Painted Paper and Abstract Expressionism

 Mark Bradford

Franz Kline

What do we like about the experience of painting paper? What does this kind of mark making afford students? What do we like about making a copy? How can copying bad?

Why have students paint paper?  What was good about that experience?

1. Play as an active, process based, form of learning encompassing improvisation, imagination, experimentation, dramatization.  A form of knowledge

2. embodied practices engage with that which is outside language or exceeds language.

“when you are concentrating on a pattern, it requires you to be present”     "Are we supposed to copy this?