IDEA@thebasss Teacher Training Workshop for Art
Teachers- October 28, 2011
Trainers: Lourdes Fuller and Dr. Adrienne von Lates
Vanishing Points: paint and paintings from the
collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl
Images to accompany the Lesson Plan :
Inspiring Creativity Using “Key Words”:
Connecting Materials with Meaning
Inspiring Creativity Using “Key Words”-- Connecting
Materials with Meaning
Need: Students must understand that artists choose their materials carefully,
because the medium enhances the story they are telling or communicates a
feeling.
Challenge: Create a work of art inspired by a “key word” emphasizing one
element of art and one art-making tool.
Objectives: 1. Students will understand how a medium can convey a message.
2.Students will discover that working within rules and limitations can result in a
variety of creative solutions ( design thinking and language arts connections).
Suggested Class Time: 15 minutes for discussion, at least 30 minutes for the
creation of an artwork. Student critique and display of the finished artworks
should take place during the next class.
1) Identify,
Using the CD-Rom , a poster or a post card, show the class the
key work of art. Ask students “ What do you see or feel when you look at
this?”
Work with the students to make a list of words that come to mind when
looking at the artwork together. There should be at least 10 words .
2) Discuss the art work on a deeper level.
Show the class a list of the
elements of art, ( see the next slide) Ask the class to determine which of the
elements of art are strongest in the work . Next, ask “How are these strong
elements leading us to have feelings or opinions about what is going on in this
work of art?” To get more thought-provoking answers from the students ask a
few questions using one or more of the following “starting points:”
Why…
What are the reasons….
What is the significance of …..
What if….
How would it be different if….
Suppose that…..
What if we knew…
What would change if….
How would we look at it differently if….
The Elements of Art
1.Rhythm
2. Space
3.Color
4. Line
5. Pattern
6. Texture
7. Unity
8. Variety
9. Shape
10. Emphasis
11. Balance
3)Envision, Display a list of available materials or simply lay out the
materials that are for their use. Working individually or in teams students
must choose one of the key words, one element of art, and one medium
( painting, drawing or coloring tool, 3-d design etc.) to create their own
artwork .
4) Assess: Taking time to allow your students to compare and contrast
their solutions to the challenge is the goal of this lesson. Students should
write their chosen key word and element of art on the back of the
finished artwork. They will then take turns showing the work, and the
rest of the class has to guess what the key word was that inspired them.
Each student will explain why they chose the word and the element and
how it works in their creation. They may tell a story or write a caption
that can be shown beneath the work when it goes on display on a wall or
in a portfolio.
Jim Lambie
Zobop, 1999 / 2011
colored vinyl tape
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist &
The Modern
Institute|Toby Webster.
Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland
Sarah , collection of Debra
and Dennis Scholl, Miami
installed during the
Vanishing Points
exhibition at the Bass
Museum of Art
Break on Through
Jim Lambie
96"x32"x12"
Jim Lambie born in Bellshill in 1964
and studied at the Environmental
Department in Glasgow school of
Art which placed an emphasis on
context and placement (something
which has heavily influenced all his
work to date).
Working most famously using vinyl
tape in now iconic works such as
‘Zobop', Lambie, one time DJ and
band member of The Boy
Hairdressers who went on to
become Teenage Fanclub, finds his
key influence music and more
specifically pop. Predominately
using found objects such as record
turntables and abandoned gloves
and belts, Lambie then injects
serious color into the white cube of
the gallery space with his shiny
enamel paint and slick clean lines.
