NYC Public School Class Takes an Extented Cyber-Trip to Learning@Whitney.org
This blog was arranged to display the most recent topic posed to students (Is This the End?) first. Therefore, all of the issues we discussed and wrote about are organized here in reverse-chronological order. If you wish to see/read where we began, click on the April icon on the left side of this page. There, you may review our initial theme, Adopt a Work of Art, where we began our trip to Whitneyland.
Now that we've traveled through the Whitney Museum of American Art's online collection for a few weeks, researched artists and their art, thought about where to hang your Adopted-Work-of-Art up in your home and so on, what are your impressions? How and why do artists express themselves by creating visual art objects? Why do you think they have a need to communicate to the world what their thoughts and feelings are? Do you? What's up with that? And...
What have you learned along the way? Tell the world. Right here.
A Whitney collection fave, John Schabel's Untitled (Passenger #3), was shot and printed during 1994-1995.
If I had the good fortune of having an original Warhol [Ethel Scull, 36 Times] in my home, I'd have to catch my breath from the great news (then, I'd hang it up over my living room couch).
But even before I do that, I'd first have to seek out, appoint and hire a trustworthy 24-hour security team. You know, the painting's value is probably in the tens of millions so, who can I really trust?
Question (as suggested by Dina Helal): If you could take your Adopted-Work-of-Art home, where would you put it AND why?
This oil on canvas work (painting) is by Robert Bechtle, entitled 61 Pontiac, which was actually painted between 1968 and 1969. It is a work that also can be found in Whitney's online gallery of images.
How and
why was your Adopted Work of Art created? What is the story behind it (and/or the artist who made it)?
Visit Whitney's LISTEN gallery and click on your artwork. To the right side of your image, beneath the name of the art work, you’ll find links entitled EXPLORE, ART, ARTIST, CONTEXT, and MORE STUFF. Click on art, artist, and context and read about your work of art and the artist that created it. Summarize (using your own words), in a paragraph or two, some answers to the above questions about the work and the person behind its creation. Post your response here.
The above photograph was shot in Coney Island,
in 1940. It was photographed by photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee. Entitled Sardines, it can found in Whitney's Gallery collection.
Now that we've traveled through the Whitney Museum of American Art's online collection for a few weeks, researched artists and their art, thought about where to hang your Adopted-Work-of-Art up in your home and so on, what are your impressions? 
