OPEN STUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT

Mrs. Switzer and National Art Honor Society will be holding Open Studio time Tuesdays & Thursdays from 2:30 - 5:00 in room 243.
Anyone who wants to work on art can stay after at this time.

SEARCHING for MEANING...

Looking for Meaning in Art? Good! because that's the goal of our semester. As we explore the art elements and various art media, we will be making deeper connections to a Big Idea. Some of the Big Ideas we will delve into will be: SYMBOLS, POWER, PLACE, IDENTITY.

We may examine more Big Ideas than this, or we may just wallow in each of these until we are saturated with all the contents of their possibilities.

Get ready to dive in!!!

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

FLASH! 11 Warhol Portraits STOLEN!

Warhol Paintings Stolen in Los Angeles

Excerpts from the New York Times article By ANAHAD O’CONNOR
Published: September 11, 2009

A multimillion-dollar collection of artwork by Andy Warhol was stolen from the home of a wealthy art collector in West Los Angeles last week, Los Angeles police said Friday.

The valuable collection included 10 silk-screen paintings of famous sports figures. According to investigators, the artwork was on display in the dining room of Richard Weisman, a businessman and art connoisseur whose well-known collection was featured in a book he published in 2003, “Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection.”

The paintings are about 40 inches by 40 inches each, and were created between 1977 and 1979.

Find out more about the theft by Google-ing "Eleven Warhol Portraits Stolen" or you can read more here:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/arts-news/11-warhol-portraits-stolen/

First person to tell Ms. Ridlen which 11 portraits were stolen, gets a prize!
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Intro to Art Currently

Current Unit: Heroes


Current Project: Calaveras Hero Relief Portraits

Project Description: You will create a portrait painting with elements of relief & 2-D depth that honors a personal hero.

The face will be constructed from a papier mache mask and attached to a flat surface. The surrounding flat surface will provide a painted scene with a foreground, middle ground, and background for your hero (the mask). You should use what you know about creating the illusion of depth on a flat surface to enhance the feeling of space around the figure.


DUE: November 2nd









Past Projects: Street Art Symbolic Artwork