Child Art Day 2004

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Child Art Day 2004

• Presented by
• Spring 2004 Art 302 Students
• Dianne Turner, Instructor
• with Shannon Wright,
• Director of Annual Giving, CSUB

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Child Art Day 2004

• Begun in 2001 with Art 401 students teaching
  about six different renowned artists
• Created to thanking children and grandchildren of
  patrons, faculty and staff of CSUB
• Each child selects three of six workshops based
  upon artists and enjoys a family barbecue and
  culminating exhibit at the end of the day

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Artists featured for 2004

• Vincent Van Gogh
• Marc Chagall
• Georges Rouault
• Rene Magritte
• Kathe Kollwitz
• Ed Ruscha

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You Got to Have Friends

• Featured Van Goghs Sunflower paintings
• Van Gogh painted brilliant sunflowers emphasizing
  the color yellow as a tribute to his friend
  Gauguin
• Children created a textured oil pastel painting
  of sunflowers as a tribute to a friend

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VanGoghs Workshop
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Queen and King for a Day

• Children were introduced to the The Old King by
  Ruoault
• The painting depicts Ruoualts vision of the
  weight of the worlds problems on an imaginary
  kings shoulders
• Rouault was a former stained glass artist who
  incorporated a stained glass look in his
  paintings
• Children created a stained glass painting on
  plexi glass of either a queen or king

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Rouaults workshop
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Painting on Cloud Nine

• This workshop featured the wine bottle paintings
  of Rene Magritte
• Magritte liked the shape of a wine bottle as a
  canvas
• He also was fascinated with using clouds and
  silhouettes as part of his bottle series
• Children painted daytime landscapes with cloudy
  skies for this workshop

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Magritte Workshop
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Beam me up Ed!

• Ed Ruscha was inspired by the early Religious
  paintings that had a beam of light showing in the
  background
• Ruscha worked as a commercial artist early in his
  career
• He combined the idea of light, using his own
  pigments for paints, and graphic arts as the
  inspiration for his work
• His work often involved using one word as the
  focus
• Children created a picture focusing on one word
  and using graphic markers to create it

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Ruscha Workshop
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Printing from the Past

• Artist Kathe Kollwitz was inspired by tragedies
  she witnessed from both World Wars I and II
• First hand she saw mothers protecting children
  from the dangers of war
• She used printing mostly in black and white as
  her medium
• Children created a print of mother animals
  protecting their young from danger

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Kollwitz workshop
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Party Animals

• Artist Marc Chagall painted fantasy animals
  dressed as humans
• Chagall also painted The Birthday which
  depicted his beloved surprising him on his
  birthday
• Children created a party animal celebrating a
  birthday showing friends, games and food

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Chagall Workshop