GROW at the Nasher: visit 4

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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Metal Magic Tour Bonus

At the end of our tour, we visited these works of art by Iza Genzken. Genzken is this year's Nasher Prize Winner. Students began by sharing observations and asking questions about the sculptures. (The 3rd graders had such fun conversations at our first three stops that we didn't have time to visit this last gallery!)

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Iza Genzken is risk-taker who creates sculptures in new and innovative ways. She combines nontraditional materials in unexpected combinations and is inspired by architecture, pop culture, and historic events.

New York City is one of Genzken's favorite place to visit. She likes to take photos and collect items to help her remind her visits. To finish our final tour for the year, students reflected on their tours at the Nasher this year and wrote down their favorite artwork and something they learned.

2nd grade

Goodbye 2018-19! Stay tuned for one more blog post with fun photos from Rosemont Family Day.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Metal Magic Tour, Part Three

We began our next stop by sketching this sculpture:

What does this sculpture look like to you? Does it remind you of anything? Students considered these questions, and altered their drawings to enhance and demonstrate what the sculpture looked like to them. Some examples include a volcano, a melting elephant, and different kinds of food.

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The artist Lynda Benglis began her career as a painter, but she wasn't interested in creating paintings on canvas that hung on the wall. So she began to experiment with pouring latex paint directly on the floor.

Lynda Benglis pouring paint

She allowed the corner to shape the painting below, titled Corner.

Corner Piece by Lynda Benglis

Benglis also created sculptures with polyurethane foam. First she mixed pigment with resin, then added another ingredient that causes it to foam. Much like the artwork above, she pours the polyurethane directly into the corner, where the foam swells and hardens.

Untitled by Lynda Benglis

Quartered Meteor, currently on view at the Nasher, was cast in bronze from a foam sculpture like the one above.

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Thursday, May 9, 2019

Metal Magic Tour, Part Two

We visited this really big sculpture at our next stop. How would you describe this sculpture? How is it similar to and different from Rush Hour?

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Can you recognize what kind of materials the artist used to make this sculpture? Mark di Suvero used circular steel pieces and steel I-beams, which are usually used as construction materials. The long I-beams stretch out from the circles in cantilevers, kind of like an extended overhanging roof on a house or other building.

We used our bodies again to recreate the long lines and circles of this sculpture!

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