Have you ever tried to make a recycled art project? Torn pieces of paper, ticket stubs, bits of string, and even rocks can be great art supplies. Art can be made out of anything, even everyday things we use. You may think art is paint on a canvas but recycled objects and natural objects are also art. According to source 1, the German artist Kurt Schwitters created art that he called Rubbish. To make this art called Rubbish, he collected torn pieces of paper, ticket stubs, and even bits of string that he found walking along a street. During World War II, the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso hoarded “junk” such as bicycle frames, mattress springs, and some gardening tools which he then turned into sculptures. In 1942 he created something
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In the passage “Sculpting Earth Art”, Earth Artist, Andy Goldsworthy, would work outside and only use materials that he could find nearby. Andy Goldsworthy would use his own spit to paste leaves to rocks and even use thorns to pin dried stalks together. Sometimes Goldsworthy would get rained on and even snowed on purposefully. One piece of art Andy Goldsworthy made was called a “rain shadow”. To make this art he would lie down in the grass before it was about to rain. After he was soaked, he gets up and takes a picture of the man-shaped dry spot that was left behind. Most of Goldsworthy’s art was not meant to last very long. In the documentary, “Rivers and Tides,” Andy Goldsworthy painstakingly molded and freezed together ice by dipping it in snow, then water, and finally on another piece of ice only to get just a couple of minutes watching the ice reflect the sunlight and glow. In Goldsworthy’s book, “Rivers and Tides”, it describes how Goldsworthy tries to construct an egg-shaped cairn out of flat stones. The cairn fell over four times. “Each time I got to know the stone a little bit more,” says the artist. “It got higher each time. It grew in proportion to my understanding of the stone. I obviously don’t understand it well enough—yet!” Said Goldsworthy (Section 2 paragraph …show more content…
One design was a dress made out of plastic bags filled with floating fish. “I thought it was the perfect contest for my class,” Ms. Farrelly-Moyotl said. “It allows for creative problem solving and encourages students not to have limits. It also lets them express their personalities.” The name of the contest was Materials Matter Amazing Art Challenge and it is a project of Ripley’s Believe It or Not Odditorium. Jennifer Renée Caden Merdjan, an art teacher, said that her students study contemporary artists who use “humble or recycled materials”. She thought that this contest seemed ideal for an environmentally friendly project. “Students are required to use one recycled item over and over to make a design that functions, as opposed to fine art,” Ms. Merdjan said. “This is not something that comes up often in an art class, where you can use recycled materials to create something unique or outrageous.” Embracing the fun in this contest, her class designed a chandelier made from hamster tubes. Another thing a student made was a handbag made out of sewn together bicycle tire tubes and even one student painstakingly pieced a dress together using 1,134 plastic straws. The student who made the dress thought it was important to recycle plastic and especially something as small as a straw. Most people don’t think about
In the passage “Sculpting Earth Art”, Earth Artist, Andy Goldsworthy, would work outside and only use materials that he could find nearby. Andy Goldsworthy would use his own spit to paste leaves to rocks and even use thorns to pin dried stalks together. Sometimes Goldsworthy would get rained on and even snowed on purposefully. One piece of art Andy Goldsworthy made was called a “rain shadow”. To make this art he would lie down in the grass before it was about to rain. After he was soaked, he gets up and takes a picture of the man-shaped dry spot that was left behind. Most of Goldsworthy’s art was not meant to last very long. In the documentary, “Rivers and Tides,” Andy Goldsworthy painstakingly molded and freezed together ice by dipping it in snow, then water, and finally on another piece of ice only to get just a couple of minutes watching the ice reflect the sunlight and glow. In Goldsworthy’s book, “Rivers and Tides”, it describes how Goldsworthy tries to construct an egg-shaped cairn out of flat stones. The cairn fell over four times. “Each time I got to know the stone a little bit more,” says the artist. “It got higher each time. It grew in proportion to my understanding of the stone. I obviously don’t understand it well enough—yet!” Said Goldsworthy (Section 2 paragraph …show more content…
One design was a dress made out of plastic bags filled with floating fish. “I thought it was the perfect contest for my class,” Ms. Farrelly-Moyotl said. “It allows for creative problem solving and encourages students not to have limits. It also lets them express their personalities.” The name of the contest was Materials Matter Amazing Art Challenge and it is a project of Ripley’s Believe It or Not Odditorium. Jennifer Renée Caden Merdjan, an art teacher, said that her students study contemporary artists who use “humble or recycled materials”. She thought that this contest seemed ideal for an environmentally friendly project. “Students are required to use one recycled item over and over to make a design that functions, as opposed to fine art,” Ms. Merdjan said. “This is not something that comes up often in an art class, where you can use recycled materials to create something unique or outrageous.” Embracing the fun in this contest, her class designed a chandelier made from hamster tubes. Another thing a student made was a handbag made out of sewn together bicycle tire tubes and even one student painstakingly pieced a dress together using 1,134 plastic straws. The student who made the dress thought it was important to recycle plastic and especially something as small as a straw. Most people don’t think about