International Dot DaySeptember 15

To celebrate International Dot Day, we will first see some work by artists who are known for using dots in their work

Georges Seurat

Pointillism techniquePost-Impressionism

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte1884-1886

Australian Aboriginal Art

Dot paintings thought to represent dreams and religion, used in cultural ceremonies

Wassily Kandinsky

Circles in a Circle, 1923Taught at the Bauhaus 1922-1933 (Russian born)Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913

“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul”

Yayoi Kusama

"The Earth is a polka dot, Moon is a polka dot, Sun, Mars, all of them are polka dots," Yayoi Kusama said. "I realized my life is only a small portion of this universe. It's a mere dot."

Japanese artist (born 1929)pre-cursor to Pop Art, minimalist and feminist art movements; influenced Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Ben-Day Dots

American Pop Artist from the 1960s (1923-1997)Recent retrospective at Art Institute of Chicago

“collision of commercial sources and fine art”

Chuck Close

Large-scale portraits made entirely from inked thumb-prints

Photo-realism

American, born 1940

Damien Hirst

Reportedly England’s richest living artist (born 1965)

Sees art as the conception of the idea, not the execution of the work (many assistants create much of his work)

Spot paintings, 1986-2011Conceptual art

Michelle Grabner

Conceptual – expressions of orderliness & routine

Women’s domestic productivity and patterning, inspired by feminist work of the 1970s American contemporary artist,

teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago

Ian Sands, art teacher, NC

http://apexhsart.blogspot.com/search/label/postitstop14

Student self-portraits enlarged using Skittles

Large-scale portraits made from stickie notes on school wall

http://apexhsart.blogspot.com/2012/02/skittle-art-part-2.html

The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

So, what is the main point

of the book?

The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

How did Vashti’s teacher impact her?

How did Vashti make a difference for the younger student at the end of the story?

The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

How will you make your mark?

How can our class make a difference on campus or in the local community?