Art Is Life
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| Frida Art Deco by Andrea Zaragoza |
Advanced
Placement Art Instructor Dr. Margaret Long comments on the joys and challenges
of teaching Advanced Placement Art, the Art Deco Movement, and the latest
exhibits at CVHS’s Gallery 97:
On Teaching Advanced
Placement Art:
Picasso
once said, “Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.” There is a wonderful
truth in artistic expression. AP Studio
Art brings artistic expression to the max.
Students are required to reach into the deepest recesses of their
imagination to expose themselves to the world. Teaching AP Art has been the
most rewarding—and the most difficult job—I have ever done. Each day is a new experience for both
students and teacher. Art is where the
world is revealed to the seeker.
On the Art Deco Movement:
The
first AP project of this school year is about Art Deco. While travelling to San Francisco this summer
I came across an Art Deco exhibit. The
show included everything Art Deco from photographs, advertising, clothing,
inventions, modern appliances, and furniture. The first week of school I gave the Art Deco (c. 1925-1940) assignment
to the AP and Advanced/Art II students in Period 6. They were to create an Art Deco Design based
upon their research of this period in art. As luck would have it, Mr. Carlin’s neighbor gave him a load of
unfinished frames, which he gave to me! The artists then designed their own finished frames to suit their
original art.
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| Artist Andrea Zaragoza |
The
Art Deco style, adopted by architects and designers around the world, spanned
the "Roaring Twenties," the Great Depression of the early 1930s, and
the years leading up to the Second World War. It suffered a decline in
popularity during the late ‘30s and early ‘40s, when it began to be seen as too
gaudy and ostentatious for wartime austerity, after which it quickly fell out
of fashion. The first resurgence of interest in Art Deco occurred in the
1960s—coincident with the movement's affect on Pop Art—and then again in the
1980s, in line with growing interest in graphic design. The style appeared in a
number of jewelry and fashion ads.
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| Gallery 97 |
On Coachella Valley High’s
Gallery 97:
Last
year Mrs. Perez graciously arranged to dedicate Room 97 near the cafeteria to
be an Art Gallery. You can see the name
of the gallery written on the wall: Galleria 97. We will have a showing of the Art Deco
Paintings and ceramics pieces from Mr. Escobedo’s classes, beginning Tuesday,
October 6 and ending on Tuesday, October 27. If you would like to see the
exhibit you can come to room 87 (the room with the mural) any time, and I will
have a Docent take you on a tour of the current Gallery 97 Showing.
Up-Coming Gallery Exhibits:
On
Monday, November 2, the art classes will have a one-day showing of their Dia
de los Muertos paintings from all my classes, and ceramic works from
Mr. Escobedo’s classes. It is only a
one-day showing; so don’t miss this wonderful Day of the Dead exhibit.
Thursday,
November 5 through Friday, November 27 we will be showing the Art Techno pieces (c. 1990-2015)
created as a response to our modern-day technology. I think you will enjoy the exciting rendition
of Art Techno.
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| Stencil by Albert Lopez, 2015 |
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