week of March 27 through April 1st

Another great week in the art room ahead. This past weekend Sam Perkin's wrapped up his performance in 'HairSpray' at the Paramount Arts Center in Ashland. Sam is a very talented young man with a lot of good things ahead of him. Please make sure you support us and Sam by watching the latest version of 'The Art-Room & Beyond' located on YouTube.

RHS Art Students can------->  Focus this week for ALL classes is -COLOR
1st 2D/3D: create an animal, of your choosing, that is at least 12 inches in length. This can be 2D or 3D- srtudents choice.
2nd Art I: create an animal, of your choosing, same as above
3rd AP Art History: continue to learn about artwork of the 20th century----> Identity Art, etc....
4th Advanced Art: create an animal of your choosing, that is at least the size of the paper (uncut) in the art-room. Must be a complete imagine. Absolutely no white should be showing
5th AP Art Studio: continue to work on portfolio deadline
6th PLANNING
7th Crafts/Ceramics: create an animal of your choosing. We are waiting on clay. :)

week of March 21 through 25th

Spring is offically here. Hopefully, more consistant days of warmth are on their way. The month of April will be a busy one with the planning and construction of our art show. Also, a lot of us will be building and finishing our portfolios.

RHS art students can-
1st: Flowers-  create a flower, in at least 12 inches in length, out of any sort of 3D material. This flower needs to be free standing and decorative.
2nd: Flowers- create a flower in 'zoom'. This lesson is loosely based off the work of Ms. Georgia O'keefe.
3rd: continue with presentations. Then continue with art of the 20th century
4th: Flowers- create a flower in 2D or 3D that is representational and in unusual color
5th: continue work with portfolios. Also, students may choice from the above lessons
6th: PLANNING
7th: Flowers- create a flowers in 2D to be painted or colored using pastel.

Week of of March 7th - 11th

As always, this weeks episode of 'The Art-Room & Beyond' is up and running. Spring is certainly here with all the warm to cool, cool to warm weather that is bothering with our noses. However, with the spring comes a lot of renewal. At present time we have quite a few of students in round two for GSA. Three art students, this past weekend, auditioned. If any of these judges know what good art is, ;) , then all three ladies will get in. If not, it is certainly GSA's loss.
Nonetheless, the art students at RHS CAN -
1st 2D/3D - finish pottery from last week and begin new clay sculptural project- Masks. These masks do not need to be functional.
2nd Art I- Begin and finish grocery bag design project for local art celebration.
3rd AP Art History- Continue looking into Art after the two wars: Abstract Expressionism
4th Advanced Art- The Great Escape. Students, on a piece of paper, will create an image of the interior of a suitcase. This is a self-discovery lesson.
5th AP Art Studio- Continue to work on portfolio
6th PLANNING
7th Ceramincs- finish coil-pot project and then begin work on sculptural clay project- Masks

week of Feb. 28 through March 4th

Please, if you get the chance check out our web-show _ The Art-Room and Beyond hosted by Samuel Perkins located on our school website. It's always fun and entertaining.  Plus, an art show is in the works. Look for updates.

Our Art students can-
2D/3D- Create an unusual pitch-pot that is sculptural
Art I- Create a collage that tells a story
AP Art History- continue with lecturing about modern art
Advance Art- Create an illustration of a joke
AP Art Studio- continue work on portfolios & summarize designs for murals
Ceramics- continue with coil pot making and move into sculptural

Two Masters, Two Opposing Approaches

Two Masters, Two Opposing Approaches to Art

Every profession has its own history in which the accumulation of knowledge is the basis to push the frontiers into the unknown. Dali and Picasso are two masters who stand at the vanguard of two opposite approaches to art in the Twentieth Century: To use that accumulated knowledge and build upon it, or to discard it.

Dali embraced all the science of painting as a way to study the psyche through subconscious images. He called this process the Paranoiac Critical Method. As any paranoiac, the artist should allow these images to reach the conscience, and then do what the paranoiac cannot do: Freeze them on canvas to give consciousness the opportunity to comprehend their meaning. Later on, he expanded the process into the Oniric-Critical Method, in which the artist pays attention to his dreams, freezing them through art, and analyzing them as well. As Freud said, "A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that is not opened."

Picasso took the opposite approach to art. He inherited the gusto for ugliness, scandal and chaos of the Dada movement and the automatic surrealists. Picasso rejected the craft to become "primitive," deciding that the ingenuity of childhood is the basis of art. To him this meant that the less the artist is preoccupied with his craft the better his art. To Dali, however, the "ingenuity of childhood" meant keeping an open mind and maintaining the curiosity and excitement of the child throughout one's life, not painting as a child.

Further study on Dal v Picasso

retrieved from- http://www.gosurreal.com/history.htm

(c) Monica Sanchez

2/21/11 through 2/25/11

We will be shifting gears a bit this week in the art-room. The warmer weather has given me to push an assignment forward, a bit. Nonetheless, we are "all" getting back into drawing a bit.
AP Art History needs to continue to think about their final 'What is Art' project. Use my school website for the detailed plan.

this week our art students can-
1st- 2D/3D: Hand-scapes- students will create an imaginary landscape involving their hand and/or hands. Your hands need to be as representational as possible. Where as, you background and other continuing images do not need to be.
2nd -Art 1: Hand-scapes- see lesson above
3rd- AP Art History: Surrealism & Modern Art
4th Advanced Art- You biggest complaint. My biggest complaint :This is a first time lesson for me. I've had the concept for years, but honestly, now willing to brave it. Students will split their paper in half. One side will be a drawing of their biggest complaint and the other my biggest complaint of them.
5th AP Art Studio: Still-life drawing of their choice. Minimum of three objects.
6th- PLANNING
7th- Ceramics: finish pinch pots, continue on to coil pots. This week will be our first fire.

2/14/11 - 2/18/11

If we all remember, due to snow and the half day last week, our critique for last weeks lesson has been moved to wednesday. Remember, there will be two grades for this assignment: 1- completion (50 or 100), 2- regular critique grade.
We will be starting another assignment thursday.