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P O U R PA I N T I N G S I N S P I R E D B Y H O LT O N R O W E R
PROCESS: For this lesson students used stacked shapes and paint to create collaborative artwork.
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They drew inspiration from New York City based artist, Holton Rower. The students worked together to build their stacked shapes then they poured paint on top of them to create their gravity based paintings.
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The students were given the opportunity to explore an alternative to traditional sculpture and painting.
ARTIST I N S P I R AT I O N : Holton Rower is a New York based artist who creates gravity based sculptural paintings. Rower is best known for his “pour paintings,� pouring up to 50 gallons of rainbow-colored paints over variously configured blocks and panels of plywood, and created by allowing it to spread and pool into textured, psychedelic
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