Advanced Art
The Famous Artist Chairs Assignment
Using Scholastic Art Magazines, resource art books, or the Internet, the
students chose an artist (2-dimensional) whose work interested them. They
designed and painted a chair that represented at least one painting by that
artist, but could include several, or parts of several works. The painting had
to be to scale and accurate as to color. Students were to give consideration to
the shape of their chair when choosing their artist and the piece(s) they will
reproduced. They also had to write a paper on the artist they chose.
The chairs are older recycled chairs, mostly from Urban Ore, a Berkeley store
that recycles used items. Some were also donated by teachers and friends. This
year, I took the photos you see here to Urban Ore, to show them the results, as
they had given me a small discount last year and I needed to ask for a discount
again. They were so impressed by the students’ chairs, and a thank you letter to
the store, they decided to donate the chairs for this year’s class. We are very
grateful to Urban Ore!
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| Dali Chair | Hundertwasser Chair | Kandinsky Chair |
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| Peter Max Chair | Picasso Chair | Siqueiros Chair |
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| Peter Max Chair | Picasso Chair | Siqueiros Chair |