The Ark - Carpet Investigation

[17:40] YWIES Greeter: CYBlue Resident Welcome to YWIES Yantai!

 

[17:46] You have added "TEACHING 10 Parcel 12 - ART ARK" to your Landmarks folder.

 

[17:57] Marylou Goldrosen whispers: Carla

 

[17:57] Marylou Goldrosen: Is that you?

 

[17:58] CYBlue: yes

 

[17:58] Marylou Goldrosen: Put your your speaker on bottom menu

 

[17:59] Marylou Goldrosen: Now I know your avatar name.

 

[18:00] Marylou Goldrosen: I find you on FLilckr? You must set up your own Photostream first. At this late date, just send me your screenshots vi e-mail

 

[18:00] CYBlue: I don't understand where the speaker is

 

[18:01] Marylou Goldrosen: Bottom menu, SPeak

 

[18:01] CYBlue: okay just send you all the screen shots via email? got it

 

[18:01] Marylou Goldrosen: YEs

 

[18:01] Marylou Goldrosen: Try the speak button --click on it.

 

[18:03] Marylou Goldrosen: You should see green over your head

 

[18:03] CYBlue: no i don't see that

 

[18:04] Marylou Goldrosen: Go to ME on top menu --Preferences --Check VOice Chat enabled --cllick OK

 

[18:05] Marylou Goldrosen: Under Preferences --SOund and Media to checkVOice CHat

 

[18:06] Marylou Goldrosen: Ok -- use CHat then. HAve you been here before?

 

[18:06] CYBlue: okay i think i got it but there is something wrong with my end

 

[18:07] Marylou Goldrosen: For our first class?

 

[18:07] CYBlue: I have been here once before, I can't join in on wednedays i work at six

 

[18:07] CYBlue: I think i can hear you typing however

 

[18:07] Marylou Goldrosen: We were meeting here on Thursdays

 

[18:08] Marylou Goldrosen: We don't meet every week/

 

[18:08] CYBlue: oh lol yes Thursday I was thinking Wednesdays

 

[18:08] Marylou Goldrosen: Did you ever do Art Criticism?

 

[18:08] Marylou Goldrosen: Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Judge?

 

[18:09] CYBlue: The ones for the carpet and other ones? for this class or in general?

 

[18:10] Marylou Goldrosen: In general? Did you do it --answer the questions on this carpet ever?

 

[18:10] CYBlue: No I have not

 

[18:11] Marylou Goldrosen: Do you use my Blackboard site to check the course Assignments?

 

[18:12] CYBlue: Yes i have and do but the problem was with my computer and trying to find a place to get on to complete the assignments.

 

[18:13] Marylou Goldrosen: Let's try doing some assignments now. Let's do Art Criticism. Here are the questions:

 

[18:13] CYBlue: I have spoken to a few classmates that are in this class and I am confident I can get them finished.

 

[18:13] CYBlue: okay

 

[18:13] Marylou Goldrosen: ART CRITICISM QUESTIONS

 

 

 

[18:14] Marylou Goldrosen: I think you can too! THey can help you. Stand up and do it with me.

 

[18:15] Marylou Goldrosen: On the bottom menue, click on Camera controls and get closer look at the rug.

 

[18:16] CYBlue: Animals and shapes

 

[18:16] Marylou Goldrosen: COme up here

 

[18:17] Marylou Goldrosen: Yes for description.

 

[18:17] Marylou Goldrosen: Is this composition symmetrical or asymmetrical?

 

[18:17] CYBlue: how can i stand on it?

 

[18:17] CYBlue: Symmetrical

 

[18:18] Marylou Goldrosen: click on yourself and hit Stand

 

[18:18] Marylou Goldrosen: up pops a menu

 

[18:19] Marylou Goldrosen: Now you ar up -- walk over here

 

[18:21] Marylou Goldrosen: Use your camera control on bottom

 

[18:21] Marylou Goldrosen: You can move the camera around.

 

[18:21] CYBlue: Yay!

 

[18:22] Marylou Goldrosen: The middle part slides up and down to look closer

 

[18:22] Marylou Goldrosen: Can you hear me?

 

[18:23] CYBlue: hello?

 

[18:23] Marylou Goldrosen: Is the rug more symmetrical or asymmetrical?

 

[18:23] CYBlue: symmetrical

 

[18:24] Marylou Goldrosen: Good -- What is the dominant color harmony?

 

[18:24] Marylou Goldrosen: More complementary, analogous, triadic, other?

 

[18:25] CYBlue: Complementary

 

[18:25] Marylou Goldrosen: Good -How was this made?

 

[18:25] Marylou Goldrosen: Technique?

 

[18:25] Marylou Goldrosen: Originally--

 

[18:26] Marylou Goldrosen: I teach with rug in real lilfe.

 

[18:26] CYBlue: Weaving

 

[18:26] Marylou Goldrosen: Yes

 

[18:26] Marylou Goldrosen: Where do those colors come from?

 

[18:27] CYBlue: From dyes

 

[18:27] Marylou Goldrosen: Do you know how to weave? With warp & Weft?

 

[18:27] CYBlue: natural dyes

 

[18:27] Marylou Goldrosen: Yes

 

[18:28] Marylou Goldrosen: Do you know that the red comes from our prickley pear cactus!

 

[18:28] CYBlue: no i don't know how to weave, but i did study a bit about how the Inka did

 

[18:28] CYBlue: oooooh I did not

 

[18:28] Marylou Goldrosen: We have a long history of trading dyes with the Middle East

 

[18:28] CYBlue: really?

