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{Art on Trial

Ronie M. ProtacioExecutive Director , CAS

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Judge whether the proposed object is art and whether your group agree that this should be purchased as a work of community art for UMak.

Goal

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A member of the Makati Arts Council

An artist The City Mayor The Barangay Captain of West

Rembo Our University Chaplain

(priest) A teacher A student

Roles

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Your classmates acting as townspeople.

Audience

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The City of Makati is planning to purchase a community art work to be placed in the flagpole area in front of the Administration Building. Your group is tasked to come up with an assessment and decision of what particular art work to buy.

Situation

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Present your judgement about each work and vote as a class on the art work that will be purchased.

Product

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Your group will be judged by your teacher and two other classmates based on your performance and presentation.

Standards for Success

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Big Bird by Alexander Calder

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Stegosaurus by Alexander Calder

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The term "stabile" was first suggested to Calder in 1932 by the artist Jean Arp. Following Duchamp's naming of Calder's mobiles, Arp recalled a previous show of Calder's non-moving abstract works and asked, "Well, what were those things you did last year - stabiles?" The name stuck. Calder's earliest attempts at large scale sculptures, works that implied movement, were much smaller and more delicate than the works that would come later, but that was because many of them served as models for much more ambitious projects. Examples of this are the two versions of Big Bird, above. These larger versions of smaller, maquette stabiles were not always perfect reproductions, but were instead meant to evoke a sense of the earlier work.

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Block Sculptureby Sol Lewitt

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LeWitt is regarded as a founder of both Minimal and Conceptual art. His prolific two and three-dimensional work ranges from wall drawings (over 1200 of which have been executed) to hundreds of works on paper extending to structures in the form of towers, pyramids, geometric forms, and progressions. These works range in size from gallery-sized installations to monumental outdoor pieces. LeWitt’s first serial sculptures were created in the 1960s using the modular form of the square in arrangements of varying visual complexity.

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The Gates by Christo

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When the New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, opened the $US20million ($25 million) art project known as The Gates at the weekend, he said: "I can't promise - particularly since this is New York - that everyone will love The Gates."And he was absolutely right. Not everybody did.The Gates is the latest work by the husband-and-wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who are most famous for wrapping things, like the Reichstag in Berlin. But The Gates is not a wrap. It is a series of 7500 gates, hung with saffron curtains, set up on pathways in New York's Central Park.About 100,000 people turned up to see it open, and reaction was decidedly mixed.Some people complained the curtains were hung too high. They expected to be able to run through the fabric and feel it against their skin, but it was several metres above their heads.Others said it would have been better if the curtains had been different colours, like a rainbow, instead of being all orange. Many wished for finer material, since the heavy cloth struggled to flutter in the breeze.The artists said they were "ecstatic" about the work, especially since it took them 26 years to get permission to use Central Park.But, when pressed for an opinion, many of the people milling around The Gates opted for "interesting" - a word that is open to interpretation.Debbie Fisher, of Connecticut, and her friend, Sharon Anstey, of New York, agreed that their reaction was "mixed"."It is interesting," Ms Anstey said, but added: "I expected to be wowed, and I'm not, like, 'Wow!' I wanted to be overwhelmed and I'm really not." She added: "I'm glad the city didn't have to pay." (The artists footed the $US20 million bill themselves).

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Anne and Peter Schreckinger, who toured the park with their eight-year-old daughter, Phoebe, were of divergent opinion."I think it's fabulous," Mrs Schreckinger said, but her husband was not so sure."It's very, well, interesting," he said. "But I'm not sure I like it. It drains the park's natural beauty."Dirk and Mary Soutendijk, of New Jersey, were of one mind: "We love it!" they said, in unison."I like the fact that it's for everybody," Mr Soutendijk said. "It's not like art that hangs in some rich person's parlour. Everybody can see it." But he admitted it was not as striking as he expected."But once we got into the park and walked around, it really started growing on us and now I would say it's fantastic."Many people were keen to see what the art critics would say, and early reviews were good. In The New York Times, Michael Kimmelman described The Gates as a "work of pure joy".But Richard Mettler, who lives near the park, was less than impressed. "To me, the orange looks like the kind of material you see on a construction site."Many people looked for meaning but the artists insisted there wasn't any. "It has no purpose," Jeanne-Claude said. "It is not a symbol. It is not a message. It is only a work of art."And a temporary one at that. The Gates will be in place for just 16 days.

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Stone Field Sculptureby Carl Andre

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This is Andre's only permanent public sculpture: it is sited in downtown Hartford, close to the Wadsworth Atheneum on a narrow, nondescript strip of grass between Center Church and its accompanying burial ground, and Gold Street. The work consists of thirty-six immense boulders, which were dug up at a local gravel pit and had been discarded by the quarry owners. Andre placed the largest stone (which weighs eleven tons) at the apex of the triangular plot, then set down the next two in a row running across the site, then the next three, continuing incrementally up to the eighth row, which is comprised of the smallest stones. While the sculpture is typical of Andre's fascination with sorting and arranging objects, it can also be read as a subtle meditation on the contrast between

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The Umbrellasby Christo

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Wrapped Reichstagby Christo

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Presentation Rubric