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Augusto Arbizo's works evoke spiders' webs and snowflakes. What other designs found on objects in nature do these images suggest?
Eric Hongisto: The shapes in these paintings relate to living forms. Where, in nature, would you find some of these shapes? How has the artist given the feeling of motion to the elements in the painting?
Jena Kim creates paintings in which shapes relate to musical sound. Have you ever painted or drawn while listening to music? Put on some lively marching music. Make a drawing with shapes which describe it. Put on some soft guitar music. Make a drawing which describes it. Both of your drawings should be abstract.
In Crysta Lunsford's floor plan paintings, Lunsford uses textures and patterns from wallpaper and rugs in these houses. Draw a sketch of the pattern on the wallpaper or rug in one of the rooms in your house.
In one of Arthur Simms' mixed media sculptures, Simms uses a wheel to symbolize the movement from one culture to another. Find other objects in his work and suggest symbolic meanings for them.
The artists shown in Queens International used many different types of media (or materials). Which medium do you find most unusual? Which do you find most interesting? Which do you like least? Which one would you most like to try? Explain your answers.

VOCABULARY

Abstraction: Art in which elements of form, not surface appearance, have been stressed in handling the subject matter - which may or may not be recognizable. The shapes in Eric Hongisto's wall painting are totally abstract; they remind us of cellular structures but they are basically colorful shapes in space.

Collage: A picture or design created with the addition of paper or other flat materials pasted onto it, or the technique of doing so. Crysta Lunsford adds woven textures onto her paintings of floor plans of family homes. Marietta Ganapin designs circular composition made entirely of pasted sections of art reproductions.

Found objects: Objects taken from a non-art context (i.e. boxes, scissors, fabrics, metal parts, furniture parts, etc.) that are incorporated into the making of an art work. Arthur Simms uses bottles and rocks in his mixed media works.

Geometric: Based on the circle, square, rectangle or triangle, having a regular, symmetrical quality.

Impressionism: The 19th century French movement which analyzed natural effects of atmosphere and used broken strokes of color to capture the impression of light as it changes on forms. The artists included Monet, Renoir, Degas and Sisley. Zhang Hongtu paints Chinese landscape compositions in the style of Impressionist painters, such as Monet, and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Van Gogh and Cezanne.

Installation: An arrangement of objects, which may come from a variety of sources, in a specific area to convey a particular theme or idea.

Mandala: A Hindu or Buddhist graphic symbol of the universe. The word means 'circle' in Sanskrit and mandala art refers to symbols that are drawn, sketched or painted in a circular format. Typically, there is a central point or focus within the symbol from which radiates a symmetrical design.

Media: The particular material being used to make an art object. Paint, clay, wood, stone are among the different media used by artists.

Mixed media: An art work made by combining a variety of materials. Arthur Simms creates mixed media works which relate to both his Caribbean and American identities.

Multiculturalism: Relating to a number of different cultures. Also the idea that several different cultures can be combined within one society. The borough of Queens is highly multicultural; it is the most culturally diverse county in the nation.

Organic: Relating to living forms. The shapes in Eric Hongisto's paintings are reminiscent of organic elements like amoeba, paramecium and cell structures.

Pattern: A decorative design in which elements are repeated as in gift wrap, wall paper or textiles. Crysta Lunsford uses fragments of wall-paper patterns in her paintings of floor plans.

Post-Impressionism: A movement which, while it used some of its tonal ideas, reacted against the formlessness of much of Impressionism stressing a return to structure and a re-emphasis upon the subject. Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne are the artists connected with this movement. Zhang Hongtu has done several landscapes by Asian painters over in the Post-Impressionist styles of Van Gogh and Cezanne, and in the Impressionist style of painters such as Monet.

Repoussé: Ornamental metalwork in which the design is hammered into relief from the reverse side.

Surrealism: A movement, officially inaugurated in 1924, which drew heavily on dreams, the irrational, and fantasy. It used dream imagery and symbolism and was both abstract and realistic.

Symbol: Something that represents something else. In Arthur Simms' mixed media works the wheel symbolizes movement from one area to another as well as spirituality.

Symmetry: When two sides of an object or surface are exactly alike.

Trompe l'oeil: From the French term " deceive the eye." Painting that, through exact naturalism creates the illusion of being what is depicted.

MORE FACTS

Queens is the most culturally-diverse county in the nation.

Over 50% of the households in Queens are headed by people not born in the United States .

Close to 160 languages are spoken in the borough.

There are more than ten different media used in Queens International.

The artists in the exhibition come from twelve different countries.

Every surface in the Museum has been used for the art in the exhibition, including the ramp, the elevator ceiling , the wall behind the front desk, the coat check area and the niche outside of the second floor ladies room.

MORE RESOURCES

Works in Queens International included a wide range of styles, ideas, media, and techniques. Below we have suggested different categories that you may research to design and adapt your own lessons. For instance, if you are looking to teach more about Zhang Hongtu's work, you can refer to books on Chinese landscapes, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and watercolors.

Many of the topics listed below will invariably guide you to other helpful resources providing you with further information.

• Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
• Asian Art
• Abstract Art
• 20th Century Art
• Women Artists
• Visual Arts and Multiculturalism
• Landscape painting
• Mixed Media Art
• Sculpture
• Photography
• Collage Art
• Mandalas