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ARTicles The Newsletter of the Art Department of the Phoenix Elementary School District
January 2016 Established August 2003 Issue #169
“An elementary school that treats the arts as the province of a few gifted children, or views them only as recreation and entertainment, is a school
that needs an infusion of soul. The arts are an essential element of education, just alike reading, writing, and arithmetic.”
William Bennett, former US secretary of Education
Happy New Year What is it about a new year? We feel that our batteries have
been re-charged. After the holidays, during which we ate and
spent too much, it is now time to begin to get back to business
and try to at least get through the month of January before we
forget about those resolutions. So, Happy New Year it is. We
should all try to make it the best year ever. Make life better for
someone else and you will make life better for yourself. Pay it
forward. Visit someone you haven’t seen for a long time. Smile
and say “hello” to a stranger. Buy a homeless person a meal.
Over tip a good waitress. Think about what you have learned in
life and pass it along. You will make someone’s day better, and
you will make your year one to remember.
Happy New Year from John, Rudy, Nancy, Abby, Crystal,
Carrie, Lauren, Kyle, Stacy, Leah, Vicky, Alisa, Deb, and Janet
MLK at the State Capitol
Our wonderful students will again participate in the annual
Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Art Exhibition at the Arizona
State Capitol. The show will open Thursday, January 21 from
4:30-6:00. This event was once open to other school districts but
for the past 12 years, PESD is the only one invited to exhibit.
Everyone is invited to this event in which more than 100 pieces
of student art will be featured.
Portrait of
Martin Luther King Jr. by Heard art student, Ariel Chavez
Our Qwn Jackson Pollock Month
The cover of Life Magazine in 1949 asked, “Is Jackson Pollock
America’s Greatest Painter?”
Our most famous alumnus,
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
changed the direction of world
art by creating the Abstract
Expressionist movement.
Pollock attended Monroe School
in the 1920s. This is now the
Phoenix Children’s Museum.
He is best known for his huge
non-objective paintings that had
no center of focus. They were
meant to create an environment in which the viewer felt
surrounded and able to enter into another realm. We celebrate
Pollock in January by having our students study his life and
work. Watch for an exhibition at the Burton Barr Library this
spring.
Blue Poles – 1952
Pollock at Herrera Ms. Vicky Ross’s Herrera students created paintings ala
Pollock using a Christmas theme. The paintings will grace
the hallways of the school and the door to her art room.
It Looks Great On Papier
Whittier art teacher, Ms Leah Mitchell, works with a student on a
papier mache squid. Students were up to their eyeballs in a messy
flour and water paste, but the results were fantastic, and the
students had a great time.
Calamari anyone???
Tearing it up at Garfield
Ms. Nancy Caternolo’s younger Garfield art students created
shapes by tearing construction paper to aid in identifying
organic shapes as well as strengthening fine motor skills.
All Roads Lead to Edison Some of Ms. Abby Christensen’s Edison art students worked on the
mathematics of perspective. They did one point perspectives in
which a road going to the horizon line disappeared at a
vanishing point. Notice that even the broken lines in the
road are in perspective.
Avian Abodes
Ms. Crystal Conover’s 5th
grade art classes made bird
houses which are now hanging around the Shaw campus.
They constructed the ornothoid apartments from wood
and then painted them bright colors hoping to attract
young feathered couples wishing to start families. These
birdie bungalows should egg them on. The wrent is low
and it is a gated community near good schools. Arborial
Abodes Abound.
How they see us Students always have a great time drawing their art teachers.
Ms. Janet Tucker (Heard) Ms. Abby Christensen (Edison)
Mr. John Avedisian (formerly of MTS)
Ms. Stacy Hedrick (Bethune)
Ms. Nancy Caternolo (Garfield)
Capitol under Siege by Dragons Mr. Rudy Begay’s team of Dragon slayers at Capitol have been
hard at work creating textures, both implied and real in their
images of dragon eyes.
7th and 8th graders at Capitol are also using a grid to make the
full dragon bodies. They began by drawing a grid on their
paper, then mating the lines in their drawings to the spaces.
Even 2nd graders got into the act. Mr. Begay demonstrated how
to draw the different body parts of dragons and the kids took it
from there. All of the dragon artists at Capitol did a super job.
ARTifacts: What’s in a 20th Century name?
Surrealism- Ideas taken from dreams and the subconscious. Often
images were realistic, but set in unusual circumstances.
Fluxus – A blend of media including painting, film, architecture,
etc.
Dadaism – An absurdist art
movement in which the artist uses
non-conventional art materials.
Impressionism – Light, color in an
instance of time were studied to
create paintings using minimal
detail.
Pop Art – Art depicting
everyday objects. The best
known is Andy Warhol’s
lithograph of a stack of
Campbell’s Soup cans.
Op Art – Art that employs
optical illusions.
Abstract Expressionism –
Artwork with no reference
to the physical world.
Paintings made from pure emotion.
Non-Objective – Coined by Vassily Kandinsky, it is a term
describing a painting that has no reference to any real life objects.
Suprematism – The movement was based upon artistic feeling and
emotion rather than specific references to physical reality.
Cubism – The reduction of all objects to very simple planes and
colors. Background and foreground are often on the same plane.
Der Blaue Reiter – Started in
Germany by Russian
immigrant artists and native
Germans it is a movement
that pushed the boundaries of
current rules and
sensibilities. It had no
specific identifying imagery.
Futurism – Begun in Italy the movement was meant to suggest
abstraction and speed, youth and energy. The ideas spread to other
parts of Europe and many of the artists and their work became
synonymous with Fascism.
De Stijl – Very simplified minimal images. Other things like
furniture design and architecture were also reduced to simple forms
and colors.
Social Realism – Depictions of stylized and heroic working class
people and events. It was the main art thrust in the early days of the
Soviet Union and other Socialist/Communist countries.
Art Deco – The origins are from
1920s France and spread to the rest
of Europe and the US. It is a style
of art, architecture and design
using the simplicity of line as its
main theme.
Art Nouveau –Art Nouveau was
mostly a stately architectural style
which used nature as its base.
Simple elegance was the
philosophy.
Fauvism – Fauve is a
French word that literally
means Wild Beast. When
we look at the work of
artists like Henri Matisse
now, we do not think it is
very outrageous, but it
certainly offended the
sensibilities of the art
world in the early 20th
century.
American Regionalism – Artist who painted realistic landscapes
throughout the US and celebrated the beauty of America.
The Ash Can School-early 20th century movement in which the
artist painted the working class of NY and even some of the seedier
parts of the city.
Art among us
Shaw
Ms. Crystal Conover’s art super stars at Shaw have created a four
foot by eight foot mural that is hanging in the gymnasium. The
handprints of many Shaw students will be a permanent part of the
Shaw landscape.
Garfield
Garfield school just got a fresh new mural designed by artist, Edgar
Fernandez who also designed the fabulous mural at Shaw. Mr.
Fernandez was aided in this project by Garfield 6th grade students.