Hi everyone!
This was a loooong hiatus! I'm so sorry to have abandoned the blog for so long, but let's hope we can revive it a little bit!
This post is all about art, and I'm starting to notice a pattern here... It tends to be the topic I choose when I want to get back to the blog. So I hope you all join in and get back on track with me, using art as our inspiration.
Here's a longish gap-filling activity to track the origins of psychedelic music posters that flooded the San Francisco area in the 1960s. What do they remind you of?
This was a loooong hiatus! I'm so sorry to have abandoned the blog for so long, but let's hope we can revive it a little bit!
This post is all about art, and I'm starting to notice a pattern here... It tends to be the topic I choose when I want to get back to the blog. So I hope you all join in and get back on track with me, using art as our inspiration.
Here's a longish gap-filling activity to track the origins of psychedelic music posters that flooded the San Francisco area in the 1960s. What do they remind you of?
Both aesthetic movements capture the
feeling of their changing times, even if the periods don’t _____________ each
other perfectly.
If you’ve never heard of the bands _____________ you’d be able to guess what kind of music they play.
The style, which includes curly, _____________lettering, has become synonymous with the psychedelic ‘60s, even if it was created earlier.
The style that resulted from the rejection of industrialization’s “ugliness” _____________ many different names in different languages.
Art Nouveau often features flat, _____________ patterns, feminine figures, and organic motifs _____________ with fluid, abstract forms.
Art Nouveau creators married aesthetics with utility, and believed that no object was _____________ to be beautiful.
Like the late 1800s, the 1960s were a time of cultural _____________, with San Francisco as its _____________ in the US.
To advertise new bands, it was clear that posters with regular _____________ and grayscale photos just were not going to _____________.
By the mid-60s, Art Nouveau was already living a _____________, particularly in textiles. For the posters, the artist took some Art Nouveau staples and turned _____________.
The style the artists picked up on was one full of feminine figures, often nude and with a _____________ glance.
They often pulled images directly from the Art Nouveau posters, replacing their soft pastels with a vibrant _____________.
The idea of softening edges of the fonts to make them barely legible actually
_____________: to hold your attention, at least until you made out what was written.
The posters were an easy way of spreading this aesthetic, and the artists behind them became celebrities _____________.
Enjoy it! And give us your answers in the comments, even if they can be easily checked with the video's closed captions.
