<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT"%> ART AND LITERACY EXTENSIONS

Workshop: Printmaking

 

ART AND LITERACY EXTENSIONS:
       
Look at other similar book of interest, and as students if they see connections:
   

Bryan Collier (author & illustrator). Uptown. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2000.
Ntozake Shange. I Live In Music. Illustration by Romare Bearden. Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1994.
Barbara Valenta. Pop-O-Mania: How to Create You Own Pop-ups. New York: Dial Books/ Penguin/ Putnam. 1997.
Langston Hughes. The Block. Illustration by Romare Bearden. Selected by Lowery Sims. New York: Viking/ Penguin, 1995.
 
Look at Matisse to see use of cut out shapes and their relation to each other, as well as his use of pattern.
 
Look at the city as depicted by the book "Uptown", and at paintings or prints by Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis and Jean Michel Basquiat. Find similarities and differences.
 
Look at pictures of uilts and lso pictures of "outsider art" or "primitive" art.