Category: Studio
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Contrapposto Cantilevers
Much like we like to take pictures and make sculptures of each other, the Egyptians tried to portray the human figure in sculpture and paint. Â See this example below, which is in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, AKA the Met. Â She is tall and slim, with great posture and huge eyes. QUESTION: What words […]
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Creative Universe Summer Series
Today was the first day of our Saturday morning series. Christine did Triangles with Art Play (a class designed for pre-school) from 9:00am to 10:00, and then I came in to do M. C. Escher, patterns and tesselations. We re-named Mad Science to Creative Universe since we look at the universality of Art to help […]
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Mad Science: Calder; Mobiles and Paper
What do you think of kinetic art? Â Does it sound complicated and hard? Â It’s not, it is just a fancy way of saying “Art that moves.” Â This last week at Mad Science Saturday we explored motion and balance looking at the kinetic art of Alexander Calder. To make this project, our young renaissance artists […]