Lesson 8: CAMIO Part 2Sioux

Lesson 8:
Discovery Exercise:  Part 2: CAMIO and Part 3: Picasso

1. Within my search for Paul Revere I found many items that Paul Revere the silversmith made. These included a teaspoon,sugar bowl and cover, federal style tea service, sugar bowl and cream pot, goblet, sauce pot and tankyard. There were paintings and sketches depicting Paul Revere. Many beautiful pieces of silver well preserved.

2. My search for "Sioux" brought up items from gauntlets, a scalp shirt, a beaded dress, dolls, a star pattern quilt, pipe bowls, pouches, photos, paintings and drawings. It was interesting to see how far away from home these items were.
Examples:
Gauntlets from the Santee Sioux were in a Brooklyn Children's Museum (a gift)
A scalp shirt from the Lakota Sioux was in the Cleveland Museum of Art (a gift)
Pipe bowl from the Dakota Santee Sioux is at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (a gift)
A doll from the Eastern Sioux is at the Detroit Institute of Art (Founders Society purchase)

3. I searched for Picasso. Art is something I have never studied or cared much about. I enjoy looking at paintings, drawings and sculptures that I see but I have never went out of my way to look for art.

After looking up Picasso in CAMIO I found out that Picasso had many different periods in his art work. I really like his black and white etchings for the natural history book that he illustrated in France.  It was interesting to see the predominately blue picture from his blue period.
I never knew that "Picasso pioneered the technique of assemblage, constructing  works partly or entirely of "found" objects, both natural and man-made."  (quoted from CAMIO)
I enjoyed his "Baboon and Young", 1951 so much,that I just asked my daughjter about going to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to see it when we go to the Twins/Cubs game this summer.

This is the "Baboon and Young" which Picasso made from a pot with two handles, two toy cars and a car spring. Clay is used for the baby, the arms and legs and to connect the areas. The two toy cars are the head, the pot is the body with the two handles as shoulders,  and the spine and tail are the spring.