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March 2015 Established August 2003 Issue # 161

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and

intelligence, who transform a yellow spot into the sun.” Pablo Picasso

Salon Des Enfants

Is it here again already? The greatest

children’s art exhibition in the history of

the universe, the 22nd

Salon Des Enfants, will

open on March 27 from 4:00-6:00 pm at

the Alwun House.

Over three-hundred works of art by

students from the Phoenix Elementary

School District will be on display in what

the Arizona Republic called the most

prestigious children’s art exhibition in

Arizona. All work is for sale and all

proceeds

go directly

to the

student

artists.

Entertainment will be provided by

student orchestras, bands, choirs, and

dance ensembles. We do hope you will

join us for the festivities.

Young Arts Arizona

Young Arts Arizona will feature two of our young artists as

Artists in Residence during the Grand Opening of Young

Arts Arizona. This will be held at the Phoenix Center for

the Arts (1202 N 3rd Street) from 5:30-7:00. Celeste Peralta

from Edison and Ashley Cornejo form Heard will have solo

shows of their artwork.

Hey, Mr. Space Man Ms. Abby Christensen’s Dunbar students took a trip into

outer space with this way out mural.

Other Dunbar classes created abstract pastel drawings from

swirling line drawings. They created the designs by using

to glue to form both geometric and organic lines. When it

dried, the spaces were filled with color.

Ride A Painted Pony

Students at Bethune had a rare opportunity to work

with professional artist, Karlynn Keyes. She paints

various designs on life size horse sculptures. Ms Keyes

visited Bethune students and they created their own

designs on small horse sculptures. The horses created

by professional artists were professionally

photographed and a photo was given to each Bethune

student and teacher.

Painted pony figures created by Bethune art students

Heart To Heart After studying the work of Pop artist, Jim Dine, Ms.

Alisa Spavronskaya’s 2nd

graders at MTS did some

great paintings of hearts just in time for Valentine’s

Day. They also discussed and used color temperature

and patterns.

Emerson Spinning Some Wild Yarns

Ms. Deb Stanger’s 6th grade art classes have been

creating some very interesting images with yarn. This is

more difficult than it looks because the artist uses

fingers to apply the yarn to lines of glue. Fingers, glue,

and yarn are a sticky and fuzzy combination.

Whittier Rockin’ It Ms. Leah Mitchell’s art classes are cranking out some

really high quality work.

A group project using cut outs from magazines shows a

gradual color gradation from warm to cool. This mural

is about 8 feet long.

After studying Pop art, students did tempera paintings

of common everyday objects and commercial products

such as this Tootsie Roll. They also took ideas from Roy

Lichtenstein and created images of Super Heroes in

comic book style.

Perspective lessons were also the order of the day.

Students create interior one point perspectives using a

single vanishing point. They then added color and an

object at the farthest point to creat an illusion of scale.

Ms. Mitchell’s classes also studied the work of Vincent

Van Gogh and updated them. This oil pastel piece

shows a version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night with a

hamburger instead of a cypress tree. There were other

takes on the master’s work such as a portrait of Lady

Gaga in Van Gogh’s Post-Impressionist style.

Scaring Tippy Hedron

Mr. Rudy Begay’s Capitol 2nd graders created amazing

paintings of birds. They are currently on display in the

Governing Board room.

The main reception area at Emerson Court houses a

display of various works by Ms. Vicki Ross’s Herrera

art classes.

Heavy Metal

Bethune students in Ms. Stacy Hedrick’s art classes did

images of animals by embossing pieces of metal.

They also created action themed pieces with oil pastels. To

make them look more 3-D, they created heavy textures.

Transparent Self Portraits.

Ms. Abby Christensen’s 6th grade art classes did self-

portraits on clear acetate by gridding a photo of

themselves and transferring the image. They had been

studying proportioning and value. They then added

color with oil pastels to make themselves like characters

from a comic book. All of them had a great time with

this lesson.

Dunbar kinder classes looked at the art of Robert

Rauchenburg, one of the dominant artists of the 1960s and

70s. They discussed recycling and created collages ala

Rauchenburg using tempera paint to finish them. During

the discussions of Rauchenburg’s approach, the kinders

began telling Ms Christensen that Rachenburg glued trash

to his canvases and painted over them.Those are some

pretty sharp and observant kindergarten students.

A kindergarten version of a Robert Rauchenburg

Two Sillouhettes On The Shade

Ms. Lauren Feldman taught her 7th/8th grade art classes

about the 17th century French art form known as a

Sillhouette.

Let Them Eat Cake!!! Ms. Vicki Ross’s students at Herrera are

having their cake and drawing it too. They

created these very inviting and sweet pastel

drawings

POP

Ms. Alisa Spavronskaya’s 6th

graders at

Magnet Traditional did these terrific self-

portraits after studying the work of Pop

artist Roy Lichtenstein whose comic book

style paintings were all the rage.

ARTifacts: What’s in a name? That which we

call a rose…

Mannerism- during the late Renaissance many

artists exaggerated features making their figures

taller and more flowing than in real life to make

them more graceful.

Baroque – originally a term used to describe

overly ornate jewelry; the term was applied

to the work of Rembrandt and his

contemporaries for their use of chiaroscuro

(high contrast).

Rococo –comes from Roccaille, which is

jewelry made from sea shells. Much of the

artwork was overly delicate and landscapes

often looked as though made up of sea shells or

feathers.

Impressionism- the elimination of detail and

attention to light and color was the main

purpose of the Impressionists. The name

came from a Claude Monet painting,

Impression Sunrise.

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – a group of

English artists in the early 20th century who

greatly admired the work of Renaissance artist,

Raphael. They aspired to his greatness but

never came close.

Romanticism- dreamy and poetic images.

They often idealized historical events.

Ash Can – one of the first truly American art

movements, beginning in the very early 20th

century, it was so named because the artists

painted the back alleys and the grit of New York

City.

Futurism – art reflecting the worship of

machinery

Fauvism –French word meaning Wild Beasts

was a movement in which colors were highly

exaggerated.

Dadaism – literally it means hobby horse. It

was an anti-traditional art movement of the

early 20th

century based on absurdity and

often employing found objects.

Cubism – artists created images in which the

background and foreground were sometimes on

the same plane. Shapes were simplified into

geometric shapes. The name Cubism was, at

first, derogatory. It was first used by Henri

Matisse who hated the style.

Surrealism- artwork that came from the

artist’s subconscious. The movement

coincided with studies of psychology and

dreams.

DeStijl – a movement originating in the

Netherlands using mostly geometric shapes.

Pop Art – a 1960s movement in which

common everyday objects became the subject

of works of art. Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s

Soup Cans first comes to mind.

Op Art –the creation of optical illusions as art.

Salon Des Enfants

The greatest children’s art exhibition in the history of the

Universe will open with a reception

on Friday March 27, 2015 from 4:00-6:00 PM

at the Alwun House, 1204 E.Roosevelt

All artwork is for sale and all money from sales goes directly to the student artists

Entertainment will be provided by student orchestras, bands, choirs, and dance ensembles

Refreshments will be served

Please join us for the 22nd annual signature event of the

Phoenix Elementary School District Art Department

Art Among Us

Phoenix Elementary is rife with large scale

artwork created by students art teachers, and

visiting profesisonal artists.

Mosaic at Heard

Mural at Heard

Site of a future mural awarded to Shaw School by

the city of Phoenix.

Ms Rosa Wilno’s Edison students created this

painted rock garden memorial dedicated to two

students who are sadly no longer with us.

Mural at Dunbar