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Drawing Class: Sketchbook Assignments
DRAWING Sketchbook Assignments Drawings are to be dated and timed. For example: August 30, 2008  7:20 - 7: 45 p.m.    The purpose of the sketchbooks is to encourage a lively, informed, and inquiring attitude towards drawing. The book should be fairly organized, but appear worn and well filled.   Week 1: The Many Flavors of Drawing You will be provided with a sketchbook in class. Use a...
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Wire Ibeji Figures
Wire Ibeji Figures Background Information: Ere Ibeji, Twin Figures Among the Yoruba, twins (ibeji) are special children whose birth can bless their parents with good fortune. The Yoruba have one of the highest rates of twin births in the world, and the loss of twins is therefore considered a great misfortune. If a twin dies, the mother commissions a memorial figure (two if both twins die), and the...
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Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Art History: Information about the artist who created a work of art and when, where, how and why it was made.   Part One:   Aesthetics: Ideas about what makes art beautiful or satisfying. The philosophical study of beauty and taste.   Aesthetic Experience - Experience of inherent features of things or events traditionally recognized as worthy of attention and reflection, such as literal, visual,...
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