Currently at the Kemper...

There are three really great exhibits currently on display at the Kemper Museum on the campus of Washington University. Chance Aesthetics, Metabolic City , and A Challenge to Democracy: Ethnic Profiling of Japanese Americans During World War II all on display until January 4th, 2010. Check out the description below of Chance Aesthetics, or get more information about any of the shows at http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/exhibitions. Then visit to see some amazing artwork by world famous artists!

CHANCE AESTHETICS
September 18, 2009 - January 4, 2010
Kemper Art Museum -- Free
Dripping or flinging paint across a canvas; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition; flipping coins to compose musical scores--these are some of the processes used to incorporate chance as a decisive factor in the creation of an artwork. Beginning in the early twentieth century and moving into the1970s, Chance Aesthetics addresses chance as a key compositional principle in modern art. The exhibition features more than sixty artworks by over forty avant-garde artists from Europe and the United States, including work by Jean Arp, George Brecht, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Alison Knowles, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Yves Tanguy, among many others.

The central paradox resting at the heart of the exhibition involves the tension between chance and choice. Though many artists throughout the twentieth century have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary in the creation of works of art--both as an attack on reason and logic and as a counterpoint to officially sanctioned aesthetic tastes--artistic subjectivity is never truly effaced. Undertaken as a stimulus to new forms of artistic invention, the deliberate implementation of chance advanced a challenge to longstanding assumptions concerning what might constitute a work of art and the role of the artist as autonomous creator.

Chance Aesthetics explores these concepts in three thematic sections: "Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object," "Automatism," and "Games and Systems of Random Ordering." Each section addresses central avant-garde strategies employed to subvert or rework traditional forms of artistic expression. These categories also provide a basic framework through which individual movements--Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, and others--are traversed in order to compare and contrast chance-based strategies and objectives across diverse historical and cultural contexts.

MICA visit Wednesday!

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is visiting Wednesday, 10/21, 2nd hour!

MICA’s undergraduate and graduate programs have consistently been ranked among the nation’s top programs in visual arts and design. Founded in 1826, MICA is the oldest fully accredited, degree-granting college of art in the country. Check out this page for more info on MICA: http://www.mica.edu/

Portfolio Tutorials

Would you like to prepare an art portfolio for college? Organize your artwork for college art scholarships? Work on observational drawings which are so important for a portfolio? Here's your chance. The FHC Art Department would like to invite you this Tuesday, November 18th to Mrs. Roesslein's room (243) after school at 2:30 to get important information on preparing an art portfolio. Hope to see you there!

Remember:
First Portfolio Tutorial
Tuesday, November 18th
Room 243 FHC Art Wing

MICA Visit Wednesday

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is visiting Wednesday!

MICA’s undergraduate and graduate programs have consistently been ranked among the nation’s top programs in visual arts and design. Founded in 1826, MICA is the oldest fully accredited, degree-granting college of art in the country. Check out this page for more info on MICA: http://www.mica.edu/

Action/Abstraction is now open!!

Action/Abstraction

Pollock, de Kooning,

and American Art, 1940–1976

Action/Abstraction features over 50 key works from major institutions and collections throughout the U.S. and abroad.

The exhibition opens Tuesday–Sunday at 10:00 am. To allow sufficient time for visitors to enjoy Action/Abstraction, the last ticket entry will be at 4:00 pm Tuesday–Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Friday, the last entry will be at 8:00 pm.

See the description in the side bar or check out the St. Louis Art Museum's website.

http://saintlouis.art.museum/action_abstraction/index.php

National Portfolio Day at Wash. U. is Sunday 10/19

The National Portfolio Day at Washington University's Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts will be on Sunday, October 19, 2008 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Registration begins at 11:00 am at Steinberg Hall. Pre-registration prior to the Portfolio Day is not required. The program begins with a presentation on Careers in Art and Financial Assistance information in Steinberg Hall auditorium from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm. The portfolio reviews are from 1:00 - 5:00 pm in Steinberg Hall, Givens Hall and Bixby Hall (maps are provided at registration).