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Alexander Calder's Circus
It was in Paris in 1927 that he created the miniature circus celebrated in this film. The Parisian avant-garde would gather in Calder's studio to see the circus in operation. This film exudes the great personal charm of Calder himself, moving and working the tiny players like a ringmaster, while his wife winds up the gramophone in the background. The Circus is now housed at the Whitney Museum in New York.
more circus sketches
(Temescal 10/4/12)
Circus Drawings & Paintings
In 2/3 we are starting a series of classes focusing on the theme of Circus. Alexander Calder created a mini Circus out of wire, metal, cloth, clay, yarn, and wood. Here a student sketches her ideas of the circus. In coming weeks students will work with sculptural material building their own circus acts.
One Temescal Creek students' painting of a trapeze artist. Thank you to Jeanne Coyne Song for substituting in art this day. (9/27/12)
A Sweet Briar student's list of elements that are found in a circus. (9/25/12)
COLOR
Sweet Briar working on color wheel cards and paintings using warm and cool colors.(9/18/12)
Sketchbooks and Artist Trading Cards
Sweet Briar 2/3 - first week of studio art classes students working in their sketchbooks and on Artist trading cards. (9/11/12)
Temescal 2/3 students at work in the studio on their sketchbooks and on Artist trading cards. (9/13/12)
Your Sketchbook Yourself
2/3 Temescal Students working on deepening their experience of the use of a sketchbook for visual thinking, working out ideas, and mark making.
Temescal 2/3 students made flowers that were given to families for their formal tea celebration. (May 2011)
brain storming for the mural by students:
- parts of the brain and what they control.
- imagination
- thought bubbles
- enlarge our own drawings
- show what neuro connections look like - before & after (April 2010)