 

[18:29] Marylou Goldrosen: Wars were fought over this -- THe Perfect Red.

 

[18:29] CYBlue: are there colors they are more known for?

 

[18:29] Marylou Goldrosen: That info in a little art history

 

[18:29] CYBlue: oh wow

 

[18:29] CYBlue: awesome!

 

[18:29] Marylou Goldrosen: I worked for the WOrld Bank in Turkey and had several weaving classes

 

[18:30] Marylou Goldrosen: Thanks! Interpret --How does this artwork make you feel?

 

[18:30] CYBlue: Have you been there then? That's amazing

 

[18:31] Marylou Goldrosen: FOur times! What symbols do you see here?

 

[18:31] CYBlue: Very calming, smoothing with the colors and shapes being used

 

[18:32] Marylou Goldrosen: Great! Others find it anxious.

 

[18:32] Marylou Goldrosen: What is that black and white symbol?

 

[18:32] CYBlue: I see the dimonds in the middle take the shape of a Gods eye perhaps

 

[18:33] Marylou Goldrosen: Great! It's also the Chinese yin/yang symbol

 

[18:33] CYBlue: Animal repesentation

 

[18:34] Marylou Goldrosen: Pick one out --what animal, what does it mean?

 

[18:34] Marylou Goldrosen: Now what story does this work tell/express?

 

[18:35] CYBlue: I see some that look like horses or a llama, a see a bird

 

[18:35] Marylou Goldrosen: The kids in different countries love to call those winged birds peacocks

 

[18:36] Marylou Goldrosen: What story?

 

[18:36] CYBlue: oh! wait ok with the gods eye and all these animals, Noah's ark?

 

[18:36] Marylou Goldrosen: YES!!!!!!!

 

[18:36] CYBlue: The story of how he built it and all the animals he brought together

 

[18:36] Marylou Goldrosen: THey are all marching into the boat in the center

 

[18:37] CYBlue: I can see that

 

[18:37] Marylou Goldrosen: The Turks found NOah's Ark in Eastern Turkey in the mountains. Since then the found several arks not just one.

 

[18:38] Marylou Goldrosen: JUDGE ITS IMPORTANCE? [you can choose more than one, just elaborate why]

 

REPRESENTATION-IMITATIVE?

 

EXPRESSION?

 

FUNCTIONAL?

 

FORMALISTIC?

 

[18:39] CYBlue: Representation of a Biblical story

 

[18:39] Marylou Goldrosen: For all your Quests, you are going to use this method to talk about the art work.

 

[18:39] Marylou Goldrosen: YEs, AND

 

[18:40] CYBlue: Okay

 

[18:40] Marylou Goldrosen: What is the function?

 

[18:40] Marylou Goldrosen: It's functional too!

 

[18:40] Marylou Goldrosen: Expressive too -WHy?

 

[18:41] CYBlue: To tell a story

 

[18:41] Marylou Goldrosen: YEs!! Plus they use it on the floor too

 

[18:41] Marylou Goldrosen: WHat does it express?

 

[18:41] CYBlue: A great talking point

 

[18:42] Marylou Goldrosen: Ok --Lots of hidden symbols, in some cases-- they weave gold in the rug as they travel

 

[18:42] CYBlue: It expresses the view of the artist

 

[18:42] CYBlue: and their feeling on the story they are telling

 

[18:43] Marylou Goldrosen: There is some hidden treasure here -- secret

 

[18:44] Marylou Goldrosen: I moved the floor, can you find it? What are those little boxes?

 

[18:44] CYBlue: Gold in the weaving?

 

[18:44] Marylou Goldrosen: THe evil eye --to protect the rug/

 

[18:45] Marylou Goldrosen: All children wear it like we wear crosses.

 

[18:45] CYBlue: aww from evil spirits to protect the rug and the owner

 

[18:45] Marylou Goldrosen: Students love to find the hidden treasures because everyone treasures something differently

 

[18:46] Marylou Goldrosen: You are going to use these stages when talking about an ark work.

 

[18:47] CYBlue: with all the other ones? just like this?

 

[18:47] Marylou Goldrosen: Take a screen shot of every quest and save it to show you were here/there.

 

[18:47] CYBlue: okay

 

[18:48] CYBlue: I just took a pic of this one

 

[18:48] Marylou Goldrosen: Up at the top menu, under WOrld, LAndmark this place so you can return here.

 

[18:48] You have added "TEACHING 10 Parcel 12 - ART ARK" to your Landmarks folder.

 

[18:48] Marylou Goldrosen: DO that for every site, you use for your projects OK?

 

[18:48] CYBlue: Done

 

[18:49] CYBlue: Yes ma'am

 

[18:49] Marylou Goldrosen: Cut and paste all this CHAT before you leave

 

[18:49] CYBlue: okay and paste on flicker?

 

[18:49] CYBlue: with the image?

 

[18:50] Marylou Goldrosen: Paste it on your own PhotoStream, under COmment

 

[18:50] CYBlue: Okay

 

[18:51] Marylou Goldrosen: Our class site has too many shots now. When you set up your own FLickr Photostream, let me know and I can check it out too

 

[18:51] Marylou Goldrosen: COme here and see the students installation of Lizard of ARS

 

[18:51] CYBlue: Okay, will do

 

[18:51] CYBlue: Okay

Done