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The homeschool classes at the Nasher Sculpture Center have become so popular that this year they have doubled the number of class offerings and still have waiting lists! Anna, the Assistant Curator of Education is absolutely wonderful with the children.
Today’s class was The Language of Art, looking at the latest exhibit by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. We looked at several exhibitions featuring large-scale sculptures completed by Plensa between 2004 and 2009.
The main gallery featured a curtain of metal letters forming excerpts from various renowned authors. Alone the letters hang cold and silent, but once you interact with them they make noise, they move, they become warmer.
Another gallery featured Twins I and II, it is Plensa’s latest work and features figures composed of letters from seven distinct alphabets: Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi and Latin. The letters are randomly juxtaposed, illustrating that letters lead to words, leading to sentences then paragraphs, next stories and eventually an idea.
The downstairs gallery featured the Where Are You? I, II and III exhibition. Each of these translucent, polyester resin figures are marked with words indicating geographical locations: one details the earth’s poles and critical longitudes, another names the continents and the other is marked with the oceans.
After looking at the connections between words, letters, sculptures and spaces in the art of Jaume Plensa, the kids then create an artwork based on their favorite stories. Caleb chose the phrase, “For a few seconds Voldemort was visible only as a dark, rippling, faceless figure, shimmering and indistinct upon the plinth, clearly struggling to throw off the suffocating mass.“ from Harry Potter’s Order of the Phoenix. Abigail selected, “’Sorry it took me so long Katie-Cat’” sad her Father,“ from the Mysterious Benedict Society. After selecting their inspiration the used torn paper to depict the scene that the words invoked.
Very cool, the sculptures encourage critical thinking and creativity.
Today’s class was The Language of Art, looking at the latest exhibit by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. We looked at several exhibitions featuring large-scale sculptures completed by Plensa between 2004 and 2009.
The main gallery featured a curtain of metal letters forming excerpts from various renowned authors. Alone the letters hang cold and silent, but once you interact with them they make noise, they move, they become warmer.
Another gallery featured Twins I and II, it is Plensa’s latest work and features figures composed of letters from seven distinct alphabets: Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi and Latin. The letters are randomly juxtaposed, illustrating that letters lead to words, leading to sentences then paragraphs, next stories and eventually an idea.
The downstairs gallery featured the Where Are You? I, II and III exhibition. Each of these translucent, polyester resin figures are marked with words indicating geographical locations: one details the earth’s poles and critical longitudes, another names the continents and the other is marked with the oceans.
After looking at the connections between words, letters, sculptures and spaces in the art of Jaume Plensa, the kids then create an artwork based on their favorite stories. Caleb chose the phrase, “For a few seconds Voldemort was visible only as a dark, rippling, faceless figure, shimmering and indistinct upon the plinth, clearly struggling to throw off the suffocating mass.“ from Harry Potter’s Order of the Phoenix. Abigail selected, “’Sorry it took me so long Katie-Cat’” sad her Father,“ from the Mysterious Benedict Society. After selecting their inspiration the used torn paper to depict the scene that the words invoked.
Very cool, the sculptures encourage critical thinking and creativity.
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