ArtTalk Unit 1: The World of Art

The World of Art

UNIT

1

INTRODUCTION

Poll

Out of the five images below selected from Chapters 1-3, click on your favorite.

Be able to support your reasoning to the class.

• Diva

• Sick Child

• Bayou Teche

• Self-Portrait with Monkey

Multiple Choice

When a word is unfamiliar, you can often use its context - nearby words and phrases - to guess at its meaning. Using context clues, try to determine the meaning of idyllic in the quote below:

"Church's content is idyllic and majestic - you feel he has frozen time at the perfect moments, captured, and at times orchestrated, Nature's best at the best moment." -Carter B. Horsley

• extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

• very uneasy, unsure, or unlikeable

​

UNIT

1

​Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923) Diva. 1999. Acrylic and fabric on canvas. 2.3 x 6.1 m (7' 6" x 20'). Collection of the artist.

Interview with the artist Miriam Schapiro here: https://youtu.be/IPCq8r52B4Y

Miriam Schapiro earned her master of fine arts degree at the University of Iowa in 1949 and in 1952 moved to New York City with her husband, the artist Paul Brach. In Manhattan, Schapiro discovered that women artists were not taken seriously by the male-dominated abstract expressionist movement. Schapiro's abstract paintings of the 1950s won her some recognition by museums and galleries, but she struggled for decades with her identities as a wife, mother, and professional painter. In the 1970s she collaborated with the artist Judy Chicago on Womanhouse, the mansion famously transformed by a women's art cooperative into a gigantic installation of feminist art. Schapiro's "femmages," her assemblages of scraps of fabric, buttons, lace, and other "feminine" tokens, appear in major American museums. The artist has been awarded fellowships and grants from many institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.

​About the Artist

Miriam Schapiro

​

UNIT

1

​Miriam Schapiro (b. 1923) Diva. 1999. Acrylic and fabric on canvas. 2.3 x 6.1 m (7' 6" x 20'). Collection of the artist.

Interview with the artist Miriam Schapiro here: https://youtu.be/IPCq8r52B4Y

Multiple Choice

This painting provides a still image from an ongoing event. What event do you think the event is?

• Performance

• Picnic

• TV Show

Multiple Choice

One color dominates this work. What is that color?

• Blue

• Teal

• Yellow

• Red

Multiple Choice

What mood or feeling does this artwork give off?

• Energetic

• Sad

• Scary

• Peaceful

Poll

Do you think this artwork is successful?

Be able to explain your answer to the class.

• Yes

• No

• Unsure