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A Social Art Project

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This past Tuesday night we had 2 Art Aficionado friends over for what I have dubbed as a Social Art Project.  

It took place in my Artist wife Joanne's Art studio and there was champagne, Dylan music and delicious Greek food, but mostly it was about creating Art.   

Our Art Project is called Exquisite Corpse (words in the first line of a similar written exercise) and Jo prepared the essentials and led us through it.  

The concept is that 4 long piece of paper are folded into 4 sections of the body (head, torso, legs and feet) and each person draws, paints or pastes on a section, without knowing what is on the other sections of the 4 pieces of paper.  Then the papers are rotated between us to work on the next section,

When all is said and done there were 4 resultant collaborative works of Art which are pictured.  

It was great fun and, in the eyes of this beholder, great Art too :)

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Paul Napolitano

It’s amazing how most of the drawings seem to flow together naturally. Very thought-provoking! And a great thing to do with friends!
Shelley Simpson

Champagne, music, food, friends, and art is a perfect recipe for fun.Glad you had it all.
Victoria Drogin

Amazing!!!! Passed this along to many artist/friends to share with their communities!
https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/457
ODEY RAVIV

Great idea and looks like so much fun. The paintings look really good. Kudos to Joanne!

Submitted by Judy_Mauer on Thu, 07/20/2023 - 23:00

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Judy Mauer

What a FANTASTIC idea. Sounds like the best evening ever!!!!!!
Daniel Schwartz

I remember this experiment last year. The idea is great and seems like you all enjoyed the process and results.
Dana Charlton

What great fun! All the different body sections are delightful, some being animals, and what looks like a pooch to me too. It takes great imagination to plan this and good humour on everyone's part to carry it out!
Mike Wiebe

This is also how Picasso did it. His real genius was that he could get his wives and mistresses to all join his Social Art Project.
Paula Oleska

What a great game! I'll piggy back on that when I get together with friends.

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