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Re: line artist for middleschool

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From: Judy Decker (jdecker_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Sat Sep 06 2003 - 18:48:24 PDT

Hi Jen,

Renee just helped me with one link. I posted this one the other day:

Sara posted this quite some time ago...and I shared it again.
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/letters/sketches/main.htm
I have posted several other links for line.

This is how Renee is using this link:
Judy, This is a good site. I am having my 8th graders read some of Van
Gogh's letters.I'm hoping they can grasp what facets in Van Gogh's life
affected his art and how. Later on in the semester I will have each student
pick an artist we have studied and from that artists perspective they will
write a letter to someone. The reader of the letters should be able to grasp
the outside influences that affected the artist. At the end of the semester,
each student will create an independent project and write a second letter
about themselves and how their own life influences what they create. --our
main objective."What influences the way we create?"

someone else posted a Hirschfield video:
Al Hirschfield - caricatures:
http://www.alhirschfeld.com/
From Bud Plant http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/hirschfe.htm

There is a lot to see in this exhibit:
Louise Bourgeois: Drawings
An exhibition organized by the
University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University of California, Berkeley
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/bourgeois/
landcapes -lines
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/bourgeois/lbpage17.html
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/bourgeois/lbpage18.html
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/bourgeois/lbpage19.html

Here is a great link for line:
LINE in art:
http://alpha.fdu.edu/~bisbing/linelecture2.html

I have seen Ben Shan drawings on line too - Some should come up in a
search - I might have a link on my American Artists page.

I posted several other good examples of line drawings over the summer.

Judy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Woody Duncan" <wduncan@kc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: line artist for middleschool

> Bridget Riley is the first that comes to mind.
> Also check out drawings by Ben Shahn and
> Vincent Van Gogh.
> Woody in KC
>
> Jen Kean wrote:
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> > My cooperating teacher introduced line to the sixth grade students
> > (elements)....what are your thoughts on any really interesting and
> > "new" or "different" artists you experienced teachers would introduce
> > line with???
> > any input would help!
> >
> > thanks
> > Jennifer 

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