the art of teaching (and what comes with it)

www.mabonaorigami.com: startseite

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:53:53 -0400

www.mabonaorigami.com: startseite:

the best oragami ever

Craig Jones Wildlife Photographer, Wildlife Prints & Wildlife Canvas

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:48:57 -0400

Craig Jones Wildlife Photographer, Wildlife Prints & Wildlife Canvas:

fantastic nature pics

a due Colori on the Behance Network

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:10:59 -0400

a due Colori on the Behance Network

Bow to big ideas (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:26:16 -0500

Bow to big ideas (Taken with instagram)

you can have it all: Remember This Everyday :: Thoughts for a New Teacher

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:23:25 -0500

you can have it all: Remember This Everyday :: Thoughts for a New Teacher:

youcanhaveitall:

excerpt from Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Teaching is even more rewarding than you imagined. It is also more exhausting. Rest when you can and take time for yourself each and every day. You will be a better teacher (and human being) for it.

Take the time…

holly-go-brightly: Kool aid dyed yarn...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:57:23 -0500

holly-go-brightly:

Kool aid dyed yarn tutorial:

http://www.missmake.com/2012/01/kool-aid-dyed-yarn-tutorial.html

25 Ways to Obtain Children's Attention in a School Setting

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:54:22 -0500

kerikam:

I found this on Stumble Upon!

25 Ways to Obtain Children’s Attention in a School Setting

By Leah Davies, M.Ed.

There are countless times when educators need their students’ undivided attention. The following methods are best taught during the first weeks of school. These ideas can assist teachers in providing an ordered and safe learning environment for everyone.

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Bubbles Illustrations by Atelier Olschinsky | Trendland: Fashion Blog & Trend Magazine

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:35:24 -0500

Bubbles Illustrations by Atelier Olschinsky | Trendland: Fashion Blog & Trend Magazine:

Creature Comforts USA - Art (via coolartandstuff)

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:04:56 -0500

Creature Comforts USA - Art (via coolartandstuff)

Baldessari Tips for Artists

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:41:25 -0400

Baldessari Tips for Artists

Flavorwire » Pic of the Day: Newspaper Sculptures

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:29:26 -0400

Flavorwire » Pic of the Day: Newspaper Sculptures:

Queens-born urban artist Nick Georgiou creates organic sculptures out of old newspapers, and then deposits them in random locations around the city. “Books and newspapers are becoming artifacts of the 21st century,” he explains. “My work is not only about the decline of the printed word in today’s society but its rebirth as art.” We’re dying to come across one of his creatures in person, but in the meantime we’ll have to satisfy ourselves with the cool images of his work after the jump.

Crazy what can be done with a ball-point pen

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:46:38 -0400

Crazy what can be done with a ball-point pen

First Day of Polaroid Sale Breaks a Record - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:10:13 -0400

First Day of Polaroid Sale Breaks a Record - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

500 Colored Pencils felissimo

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:26:25 -0400

500 Colored Pencils felissimo

Fallyrag | Illustration | Egyptian Inspirations

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:37:59 -0400

Fallyrag | Illustration | Egyptian Inspirations

Curious Story by Grégoire Alexandre | Pixiome : inspirations et tendances des arts visuels

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:25:24 -0400

Curious Story by Grégoire Alexandre | Pixiome : inspirations et tendances des arts visuels:

photo shoot playing on traditional size and proportion as well as visual representation of the elements (wind, fire)

Curriculum controlling our artists

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:42:55 -0500

At a recent art show I helped curate a teacher brought his class and asked me a very interesting question. His class was full of soon to be teachers and his question was “How has curriculum affected you as an artist?”

My answer brought me to a weird and realization…. there are so many ways for school to teach an artist how to grow but also so many ways for a school to condition an artist towards growing into art that is not representative of their own desires, style, and experimentation. It is an unavoidable thing that every teacher no matter what subject has to create a rubric to grade on, but the more strict the rubric the more narrow the variety they art will have. As I began to answer the teachers question on curriculum I realized that the balance of a narrow and wide instruction is found in language. We as teachers need to choose our words carefully so that students are given a launching off point but not a clear finish line. The more we use words that are definite like (has to include, or no visible lines) for anything other than exercises it becomes destructive to a students ability to figure out there own place within the art world.

The finish line is not a place it’s a process

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:13:34 -0500

The finish line is not a place it’s a process

The most expensive piece of art ever auctioned

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:29:44 -0500

The most expensive piece of art ever auctioned:

104 Million-Dollar Man: Sculpture sets auction record

A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti was sold in London Wednesday night to an unknown bidder for $104.3 million, breaking the record for a work of art purchased at auction.

By CAROL VOGEL

The New York Times

ANTHONY DEVLIN / AP

Auctioneer Henry Wyndam takes bids on Wednesday for the sculpture “Walking Man I” (“L’Homme qui marche I”) by Alberto Giacometti at Sotheby’s in London.

A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti was sold in London Wednesday night to an unknown bidder for $104.3 million, breaking the record for a work of art purchased at auction.

It took just eight minutes of bidding for about 10 bidders to reach the hammer price for “Walking Man I,” which opened at slightly more than $19 million, Sotheby’s auction house said.

The mystery buyer bid by phone, and as the price kept rising, the bidding narrowed to two phone contenders bidding via a couple of Sotheby’s employees.

The previous record was $104.1 million, for a 1905 Pablo Picasso, “Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice),” at Sotheby’s in New York in 2004.

Sotheby’s had expected the sculpture to bring $19.2 million to $28.8 million.

The 6-foot-tall sculpture was cast in 1961 in an edition of six. The work by the 20th century Swiss-Italian artist, known for his depiction of postwar European existential angst, is one of the most recognizable images of modern art.

“Walking Man I” was sold by Dresdner Bank in Germany, which had acquired it in 1980.

It had been commissioned — along with a group of others bronzes — by the architect Gordon Bunshaft for Chase Manhattan Plaza in downtown Manhattan, where it was to stand alongside Bunshaft’s 60-story glass-and-steel Chase headquarters.

Although the installation was never realized, some of the sculptures — and others Giacometti created as experiments for the project — were made; many, though, he destroyed.

The Giacometti was not the only work to fetch a high price at Sotheby’s on Wednesday evening. A 1913 landscape by Gustav Klimt, “Church in Cassone — Landscape With Cypresses,” brought $43.2 million from another telephone bidder.

Additional information from Bloomberg News and The Associated Press

Is an Artist his art?

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:44:55 -0500

NO! We put so much time and effort into making our art something we are proud of that we end up becoming wooed with it. The art understands you and you it…………. but maybe to the rest of the world it looks like crap. Even if it is crap, we cannot let this be a reflection on us. If a lawyer loses a case that doesn’t have any implication on him as a good or bad person (maybe not the best lawer). However, if an artist creates art that is flawed, all of a sudden it becomes a window into them as a flawed person.

The truth lies in that we ought to make more crapy art in hopes that we discover new directions to take our art. A bad sketch does not determine wether we are a bad or good person it is wether we are willing to make more or not. Art cannot be a TRUE reflection of any persons character unless the subject matter suggests something about them. Any medium an artist choses will lose emotion intended for the painting or existing in the real subject. Even the best artist of all time are still only left with a handful of what people consider masterpieces. The point is that most artist dont make top notch amazing work all of the time and we learn through our failures.