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RE: [teacherartexchange] Tom Otterness - Figurative Sculpture to make you smile

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From: Jane Altshuler (janealt_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2007 - 20:41:36 PST

A friend who is an art collector gave me two Otterness sculptures (little
ones) for a wedding gift 22 years ago! I haven't been keeping up, but it I
guess they are really valuable!! His work really is inspiring.

I went to high school with another really inspiring artist named Rodney Alan
Greenblat - His website is www.Whimsyload.com. His work is so much fun. He
got very big in Japan when some of his characters became the subjects of a
video game. His first big thing, though was a piece at the Whitney
Biennial. I think your students will really like him - mine did, all ages.

Jane

-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Decker [mailto:judy.decker@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:21 PM
To: TeacherArtExchange Discussion Group
Subject: [teacherartexchange] Tom Otterness - Figurative Sculpture to make
you smile

Dear Art Educators,

Here is an artist to inspire your students - Tom Otterness.
http://www.tomotterness.net/
Bronze cast figures - whimsical.

SergioLora pointed him out to me. I had missed this New York Times article:
Train to the Museum? You're Already There
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/arts/design/21dunl.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&
ref=design&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Slide show of many graet works along the subway.
An alligator up from the sewer and it's no urban legend. (It's subway art.)

Here are many of his works from Life Underground:
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/artwork_show?21

More on Otterness:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/otterness_tom.html

There is more on line for Tom Otterness.

If any one wants a lesson idea for Otterness, let me know.

Carrot Revolution Blog also features the NYT's article (thanks David).
http://carrotrevolution.blogspot.com/

Judy Decker 

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