Jim Lambie
Gina X, 2004
glove, bamboo and oil enamel paint
47 1/4 x 23 5/8 inches
Courtesy of the Debra and Dennis
Scholl Collection, Miami, Florida
Jim Lambie
Black Betty,
2006
t-shirt on MDF
37 3/8 x 59 7/8 x
5/8 inches
Courtesy of the
Debra and
Dennis Scholl
Collection,
Miami, Florida
Jim Lambie
The Fall (Deep
Dance), 2005
acrylic and magazine
16 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the Debra
and Dennis Scholl
Collection, Miami,
Florida
All I want for Xmas, 2005
11” x 10”
Hernan Bas
All I want for
Xmas, 2005
Oil and graphic on
paper
11” x 10”
Hernan Bas
The Heroism of
Weakness, 2003
Acrylic and oil on paper
30” x 22”
Hernan Bas
Mystery At
Wildcat
Swamp,
2001
11” x 8 ½”
Hernan Bas
The Grave Stone Carver,
2006
mixed media with sifted earth
from Pére Lachaise
Cemetery, Paris and
shavings (graphite) from
erased grave rubbing
11 x 8 inches
Courtesy of the Debra and
Dennis Scholl Collection,
Miami, Florida
Hernan Bas
Untitled (As Yet), 2005
Oil and graphite on
paper
30” x 22”
Kori Newkirk
Untitled, 2010
paint on artist board
10 x 8 inches
Courtesy of the Debra
and Dennis Scholl
Collection, Miami,
Florida
Michael Vasquez
Untitled, 2007
acrylic on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Courtesy of the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection,
Miami, Flo
Henry Taylor was born in Oxnard, California in 1958 and drew and painted throughout
his teens. One of eight children raised by a single mother, he worked odd jobs
throughout his career, including a full time job as a psychiatric technician at Camarillo
State Hospital from 1984 to 1994. He received a BA at the California Institute of the
Arts in 1995, and his work has been featured in solo gallery shows on both coasts
Henry Taylor
Better Watch Your
Back, 2005
acrylic on canvas
29 x 32 inches
Courtesy of the Debra
and Dennis Scholl
Collection, Miami,
Florida
wire and house
paint
96 x 60 x 5 inches
Courtesy of the
Debra and Dennis
Scholl Collection,
Miami, Florida
10. Nathan Carter
Aero Dolomiti, 2005
102” x 54” x 2”
Sylvie Fleury
Skin Crime 3
Enamel paint on compressed fiat car
22” x 60” x 143”
Timothy Buwalda
Towards the Past, 2007
Oil on canvas
60 x 84 in.
Jacin Giordano
The Ends, 2004
oil on canvas
48 x 38 inches
Courtesy of the Debra
and Dennis Scholl
Collection, Miami,
Florida
Jacin Giordano
The Ends (Detail), 2004
Acrylic, glitter and yarn on canvas
48 x 36 inches
Collection of Dennis and Deborah Scholl, Miami
Photo Credit: Courtesy Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
Jacin Giordano
Untitled, 2009
acrylic and glitter on paper
9 x 6 inches
Courtesy of the Debra and
Dennis Scholl Collection,
Miami, Florida
My practice is both collage and décollage at the same time," says Mark
Bradford. "Décollage you take it away, and then collage immediately add it
right back." Using a combination of signage from the city streets, including
business advertisements and merchant posters, twine, and glue, Bradford
produces wall-sized paintings and installations that are a reflection of "the
conditions that are going on at that particular moment at that particular
location," he says.
Mark Bradford (born 1961 Los Angeles California) is an American rtist living
and working in Los Angeles
Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized
collages and installations that respond to the impromptu networks- underground
economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public
space- that emerge within a city. Bradford’s work is as informed by his personal
background as a third-generation merchant in Los Angeles as it is by the tradition
of abstract painting developed worldwide in the twentieth century.
Mark Bradford
Black Wall Street, 2006
Collage and acrylic on canvas
114” x 240”
Francesca DiMattio
Steeple, 2008
oil on canvas
108 x 60 inches
Courtesy of the Debra
and Dennis Scholl
Collection, Miami, Florida
Francesca DiMattio
Black House, 2005
oil on canvas
94 x 67 inches
Courtesy of the Debra
and Dennis Scholl
Collection, Miami,
Florida
Francesca DiMattio
Vulture, 2006
oil on canvas
120 x 83 inches
Courtesy of the Debra and
Dennis Scholl Collection,
Miami, Fl
born: 1970
born in: Rotterdam
lives in: Rotterdam
Carla Kline took her show on the road, which is to say that her paintings paintings
are based on snapshots made while driving (or, alternatively, while being driven, as
the case usually seems to be) across the United States. These source photographs,
as they may be somewhat imprecisely labeled, are of the variety with which many of
us have filled our own rolls — hurtling cross-country down sparse, baked, two-lane
rural highways, the light catching the pavement just so, each click of the camera an
attempt to capture another overwhelming, perpetually unfolding vista, to document
what it feels like to be there and there and there.
Carla Kline
Untitled, 2008
71” x 177”
Judith Eisler Car Trouble (the Evil Dead), 2005
oil on canvas 68 x 80 inches
Kristen verberg Tower, Haut du Lievre, Nancy , 2005, oil and enamal on canvas over
panel
Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti and lives and works in Miami. He
studied at the New World School of the Arts
in Miami and has exhibited widely including
The Whitney Biennial 2008, the Wolfsonian
Miami Beach, and Miami Art Museum. The
artist has recently exhibited in VideoStudio at
The Studio Museum in Harlem and Pivot
Points 3 at Museum of Contemporary Art in
North Miami and is in the permanent
collection of both institutions. Upcoming
exhibitions and projects include AfroModernism: Journeys through the Black
Atlantic at the Tate Liverpool; commissioned
works for Locust Projects Miami and a
monograph to be published by Name
Publications. Guerrier's work has appeared in
the New York Times, Artnews, and Art in
America, among numerous other
publications.
