ART Class

9th Grade from Santa Monica Bilingual School / BECA  went to the Presentation of Three Dumb Monkeys at the SAYBE theater . as part of the art class, they are studying body movements, statues, and acting.  on the way back we couldn't stop laughing and commenting about the actors and the actresses. The play is adapted to the modern reality, with rascally humor and numerous catchy phrases that will keep you engage.  I have never seen my students laughing and engaging the way they were.  some of their comments were:  Olvin "when have to back again" Juan " When are we going back to the Theater" Martha " I will facebook friend all of them" Grecia " I will like to work there" Alejandra and Dayani were imitating the Phares from Benjamin or Benji all the way back home.

COLLAGE Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface.  for a video please click here.

Cubism  Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted Pablo Picasso  (October 25, 1881 to April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer considered one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the co-creator, along with  Georges Braque , of  Cubism .  Marcel Duchamp  was born July 28, 1887, in France. After the sensation caused by Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912), he painted few other pictures. He became famous for his "ready-mades" and heralded an artistic revolution. Largely ignored during his lifetime, he was in his 70s when he emerged as master whose entirely new attitude toward art and society changed the fu...

The Art Gallery  The Objective 

Neoclassical  All started with The French Revolution began in 1789, when citizens stormed the Bastille prison in Paris. Within a few years, France had adopted and overthrown several constitutions and executed its former king. It found itself at war with most of the Continent and endured horrible violence at home during the Reign of Terror. Finally, in 1799, the successful young general Napoleon Bonaparte seized control and, in 1804, proclaimed himself emperor. Though he made important administrative reforms, he was preoccupied by constant warfare and his heroic but failed attempt to unite all of Europe by conquest. After being defeated at Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon was exiled and the Bourbon monarchy was restored in the person of Louis XVIII. Neoclassicism - Characteristics Neoclassical works (paintings and sculptures) were serious, unemotional, and sternly heroic. Neoclassical painters depicted subjects from Classical literature and history, as used in earlier...

Auguste Rodin        Auguste Rodin Sculptor, Artist 1840–1917 French sculptor Auguste Rodin is known for creating several iconic works, including "The Age of Bronze," "The Thinker," "The Kiss" and "The Burghers of Calais. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” —Auguste Rodin HERE IS ALL THE INFORMATION The Thinker, French Le Penseur, sculpture of a pensivenude male by French artist Auguste Rodin , one of his most well-known works. Many marble and bronze editions in several sizes were executed in Rodin’s lifetime and after, but the most famous version is the 6-foot

( gora is an installation of 106 headless and  armless iron sculptures at the south end of Grant Park in Chicago. Designed by Polish artist  Magdalena Abakanowicz , ) Sculpture , an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects. The designs may be embodied in freestanding objects, in reliefs on surfaces, or in  environments  ranging from tableaux to  contexts  that envelop the spectator. An enormous variety of media may be used, including  clay , wax, stone,  metal , fabric,  glass ,  wood ,  plaster , rubber, and random “found” objects. Materials may be carved, modeled, molded, cast, wrought, welded, sewn, assembled, or otherwise shaped and combined. Information here. https://www.britannica.com/art/sculpture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ1bty0-t1Y    10 sculptures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q5IVRkXJtk    Watch a Masterpiece Emerge f...