Visit Two: PROBLEM SOLVING

Once an artist has a great idea for an artwork, he or she must figure out how to bring that idea to life. This may mean making sketches and plans like architect Renzo Piano did when designing the Nasher building, or it may mean planning how to put the parts of an artwork together for display, like a team of people did when installing Jonathan Borofsky’s Walking to the Sky.

TRY THIS AT HOME: Eco-Art Challenge

Use your problem solving skills to create art using limited materials.
First, find a friend or family member to participate in your challenge.
Next, look around the house to find materials you wouldn’t usually use for art that you can reuse for your project. You could use cereal boxes, dental floss, old newspapers, anything! Just make sure you have permission to use them.
Finally, each person should use these materials to make an artwork. See who can use them most creatively!

PHOTOS




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Looking at Renzo Piano's sketches for the Nasher building.


Learning how Walking to the Sky got into the Garden.


Taking pictures for photo journals.




Designing blueprints for buildings where we can do something we like.














Using problem solving skills to make models of the buildings we designed.

Visit One: GREAT IDEAS

Any one of us can have a great idea that could change the world. If our idea is something new that no one has done before, we call it an innovation.

An artist’s great idea might be a new way of looking at something, like Raymond Duchamp-Villon’s Large Horse, or a new kind of
artwork altogether, like Alexander Calder’s The Spider.

TRY THIS AT HOME: Collaborate to Innovate

You can collaborate (work together) with a friend or family member to create a unique work of art.
First, each of you should make a drawing, painting or sculpture without showing the other person what you are doing.
Next, show each other what you have made and think of ways that you can combine the ideas into one artwork.
Finally, work together to make a new artwork using both ideas!

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Decorating the art notebooks


Looking at The Spider


An art equation for Head of a Woman




Art equation for Double Glass




Equation for Seated Woman and Child




Equation for Clamdigger




Equation for Hostess




Equation for Head with Blue Shadow


Making "Invention Dice"