Art square

I teach students about art, creativity, and visual problem solving at Carthage Junior High. My wife is also an art teacher, and my three kids are all into their own arts, music, drama, imaginary unicorn development!

Earlier this year, my co-worker Jayne found the idea to make a collaborative school-wide paper mural based on the artwork of Thank YouX. The idea for a student mural originally came from Jenell Novello and you can see the lesson plan write-up on Artsonia. She also so generously provided the lesson plan and templates on Google docs. Thank You X got his name by accident. In 2009 Andy Warhol’s spray painted portrait was spotted on a city street in L.A.. … Read more... →

acrylic on canvas, 36 by 24

Black Square and Red Square | Kazimir Malevich 1915

Suprematism was an art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. It was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, in 1915. The term suprematism refers to an art based up…

In this recent series of digital artworks, Brooklyn-based graphic designer Victoria Siemer begins with dreamy landscapes of mountainous forests shrouded in fog and clouds and then inserts giant reflective fragments that rise from the ground. The inversed image creates the uncanny effect of a monolithic mirror that towers over the photograph like a kind ofContinue reading "Reflected Landscapes by Victoria Siemer"

“Form finds Symmetry in Geometry” in Zodiac 19, 1969 by Anne Griswold Tyng In Geometric Extensions of Consciousness, published in the Italian architectural journal Zodiac 19 in 1969. In the article,...

A yellow color block kitchen with mottled walls, white cabinets and a colorful backsplash

daniel buren has created two site-specific installations that unite the existing architecture of the MAMCS in france with his distinctive 'on site' colored environments.