Sat. Aug.16, 1-4 pm

Of Vision and Art: Free Family Day
How is how we see reflected or manipulated in works of art? What does it mean to walk into a work of art that surrounds us? How does looking up at the sky change the way we look at ourselves? How does an aerial view of our world make us see things in a new way? Take a tour of the Museum's exhibitions, enjoy gallery activities that encourage you to see things from a new perspective, and create your own artwork.

Activities:

Exploring basic principles of visual perception at play in works of art.

Line - Dimensionality - 2 and 3 D /
Color - light/ pigment/luminance
Photography - silver halides / light sensitivity / Digital
Film - persistence of vision
Spacial conceptions - moon ?

Activities:

· Sun Prints -
· (Zoetrope / flip books)

Topics:
· Interpretation
· Time
· Scale/Dimension
· Perspective

Examples from:
· Turrell
· Duchamp
· Muybridge
· Man Ray
· Kenneth Noland
· Joseph Albers
· Roy Lichtenstein
· Hockney?
· Impressionists

Persistence of Vision
Finger animations
Flip Books

Lenses - bending light rays/ virtual and real images
Concave
Convex
Mirrors

Zoetropes

Phenakistascopes

Camera Obscura
Real Images
The eye
Obscura

Reading/Materials List: