Open Studio From Home:
Man Ray
Sat, Mar 27, 2021
11–11:40 am
Man Ray, La Fortune, 1938. Oil on linen, overall: 23 11/16 × 28 13/16 in. (60.2 × 73.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Simon Foundation, Inc. 72.129. © Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris
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You are invited to Open Studio From Home, free weekly online art classes with Whitney educators! Participants will experiment, create, and learn together with at-home art materials.
In this painting by Man Ray from 1938, a billiard table stretches toward the horizon. Rainbow-colored clouds float above it. This is a landscape of the mind, a product of the artist’s vivid imagination. He said: "I did not wish to paint anything realistic or even descriptive. There is always an idea behind each of my paintings. It's the idea that interests me, not the description."
Together, we will make our own mini books. Then we will fill them with surreal drawings from our imaginations!
Materials:
- A few sheets of paper
- Spoon
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Needle
- Embroidery floss or string
- Something pointy (a needle, the tip of a pencil, or a paper clip)
- Color options:
- Markers
- Colored pencils
- Crayons
- Oil pastels