Not to mention, our art work is again exceptional. We had classes on Impressionism and Post-impressionism. Our art work then had to do with making utter nonsense story lines (Impressionism) or color theory (Post-Impressionism.)
Color theory, in my totally not quick summery, is the idea that a person, metaphorically, takes two primary colors to create one secondary color than uses the remaining primary color as an accent color. Quick test! Green would mean you use an accent of red. Purple would mean you use an accent of yellow. Orange would mean an accent of blue. Congratulations, if you got the last few 'questions' correct, you understand color theory! We also learned Van Gogh was a rebel because he was insane and didn't keep to color theory. That earless painter... you got to love him!
Look at that! No color theory! It's all yellow.
I love rebels.
But on ward to all my two eared student's art!
This believe it or not was not a non-sense story line picture at all but a Van Gogh inspired picture. At lot of students said that Van Gogh's paintings reminded them of dreams, especially The Starry Night. Well, this drawing reminds me of a dream. A picture of it really does it very little justice. Up close it's a spiders web of a million little things. A pineapple. An elephant's head. A cookie. A box of pastels. I love it so much! It's absolutely brilliant.
Now, this drawing is like 'oh, hey color theory, I'm just going to forget you exist.' I, personally, have to take a long time to understand abstract and shape art. But this, really, makes perfect sense to me right away. It's very open while being full of lines at the same time.
Everyone said it was the swirls in The Starry Night that reminded them of a dream. One of my students decided to just make one big swirl keeping the the ROYGBIV color scheme of the rainbow and voilá, a dream like swirl, everyone.
This is actually two of my brilliant student's art work. One side, the night side, is keeping with color theory. The other side, the day side, is not. But overall, both are the same building. How brilliant is that. It's like Vermeer's twin paintings, The Astronomer and The Geographer. Except, you know, it's a building. But it's still just as awesome.
This is from 'the week I forgot my camera.' Note the arty viewpoint. Also note this was our non-sense theme week and the story is dogs walking humans. Ha, ha, ha. Still makes me laugh. I mean, that right there is really brilliant!
You know, I can't even remember the story behind this painting because I'm mesmerized by the taking-the-picture-while-the-paint-brush-is-being-used technique going on here. I've got to try that out.
I totally forgot what was going on in this painting, but I can assure you I'd really like to know.
This is better than an episode of the X-files. Most definitely better than an episode of Fringe.
This was the funniest one I saw that week. It's a graveyard in a zoo, because who goes to the zoo to see nothing alive?