Art History - Lita Albuquerque

In my 2025-2026 school year plan, I decided that our March artist would be Lita Albuquerque. (Here is the complete list of all the artists we've learned about so far.) Now on to some resources and my planning notes:

Lita Albuquerque
1946 -

also

Land Art’s Grande Dame Lita Albuquerque Is Still ‘Queen of the Now’
artnet.com

https://www.litaalbuquerque.com

Land Art in Malibu Gets a Second Chance
The New York Times - Jun 19, 2024

Robert Irwin, Artist of Fleeting Light and Space, Is Dead at 95
The New York Times - Oct 25, 2023

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week of Mar 9:

Mon

watch We Are in Space | Artist Lita Albuquerque | Louisiana Channel

follow up ideas to explore:

a Catholic convent

children's play "The Blue Bird"
discussed in chapter 7 of Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild,
so we can have this as our lunchtime read aloud this month!



history of Tunisia - Phoenicians, Berbers, Roman Empire

find on a map - Tunisia, Turkey, Paris, London, Los Angeles

"I became an American artist; I became an artist of my time there in Southern California"

the Light & Space Movement

an engagement with nature
"everyone was either a surfer or a swimmer"

slowing down and observing the light
"wanting to represent the feeling and the perception of light in Southern California"

two artists that were really influential to her:
Robert Irwin
Susan Kaiser Vogel - Blue Flame

"now I'm bringing in artificial color into nature"
"everything outside of the artificial color is also part of the palette"

"when I'm out there I am thinking painting.... very much using the elements as if I were painting"

rocks

the wind

working with powdered pigment

Goethe quote

pure color
"it's like rocks in a way for me.... there's so much information, there's so much vibrational quality, there's so much mystery"

how do you respond to colors in your body
"what is it about red?"

"I go after it but I can never reach it so that's my fascination"

"you can change a meaning of something with one word"
"I'm very interested in the ephemeral and how fast anything can change"

astronomy
"I think of our lives and of the earth; I'm always thinking about it from outer space looking back and so when you have that kind of time-space thinking then it shifts you a lot"

"the beauty about art is the subtlety and that anything can change on a dime"

her work is very spiritual
"I'm very interested in how it affects the viewer"
"I do manipulate what I do to get a certain alchemical result when we look at it that triggers something in our perceptual system; I'm interested in changing the individual looking at something into another level of consciousness"

"I'm interested in the human's relation to nature and to the cosmos"

the total solar eclipse

performance piece - 25th century female astronaut

33 vertebrae in our spinal column

"to inspire and to understand that we need to shift"

Thu

cosmic address meditation as described in this article

week of Mar 16:

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week of Mar 23:

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