This project turned out to be incredibly fun! Art Alive was a collaborative project where 2D Art students created groups and picked a famous painting to recreate on a 2'x4' luon board. Once they finished the paintings, I cut out the faces of the figures in order to transform these Art Alive paintings into interactive works of art! After the faces were cut out, students sanded them down and did minor touch ups. Next, we had a little Twitter competition to see which pieces would have the honor of being displayed at Weaver's Annual Art Show! We took all of the paintings down to the commons for lunch and asked students to participate in the competition by taking their picture with their favorite paintings and tweeting it out to @wmscats with an #ArtAlive hashtag. This was so cool to watch! Click images below to get a better look! Here's a beautiful dancing ballerina! Once the results were in, it was time to start setting up for the art show! Students helped create signs to advertise and posted them around the building. After many hours of real life Tetris, the art space was ready for guests! We had a great turnout! And I'm so glad guests were getting interactive with the Art Alive! Hey! It's Miss Emmons! Thanks to all who attended and an extra special thanks to Dennis Hoffman and to all of the students who helped out! I had such a great time meeting parents and family to tell them about their rock star kids. Thank you to a great year and here's to many more to come!
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It's hard to believe that the final projects have already come and gone! Advanced Art students are required to write a research paper and create a final work of art. They must pick an artist of their choice, do research on that artist, write a 2 page research paper and then create their own work of art inspired by that artist. Click the names of the artists in blue to see work by the original artists! Vincent did an outstanding job on his optical illusion inspired by renowned artist, M.C. Escher! Mina also found inspiration in M.C. Escher's work, specifically his drawings which included reflections. Mina came up with the idea to show the reflection of a man who is half from a time in the past (fully human) and half from a time in the future (partly robotic)! Very cool! M.C. Escher was the inspiration artist for Blake as well, but he took a much different approach. Instead of sticking to pencil and paper, like Escher did, Blake took the idea of the optical illusions but applied mixed media processes by combining an image transfer, gouache, and salt relief technique to create his piece. Julie decided to go abstract and created this wonderful piece inspired by Wassily Kandinsky. Natalie was drawn to the alluring work of contemporary artist, Marion McConaghie, and created this mixed media piece, which includes image transfers of text and a hand-drawn chalk pastel and ink butterfly. Sam created this painting inspired by mysterious European artist, Banksy. Like Banksy, Sam picked a social issue to address in his work, which is his opposition to gang violence. Sam portrayed this by creating a stencil of a masked man holding a banana instead of a weapon. Great work, Sam! Courtney created a beautiful flower painting inspired by none other than Georgia O'Keefe. Avonna got creative and painted a fantastical illustration of a flying wolf inspired by N.C. Wyeth! Abby has always loved the somewhat eerie work of Tim Burton (this site is AWESOME). She applied characteristics of his work to her drawings of musicians in some of her favorite bands. Abby did an excellent job of capturing his style! Victoria created this piece inspired by one of my favorite artists, Dan Eldon. She wanted to honor the soldiers, firefighters and other real life heroes in her piece by combining pictures of them, comic book superheroes and text of newspaper articles that tell of stories of honor and sacrifice. These gentlemen worked collaboratively to illustrate a children's book - check back for updates on the final book! I was very impressed with their work as well as many others! It has been a wonderful semester, Advanced Art kiddos. You have all grown and I am so very proud of you. Best wishes in high school and beyond!
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