ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY

A Lincoln Center Institute, "Focus School Project"

at the William O. Schaefer School.
Part three, of our journey
from ordinary to extraordinary is
to notice the uses of transformation.

What's going on in this picture?

What kind of shapes do you see?

Where is this place?

What is Ordinary?

What does it mean to be dynamic?

What do you see?

What's in the air?
What does the movement suggest?
What's is extraordinary?
What can you imagine hearing?
What would you title this?

Andrew Wythe, "Christina's World"

Several weeks after the class visited  the Museum of Modern Art I asked the students to draw details of images they remembered from our museum trip.

Many drew multiple images using the same vocabulary of shapes we saw in the art.

Some drew "reference boxes" on their drawings that linked the details in their art to specific art works seen on the museum visit.

Students titled their drawings.

Alberto Giacometti, "Man Pointing"

The students assemble and rearranged the elements and details into transformation totems that represented the museum experience.

Marc Chagall, "I and the Village"

Pablo Picasso, "The Three Musicians"

 

guiding question...
What is Transformation?

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INNER EYE
ARCHITECTURE ART ARTISTS DANCE EDUCATION
FASHION FORUM GALLERIES INSTALLATION MUSEUMS
MUSIC PERFORMANCE PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS TECHNOLOGY
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coyright 1998

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