cHuCk on sat 16 sep 00
Thanks for the lesson plans,
This whole Picasso thread has been a tremendous help to me in explaining Art
in general to my students. I have read many of the posts to them and they
get excited when I check the list for mail. (some of them do think his work
was "crap", although I would note that many of these same students seem to
think almost everything is "crap" from school food to thier parents.)
I admit I have a little more trouble explaining Motherwell, Pollack or Kline
than I do explaining the historical value of Picasso. Once you start really
seeing the breadth of his work and skill it is overwhelming. "Surviving
Picasso" is a very popular movie with all my students. The Atlantic magazine
had a really good article about "The Big P" that we use in class too.
Ultimate power certainly can corrupt ones perspective.
Also, in defense of young students I would note that many of my
kids(students) love Picasso. Of course I try to show them at least a dozen
of the styles he worked in so they will not make rash conclusions that any
one of his styles represents what he was all about. When we draw still-lifes
in class they have a choice of imitating an artists style as a final project
and many of them choose synthetic or analytical cubism.
When I was in Jr. High my mother introduced me to Picasso and Cubism and "I
loved it! To this day I consume everything I can about the man. While he was
kind of monster to his friends and relatives his art covers so much ground
that it is hard to not "like" some of his work. As for Pollack....well don't
ask me why, but I love his work too.
Chuck
p.s. No, I don't want to get rid of Great Britian (just Gerstley Borate)
, although I would like to go there sometime. *<(8+D "it's getting cold so
put my hat on"
> Judging ART is not in "the eye of the beholder".... Preference is in the
> eye of the beholder....you don't have to know anything to express
> preference of an object whether art or broccoli... you can like it but
> that is not the basis of judgement....
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