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More on Visual Puns (long)

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From: Judy Decker (Jdecker_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Mon Dec 31 2001 - 17:31:40 PST

Thank you Judie for posting your compiled list (I have the complete file if
anyone missed it - Judie's and mine).

Here are some links/ideas to add to what you have already:

Drawings by 8th grade students (word listed)
http://chesterfield.k12.va.us/Schools/Providence_MS/vpun.htm
Fruit Punch
Deviled Eggs
Flower Bulb
Jack Frost
Dreadlock
Fire Drill
Dragon Fly
Dr. Pepper
Money Order
Star Fish
Serial Killer
Foot ball

Surrealists' Puns
http://www.eril.net/gallery/intro.asp?exb=1011

Graphic Visual Puns
http://www.rwmarketing.com/News/VisPun.html

Polymer Clay sculptures:
http://polymerjungle.com/oth04.htm

Lesson plan for Robert Arneson (ceramic sculptor - noted for his visual
puns)
http://www.utah.edu/umfa/arnesonplan.html
http://www.utah.edu/umfa/contemporary.html (more info on Arneson)

Paper Mache Visual Puns
http://216.23.1.73/west/aca/art/lwh_art3dmache.html

M.C. Escher (interesting - Still life to city scape)
http://www.gandanet.com.hk/roygrubb/sl&strt3.html
http://www.insite.com.br/bio/rodrigo/text/escher.html

Lots of Pun links: http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Humor/Wordplay/Puns/

Camouflage Visual Puns
Bev Doolittle's camouflage paintings were the first use of this term. The
image of another entity, such as a horse and rider, lies within a natural
landscape. Seeing pictures in clouds is the kind of visual play that spawns
this kind of pun.
"The Forest has Eyes" http://www.powersource.com/gallery/bev/feyes.html

Canned Food Drive by Vivian Nguyen
http://www.collegeboard.org/ap/students/studioart/gallery/works/art98-09.ht
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Don Stuart's Art
http://www.dsart.com/
http://www.dsart.com/art.htm about the art)
http://www.dsart.com/Gallery/gallery.htm (gallery)
http://store6.yimg.com/I/americancraftsonline_1655_35850617 (Rock Lobster)

Reading an image (important for visual literacy):
http://www.englishcompanion.com/room82/readimages.html

Thomas Nast - political cartoon (often visual puns)
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1112.html
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/portraits_reveal.html (lesson plan
for political cartoons)

I am think it would be fun to play around with a sculptural ideas...
Judie - let us know what you come up with.

Judy Decker