Architecture Studio

So you want to be an ARCHITECT?

An Architect is a person who designs houses, office buildings, skyscrapers, landscapes, ships, and even entire cities.

Architects are usually are good at art and math, especially geometry.
They are creative.
They are problem solvers.

I Am An Architect

 This architect decided to build a new building on top of an old one, so there would be more places to people to live in a crowded city.

 What do you think inspired this architect?  What do you think this building is used for?

This is a lucky person home.  Do you see how the architect Frank Lloyd Wright used the waterfall as part of the design?  Do you notice how the bricks he choose for the house are similar to the rocks in the landscape?

How can you explore architecture in our studios?

 

Could you design a new skyscraper in the sculpture studio?

In the drawing studio we have some of the tools that architects use.

Before you start your design, think about these questions:

1.  Who will your building be for?  A family?  An artist?  A king?

2.  What is your building used for?  A home?  A school?  An animal hospital?

Art Has the Power to Inform and Inspire Change

The Great Barrier Reef
Art and Ecology

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s biggest coral reef system, located off the coast of Australia.The Great Barrier Reef is home to more than 1,500 species of fish, 411 types of hard coral, one-third of the world's soft corals, 134 species of sharks and rays, six of the world's seven species of threatened marine turtles, and over 30 species of marine mammals

"The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority considers the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef to be climate change, causing ocean warming which increases coral bleaching."- 

Visit Unknown World for more information on the Great Barrier Reef

Artists respond to our changing world, creating art to communicate an awareness about our marine environment, particularly the bleaching of coral reefs. 

Margaret Wertheim

The Reef Project a crocheted coral reef created by Margaret Wertheim, and her twin sister, Christina. The project combines mathematical ideas, marine biology, a feminine handicraft and community involvement.  Over 7,000 people worldwide have participated in the project. The Reef Project responds to and addresses the environmental concerns of global warming and the pollution and destruction of our ocean habitats.

Courtney Mattison
Courtney Mattison is a California born artist and ocean advocate working to inspire others to conserve our marine habitats. She creates clay forms, inspired by the beauty of ocean ecosystems—primarily coral reefs—and the human-caused threats they face. 

Do you have a cause you care deeply about? What message/information can you share with others through your art?

Create a Relief Sculpture - Extra Art

Relief sculpture is kind of sculpture in which the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

The image stands out from a flat background, like the faces and designs on coins.

Low Relief or Bas-Relief Sculpture stands out only a little from the background. 

High relief sculpture stands out a lot from the background, while still remaining attached. 

LINK TO THE ART of ED LESSON on making a yarn and foil low relief sculpture:

https://www.theartofed.com/lesson-plans/yarn-and-foil-relief-free-lesson-plan-download/

Obeserve-Drawing Three Dimensional Shapes

3-Dimensional Shapes

GLEs: EP1B, EP1C

Art Auction!-Aesthetics Game

An Art Aesthetics Game

Art Auction Video
(watch a small part to view a real art auction)

1. View the artwork for sale. (in a powerpoint)
2. Your task is to choose the work your group wishes to purchase, and offer reasons for desiring a specific work. 
3. Students will raise a paddle to make a bid. They must offer one reason why they would like to own the work. The group that offers the most reasons for wanting the work, wins it. (keep track with tokens)
4. As the auction goes on, groups who have not yet made a purchase, will have to bid on their second, third or fourth choice. 

Edvard Munch

The Scream 1893 

Jeff Koons Balloon Dog

1994 

Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884 

 The Great Wave

Katsushika Hokusai 1830–32 

        Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

                                        Frida Kahlo, 1940

Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm, 1950 

Vocabulary for Describing Artwork:

color, line, shape, texture, technique, detail, 
mood, story told, subject matter

Seurat $35.2 million
Koons $58.4 million
Munch $119,922, 500 million

Hokusai $68,500

When Was It Made?-Art Timeline

How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures?

When Was It Made? 

Get together with your fellow art historians and put these six works of art in chronological order. 

(no peeking)

Lascaux Cave Paintings, up to 20,000 years old
Prehistoric Art

Lion, Middle Ages

The Watchful Doe, 1720-29, Deer. Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Late Baroque

Cows, 1890, Vincent Van Gogh

Blue Horses, 1911 Franz Mark

 Grrrrrrrrrrr, 1965 Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art/Contemporary

Extra Art-Wire Figures

Today we are introducing a new medium to the sculpture studio. Artists sometimes use wire to make Sculputure. 

We are using pipe cleaners to create our figures. We will embellish them with beads, buttons, and yarn.