July+23,+2014

=Magritte and Surrealism: The Mystery of the Ordinary = July 23, 2014 8:30am-2:30pm Ryan Education Center, Studio B $50; 5 CPDUs

Workshop facilitators: Georgina Valverde and Kate Thomas*
Teacher Programs Intern: Bingyan Xue

This summer the Art Institute is reexamining the everyday and making the familiar unfamiliar with the exhibition, [|Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926 — 1938], which features works from the artist’s most profoundly inventive and experimental years. This daylong teacher workshop will focus on the Magritte exhibition as well as other Surrealist works in the Art Institute collection, examining how divergent thinking, dreams, reverie, and the imagination are tied to creativity and breakthroughs in understanding. Participants will also investigate how disjunctions between language and images can open up meanings and encourage creative thinking. The workshop will include a studio-based exploration of collage, automatism, games, and other surrealist techniques for freeing the imagination.


 * || ***Guest Educator**
 * Kate Thomas**

Kate Thomas is the Director of Arts at the Center of Teaching and Learning at the Chicago Teachers' Center. She has worked towards cultivating creativity and reflective teaching practice with various learning communities for over fifteen years. Thomas has worked as a teaching artist, theater director for Redmoon Theater's Dramagirls program, and classroom teacher using the Expeditionary Outward Bound approach, as well as project director and professional development instructor at the Chicago Teachers' Center. She is a co-author of the Every Art, Every Child curriculum framework. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia with a focus on art education. ||

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=Resources for Educators= Below is a list of materials compiled by Teacher Programs to help you explore issues related to the exhibition Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938 and related topics.

MoMA's interactive website the The Mystery of the Ordinary at MoMA Checklist of the exhibition at its three venues Audio introduction to the exhibition
 * The Mystery of the Ordinary at MoMA**

Learning about Surrealism
 * More resources at MoMA**
 * Tapping the Subconscious: Automatism and Dreams
 * Surrealist Objects and Assemblage
 * Surrealism and the Body
 * Surrealist Landscapes
 * The Lovers
 * The Palace of curtains, III

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 * Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary on Charlie Rose**


 * Articles and Books**
 * // The Aesthetic And The Artistic In Aesthetic Education // by Maxine Greene
 * //"A Lightning Flash Is Smoldering Beneath The Bowler Hats" Paris 1927-1930// by Josef Helfenstein with Clare Elliott
 * // The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible professions // by Deborah P. Britzman
 * // A Book of Surrealist Games //, compiled by Alastair Brotchie, edited by Mel Gooding
 * // 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance // by Matthew Goulish

Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.
 * Ways of Seeing by John Berger**

Episode 1 examines the impact of photography on our appreciation of art from the past. Episode 2 deals with the portrayal of the female nude. Episode 3 questions the value we place on the tradition of oil painting and Old Master's paintings. Episode 4 analyzes the images of advertising and publicity and shows how they relate to the tradition of oil painting - in moods, relationships and poses.