Abstraction

A tree can be painted as a believable tree, a pattern, a feeling, a symbol, or almost pure structure.

Explore how Suzanne Jackson layers unconventional materials to build abstract paintings.

We apply the same five questions twice: first to understand a work of art, then to design a gift shop product inspired by it.

As part of our class theme—learning how artists transform ordinary objects into works of art—we will go on a museum “object hunt.”

He makes work that is about the presentation of the work itself and what went into the making of the work as an object.

Artists begin with the world around them, but they do not have to copy it.