Title:
Art making with MoMA : 20 activities for kids inspired by artists at the Museum of Modern Art / Elizabeth Margulies and Cari Frisch.
ISBN:
9781633450370
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Publication Information:
New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2018]
©2018
Physical Description:
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
General Note:
"'Art making with MoMA' presents twenty activities inspired by the materials and techniques of modern and contemporary artists. Using easy-to-find materials--many of them recycled and everyday household objects--these activities encourage hours of imaging, designing, experimenting, constructing, creating, tinkering, and play. 'Art making with MoMA' shows children, and their adults, how to start thinking like artists.--Back cover.
Contents:
Home sweet home : construct a model house (inspired by Charles and Ray Eames) -- Once again, please : make your oun stamp (inspired by Carmela Gross) -- Get wired : shape wire into a face or figure (inspired by Alexander Calder) -- Listen up : paint or draw to music (inspired by Vasily Kandinsky) -- Street scenes : create a collage of your neighborhood (inspired by Romare Bearden) -- Cut it out : fill a wall with cut-out shapes (inspired by Henri Matisse) -- Get in character : dress the part, strike a pose, and take a picture (inspired by Cindy Sherman) -- This might stain : make marks with materials from around your house (inspired by Edward Ruscha) -- What's your story? : share a story through pictures (inspired by Jacob Lawrence) -- Take a seat : design a chair (inspired by furniture design) -- Game play : grab some friends for a surrealist drawing game (inspired by the surrealists) -- Make some noise : construct a wearable sculpture (inspired by Nick Cave) -- Make your mark : stamp with your body (inspired by Janine Antoni) -- Roll, pinch, pound : sculpt an animal or insect (inspired by Isamu Noguchi) -- Change your perspective : photograph a place from different points of view (inspired by Bernice Abbott) -- Mix it up : combine multiple points of view into a single portrait (inspired by the cubists) -- Recycle, reinvent : combine materials to create a sculpture (inspired by Huma Bhabha) -- Light and shadow : make silhouette puppets and put on a show (inspired by Lotte Reiniger) -- All about me : create a self-portrait (inspired by Frida Khalo) -- Lights, camera, (re)action : film a chain reaction made of ordinary objects (inspired by Peter Fischli and David Weiss).
Summary:
Inspired by the authors' experiences of looking at and making art with kids and families at the Museum of Modern Art, and designed to get both children and adults to start thinking like artists, this volume presents an array of projects that use easy-to-find materials and encourage hours of imaging, designing, experimenting, constructing, creating, tinkering, and play.
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OCLC Number:
on1000582948
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