Contemporary Art

in the Classroom

Marissa Wendolovske

Changed Topic From…

• Special needs and art education

• Topic seemed too broad

• Not interested enough

• Feel I would need to study more about special needs rather than art education

How I found my topic

• What about art education interests me most?

• What time period of art is the most appealing to me?

• What will be the most beneficial to my career after graduating?

• What do I have some knowledge on that will benefit me to learn more about?

• Why is there such strong distaste for some contemporary art?

• How will a contemporary art base in art education benefit students?

• What will be constructive to the future of art education?

Contemporary Art as a base

What interests me

most?

Time period?

Future career?

What will be beneficial to the future?

Searching Challenges

contemporary (as in present)…

Art Education

Contemporary Art… education

Doubts

• Not enough on contemporary art

• Too many options, I will need to view many writings and choose specific ones that I feel are the most valuable and persuasive to promoting my thesis.

Themes In Literature

• Broken down into charts and taxonomies

Teaching Contemporary Art

Concepts

StylesPrinciples

Elements

Themes In Literature

How People

View

How People Reflect

Contemporary Art

Old vs. New Portraits

Rembrandt (1660) Glen Ligon(1996)

Old vs. New Portraits

James Abbott McNeill Whistler(1872) Tim Hawkinson(2001)

Old vs. New Portraits

Michelangelo(1504) Charles Ledray(1995)

Categorized Sources

• Gude’s Post Modern Principles

• Marshall’s Five Ways to Integrate

• Freedman’s Rethinking Creativity

Gude’s Post-Modern Principles

• Appropriation

• Juxtaposition

• Recontextualization

• Layering

• Interaction of Text & Image

• Hybridity

• Gazing

• Representin’

Marshall’s Five Ways to Integrate

• Depiction

• Extension/Projection

• Reformatting

• Mimicry

• Metaphor

Freedman’s Rethinking Creativity

• Depends on Critical Reflection

• Based on Interests

• Learning Process

• Functional

• Social Activity

• Involves Reproduction as Well as Production

• Form of Leadership

Proceed Scenarios

• Looking beyond Pratt library

• Current books on contemporary art

• Continue searching how people view and reflect on art… in museums

• Find contemporary art museums; look into their art education programs

Relevance

• Future as an art educator in a contemporary art museum.

• It will be pertinent to discover the best possible ways to teach contemporary art, and how individuals view and reflect on it.