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  • Ceramics
  • AP Art History
    • Art History Videos
  • Curriculums and Prior Student Work
    • IB Diploma Program >
      • Y12: IBDP 2 ART >
        • IBDP Art Exhibition 2015 >
          • Han's (HL) Exhibition
          • Huy's (SL) Exhibition
        • Y13 Artwork Gallery
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        • Art Gallery Visit and Instagram Posts
        • Expectations of Art and Design Students at AIS
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      • Expectations of Art and Design Students at AIS
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      • Art Element Photos - Padlet links
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  • PYP/Elementary School Art
    • PYP/Elementary Art >
      • Kindergarten - PYP ART >
        • Unit 1 - Where We are in Place and Time
        • Unit 2 - Color: Primary, Secondary, Warm and Cool
        • Unit 3 - Sharing the Planet
        • Unit 4 - Transportation Shapes
        • Unit 5 - Clay Sculptures
      • Year 1 - PYP Art >
        • Unit 1 - Painting Lines and Shapes
        • Unit 2 - Sharing the Planet
        • Unit 3 - Collage
        • Unit 4 - How We Express Ourselves
        • Unit 5 - Clay Sculpture
        • Unit 6
      • Year 2 - PYP Art >
        • Unit 1 - Painting Value
        • Unit 2 - Collage
        • Unit 3 - Sharing the Planet
        • Unit 4 - How We Express Ourselves
        • Unit 5 - Clay Sculpture
        • Unit 6 - Drawing/Painting from Observation
      • Year 3 - PYP Art >
        • Unit 1 - Observational Drawing and Painting
        • Unit 2 - Where We are in Place and TIme
        • Unit 3 - Mixed Media Collage
        • Unit 4 - Portrait Sculpture
        • Unit 5 - Clay Sculpture
        • Unit 6 -
      • Year 4 - PYP Art >
        • Unit 1 - Painting Value and Forms
        • Unit 2 - Collage
        • Unit 3 - Printmaking
        • Unit 4: Observational Drawing
        • Unit 5 - How the World Works
        • Unit 6 - Where We are in Place and Time
      • Year 5 - PYP Art >
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        • Unit 2 - Painting Color Schemes
        • Unit 3 - Design
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Digital Vs. Traditional Art

2/18/2016

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Question: What is your view on digital vs. traditional art? 
​Photoshop or the canvas? Who’s got the power?
Should an artist specialize, or be skilled with both of them??
Comment below in 3-4 complete sentences. ​
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 “If I Were a Celebrity for a Day…”

12/4/2015

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 “If I Were a Celebrity for a Day…”
Many celebrities apply their fame and fortune to community work for a cause of their choice: children, world hunger, the environment, etc.

If you were famous for a day, what cause would you choose to help and why?


Comment below in 3-4 complete sentences. 
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Public Art 

11/14/2015

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Public art is often site-specific, meaning it is created in response to the place and community in which it resides.
​It often interprets the history of the place, its people, and perhaps addresses a social or environmental issue. 

Being public, the art is free and accessible to everyone. Public art creates a heightened awareness in the viewer of the site of the people and the broader context of what’s around them. 
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Anish Kapoor. “Cloud Gate”. 2004-2006. Stainless Steel. Chicago, USA
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Tang Mun Kian. ”Cannon Hole”. 2009. Wire. Located at Lebuh Cannon, George Town, Malaysia
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Chong Fah Cheong. “First Generation”. 2000. Bronze. Singapore
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. “Spoonbridge and Cherry”.1998. Stainless steel. Minneapolis, USA.
If the people in the district of Saigon you lived in asked you to choose one of the above artworks to display in your neighborhood what one would you choose and why? Think about what the people would like, not just what you like. 
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Walker Evans - Subway Portraits

11/7/2015

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 In 1938 Walker Evans went underground to photograph passengers on the New York City Subway. Interested in capturing the everyday routines of anonymous people, Evans wanted to catch his subjects unaware. “The guard is down and the mask is off,” he wrote, “even more than when in lone bedrooms (where there are mirrors). People’s faces are in naked repose down in the subway.”Between 1938 and 1941, using a hidden camera, Evans photographed his subjects in these unguarded moments. 
In order to create his clandestine photographs, he orchestrated a way of taking photographs “undercover.” He painted the shiny chrome of his camera black and hid it under his coat so that the camera lens surreptitiously peeked out between two buttons. Despite the public setting of the subway, Evans managed to capture people lost in their own thoughts and moods, displaying a range of human emotions. With these black-and-white photographs, Evans managed to pull off a complicated feat: creating truly unposed portraits.     - MOMA l Learn
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Walker Evans. Subway Portrait. 1941. Gelatin silver print
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Walker Evans. Subway Portrait. 1941. Gelatin silver print
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Walker Evans. Subway Portrait. 1941. Gelatin silver print
Pick one image from the Subway Portrait series and
write a short story in which you imagine the inner life of the person photographed.
  • Where might this person be traveling to or from?
  • What do they do for work?
  • What is their home life like?
  • What are they thinking about at the moment the photograph was taken?
Write in complete sentences (5-6 sentences). Comment on one others student's story. 
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Do you agree...or not agree?

10/31/2015

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Donald Judd. 'Untitled'. 1984. Concrete. Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas.
Donald Judd said, “If someone says his work is art, it’s art.”
Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

Write  2-3 complete sentences explaining your view.
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Creating a "Sense of Place"

10/21/2015

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In complete sentences answer the following questions. 
  1. What does “Sense of Place” mean to you? 
  2. Cite an artist and his/her artwork that you think shows Sense of Place well and tell why. 
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