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Origami V

Posted on April 6, 2020 | Leave a comment

This is the fifth of five posts on origami; as I said in the last one, blink, of you’ll miss it. I scanned the documents in these posts from two different origami books I bought for use in my classrooms. None of this intellectual property, needless to say, is mine to give away. Desperate times call for bold measures, which is why I’m here putting up one more of these posts.

First, here are the folding terms and directions for the documents in this and the previous (i.e. Origami IV) post. And here are the directions of the origami figures themselves:

origami 42 magnolia blossom; origami 43 rose; origami 44 leaf; origami 45 swan; origami 46 butterfly; origami 47 crane; origami 48 frog; origami 49 chinese wheel; origami 50 koi.

Here is a wikiHow article on how to make origami paper. Finally, once more, here are a trove of videos on origami from YouTube.

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Makemono

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Makemono: Far Eastern painting on a long horizontal scroll; such a painting on a hanging vertical scroll is a kakemono.”

Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.

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Origami IV

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

I sure hope it’s true that, as the old Roman proverb goes, that fortune favors the bold, because I fear I am pushing my luck with these origami posts. As the heading indicates this is number four–out of a total of five–of these posts containing PDF illustration of origami folding instructions. This batch is from a different book from the first three, so these folding terms and directions are different.

Anyway, here we go: origami 33 luna moth; origami 34 tortoise; origami 35 carp; origami 36 pinwheel; origami 37 lotus; origami 38 balloon; origami 39 wreath; origami 40 masu; origami 41 peacock.

Finally, don’t forget this article from wikiHow on making origami paper, and this trove of videos on YouTube on origami.

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Term of Art: Marxism

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Marxism: Provides an analysis exposing the social relations that operate in the production of material goods. Marxist art critiques demystify the relationship between artists and patrons, demonstrating who supports whom and why. By exposing the market forces weighing on artists, such an analysis demonstrates how both aesthetic and monetary value may be ascribed to artworks (see commodification). As a political ideology, it has influenced the modern muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco as social realists. Recently, Hans Haacke has created Marxist artworks exposing pervasive corporate sponsorship in the art world.”

Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.

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Buson

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Buson: (1716-1783) Japanese painter and haiku poet. Buson is generally ranked next to Matsuo Basho as the greatest haiku poet of the Tokugawa period. An artist of extraordinary creative range, Buson reinvigorated the traditional haiku genre and infused it with new descriptive realism. As a great painter in the bunjin, or literati, style, Buson paid homage to classical Chinese and Japanese sources. Buson’s poetry is noteworthy for its detachment from the conventions of poetic linking and group poetic practice; thus it points the way to the modern, autonomous haiku poetry associated with Masaoka Shiki, for whom Buson was a revered forerunner.”

Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

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Origami III

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, folks, here is post three of give of some origami materials that I publish with no small amount of ethical foreboding. I won’t belabor the points I made in the earlier posts, but rather get right to it.

origami 22 lantern; origami 23 swan; origami 24 star; origami 25 sailboat; origami 26 carp; origami 27 butterfly; origami 28 frog; origami 29 pig; origami 30 waterbomb; origami 31 candy box; origami 32 fancy box.

Here is a document with folding terms and directions. You might find this wikiHow article on how to make origami paper useful. Finally, here is a long list of YouTube videos on origami technique.

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F., Fe., Fec., Fecit

Posted on April 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

“F., Fe., Fec., Fecit: (Lat., fecit, fecerunt= has made it) On a print, signifies that the artist whose name it follows was the etcher or engraver. Used like indicit and sculpsit.”

Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.

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Origami II

Posted on April 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, blink and you’ll miss this post. I write this on April 2, 2020, a day on which the even dumbest, most highly ideological governors in the United States finally yielded to the expertise of public health experts and issued stay-at-home orders for citizens of their states. Yesterday on the news, a reputable source reported that worldwide, 90 percent of schoolchildren are home. That means there are a lot of kids who need something to do.

So, I will press my luck and post another batch of material that does not belong to me in any sense of the word. Depending on which history of the paper-folding art you read, origami has been around for 1,500 to 2,000 years. But these documents come from a book that I am confident remains under its publisher’s copyright. So I won’t crosspost these or in any way promote them (hint: I will post a total of five origami posts, but you’ll need to search them in the search bar in the upper-right-corner of this website). Ready? Here we go.

origami 12 boat; origami 13 house; origami 14 piano; origami 15 oblong box; origami 16 fox; origami 17 sitting fox; origami 18 cicada; origami 19 pigeon; origami 20 pelican; origami 21 pin wheel.

This set of folding terms and directions will help direct this activity. Here is a wikiHow article on how to make origami paper. Finally, here is a link to a plethora of YouTube instructional videos for origami.

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Social Realism

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Social Realism: A trend in 20th-century art before 1950. Often political in nature, social realism is distinctive in its realistic depictions of the ills of society. The influence of Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros was felt by North American social realist and WPA artists. Some North Americans emerged from the Ashcan School, while others, like Ben Shahn, evolved separately.”

Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.

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Origami I

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

Today is also the beginning of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020. To begin this month, I’m going to push limits a bit here and post a series (the first of four or five, if this causes me no trouble) of PDFs of origami instructions; this stuff is under copyright–therefore not mine to give away.

Challenging times call for bold moves, though. If you have young or youngish kids at home–but please be aware that origami is an art and craft for all ages–during this COVID19 crisis, these are perfect activities for them.

So, here are: origami 1 dog; origami 2 cat; origami 3 rabbit; origami 4 horse; origami 5 fish; origami 6 penguin; origami 7 tulip; origami 8 stem; origami 9 cup; origami 10 hat.

Here is a PDF of folding terms and directions for origami. You might also find useful this article from Wikipedia on origami as well as this reading on origami paper itself and how to make it. Finally, like everything else in the world, YouTube carries a plethora of videos on origami.

That’s it. If you’re using this material and want more, be on the lookout for the next four of five posts on origami at Mark’s Text Terminal.

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