Art Curriculum at T.B.H: Camp Flor y Canto of Houston, TX 2016




Camp Flor y Canto of Houston, TX took place in the summer of 2016 at Talento Billingue de Houston. 
Flor y Canto is an art camp, offering four disciplines of Theater, Music, Dance and Fine Art. We were asked to conduct the Fine Art class.

Week 1:
  • Creation, Adam and Eve
  • Claude Monet- Water Lilies 1916, Japanese Bridge (The Water Lily Pond) 1899
  • Jackson Pollock- Number 5 1948, Black Paintings
  • Line, Technique

Week 2:
  • Cain & Abel, Noah's Ark
  • Kashmir Malevich- Supremus No. 58 1916, Suprematist Composition 1916
  • James Whistler- Nocturne in Black and Gold 1874, Mother 1871Form, Hatching, Dimension

Week 3:
  • Tower of Babel, Romans 8:28
  • M C Escher- Tower of Babel, Birds and Fish
  • Manet- Bar at the Folies Bergere 1881, The Spanish Singer 1860
  • Space/Spatial depth (Foreground, middle and background), Negative and Positive Space, Shading/Fades, Value scale

Week 4:
  • Abraham's Journey Genesis chapter 12, The Exodus
  • Paul Gauguin- Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? 1897, Les Miserables 1888
  • David Casper Friedrich- A Journey Above the Clouds 1817-1818, A Monk by the Sea 1809
  • Color (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary), Color Tone/Mood, Monochromatic, etc.

Week 5:
  • Mustard Seed, David and Goliath, Love 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  • Seurat- Sunday Afternoon 1884, Chacut 1889-1890
  • Chuck Close- Self Portrait 1967, Kara Walker 1960
  • Color=Line, Color=technique, Pointillism/Stippling

Week 6:
  • Matthew 13:10-16, Light, Love 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  • Cezanne- Still Life with Plate of Cherries 1885-1887, Still Life with Bottle and Apple Basket
  • Vincent Van Gogh- Blossoming Almond Tree 1890, Bedroom in Aries 1888
  • Color=Form, Color=Dimension, Perspective

Week 7:
  • Lazarus, King Solomon, Spiritual Wealth, Love 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  • Renoir- Dance at le Moulin de la Galette 1876, Luncheon of the Boat Party 1881
  • Henri Matisse- Green Stripe 1905, The Open Window 1905
  • Color=Space/Spatial Depth, Color=Value Scale, Color Shading

Week 8:
  • Armor of God Ephesians 6:10-18, Ceasar taxing the whole world, Matthew 22:15-22, Love 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  • Courbet- El Desperado 1840’s, The Stone breakers 1850
  • Daumier-The Class Carriage 1862-1864, Gargantua 1831
  • Color=Fades, Illustration, Cartooning

Week 9:
  • John 3 Nicodemus, John 4 Woman at the well, Love 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
  • Roy Lichtenstein- Pop! 1960’s, Blam! 1962
  • Alexander Rodchenko- Books! 1925, Battleship Potemkin 1905
  • Lettering, Emotion, Collage

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