Adler Guerrier
Untitled (Black-fluent), 2008
acrylic on wood
47 x 24 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the Debra and Dennis
Scholl Collection, Miami, Florida
Gardar Eide Einarsso
Untitled (I am the Master of My Fate; I am the Captain of My Soul), 2005
Spray paint Dimensions Variable
Joyce Pensado
Mickey, 2007
oil on canvas
29 x 23 inches
Courtesy of the
Debra and Dennis
Scholl Collection,
Miami, Florida
Kristen verberg Tower, Haut du Lievre, Nancy , 2005, oil and enamal on canvas over
panel
Sarah Morris
Calypte, 2008
113 ¾” x 113
¾”
Norbert Lynch Knwerraye (Working 1980s) Australia (Aboriginal)
Norbert Lynch Knwerraye, active in the 1980s, COMBINATION OF FIVE
STORIES OF PLACES IN THE ARNAPIPE COUNTRY FROM THE NGWARLE
UNTYE
Provenance:
Painted at Alice Springs in 1988
Minnie Motorcar Pwerle was born circa 1910 on
McDonnell Down station in the Northern Territory,
approximately 200 miles north-east of Alice Springs
and died on 18th March 2006. Minnie had 5 sisters
and one brother (the other brother is now deceased).
One of Minnie’s sisters, prominent senior artist the
late Emily Kngwarreye, continued to paint and exhibit
until age 92. Minnie had seven children including
Eileen, Betty, June, Dora, Raymond, and Barbara Weir
who is a well-known Aboriginal artist. Minnie often
returned to her country in Utopia or visited grandson
Fred Torres in Adelaide.
Minnie started painting in the 1980's completing
batik works for the Robert Holmes a Court Collection.
In 2000 Minnie had her first solo exhibition in
Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne. Since then, she
exhibited regularly throughout Australia. Minnie
often travelled to Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney
for exhibitions. To be selected into the Telstra award
is an enormous recognition of her work.
Minnie Motorcar Pwerle at
work
BUSH ORANGES IN ANUNAPA
Dimensions:
137 BY 92CM
Medium:
synthetic polymer
Her bold, commanding paintings are
vivid depictions of the designs used in
women's ceremonies called "awelye".
Minnie also paints circular formations
which denote the "bush tomato" and
"bush orange" both a popular source
of bush food for Aboriginal people
Jimmy Donegan and 'Papa Tjukurpa and Pukara': Jimmy Donegan with his
winning work, Papa Tjukurpa, Pukara. Winner of the Telstra and General Painting
Award, 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2010.
Image courtesy of the Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory.
Jimmy Donegan
Papa Tjukurpa
(Dingo
Dreaming), 2008
oil on canvas
52 x 64 inches
Courtesy of the
Debra and Dennis
Scholl Collection,
Miami, Florida
Mr Donegan, with the
assistance of a translator,
told reporters the bright,
vibrant, synthetic-polymer
paint work on canvas tells
two ``special'' ancestral
stories relating to his
father and grandfather's
country in Western
Australia.
Papa Tjukurpa, or Dingo
Dreaming, shows his
father's rock hole called
Dulu, where there are lots
of dingoes.
John
Sanchez
Home, 2006
47 x 47
inches
Courtesy of
the Debra
and Dennis
Scholl
Collection,
Miami,
Florida
John Sanchez
Turbine, 2006,
Oil on Canvas,
19 x 19 inches
José Bedia
Iqaro Nocturno
(Nocturnal Icarus),
2007
acrylic and oil stick on
canvas
72 x 120 inches
Courtesy of the Debra
and Dennis Scholl
Collection, Miami,
Florida
Jeni Spota
Mistakes
(With Border)
2009
Oil on canvas
Born in
1982, New
York
Lives and
works in
Los
Angeles.
EDUCATION
2007 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004 BFA, State University of New York at Purchase
2003 Yale University, School of Art, Norfolk Summer Residency
Jeni Spota
Giotto’s Dream,
2008
12” x 14”
Jeni
Spota
Giotto’s
Dream,
2008
12” x 14”
Kelley Walker
Schema
Dimensions Variable
Garth Weiser
Hospital Hill, 2006
paint on canvas
36 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the Debra and
Dennis Scholl Collection,
Miami, Florida