familiar?
This last one is designed to look like what giant computer servers sometimes look(ed) like.
Thanks, Toby!
I’m constantly amazed at the quality and sheer volume of work in the Detroit Institute of Art. The highlight of my day was definitely the iPad interactive guide to the Diego Rivera Detroit Industry mural. I’d learned some about the meaning and symbolism in the mural in the past, but the effort and detail that went into this new guide gave me chills. That alone was more than worth the price of admission.
Here are some of my other favorites. I’ve included myself or other visitors to show you the scale of the art, not just because we’re so beautiful.
I’ve had Audubon on the brain because of his connections to Gary Schmidt’s brilliant Okay for Now. **SPOILER** I asked a docent if this print was a plate that was removed from a folio or a book, and he said that’d be something I needed to ask the curator. I don’t know how to contact a curator, but you can bet I’ll find out!
We studied Andy Warhol briefly in class both last year and the year before. This self-portrait is on loan. As you can see, it’s worth pondering deeply.
RIght across from Mr. Warhol was this lovely Claes Oldenburg sculpture. I love that it’s made of wood.
We talked last year both in art and just during literacy about how artists make objects larger to show that they’re supposed to be closer to the viewer. I think this piece makes that point really well, and I love how huge it is.
Another Claes Oldenburg creation, this one featuring a drawing of a car that then has a plastic model laid on top of it.
In one of the hallways of glass cases, they had a bunch of marionettes displayed. These were used in a production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. They have to switch out the marionettes every six months because they’re fragile and sensitive to light.
Fox! They had a special exhibit of animal prints and drawings, including some of the original illustrations to Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven.”
Embroidery on comic book covers!
Close-up of the embroidery.
I couldn’t find any Chihuly glass on display, but I did see this amazing contemporary glass sculpture.
That’s about all I have energy to share with you right now! I hope you enjoyed this little peek into some of the amazing items at the DIA. I miss you, ladies and gentlemen, and I’m so excited to start learning with you again in less than a month!
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If I had a travel budget to take my class around the world, you can bet a big part of our visits would be spent in museums. Art is such a tremendous way to learn about history and the world around you, and I wish we could spend time close to the masters more often.
I’ll do my best to document my trip today to the Detroit Institute of Art and post it here. The DIA is one of my favorite museums in the world (The Henry Ford is undoubtedly the best, of course, and I also like the National Museum of Scotland and the National Gallery of Art in DC), and going there was about the only thing I told my parents I REALLY wanted to do when I came back to Michigan this summer.
Here are a few pieces by artists we’ve studied that I’m REALLY excited to see.
"Giant Three-Way Plug," Claes Oldenberg
"Dancers in Repose," Edgar Degas
"Basket Set," Dale Chihuly
"The Bird of Washington or Great American Sea Eagle," John James Audubon
And no visit to the DIA would be complete without an extended visit to the jaw-droppingly magnificent Diego Rivera mural (It’s the one you’ve seen in the Chrysler Imported from Detroit commercial).
"Detroit Industry," Diego Rivera
Rad pictures hopefully to come tomorrow!
Pretty much every single OK Go video has made it into our classroom in some way or another, whether we’re talking about Speed Stacks…
Rube Goldberg machines…
And now I can see this video being used for (among other things) discussions of lateral and radial symmetry! Amazing!
And you can click here to make your own message!
See, I did!
The one thing I *can’t* seem to do is figure out how to imbed video on my shiny new website. Help?
More will be added after school.
http://www.whitney.org/Collection/JacobLawrence
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