Art Outside

1. Art Outside American Transitions from Rural to Urban Life Webinar #3 | July 28th, 2011

2. 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

3. 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?

4. 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

5. Picturing America Architecture State Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio, 1838-1862, Thomas Cole, et. al.

6. Picturing America Architecture The Chrysler Building, 1926-1930, William Van Alen

7. Picturing America Architecture Falling Water, 1935-1939, Frank Lloyd Wright

8. 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

9. Picturing America Monument Benjamin Franklin, 1862, Hiram Powers

10. Picturing America Monument Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regimental Memorial, 1884-1897, Augustus Saint-Gaudens

11. 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?

12. Art or Ecology?Andrea Zittel A-Z Mobile Compartment Units Indianapolis Island A-Z Pocket Properties

13. Art or Ecology?Andrea Zittel A-Z Otttoman Furniture Raugh Desk A-Z Single Strand Uniform A-Z Pit Bed

14. Art or Ecology? • Mel Chin, Revival Field • Alexis Rockman,The Farm • Andy Goldsworthy, Large fallen oak tree… • Francis Whitehead, Co-generation Systems at SYC

15. Art or Environment? Maya Lin The Wave Field, 1995 Eleven Minute Line, 2004 Storm King Wave Field, 2009

16. Art or Environment?Maya Lin Langston Hughes Library, 1999 The Civil Rights Memorial, 1989 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982

17. Art or Environment? • Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty • Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels • Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates • Richard Serra, Twain

18. Art or Vandalism?Shepard Fairey

19. Art or Vandalism?Shepard Fairey Murals in Cincinnati Obama 2008 Campaign Poster

20. Art or Vandalism? • Keith Haring (Drawing on black subway placard) • Barry McGee, Untitled (drawings) • Banksy, Untitled • Lady Pink, Untitled

21. Essential Information • Standards and Artists’ Websites • Extensions • Altered Environments • Designing a Monument • School Architecture: Referencing History • School Architecture: Sustainability • Classroom Debate Vandalism or Art