Friday, 09/03/2010

Math:
Group 1 - Khan Academy
Group 2 - Khan Academy
Group 3 - Khan Academy

Science:
Group 1 - 6th- vocabulary picture posters: crust, mantle, core, convention, conduction
Group 2 - 7th- Body systems: outline a person and draw in their organs!
Group 3 - 8th- Atoms, elements, molecules, compounds

Humanities:
Group 1 - site work
Group 2 - site work
Group 3 - site work


History:
Group 1 - site work
Group 2 - site work
Group 3 - site work


Studio 22: Bauhaus Design with Paul Klee

Paul Klee (German pronunciation: [ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a Swiss painter and a German painter.[a] His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism.[1] Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance.[2][3][4] He and his colleague , the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible." - Paul Klee


Klee’s simpler and larger designs enabled him to keep up his output in his final years, and in 1939 he created over 1,200 works, a career high for one year.[50] He used heavier lines and mainly geometric forms with fewer but larger blocks of color. His varied color palettes, some with bright colors and others sober, perhaps reflected his alternating moods of optimism and pessimism.[51] Back in Germany in 1937, seventeen of Klee’s pictures were included in an exhibition of “Degenerate Art” and 102 of his works in public collections were seized by the Nazis.

Klee taught at the Bauhaus, the art school newly formed in 1919 to unite arts and crafts in one institution, and to give each student “a thorough training in the workshops of all branches”.[36] Klee was a “Form” master in the bookbinding, stained glass, and mural painting workshops. He was also provided with two studios.[37] In 1922, Kandinsky joined the staff and resumed his friendship with Klee. Later that year the first Bauhaus exhibition and festival was held, for which Klee created several of the advertising materials.[38] Within the Bauhaus there were many conflicting theories and opinions, which Klee welcomed: “I also approve of these forces competing one with the other if the result is achievement.”