Part cartoonist and part Picasso, the art of Brooklyn-born James Rizzi is highly recognizable. His playful, brilliant images created a style he described as “Urban Primitive.” Students will enjoy making a classroom cityscape of fun and fabulous construction paper buildings. A simple wire armature beneath allows the structure to be playfully positioned -— almost as if it were dancing. This project provides a lesson in movement as design principle.


3 Dimensional

Metal and Wire Art

Painting

Sculpture

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Dancing Houses

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Blick Economy Camel Brushes - Round, Canister of 120  Short Handle

Wild angles, expressive faces, and pop-art hearts, stars, and flowers bring life and personality to an inanimate structure!

Part cartoonist and part Picasso, the art of Brooklyn born James Rizzi (1950-2011) is highly recognizable. His playful, brilliant images — in a style he described as "Urban Primitive" — not only produced 3-dimensional sculpture, prints, and paintings, they also adorned postage stamps, a shopping mall dome, a line of popular German automobiles, and a jet. 

You can enjoy making a cityscape of fun and fabulous construction paper buildings! A simple wire armature beneath allows the structure to be playfully positioned -— almost as if it were dancing! For a pdf version of this lesson, along with a materials list, follow this link to the Blick Art Materials lessons page http://www.dickblick.com/lesson-plans/dancing-houses/