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January 2015 Established August, 2003 Issue # 159

“Painting is self-discovery. Every artist paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock

Happy New Year The great thing about a new year is the rejuvination.

We return from Winter Break respite rested and

ready to beat the band that causes hundreds of little

enlightened brain explosions that will stay on fire for

the lifetimes of our students. From all of us in the Art

Department, we wish everyone a happy and healthy

2015.

John, Rudy, Nancy, Abby, Dominika, Lauren,

Kyle, Stacy, Leah, Vicki, Susan, Alisa, Deb, Janet,

and Rosa

MLK Youth Art Show

The Annual MLK Youth Art Show will open on

Thursday, January 22 at the Arizona State

Capitol Annex (1700 W. Washington) from 4:00

PM to 6:00 PM. Please join us as we celebrate the

successes and join the continued struggles of the

Civil Rights Movement through the art of our

talented young artists. Once again, we are the only

district invited to exhibit in this very poignent

event.

Pollock Month January is Jackson Pollock Month in PESD. We

honor the work of one of the 20th

century’s most

important artists who just happened to have been a

student in our district in the 1920s.

In 1950, the Art Journal Art News published a list of

the most important art exhibitions of that year in the

US. Among the top three wasJackson Pollock’s. A

Pollock painting sold at auction in 2006 for $140

million making it the most ever paid for a painting.

Our students will study the work of Pollock during

the month of January.

Pollock in his studio

Pollock’s work was often very large. He once cut

an entire wall out of his studio because removing a

30-foot long painting was otherwise impossible.

Every year the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in NY

recognizes the work that our Art Department does

related to Jackson Pollock month.

Jackson Pollock’s Alma Mater, Monroe School, now

houses the Phoenix Children’s Museum, one of the

most unique of its kind in the US. The Museum owns

two large paintings ala Pollock that were done by our

students during Salon Des Enfants.

Monthly Haiku

Happy New Year all

Resolutions will soon fall

Be happy that’s all

Kinder Kommunicates with Kolor at Kapitol

Mr. Rudy Begay was having fun painting with

Kindergarten at Capitol. These children have a great

need to express themeslves, but do not have all of the

vocabulary at their disposals so art is typcially their

language of communication.

Gaining A New Perspective

Dr. Matt Gish’s Herrera art classes have been

wokring on landscape paintings using atmospheric

perspective. They have learned that warm colors tend

to advance to the eye and are more detailed. Cool

colors tend to recede and lose detail. These paintings

show the beginings of warmer foreground colors.

Garfield 2

nd graders were studying color and how

moods and feelings are altered by the use of color.

They also discussed color temperature.

Garfield art teacher Ms. Nancy Caternolo gave all

of the sutdents containers full of colored buttons.

She instructed them to look at the color wheel and

find a warm or cool color and place a matching

button on top of it. She also projectd images and

discussed colors that the children would see in

their daily lives and how they are incluenced by

colors.

MacDonald’s and other fast food restaurants use

warm colors colors to entice customers to enjoy

hot food.

Ms. Caternolo and her 3rd

grade classes discussed

color familes. She likened them to people’s

families and how they are related. For instance

red might be the Dad and yellow might be the

Mom. All of the colors in between such as

orange, red-orange, yellow-orange are the

children.

Collage at Emerson

Ms. Deb Stanger’s classes created some

stunning collages by cutting and pasting images

from magazines. Collage is an art that was

popularized in the early 20th century by Cubists

such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

Edison is in Stitches

Ms. Rosa Wilno’s Edison 3rd graders are learning

how to stitch with yarn on burlap to create a

wall hanging. They first planned a drawing on

newsprint, edited, and then drew the final work

on burlap with chalk. They practiced threading

needles, tying knots, and making small stitches.

Creating fabric art was a big challenge but the

students all stepped up and did a terific job as

expected.

“I have decided to stick with

love. Hate is too big of a

burden to bear.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

CapitOlizing on Printmaking

Capitol students are getting very sophisticated in

their art classes with Mr. Rudy Begay. They have

started printmaking. They began by discussing

positive and negative space. Mr. Begay then post-

tested them on positive/negative space, shapes and

pertinent vocabulary. They also viewed a

powerpoint on printmaking to include the history,

types of printmaking and relief print. Students

started sketching ideas on paper and once they

had a good original drawing, Mr. Begay showed

them how to transfer to an 8” x 6” linoleum tile.

Safety First!!! When the students started cutting

and carving into their linoleum tiles, Mr. Begay

did several demonstrations on how to use the tools

safely and efficiently. They then pulled five prints

off of each block. It is a lot of hard work, but the

students are finding it all very fascinating and

have accepted the challenge.

ARTifacts: 20 Century Art Collectors

Gertrude and younger brother Leo Stein were

educated as physicians in Boston and moved to Paris.

They, along with Gertrude’s partner Alice B. Toklas,

were instrumental in fueling the careers of many well

known artists in the early 20th

Century.

The reason that Moscow’s Pushkin Museum has

one of the word’s best collections of esarly 20th

Century art is due to the efforts of Sergei

Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. They went to France

and bought hundreds of pieces of art for their

private collecitons. Aftter the Bolshevik

Revolution in 1917 their collecitons were absorbed

into the state collection.

Comedian, Cheech Marin is one of the country’s top

collectors of Mexican-American art

Comedian Steve Martin is recognized as one ot the

world’s most astute collectors of 20th

Century art.

Sylvester Stalone has a knockout art collection.

Other important collectors are rapper/entrepreneur Jay

Z, singer/songwriter David Bowie, singer/songwriter

Bob Geldof, entertainer Madonna, actor Brad Pitt,

cyclist Lance Armstrong, playwrite Andrew Lloyd

Webber, actor Leonardo Decaprio, basketball player

Grant Hill, actor Hugh Grant, director Stephen

Spielberg, singer/songwriter Elton John,

singer/songwriter Lionel Ritchie, singer/songwriter

EricClapton, actor Kevin Spacey, and former Beatle

Paul McCartney and tennis great John MacEnroe.