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From: PaulineG
Date: 07-18-2007, 01:30 AM (1 of 12)
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Crocheted model of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia - although the model isn't. http://www.theiff.org/exhibits/iff-e8.html It made the news a couple of days ago as it received some sort of art prize but I can't find out too much about it. There are a few other pictures floating around but not many - apparently it's huge. Pauline
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From: Patty22
Date: 07-18-2007, 07:22 AM (2 of 12)
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Did anyone check out the "Inventing Kindergarten" online exhibit. Many of the paper and stick activities for spatial design reminded me of young girl's needlework patterns. Very interesting exhibit...wished I lived closer.
Patty
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From: DorothyL
Date: 07-18-2007, 07:35 AM (3 of 12)
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Looks like an interesting way to use up scraps. It's beautiful. Dorothy |
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From: Magot
Date: 07-18-2007, 11:30 AM (4 of 12)
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What a fantastic piece of work! Thanks Pauline. The Inventing Kindergarten exhibit did read as interesting - it would be fascinating to find out from some of the children who went through that process how it felt at the time and how it has affected them as adults in the way that they leaarn. love and kisses, Jan
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From: esrun3
Date: 07-18-2007, 07:08 PM (5 of 12)
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Very cool-thanks for sharing!
Lyn
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From: Patty22
Date: 07-19-2007, 03:16 PM (6 of 12)
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Well Jan, it looks like quite a few modern artist were kindergarten attendees. Take right from the online exhibit: Of the forces that supposedly brought modern art into being, a wide range of factors have been cited - industrialization, the “machine age,” and psychosexual emancipation. Though kindergarten has never been “fodder for argument over absinthe and Gauloises in Montmartre cafes,” Bosterman suggests that its influence on modern art “has been largely ignored because its participants were in the primary band of the scholastic spectrum.” To which we may add that the gender of its practitioners was overwhelmingly female. In the standard narratives of art-historical criticism, women are not only absent from the cannon of modern masters, but female activities, interests and occupations have been cast as mostly irrelevant to the movement itself. This exhibition challenges that view, locating women and children at the origin of this aesthetic upheaval. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who grew up to Le Corbusier, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller are all documented attendees of kindergarten. Other so-called “form-givers” of the modern era – including Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky - were educated in an environment permeated by Froebelian influence. Prefigured in the workbooks of the nineteenth century kindergarteners, the artistic revolution of the twentieth century played itself out in painting, sculpture, graphic design and architecture, fundamentally altering our visual landscape. Affinities with kindergarten’s atomistic underpinnings may also be detected in the digitizing techniques of the computer age and in the structuralist perspectives used by Claude Levi-Strauss and Jean Piaget to understand the human mind. All of it is just fascinating! Patty
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From: Magot
Date: 07-20-2007, 03:45 AM (7 of 12)
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Now that IS interesting! I have quite a few Mondrian postcards around the place and enjoy Kadinsky as well.....perhaps I should have gone to Kindergarten.... (though Piaget does my head in) love and kisses, Jan
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From: Patty22
Date: 07-21-2007, 07:16 AM (8 of 12)
I too missed out on Kindergarten. 
Patty
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User: Patty22
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From: MaryW
Date: 07-24-2007, 08:29 AM (9 of 12)
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Wow, I love that. Very creative.
MaryW
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From: Magot
Date: 07-25-2007, 04:26 AM (10 of 12)
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http://www.supernaturale.com/articles.html?id=166 has got some links to the exotic use of modern crochet... I love the Cadillac. I have been asked to crochet a model brain but I think I'll give that a miss. love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
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From: MaryW
Date: 07-25-2007, 11:53 AM (11 of 12)
Oh go on. You can make a brain. Just crochet a very, very long chain and ball it all up and you have it. 
MaryW
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From: Magot
Date: 07-25-2007, 01:57 PM (12 of 12)
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You know me Mary, wouldn't be right without all the correct bits - hypothallamus, pituitary, optic nerve, bit down the spine etc etc
love and kisses, Jan
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