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Article: Wire sculpture & the language of forms.
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- Arts & Activities
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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If you have a closet full of old wire hangers, you can teach your students about a famous 20th-century artist, abstract sculpture and the language of form.
With young children we place great emphasis on the visual world. When reading to children, great pains are taken to explain the illustrations; we often take more time with the images than with the accompanying text. Sadly, this other language of images begins to wane in significance as "real reading" takes on greater importance. In fact, the emphasis we place on the visual image seems to decline in inverse proportion to the growing importance of the text. As art instructors we hope to fill this void.
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