dot day
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This PPT was created to discuss artists that use dots prominently in their work with elementary education majors and art pre-service teachers, to coordinate with reading Peter Reynolds children's book, The Dot. International Dot Day is on (or about) September 15.TRANSCRIPT
International Dot DaySeptember 15
To celebrate International Dot Day, we will first see some work by artists who are known for using dots in their work
Georges Seurat
Pointillism techniquePost-Impressionism
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte1884-1886
Australian Aboriginal Art
Dot paintings thought to represent dreams and religion, used in cultural ceremonies
Wassily Kandinsky
Circles in a Circle, 1923Taught at the Bauhaus 1922-1933 (Russian born)Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul”
Yayoi Kusama
"The Earth is a polka dot, Moon is a polka dot, Sun, Mars, all of them are polka dots," Yayoi Kusama said. "I realized my life is only a small portion of this universe. It's a mere dot."
Japanese artist (born 1929)pre-cursor to Pop Art, minimalist and feminist art movements; influenced Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Ben-Day Dots
American Pop Artist from the 1960s (1923-1997)Recent retrospective at Art Institute of Chicago
“collision of commercial sources and fine art”
Chuck Close
Large-scale portraits made entirely from inked thumb-prints
Photo-realism
American, born 1940
Damien Hirst
Reportedly England’s richest living artist (born 1965)
Sees art as the conception of the idea, not the execution of the work (many assistants create much of his work)
Spot paintings, 1986-2011Conceptual art
Michelle Grabner
Conceptual – expressions of orderliness & routine
Women’s domestic productivity and patterning, inspired by feminist work of the 1970s American contemporary artist,
teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago
Ian Sands, art teacher, NC
http://apexhsart.blogspot.com/search/label/postitstop14
Student self-portraits enlarged using Skittles
Large-scale portraits made from stickie notes on school wall
http://apexhsart.blogspot.com/2012/02/skittle-art-part-2.html
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
So, what is the main point
of the book?
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
How did Vashti’s teacher impact her?
How did Vashti make a difference for the younger student at the end of the story?
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
How will you make your mark?
How can our class make a difference on campus or in the local community?