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January 2015 Established August, 2003 Issue # 159
“Painting is self-discovery. Every artist paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock
Happy New Year The great thing about a new year is the rejuvination.
We return from Winter Break respite rested and
ready to beat the band that causes hundreds of little
enlightened brain explosions that will stay on fire for
the lifetimes of our students. From all of us in the Art
Department, we wish everyone a happy and healthy
2015.
John, Rudy, Nancy, Abby, Dominika, Lauren,
Kyle, Stacy, Leah, Vicki, Susan, Alisa, Deb, Janet,
and Rosa
MLK Youth Art Show
The Annual MLK Youth Art Show will open on
Thursday, January 22 at the Arizona State
Capitol Annex (1700 W. Washington) from 4:00
PM to 6:00 PM. Please join us as we celebrate the
successes and join the continued struggles of the
Civil Rights Movement through the art of our
talented young artists. Once again, we are the only
district invited to exhibit in this very poignent
event.
Pollock Month January is Jackson Pollock Month in PESD. We
honor the work of one of the 20th
century’s most
important artists who just happened to have been a
student in our district in the 1920s.
In 1950, the Art Journal Art News published a list of
the most important art exhibitions of that year in the
US. Among the top three wasJackson Pollock’s. A
Pollock painting sold at auction in 2006 for $140
million making it the most ever paid for a painting.
Our students will study the work of Pollock during
the month of January.
Pollock in his studio
Pollock’s work was often very large. He once cut
an entire wall out of his studio because removing a
30-foot long painting was otherwise impossible.
Every year the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in NY
recognizes the work that our Art Department does
related to Jackson Pollock month.
Jackson Pollock’s Alma Mater, Monroe School, now
houses the Phoenix Children’s Museum, one of the
most unique of its kind in the US. The Museum owns
two large paintings ala Pollock that were done by our
students during Salon Des Enfants.
Monthly Haiku
Happy New Year all
Resolutions will soon fall
Be happy that’s all
Kinder Kommunicates with Kolor at Kapitol
Mr. Rudy Begay was having fun painting with
Kindergarten at Capitol. These children have a great
need to express themeslves, but do not have all of the
vocabulary at their disposals so art is typcially their
language of communication.
Gaining A New Perspective
Dr. Matt Gish’s Herrera art classes have been
wokring on landscape paintings using atmospheric
perspective. They have learned that warm colors tend
to advance to the eye and are more detailed. Cool
colors tend to recede and lose detail. These paintings
show the beginings of warmer foreground colors.
Garfield 2
nd graders were studying color and how
moods and feelings are altered by the use of color.
They also discussed color temperature.
Garfield art teacher Ms. Nancy Caternolo gave all
of the sutdents containers full of colored buttons.
She instructed them to look at the color wheel and
find a warm or cool color and place a matching
button on top of it. She also projectd images and
discussed colors that the children would see in
their daily lives and how they are incluenced by
colors.
MacDonald’s and other fast food restaurants use
warm colors colors to entice customers to enjoy
hot food.
Ms. Caternolo and her 3rd
grade classes discussed
color familes. She likened them to people’s
families and how they are related. For instance
red might be the Dad and yellow might be the
Mom. All of the colors in between such as
orange, red-orange, yellow-orange are the
children.
Collage at Emerson
Ms. Deb Stanger’s classes created some
stunning collages by cutting and pasting images
from magazines. Collage is an art that was
popularized in the early 20th century by Cubists
such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Edison is in Stitches
Ms. Rosa Wilno’s Edison 3rd graders are learning
how to stitch with yarn on burlap to create a
wall hanging. They first planned a drawing on
newsprint, edited, and then drew the final work
on burlap with chalk. They practiced threading
needles, tying knots, and making small stitches.
Creating fabric art was a big challenge but the
students all stepped up and did a terific job as
expected.
“I have decided to stick with
love. Hate is too big of a
burden to bear.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
CapitOlizing on Printmaking
Capitol students are getting very sophisticated in
their art classes with Mr. Rudy Begay. They have
started printmaking. They began by discussing
positive and negative space. Mr. Begay then post-
tested them on positive/negative space, shapes and
pertinent vocabulary. They also viewed a
powerpoint on printmaking to include the history,
types of printmaking and relief print. Students
started sketching ideas on paper and once they
had a good original drawing, Mr. Begay showed
them how to transfer to an 8” x 6” linoleum tile.
Safety First!!! When the students started cutting
and carving into their linoleum tiles, Mr. Begay
did several demonstrations on how to use the tools
safely and efficiently. They then pulled five prints
off of each block. It is a lot of hard work, but the
students are finding it all very fascinating and
have accepted the challenge.
ARTifacts: 20 Century Art Collectors
Gertrude and younger brother Leo Stein were
educated as physicians in Boston and moved to Paris.
They, along with Gertrude’s partner Alice B. Toklas,
were instrumental in fueling the careers of many well
known artists in the early 20th
Century.
The reason that Moscow’s Pushkin Museum has
one of the word’s best collections of esarly 20th
Century art is due to the efforts of Sergei
Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. They went to France
and bought hundreds of pieces of art for their
private collecitons. Aftter the Bolshevik
Revolution in 1917 their collecitons were absorbed
into the state collection.
Comedian, Cheech Marin is one of the country’s top
collectors of Mexican-American art
Comedian Steve Martin is recognized as one ot the
world’s most astute collectors of 20th
Century art.
Sylvester Stalone has a knockout art collection.
Other important collectors are rapper/entrepreneur Jay
Z, singer/songwriter David Bowie, singer/songwriter
Bob Geldof, entertainer Madonna, actor Brad Pitt,
cyclist Lance Armstrong, playwrite Andrew Lloyd
Webber, actor Leonardo Decaprio, basketball player
Grant Hill, actor Hugh Grant, director Stephen
Spielberg, singer/songwriter Elton John,
singer/songwriter Lionel Ritchie, singer/songwriter
EricClapton, actor Kevin Spacey, and former Beatle
Paul McCartney and tennis great John MacEnroe.