MMA - Ruth Asawa

This summer a tutoring client and I are going through the Magnificent Modern Art course from Art History Kids together. It's been really interesting so far. Art History isn't something I ever really learned about, so it's new to me. And so, of course, I'm going to keep some notes here as we go along!

This week it was Pop Art and the artist Andy Warhol.

Now I am preparing for our final artist! Next week we will be studying

Ruth Asawa
Minimalism (1950s - present)

sample artwork from the art movement

Josef Albers
Study for Homage to the Square: High Spring
1962

Agnes Martin
Untitled
1977

Ellsworth Kelly
Blue and Yellow and Red-Orange
1964-1965

sample artwork from this artist

Untitled
1954

Untitled
1960

photograph from exhibition in an art gallery

focus piece of art from this artist

Untitled
1955

element & principle of art and design

HARMONY

other notes (my suggestions)

The Lion and the Stoat
by Paul O. Zelinsky (chapter 2)


A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa
by Andrea D'Aquino

love the assignment for video 2: "work on paper, sand or soil"!

it would also be fun to do a continuous line drawing 3-D with a crochet hook and some undyed natural fiber yarn (or this may be a good use for the raffia someone donated and I've never used)... just keep going in and out of your own work until you feel like being done

lots of Nature walks would make sense when studying this artist... love her quote!



also, Ruth Asawa was best friends with Buckminster Fuller (whose geodesic dome house is in our town), so we could go and visit his home and see if any of her artwork is in it

I'm currently obsessed with the work of Hervé Tullet (and have been buying a bunch of his books searching for titles written all in capital letters for my 7 year old to read) and he has actually created a book that is perfect for the paper sculpture assignment for video 3!


The Game of Sculpture

He also did a super-sized version!


The Giant Game of Sculpture
Item Weight: 1.9 pounds
Dimensions: 12 x 1 x 17.2 inches

technically, this book is wordless but the instructions (on the back) are all in caps so I'm going to include it on my list






the lesson from SF MOMA she recommends

the video goes with these step-by-step instructions

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