The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program 2012-2014

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Interpretive Guide & Hands-on Activities
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Travelling Exhibition Program 2012-2014
A Room with a View
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The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
The Interpretive Guide
The Art Gallery of Alberta is pleased to present your community with a selection from its Travelling
Exhibition Program. This is one of several exhibitions distributed by the Art Gallery of Alberta as part
of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program. This Interpretive Guide has been
specifically designed to complement the exhibition you are now hosting. The suggested topics for
discussion and accompanying activities can act as a guide to increase your viewers’ enjoyment and to
assist you in developing programs to complement the exhibition. Questions and activities have been
included at both elementary and advanced levels for younger and older visitors.
At the Elementary School Level the Alberta Art Curriculum includes four components to provide
students with a variety of experiences. These are:
Reflection: Responses to visual forms in nature, designed objects and artworks
Depiction: Development of imagery based on notions of realism
Composition: Organization of images and their qualities in the creation of visual art
Expression: Use of art materials as a vehicle for expressing statements
The Secondary Level focuses on three major components of visual learning. These are:
Drawings: Examining the ways we record visual information and discoveries
Encounters: Meeting and responding to visual imagery
Composition: Analyzing the ways images are put together to create meaning
The activities in the Interpretive Guide address one or more of the above components and are
generally suited for adaptation to a range of grade levels. As well, this guide contains coloured images
of the artworks in the exhibition which can be used for review and discussion at any time. Please be
aware that copyright restrictions apply to unauthorized use or reproduction of artists’ images.
The Travelling Exhibition Program, funded by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, is designed to bring
you closer to Alberta’s artists and collections. We welcome your comments and suggestions and invite
you to contact:
Shane Golby, Manager/Curator
Travelling Exhibition Program
Ph: 780.428.3830; Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: [phone] youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Table of Contents
This package contains:
Curatorial Statement
List of Images
Visual Inventory
Artist Biographies/Statements
Talking Art
- Curriculum Connections
- Art History: Genre Painting
- Art History: Styles of Artistic Expression in Painting, Drawing, Photography
- Romanticism
- Realism
- Expressionism
- Fauvism
- Modernism/Abstraction
- Naïve art
- Art Processes - Printmaking
- Watercolour
Visual Learning and Hands-On Activities
- Elements of Composition Tour
- Reading Pictures Tour
- Perusing Paintings: An Artful Scavenger Hunt
- Exhibition Related Art Projects
Glossary
Credits
The AFA and AGA
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: [phone] youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Curatorial Statement
evidence, providing ideas of the costumes
A Room with a View
and daily practices of a time or culture.
Many such works also explore humankinds’
sensual experience of the world, presenting
narratives that are familiar to both the artist
I don’t care what I see outside. My vision is and the viewer.
within! Here is where the birds sing! Here is
where the sky is blue. The exhibition A Room with a View focuses on
Mr. Emerson, A Room with a View (by E.M. Forster, interiors, everyday activities within these
1908)
spaces, and states of being as expressed by
Albertan artists. Presenting art works drawn
E.M. Forster’s 1908 novel A Room with a from the collection of the Alberta Foundation
View is both a romance and a critique of for the Arts and investigating a mix of
English society at the beginning of the 20th media and artistic styles, this exhibition
century. Throughout the work there are often invites viewers into the ‘familiar’ room to
mentions of ‘rooms’ and ‘views’. Characters encounter the challenges, the joys, the
and places associated with ‘rooms’ are mysteries, and the simple pleasures that
usually conservative and uncreative whereas make up our everyday lives.
open, forward-thinking and modern character
types are often described as being ‘outside’.
While there is no question that rooms can
sometimes be confining, interior spaces can
also be sources of comfort, companionship,
and ‘construction’. In the visual arts the
subject of rooms is a wide-open one and has
invited a multitude of interpretations. Serving
as settings for narrative action, metaphors for
psychological states, nostalgic
representations, or exercises in mathematical
precision and artistic proficiency, the
representation of interior spaces, and the
activities that occur in those spaces, has
inspired artists throughout the ages.
