Art Centre - May 18-22, 2009

Art Centre: May 18-22, 2009
Central Technical School Art Centre:
Year Two: Week Thirty-two

Monday – Art History

We were shown a video on the life of J.M. W. Turner

J.M.W. Turner - http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/

Raku firing outside in the school yard.

Wednesday Painting Class

Submitted collage – made up of these images:
http://www.astralsite.com/Art/Painting/studio1a.html
http://www.astralsite.com/Art/Painting/studio2.html
http://www.astralsite.com/Art/Painting/studio3.html
http://www.astralsite.com/Art/Painting/studio4.html

Wednesday Photography Class

Dry mounting of photographs
http://www.inficad.com/~gstewart/photo_mounting_101.htm
Various mounting techniques - http://www.framedestination.com/picture_frame_mounting.html

Shooting 3d art work – notes and demonstration

How to photograph your art –
http://www.dallasartsrevue.com/resources/How-to-Photo-Art.shtml

Thursday Sculpting Class

Presentation: Egyptian Sculpture

Egyptian Museum: sculpture -http://www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg/collection_sculpture.html

Contemporary artists influenced by Egyptian sculpture

Henry Moore - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/moore_henry.html

Barbara Hepworth - http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/hepworth/

Alberto Giacometti - http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1159&page=1

Jiri Netik - http://netik-art.sweb.cz/aindex.htm

Classical Greek Sculpture

Classical Greek Sculpture - http://library.thinkquest.org/23492/index.htm

Contemporary artists influenced by Greek sculpture

Aristide Maillol - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide_Maillol

Elie Nadelman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Nadelman

Paul Manship - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manship

Arno Breker - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Breker

Robert Graham - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graham_(sculptor)

Friday Life Drawing Class

This was our last drawing class for the year. The next classes will be devoted to preparing the studio for the exhibition. Today we did 10 2-minute gesture drawings and one 40 minute study (in two 20 minute parts). Focus was on contour and diagonal hatching for tone.


(Images from http://images.google.ca/)