People interact with art to change its meaning for themselves and others. This is a perennial feature of how we make meaning with art and images. The widespread practice these days of digitally copying, sharing, sending, recasting, modifying, and memeifying images is one example of this.
We can usually only interact with works of art in a museum with our eyes and our words. This exercise breaks out of that paradigm and invites you to mark up the three highly valued works that you see below to modify and enhance their meaning for you the viewers. We will use a jamboard to act on these works in an act of dynamic meaning production.
Pablo Picasso Two Girls Reading (Deux Enfants Lisant) oil on canvas 43 3/8 in x 35 3/16 in x 3 in (110.17 cm x 89.38 cm x 7.62 cm);43 3/8 in x 35 3/16 in x 3 in (110.17 cm x 89.38 cm x 7.62 cm);36 5/16 in x 28 3/4 in (92.2 cm x 73 cm) Gift of The Carey Walker Foundation
Randolph Rogers Bust of George Washington (1732-1799), after Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) marble 31 3/4 in x 21 15/16 in x 13 1/2 in (80.64 cm x 55.72 cm x 34.29 cm) Bequest of Henry C. Lewis
Jean-Michel Basquiat A Lie colored crayons on paper 24 in x 18 in (60.96 cm x 45.72 cm);24 in x 18 in (60.96 cm x 45.72 cm);28 in x 23 in (71.12 cm x 58.42 cm) Gift of Arthur Cohen in honor of Ben and Yetta Cohen