U.S. Art residence in Dnipropetrovsk school #141

The Window on America center in Dnipropetrovsk staff visited the local high school #141, WOA’s longtime partner.
The WOA’s Head Svitlana Usenko introduced the students and teachers to the DOUNB Library and its resources. All the participants of the event were informed about the WOA Center and its resources. WOA Center is a facility that may be of great help for all who study English, plan to study abroad and to travel the world.
The WOA center continues its project “U.S. Art residence in Dnipropetrovsk”.
 
The WOA staff member Tamara Gavryliuk offered the senior students (the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th year students) a slide show that introduced to the them two controversial American artists – Rockwell Kent and Andy Warhol. The slide show’s title was “Paradoxes in the U.S. Art”. These artists were chosen for the presentation due to peculiar facts of their life: R. Kent’s paintings were very popular in the USSR and hardly known in the USA; Andy Warhol is the iconic US pop artist with Ukrainian roots, but his art is known only to a narrow circle in Ukraine. The slide show introduced Rockwell Kent as an illustrator, printmaker and painter. Andy Warhol was presented as a leader of pop art, a pioneer of the computer graphics and one of the most expensive artists of the 20th century. Warhol’s art creations are exhibited in his museum in Pittsburg.
Number of participants – 115 persons (teachers – 5 persons, students – 110 persons).

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