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Teenage filmmaker, photographer, actress, writer, and poet, Shea Glover filmed the reaction of people being told they were beautiful.
What joy can we spread with our art making?
The Making Of: The Bear & The Hare from Hornet on Vimeo.
The Bear + The Hare, short for John Lewis
Shape
Form
Texture
Value
Color
Space
“I’m artist, creator, beach-trash collector, flea-market lover and photographer.”
– Sabine Timm
Click here to view Sabine Timm’s Instagram!
This week the Photography One students will be completing Nina Katchadourian‘s assignment from the PBS web series The Art Assignment.
1. Choose a person you know or would like to know better
2. Take a look at/through their library
3. Make 3 stacks of books to develop a portrait of the person
4. Upload it to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)
Learn more about Nina’s work: http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/
And read about William S. Burroughs: http://www.burroughs100.com/
Opale’s music video “Sparkles and Wine” is a great example of how lighting and color tone have an affect of the subject and mood in a photography or video.
Through a Lens Darkly Official Website
http://1world1family.me/
Through a Lens Darkly Interview with director and producer Thomas Allen Harris.
Steve McCurry is an American editorial photographer best known for his photograph “Afghan Girl” which originally appeared in National Geographic magazine.
Diane Arbus
Andreas Feininger
Man Ray
Self-Portrait with Half Beard, 1943
Gelatin silver print, 7 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches
Nan Goldin
Chuck Close
Sedimentaciones [Sedimentations], 2011 (2 HD video projections, colour, sound, 42 min 27 s, 41 min 42 s, on wooden tables)
“The strategy of dissolving the image reappears in Sedimentaciones, a photographic development table on which there are numerous photographs arranged in lines, with various blank sheets between them. The photos are extremely varied in nature, ranging from universally known images to others that are very specific to a Colombian context, personal portraits by the artist and anonymous, generic images. There are two developing trays at opposite corners. A hand takes a photograph from the table and puts it in a plastic tray filled with liquid in which the image dissolves. The paper emerges white and is then randomly placed in one of the lines. On the other side of the table another hand takes up one of the empty sheets and slides it into another tray. On taking out the sheet, the image has magically re-formed on it and the hand places it in the line of photographs. The process starts again in the other corner. Through this alternation we thus witness the ceaseless life and death of the image.”
http://www.jeudepaume.org/pdf/PK_OscarMunoz.pdf
Interview on Process
These photographic images of Hiroshima, Japan, are attempts to visually, poetically, and historically address the magnitude of what disappeared as a result of and what remains after the dropping of the A-bomb in 1945. They are images of loss and survival, fragments and lives, architecture and skin, surfaces and invisible things, like radiation. Exposure is at the core of this photographic project: exposure to radiation, to the sun, to light, to history, and exposures made from radiation, the sun, light and historical artifacts from the Peace Memorial Museum’s collection. After Hiroshima engages ethical seeing, visually registers warfare, and addresses the irreconcilable paradox of making visible the most barbaric as witness, artist, and viewer.
We started the semester in all our classes by watching Phil Hansen’s TED Talk “Embrace the Shake.” How can we create within constraints? How can our weaknesses become the fuel for our work?
It’s amazing to see how many hard working artists at CRES have a home practice as well.
Here are a couple examples of recent student work from home.
“Sheep Doing People Things” by Sylvia 3rd Grade (The first image on the upper left illustrates two sheep doing a little Irish Step.)
This horse was created by Ella M. In 4th Grade
This drawing of the Nubble Lighthouse was created by Hikaru 3rd Grade.
Feelings are often difficult to deal with, and communicating them is even harder.
While researching short videos on emotional intelligence to share with my 2nd Graders during our Expressionist unity I found this brief PBS Parents video.
The video explores a journaling/sketchbook technique to develop and foster social and emotional intelligence with your children, students, and self.
Arts.mic or Mic.com just published an interesting article on art’s effect on the human brain. Some of the highlights of the article were that “experiencing art decreases stress levels” and that “the brain is hardwired to process art.” The article also noted that the biggest benefits come from actually producing art.
“Along with the perks of enjoying and experiencing art, there are real-world benefits to making the art with your own two hands. According to a 2014 study, producing visual art improved psychological resilience and increased brain activity for the participants by the end of the experiment.
The study had two groups of recent retirees. One group was given lessons by an art educator and the participants actively created pieces of visual art that displayed their own personal form of artistic expression. The other group was treated more like a discussion class, where they talked about and interpreted selected paintings and sculptures. Both groups had their brains scanned before and after the period of courses.
The brain scans of the two groups before the classes (T0) and after 10 weeks (T1).Source: Anne Bolwerk/PLOSOne
Of the two groups, the one that produced art reaped the neural benefit of increased connectivity in the brain’s default mode network over the ten weeks of art class. This area deals with cognitive process like introspection, self-monitoring and memory.
As Hyperallergic points out, the researchers speculate that the first group got the gains because of the combination of motor and cognitive processing. They state in the study, “The visual art production intervention involved the development of personal expression and attentional focus on self-related experience during art creation.” Utilizing motor skills and thinking about art together becomes more beneficial instead of doing either separately. “
Click the link below for the full article:
http://mic.com/articles/106504/science-shows-that-art-is-having-fantastic-effects-on-our-brains-and-bodies
