Friday, October 21, 2022

Is It Sculpture?

My dear friend and co-teacher from Tidewater, Ms. Denise, donated a huge amount of curriculum materials to us when she retired. Today I finally sat down and went through all of the Art Cards in her basket. It was amazing!

I found artists I'm teaching about in Art History this year and next year, plus many more including lots of people I'd never heard of. There were also lesson plan ideas (clip cards saved from years of SchoolArts Magazine), images of historical artifacts, and postcard flyers from contemporary artists.

I also found this, which clearly was part of a lesson plan:

It was carefully printed in color and laminated, but there are no notes to go with it. I just have to guess. My guess is she laid out images and the children sorted them into Sculpture, 3-D But NOT Sculpture, and I'm Not Sure.

I think this will be fun and a good lead-up to our visit to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis on Thursday.


Here are my plans as to the images to give them for sorting each day:

Monday

    Henry Weekes, Bust of Mary Seacole, 1859

    Agunna, Door, c.1890-1920

    Alexander Calder, Form Against Yellow, 1936

    Donald Judd, Wall Progression, 1971

    Kenneth Price, Town Unit One, 1977

    Deborah Butterfield, Horse, 1978

    Feliz Gonzales-Torres, Unitled (A Corner of Baci), 1990

    Myung Urso, Brooch-Relationship, year unknown

    Faith Wilson, untitled floorcloth, year unknown


Tuesday

    Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1907

    Alexander Calder, Little Parasite, 1947

    Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled Combine (Man with White Shoes), 1955

    Kanjiro Kawai, Bottle with Splashes of Color, c.1960s

    Donald Judd, Untitled, 1967

    Jackie Ferrara, A211 Trannik, 1980

    Dennis Oppenheim, Badly Tuned Cow, 1988

    Debora Muhl, Gold Fish, 2008

    Gary Magakis, Chambord Table Lamp, year unknown


Wednesday

    Bernard Palissy, Oval Basin, c.1550

    Alexander Calder, Yellow Whale, 1958

    Dame Elisabeth Frink, Goggle Head, 1969

    Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo, Reduced Mixed-Color Symmetrical Piece, 1990

    Alison Saar, Tocacco Demon, 1993

    Yves Telemak, Flag for Ezili Dantò, 1993

    Liz Young, Birth/Death Chair with Rawhide Shoes, Bones, and Organs, 1993

    Amundsen High, Cicero Elementary, Diego Middle, Dulles Elementary, Perez Elementary, and Suden Elementary Schools w/ Connie Gaberik & Drea Howenstein, The Shelter Project, 1995

    Philip Schuster, Snake Bench, 1995


This reminds me of the conversation we had about poetry a few weeks ago. It's not just about rhyming... what is it that makes it poetry?
It's not just about being 3-dimensional... what is it that makes it sculpture?

This activity also goes well after the story we read on Thursday, Look! Look! Look! at Sculpture by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace, and will give them something to think about before they make their own Soap Sculpture Exploration.


I actually emailed Faith Wilson to see if she would tell me the title of that floorcloth... I hope she emails me back! I'm so excited to have discovered her work and I definitely want to study her as a featured artist at some point. Maybe I can even meet her the next time I go back home to Maryland.



UPDATE: Yes! She wrote back to me!

"Thanks for asking. I made that piece a long time ago. It was called 'liminal dream'... I think. I know it was the first in my liminal musing series."


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