Max Elliott
The depiction of interior scenes and related Portrait of the artist in her studio, 1993
Oil, gesso on linen
activities in visual art falls into the category
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
of genre painting or genre scenes. Refering
to pictorial representations in any media that
represent scenes and subjects from everyday
The exhibition A Room with a View was curated
life, genre paintings take contemporary reality by Shane Golby and organized by the Art Gallery
as their subject. Such representations may of Alberta for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the Travelling Exhibition Program. The AFA Travelling
Exhibition Program is financially supported by the
artist and can be useful documentary
Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: [phone] youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
List of Images
Edward Bader Max Elliott
Mccarroll’s Living Room, 1984 Portrait of the artist in her studio, 1993
Pencil on paper Oil, gesso on linen
10 1/2 inches x 14 inches 24 1/8 inches x 24 1/16 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Arts
Helen Flaig
Maxwell Bates Dishes, 1996
Cafe, Highlights, March 1951, Vol. 4., No.2., Oil on masonite
1951 15 3/16 inches x 23 5/16 inches
Linocut on paper Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
7 13/16 inches x 5 3/16 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Dan Gordon
Arts Lobby, Meade Hotel, Bannack, Montanna, 1994
Silver gelatin print on paper
Susan Bixby 10 1/2 inches x 13 7/16 inches
Viola Player, 1986 Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Charcoal on paper
29 1/16 inches x 23 1/8 inches Hazel Litzgus
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Ladies & Gentlemen, take your partner for a
Arts schottische, 1973
Watercolour on paper
Chris Bruun 12 3/8 inches x 18 7/8 inches
Christ, 1970 Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Silver gelatin print on paper
10 3/8 inches x 10 7/16 inches Euphemia McNaught
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Anglican Church and Hudson Hope, 1945
Arts Pastel crayon, ink on paper
13 inches x 14 1/2 inches
Arpad Csanyi Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
After Aerobics, 1991
Acrylic, oil on paper Paul Murasko
22 1/8 inches x 29 1/4 inches In Through the Out Door, 1991
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Silver gelatin print, hand painted on paper
Arts 12 1/8 inches x 8 1/4 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Diana Edwards
The Bed, 1977 Gary Newton
Silver gelatin print on paper Ideal Room: Manic, 1984
7 7/16 inches x 9 1/2 inches Etching, aquatint on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the 11 5/8 inches x 17 5/8 inches
Arts Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: [phone] youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
List of Images
Harry Palmer
Birdcage and Window, 1982
Silver gelatin print on paper
8 7/8 inches x 6 5/16 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Richard Reeves
Bedroom of Sevilla, 1993
Ink on paper
10 3/16 inches x 12 15/16 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
John Snow
Malmo, 1966
Lithograph on paper
15 7/8 inches x 20 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Ken Swan
Late in the Evening, 1991
Watercolour, ink on paper
9 13/16 inches x 18 15/16 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Jill Thomson
Pub, 1966
Watercolour on paper
15 7/8 inches x 20 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Raymond van Nes
Klaus Hoffman, Patternmaker, 1999
Silver gelatin print on paper
10 7/8 inches x 13 7/8 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Doris Zaharichuk
Woman Bathing, 1993
Oil on canvas
10 3/16 inches x 14 inches
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Total Works: 20
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: [phone] youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Visual Inventory
Edward Bader
Mccarroll’s Living Room, 1984
Pencil on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Maxwell Bates
Cafe, Highlights, March 1951, 1951
Linocut on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Susan Bixby Chris Bruun
Viola Player, 1986 Christ, 1970
Charcoal on paper Silver gelatin print on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: [phone] youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Visual Inventory
Arpad Csanyi Diana Edwards
After Aerobics, 1991 The Bed, 1977
Acrylic, oil on paper Silver gelatin print on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Max Elliott Helen Flaig
Portrait of the artist in her studio, 1993 Dishes, 1996
Oil, gesso on linen Oil on masonite
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: [phone] youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Visual Inventory
Dan Gordon Hazel Litzgus
Lobby, Meade Hotel, Bannack, Montanna, 1994 Ladies & Gentlemen, take your partner for a
Silver gelatin print on paper schottische, 1973
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Watercolour on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Euphemia McNaught
Anglican Church and Hudson Hope, 1945
Pastel crayon, ink on paper Paul Murasko
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts In Through the Out Door, 1991
Silver gelatin print, hand painted on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: [phone] youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
Visual Inventory
Gary Newton
Ideal Room: Manic, 1984
Etching, acquatint on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Harry Palmer
Birdcage and Window, 1982
Silver gelatin print on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Richard Reeves John Snow
Bedroom of Sevilla, 1993 Malmo, 1966
Ink on paper Lithograph on paper
Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: [phone] youraga.ca