Three Folk Musicians, Romare Bearden

 October 22nd - October 26th, 2012

This week, Computer Graphics is studying Harlem Renaissance Artist, Romare Bearden.
Bearden is best known for his collage work, in which he would combine, photographs, cut paper, textiles and paint to create his compositions.  Bearden often had recurring themes in his work of roosters, trains, farm shacks,hills field workers and musicians playing acoustic instruments  to symbolize his childhood in North Carolina; and jazz and blue musicians, row houses, stoops, doorways,windows  bright lights and signs to symbolize his adult life in New York City.
While the students will be creating digital collages, they will be employing some of the same collage techniques as Romare Bearden; combining photos, shapes, textural  filters and their own image to  tell their own unique story through art!




















Art 6 is working on self- portraiture this week.  The students are learning about PROPORTIONS of the human face, incorporating VALUE ( a range of lights and darks) in their COMPOSITIONS.

Art 7 is  learning about Two-Point Perspective. The students are doing  an amazing job on their two-point perspective drawings of  cities, adding details such awnings, sidewalks, windows, balconies, parking meters, stoops and more!  Perspective drawing used by modern day artists can be traced back to the Florentine Italian Renaissance artist, Fillippo Brunelleschi, who developed the technique in the early 1400's.

















The Studio classes just completed their second Altered Book Page assignment based on a literary source or song lyrics and their PROPORTION andVALUE studies of Manikins. This week, the studio classes will explore non- objective ABSTRACTION, learning how to express ideas and emotion through the artist's choices of color, tone, texture and mark-making.  The works above are those of Abstract Expressionists, Jackson Pollock (left) and Mark Rothko (right).