Art Outside American Transitions from Rural to Urban Life Webinar #3 | July 28th, 2011
Constructed Environments • Neighborhoods • Parks • Buildings • Cities • Houses • Shopping Centers and Malls • Amusement Parks • Schools • College Campuses • Factories • Offices • Streets and Highways • Restaurants • Museums • Historic Sites
Ohio’s constructed environments… • Name an Ohio construction (building, monument, neighborhood…). • Are these constructions meant to be aesthetically pleasing? Functional? Both? • Think about your constructed environments: home, your neighborhood, where you work, where you shop, where you like to visit. • Are these constructions meant to be aesthetically pleasing? Functional? Both? • Are there layers to these environments?
Picturing America Constructed Environments • Architecture • 1. the profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect • 2. the character or style of building: the architecture of Paris; Gothic architecture, Modern architecture, Classical architecture, Art Deco architecture
Picturing America Architecture State Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio, 1838-1862, Thomas Cole, et. al.
Picturing America Architecture The Chrysler Building, 1926-1930, William Van Alen
Picturing America Architecture Falling Water, 1935-1939, Frank Lloyd Wright
Picturing America Constructed Environments • Monument • something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument. • Commemorative; historical; artistic; celebratory
Picturing America Monument Benjamin Franklin, 1862, Hiram Powers
Picturing America Monument Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regimental Memorial, 1884-1897, Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Beyond Architecture and Monuments • What are other ways artists comment on, alter, or create constructed environments? Ecology | Environment | Vandalism • How do these artists reference history? • How do these artists reference other aspects of social studies?
Art or Ecology?Andrea Zittel A-Z Mobile Compartment Units Indianapolis Island A-Z Pocket Properties
Art or Ecology?Andrea Zittel A-Z Otttoman Furniture Raugh Desk A-Z Single Strand Uniform A-Z Pit Bed
Art or Ecology? • Mel Chin, Revival Field • Alexis Rockman,The Farm • Andy Goldsworthy, Large fallen oak tree… • Francis Whitehead, Co-generation Systems at SYC
Art or Environment? Maya Lin The Wave Field, 1995 Eleven Minute Line, 2004 Storm King Wave Field, 2009
Art or Environment?Maya Lin Langston Hughes Library, 1999 The Civil Rights Memorial, 1989 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982
Art or Environment? • Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty • Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels • Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates • Richard Serra, Twain
Art or Vandalism?Shepard Fairey
Art or Vandalism?Shepard Fairey Murals in Cincinnati Obama 2008 Campaign Poster
Art or Vandalism? • Keith Haring (Drawing on black subway placard) • Barry McGee, Untitled (drawings) • Banksy, Untitled • Lady Pink, Untitled
Essential Information • Standards and Artists’ Websites • Extensions • Altered Environments • Designing a Monument • School Architecture: Referencing History • School Architecture: Sustainability • Classroom Debate Vandalism or Art
