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vanderhart on Miss Cowley

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:53:27 -0500

You may be interested to know that the caption reads - .....Historical Engraver to Her Majesty/London Published as the Act Directs Feb 17 1803.....

signed 3xg grandson of Peltro William Tomkins.

Amanda Thompson Rundahl on Sun Mask

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:30 -0500

Kwakwaka'wakw is pronounced: kwa-kwa-ka-wak

Amanda Thompson Rundahl on Bracelet

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:17 -0500

Kwakwaka'wakw is pronounced: kwa-kwa-ka-wak

Amanda Thompson Rundahl on Transformation Mask

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:58:50 -0500

Kwakwaka'wakw is pronounced: kwa-kwa-ka-wak

Amanda Thompson Rundahl on Totem Pole

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:05:26 -0500

This link to a 2002 National Public Radio story on totem poles includes text, audio, images and links to other Native and non-Native resources about totem poles in the Northwest Coast Region of the U.S. and Canada.

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/totempoles/index.html

Mina on Event Horizon: Appropriation

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:34:48 -0500

I think you should add some of Shepard Fairey's work - particularly his Obama "HOPE," that he's being sued over by the associated Press. Why is Warhol allowed to do this type of appropriation, but Fairey is not?

Abbie Anderson on Unpainted Sculpture

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:37:44 -0500

This artwork is on view in the Walker exhibition Abstract Resistance (February 27–May 23, 2010).

Treden Wagoner on What is an effective way to use ArtsConnectEd to teach an art class to grade 8 students?

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:33:03 -0500

Check our Interactive Resouce on the elements and principles of art, The Artist's Toolkit.

Jester on 1:1

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:49:05 -0500

That Cool!

Jester on 1:1

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:48:55 -0500

HAHA

shirley sommer on Intermediate - Art Analysis

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:29:30 -0500

After viewing all 15 slides carefully answer the questions in Part One of your Art Analysis assignment packet.

Part Two of the packet requires you to focus on one of three paintings you chose in Part One. Answer the questions thoughtfully.

Part Three requires you to write an art analysis essay based upon your responses in Part Two. Compose your essay using good language art skills.

Donut on Old Tree

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:53:34 -0500

really shows what time does to the world

^_^

EmilylovesMaddie on Yellow Corner Piece

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:49:51 -0500

how is this art?!

kathys on The Life We Live

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:32:26 -0500

I enjoyed how this set integrated clips (i.e. DuChamp) to help dimensionalize a piece of art.

Lorraine on Inspired by "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:04:37 -0500

I really enjoyed this presentation. It also gave me an idea on how to get people to relate to art in a different context. This can work great for young children who have a certain story they love and get them to look at artwork that way. Thanks.

Amanda Thompson Rundahl on Chalchiuhtlicue

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:36:31 -0500

Pronunciation: Chahl-chee-oo-TLEE-kway

gmayhew on What is an effective way to use ArtsConnectEd to teach an art class to grade 8 students?

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:10:50 -0500

Where can I find information on the visual weight of colour to create colour balance. Thanks

Abigail Woods on Morning Cleaning, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:40:56 -0500

Check out this photograph of Walker staff installing the artwork!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkerart/4115627480/in/set-72157622706370977/

jtepmahn on Olive Trees

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:37:24 -0500

Franz Marc was was of the pioneers of abstract art at the begininng of the twentieth-century, but during his vistits to Paris, France, he became a great lover of the owrk of Vincent van Gogh.

In this painting by van Gogh, the colors are more muted than those used by Marc, but the nature is when Marc was drawn to.

alchuhel on Cosmic

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:09:31 -0500

Reminds me of an action painting with paint being thrown in diagnol directions. Reminds me of Valentine's Day.

alchuhel on Coffee Thyme

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:08:15 -0500

What shapes do you see in this piece.

What type of canvas do you think was used?

alchuhel on Jezebel

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:07:06 -0500

Notice the balance and diagonal lines used

alchuhel on Untitled

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:06:11 -0500

Notice the bold use of color and thick brush strokes. As looks like paint was splattered on the canvas like Pollock paints.

alchuhel on Achrome

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:04:15 -0500

Notice the texture in the middle of this white canvas.

alchuhel on Untitled (no.1078, p.16)

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:00:54 -0500

This is one of Jackson Pollock's pieces.

alchuhel on Untitled (no.1078, p.16)

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:58:56 -0500

Black and white can also be very abstract with patterns and lines.

alchuhel on The Great Field of Action or the 64 Hexagrams

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:56:05 -0500

Notice the color and shapes.

Margaret Hasse on Art Today and Tomorrow

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:54:23 -0500

Abbie, I appreciated seeing the project through your eyes and also seeing the images you selected to interact with your text.

- Margaret Hasse, Art Today and Tomorrow program evaluator

trainer on Abstract Composition

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:54:07 -0500

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nicnite on The Prodigal Son

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:02:19 -0500

Clarification: I was searching on "orb" in the process of putting together a collection called "Sputnik."

nicnite on The Prodigal Son

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:54:02 -0500

This one came up with the keyword search "orb." Yes, Sputniks is sort of a prodigal son!

nicnite on Untitled

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:34:12 -0500

Don't know what this is but it's evocative for me of the space age and a rocket gantry. Came up with a search of keyword "space age."

nicnite on "Sputnik Bank" still bank

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:20:53 -0500

This looks to me like a fascinating amalgam of Western ideas about the early Soviet space program. Sputnik, of course, didn't carry a dog, but some of the very early Soviet space shots did (they chose dogs over monkeys because they were calmer, and easier to dress). The fact this symbol of socialist techonological, scientific and cultural triumph is rendered as a piggy-bank (Sputnik-bank) raises all sorts of interesting questions. What might some of those be?

