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National Indigenous Art Triennial ‘07:Culture Warriors | not an animal or a plant

"VERNON AH KEE was born in North Queensland and is of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidindji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples. He has been living in Brisbane for over twelve years. His art is primarily a critique of Australian popular culture, specifically the Black/White dichotomy. Over five years he has tailored text as the visual. Humour, biting and black, aerates the slogans which otherwise might miss their target in the Australian audience and rebound on the artist in an angry and depressing squalor. As it is, the signs are profoundly beautiful, pithy and poetic, while hitting hard."

the box doodle project

I love this idea …it would be great to see every child in a class create an original artwork from a unique cardboard box

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Kids Art Show – Shows Kids Art in Art Shows

Op Art Style

Op Art is a twentieth century art movement and style which is comprised of illusion. It often appears to be moving or breathing due to its precision and mathematically-based composition. The phrase Optical Art (often referred to as Op Art) was created in an article in Time Magazine in October of 1964. The official life span of the movement is around three years, late 1964-1969. There are many pieces of artwork that is characteristic of this style which was created long before these dates and there are many artists who continue to create art in this style.

Victor Vasarely is considered the pioneer of the movement clear back in 1938 with a piece of work entitled Zebra. M.C.Escher’s work is much earlier and he is sometimes listed as an op artist because of use of perspective and tessellations. Bridget Riley is an artist who continues to work in this style.

Key Characteristics of Op Art

• Op Art exists to fool the eye. These compositions create a visual tension in a viewer’s mind. It gives the illusion of movement.

• Op Art is almost always non-representational because of its geometrically-based nature.
• Elements such as color, line, and shape are carefully chosen to create maximum effect.
• The techniques used in Op Art are perspective and careful placement of color.
• Positive and negative spaces in a composition are of equal importance.

Terms:

Elements: the basic components of art that are combined to create compositions.

Perspective: the way an artist represents the real, three-dimensional world on a flat or two-dimensional surface.

Composition: the arrangement of elements of art such as color, line, shape, form, texture, space, and value, into proper proportion or relation

Positive space: the object or focus of a piece of art

Negative space: the space around the object or focus of a piece of art work

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Good illusion sight: http://www.colorcube.com/illusions/optiart.htm

More illusions: http://eluzions.com/Illusions/

Animated illusions: http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html

Optical illusion gallery: http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/

How illusions work: http://www.at-bristol.org.uk/Optical/SizeConstancy_main.htm

Unusual illusions: http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~amos/visualillusion.html

Specific Artists Websites:

The Van Gogh Gallery: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/

Step inside a Van Gogh painting: http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html

Fun making Picasso painting you can save and print out: http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html

Online Picasso Project: http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/

Interactive Picasso on online: http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/art/artists/picasso/index.html

A self-educated farmer, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley attracted world attention with his pioneering work in the area of photomicrography, particularly his extensive work with snow crystals. By adapting a microscope to a bellows camera he became the first person to photograph a single snow crystal in 1885. This site is dedicated to his work and images of snowflakes.: http://www.snowflakebentley.com/

biographies of over 40 architects and artists that worked in Britain between 1700 and 1900: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/art.htm

This is the official Andy Warhol site: make a screen-print online and email it to yourself. The interactive screen-printing demo gives a clear step-by-step guide to the process Warhol used.: http://www.warhol.org/

Surrealist artist links: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/surrealism.html

Matisse for Kids: http://www.artbma.org/education/matisse_kids_frame.html

More Matisse: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/

Claude Monet: http://www.intermonet.com/

Online Interactive Resources for Art