This week we look to the artist Elizabeth Catlett. Her sculpture is reductive, meaning to take away. In our project we will plan and experiment with Ivory soap. Plan to keep your designs simple and close to the shape of the soap, Practice thinking about what you may want to carve by drawing in your sketchbook. Materials Sketchbook Pencil Ivory Soap Plastic Butter Knife or other tools for carving and making marks Inspiration Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) Catlett was an American and Mexican graphic artist and sculptor best known for her images of the African-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience. She was born and raised in Washington, D.C. to parents working in education, and was the grandchild of freed slaves. It was difficult for a black woman in this time to pursue a career as a working artist. Catlett devoted much of her career to teaching. However, a fellowship awarded to her in 1946 allowed her to travel to Mexico City, where she worked with the Taller de Gráfica Popular for twenty years and became head of the sculpture department for the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. In the 1950s, her main means of artistic expression shifted from print to sculpture, though she never gave up printing. Video Link to the Lesson by Mrs.Buss
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Week 7&8 we look to the artist Augusto Torres. To make one point perspective we need to define a vanishing point on our paper. Once we have that we can draw our horizon line, and our lines that will define our rows in our landscape. Those rows can be fields, this time of year pumpkins are ready to harvest! I love fall it is my favorite time of year. Feel free to draw other things like trees, bushes, rocks keeping in mind tht the things drawn at the bottom of the page are to be the closest to you so they will be the LARGEST. Things drawn near our vanishing point will be the smallest. Have fun! Materials Sketchbook (for practice) Pencil Ruler Color Pencils, markers, crayons, watercolor Black marker, Black Sharpie Paper Inspiration Augusto Torres 1913-1992 The eldest son of Joaquín Torres-García, Augusto was an active participant in his father's artistic life. Growing up primarily in Italy and France, the young artist met many of the great figures of twentieth century art, including Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, and Joan Miró. During the 1930s, while living in Paris with his family, Augusto was the apprentice of the sculptor Julio González and studied drawing in Amedée Ozenfant’s academy. Introduced to North African and American Indian art by the painter Jean Hélion, it was also in Paris that the artist developed his lifelong passion for tribal and primitive art. After Torres-García brought his family to Uruguay in 1934, Augusto participated in all the activities of his father’s teaching, Augusto later went on become a teacher himself, instructing subsequent generations of artists. Throughout his life, Augusto traveled widely, including two years living in New York. From 1973 on, he divided his time between Barcelona and Montevideo. The art of Augusto has been displayed internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, and his work is included in the collections of such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; the Miró Foundation, Barcelona; and the Museo Torres-García, Montevideo. Video link to Mrs.Buss
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