Robin Dowden on Cantabile

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:15:15 -0500

Kenneth Noland, Abstract Painter of Brilliantly Colored Shapes, Dies at 85 By WILLIAM GRIMES Published January 6, 2010 The New York Times
Mr. Noland’s brilliantly colored concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field painting.

Lee Love on Large Platter by Shimaoka Tatsuzo

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:14:26 -0500

I apprenticed with Tatsuzo Shimaoka from 2000 to 2003. Most of this ropes for Jomon rope impression are not wrapped around a dowl. They are simply cut to a length, with the ends tied off and are rolled on the clay to make the impressions. The zogan/inlay slip is scraped off at the high surfaces to expose the inlayed slip in the valleys. Lee Love in Minneapolis, MN

Amanda Thompson Rundahl on Learning to Look: A Exsted

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:30:54 -0500

This set was created as a writing assignment for an Intro to Visual Arts college course. The instructions for the assignment can be found under the Related Items tab above.

Amanda Thompson Rundahl on ARTS 1229 PTC: Learning to Look Assignment

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:29:21 -0500

This set was developed as a writing assignment for a semester-long Intro to Visual Arts college course. Students were directed to this set for instructions that explained how to complete the assignment.

Before seeing this set though, they each chose a postcard (a real poscard, not a digital one) of a work of art from the MIA's collection on the first day of the course and introduced themselves in class by telling why they'd chosen the postcard they did. They then were given this assignment using the ArtsConnectEd image on the postcard they had chosen.

Once the writing assignment described in this set was complete, the students submitted their sets to me via email (an option on the Set Actions menu).

See the Related Items tab above for an example of one student's work, based on a Dorothea Lange photograph.

Allen Mader on Winged Vessel

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:30:43 -0500

I am always interested in looking at ideas in clay that have that quality of freedom. Karen has achieved this and makes me want to meet her and share what inspires her.

Allen Mader

pda571 on Ceremonial Mat

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:35:05 -0500

I donated this item. It was woven from pandanas leaf on the island of Abemama in 1982 by the wife of a local protestant minister. It was given to us as a gift because my wife and I were Peace Corps volunteers on the islands. The leaf is soaked in sea water for days and then pounded until soft and split into thin stips and woven. It takes weeks of meticulous work to create this mat. Traditionally this mat is used for sitting on during feasts or for covering your lap during a traditional sitting dance. It can also be used wrapped around the body by a male dancer.

Curt Rahman

Abbie Anderson on Event Horizon: A Study Set

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:41:37 -0500

Christian Marclay's From Hand to Ear (1994) makes a reference to From Hand to Mouth (1967) by Bruce Nauman. Notice the parallels that exist between the similar titles, the medium/techniques (wax and casting), and the artists' approaches to self-portraiture.

Abbie Anderson on From Hand to Ear

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:40:35 -0500

Treden Wagoner on The Japanese Bridge

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:46:04 -0500

This painting is great resource for teaching about technique.

Zoom into this image and ask yourself the following questions:

What was the color of the ground (the canvas)?

What color did Monet start with?

What was the last color Monet applied to this image?

How many different colors were on Monet's palette?

Now that you have spent some time thinking about Monet's technique, what other works of art in ArtsConnectEd would be good illustrations of technique? Create your own questions and use zoom to investigate a few of them. Use Comments to share your questions and answers.

Maria Long on Add a Slide to an Art Collector Set

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:54:34 -0500

Very nifty and clear explanation..

May be I add some slide for my essay service website..

Thank you...

BMFiman on Lucretia

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:06:15 -0500

this is one of the most haunting images at the mia i think

Ann Isaacson on Man's Jacket

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:17:02 -0500

This dark blue jacket is photographed against a black background and is best viewed in full screen.

Susan Rotilie on Without Words

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:12:37 -0500

http://tinyurl.com/ydzjwfz

Judith Shea appropriated an Egyptian sculptural fragment for this work. It's in the collection of the Metropolitian Museum of Art in New York. Visit the link above to see the work on the Met's web site..

Janis McKnight on Amaryllis Spring

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:14:25 -0400

April Showers bring May flowers. This Spring pictures shows a flower starting to open up. What color will the flower be?

Janis McKnight on Winter Idyll from Connecticut

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:12:04 -0400

Winter in the counrty. Snow covers the ground as far as you can see. What do you think made the tracks in the snow?

Janis McKnight on A Scene on the Tohickon Creek: Autumn

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:09:36 -0400

What a wonderful Fall picture. Imagine walking into this forrest where the leaves are so colorful they look like they are on fire. How many different colors of leaves do you see?

Janis McKnight on South Beach Bathers

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:06:34 -0400

What a hot summer day this must be. Is this what you wear when you go to the beach? What do you normally see at the beach that isn't here?