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2000
Summer Session
VISIONS
LCI / MOMA
Visual Artist - John Toth
JULY 5
10:00-10:30
Team C
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Bastein LePage, "Joan of Arc" |
Acua Ba, (doll)Asanti |
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Ideas |
Seeing Eyes |
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Questions |
What's going on in this picture?
How does facial expression inform content? |
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Process |
Describe / details Analyze / how Interpret / why |
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Activity
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Use mirrors to explore your own facial expression, changing the shape of your eyes indicates content and emotional meaning.
Draw the shapes of eyes and eyebrows:
Draw anger, happy, curious, envy, whimsy, etc. |
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Materials |
TV Monitor, ebony drawing pencils, 18"x24" white drawing paper, mirrors. |
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Reflection |
In small groups: Discuss with your team members the artworks you have finished. What meaning do the eyes suggest
What do the expressions say about our communication skills ? |
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2000
Summer Session
LCI / MOMA
Visual Artist - John Toth
JULY 7
3:30-4:30
Team C
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Emmanual Leutz, Washington Crossing The Delawre |
Elizando, The Young Dalai Lama |
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Ideas |
LEADERS: Body Language
Body language communicates inner and outer meaning. |
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Questions |
What's going on in this picture?
What does the body language suggest about confidence? Power? Attitude? |
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Process |
Describe / details Analyze / how nterpret / Why |
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Activity
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Use clay to make a sculpture by making one squeeze for eyes, nose, lips, mouth, ears.
Make another sculpture that uses body language to communicate:
Authority; passivity; anxiousness, elation, etc.
Make another scupture implying that the features of a person are inflated.
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Materials: |
TV Monitor, ebony drawing pencils, drawing paper, clay. |
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Reflection |
In small groups:
Discuss with your team members the artworks you have finished.
What meaning does the bodylanguage suggest
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2000
Summer Session
LCI / MOMA
Visual Artist - John Toth
JULY 10
9:30-10:30
Team C
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Grant Wood, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" |
Kiki Smith, |
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Iideas |
Points-of-view |
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Questions |
What's going on in this picture?
What does the point-of- view of the viewer suggest? |
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Process |
Describe / details Analyze / h ow nterpret / Why |
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Activity
Enactment |
Draw something or someone in the room from three points of view.
Birds-eye-view
Eye Level view
Worms-eye-view
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Materials |
TV monitor, craypas, drawing pencils, 18"x24" white drawing paper. |
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Reflection |
In small groups:
Discuss with your team members the artworks you have finished.
What meaning do the points-of-view suggest? |
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2000
Summer Session
LCI / MOMA
Visual Artist - John Toth
JULY 12
10:30-11:30
Team C
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Roy Lichtenstien, "Stepping Out" |
Rapheal Soyer, "The Artists Parents" |
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Ideas |
Transformation of body shapes enhances meaning and content?
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Questions |
What's going on in this picture?
What is transformed? What effect does this transformation have?
How do artists amplify meaning or call attention to our other senses?
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Process |
Describe / details analyze / h ow Interpret |
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Activity
Enactment |
Using circles, squares and tringles to make a simplified drawing of poses. Then, using contour lines make a simplified drawing of poses.
compare two processes (organic / geometric)
Make a group drawing where one model at a time poses.
Ask the next model to connect in some way to the first pose and then have the first model exit. Continue with additional models.
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Materials: |
TV monitor, craypas, drawing pencils, 18"x24" white drawing paper. |
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Reflection |
In small groups:
Discuss with your team members the artworks you have finished.
What meaning does the transformation esuggest |
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2000
Summer Session
LCI / MOMA
Visual Artist - John Toth
JULY 14
2:45-3:30
Team C
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Roger Brown |
Stauart Davis |
Florine Dtethheimer |
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Ideas |
Public Places: Symbols |
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Questions |
What's going on in this picture?
How do symbols of places or settings include details that inform and enhance the meaning of the stories that are within a painting? |
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Process |
Describe / details Analyze / how Interpret / Why |
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Activity
Enactment |
Revisit an experience where you saw something public change over time.
Write about the details of that event.
Draw a symbol to represent the event.
Remake the symbol to account for the changes, as you move through time.
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Materials: |
TV monitor, craypas, drawing pencils, 18"x24" white drawing paper. |
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Reflection |
In small groups :
Discuss with your team members the artworks you have finished.
What meaning do the symbols suggest
What do you learn about changes in perceptions or changes in belief systems?
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2000
Summer Session
LCI / MOMA
Visual Artist - John Toth
JULY 13
11:00-12:30
Team C
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Mark Tansey, "The Innocent Eye Test" |
Thomas Hart Benton , " July Hay" |
Henri Reausseau |
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Ideas |
Metaphysics |
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Questions |
What's going on in this picture?
How do artist speak to the inner life of life and ideas? |
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Describe / details Analyze / how Interpret / Why |
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Activity
Enactment |
Empty contents of pockets.
Organize objects to create a (metaphysical) self portrait.
Use the objects in such a way as to challenge the normal use of the object. (Glasses should not represent eyes)
Reflect with team partner.
Reorganize your objects and call attention to an invisible aspect of your self.
Make a drawing of each arrangement. |
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Materials: |
TV monitor, craypas, drawing pencils, 18"x24" white drawing paper. |
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Reflection |
In small groups:
Discuss with your team members the artworks you have finished.
What meaning do you find from these metaphysical sculptures. |
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2000
Summer Session
LCI / MOMA
Visual Artist - John Toth
JULY 18
10:15-12:30
Team C
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Jackson Pollock |
Terry Winters, "LSD" |
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Ideas |
Distilling the whole into the essential |
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Questions |
What's going on in this picture?
How does perception change as we draw near to something...
What does it mean to be near?
How do we allow ourselves to be drawn in?
What is the essence of body, mind and soul?
What does it mean to linger in a place.
What happens when you view something over a period of time?
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Describe / details Analyze / how Interpret / Why |
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Activity
Enactment |
Make an art work that defines your essence in a non-representational form.
* Physical essence
* Mental essence
* Spiritual essence |
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Materials |
TV monitor, craypas, watercolor, brushes, 18"x24" white paper, buckets, clay, color markers. |
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Reflection |
WHAT IS Essence?
In Small Groups;
Interview; ask questions based on the artworks that get at the inner meaning of these works?
What kind of questions get at INNER meaning?
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2000
Summer Session
LCI / MOMA
Visual Artist - John Toth
JULY 20
2:00-4:30
Team C
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Portfolios, journals, memories |
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Ideas |
WHAT IS REFLECTION?
Visual Goal: Understanding the process, technique and tools of Reflection |
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Questions |
What is reflection?
What is pedogogy? |
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Describe / details analyze / h ow Interpret |
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Activity
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Consider processes of reflection.
Tag significant work.
Create a symbols for tagged work.
Make a 3 part artwork that crepresents 3 stages of your journey over the past three weeks. |
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Materials: |
TV monitor, VCR, Yellow post its, craypas, drawing pencils, 18"x24" white drawing paper. |
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