Acting (out) on Art

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.




Two girls, depicted in bold geometric shapes and block colors, reading a book together. The figure seated at viewer's right, slightly taller, is green and wearing yellow. The figure at viewer's left has a face of blue and white and is clothed in red resting her clasped hands upon an open book.
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
This is a white marble sculpture that depicts the upper torso of a man. There is drapery wrapped loosely around his figure. He is shown staring into the viewer's space and his facial expression is calm and reserved. This sculpture is carved in a realistic manner and rests on a columnar pedestal.
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
This is a line drawing done in colors of red, orange, blue, yellow, brown and green, on white paper. In the top center portion of the sheet are the words, "A LIE". Below this are forms that resemble an egg, a slice of bacon, a piece of bread with a pat of yellow butter. Below these forms are some round shapes, labeled "flakes", a bowl and a carton of milk, labeled "milk".
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

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