With so much great old art, how do young artists find new ways to speak?
VLM students K-5 started the year by looking at the innovative art of Alexa Meade, whose painterly portraits contain a surprise: Meade skips the canvas and paints direction onto living, breathing people---flattening form and creating collaborative installations, like the blue man. You can see a bit of Meade's process in the video below.
This year, in our art classroom, students will strive to find new, surprising solutions to old questions:
- What visual story am I trying to tell here?
- What materials and techniques would best fit this story?
- How can I make my story look good?
My goal as this year as VLM's art teacher is to continue to facilitate this exploration for our students.
Would you want to be one of Meade's models? Why or why not?
