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November 30, 2012. YOU NEED: VOCAB BOOK Find the next blank page Guest speaker from After School Matters View some artwork and artists related to our UNDER the SEA project. Pipe cleaners?! 11/28/2012. Kitsch:.
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November 30, 2012 • YOU NEED: • VOCAB BOOK • Find the next blank page • Guest speaker from After School Matters • View some artwork and artists related to our UNDER the SEA project.
Kitsch: • Art or objects considered to be in poor taste but appreciated in an ironic way.
Pipe cleaners…with a TWIST.We aren’t in grammar school anymore; we CAN make sophisticated things with pipe cleaners
Answer these questions in complete sentences about the video you just viewed http://youtu.be/miSKmArjicw : • What did the artist mean when she said she had to “improvise a great deal” when building this artwork? • How would the artist like viewers to think of her work?
Nick Cave • sculptor, dancer, andfashion designer. • “Soundsuits”: wearable fabric sculptures made of many materials, including “kitschy,” everyday ones.
Answer these questions in complete sentences about the video you just viewed athttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june12/nickcave_04-24.html • What 3 things did Nick Cave try to bring together by making these “Soundsuits?” • What meaning do the “discarded” objects & materials have to Nick Cave? In other words, why did he first start making these suits?
Turn in your vocab booklets • Return working on your wire face sculptures. • You can begin on your pipe cleaner project if you finish your wire portrait OR it’s next week. • Both wire sculptures are due 12/14