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10 Graders have dealt with the topic of Street Art. We made a museum tour through our neighborhood in Allston where the students made presentations on Street Art and evaluated the meaning for the community. Since our school is a part of the neighborhood together with our science department we came up with the idea to create a science garden. The students brainstormed about how they can contribute with their ideas and create their own murals.
10 Graders have dealt with the topic of Street Art. We made a museum tour through our neighborhood in Allston where the students made presentations on Street Art and evaluated the meaning for the community. Since our school is a part of the neighborhood together with our science department we came up with the idea to create a science garden. The students brainstormed about how they can contribute with their ideas and create their own murals.
What is a Mural?
A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate, usually a vertical one, that is to say a wall. Historically, they are especially associated with the fresco technique, where the pigments are applied to a thin layer of wet plaster, into which they sink.
Some wall paintings are painted on large canvases, which are then attached to the wall (e.g., with marouflage). This technique has been in common use in Great Britain since the late 19th century
Allston is home to some of the best public art in the city of Boston
Allston is home to some of the best public art in the city of Boston
Since 2015, the Zone 3 initiative has transformed a cluster of formerly under-utilized spaces along Western Ave in Allston into a vibrant hub of creativity and active space for community engagement. These efforts continue through a range of on-going programs, events, retail pop-ups, and impactful public art installations.
Zone 3 is committed to creating and maintaining a space of inclusion for all people regardless of background. Connectedness and collaboration are two of our main values in our community engagement work. We believe that we are able to grow together when we foster a diverse environment that welcomes artists, entrepreneurs, and community members of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, abilities, identities, life experiences, and self-expressions.
WHAT IS SCIENCE?
WHAT IS A GARDEN?
PHYSICS - CHEMISTRY
UNIVERSE - MATH BIOLOGY
HUMAN - NATURE
Science and art are the very nature of human attempts to understand and describe the world around us. Though these subjects and methods have different traditions, and the intended audiences are different, in many cases, their basic motivations and goals are fundamentally the same.
Carl Eickelberg, Alexander Winter, Theodore Diehl
Science and Ludicracy, 2021
The art piece “Science and Ludicracy” is very colorful and plays with many different elements of science. The artwork depicts a portrait of some sort of being. It is centralized with a black hole that deals as a kind of mouth, which is spitting out the Earth. His head consists of a planet that is divided in multiple hemispheres. Around the head there is a belt of asteroids. Inside the head there is an astronaut floating in a turquoise background. Hovering over the shoulder the “Death Star” from Star Wars is shooting at the left shoulder of the creature. The depicted being is holding a brain in his left hand and squeezes it. The brain is dripping a black liquid onto the toast, which he is holding under the brain using his right hand. We created the artwork with brushes and Sharpies.
The style in which caricatures and the surroundings are created is heavily inspired by the adult animation "Rick and Morty" which is an animated science fiction show.
The work is not limited to its physical form. On the first look, it seems pretty obvious what everything is, but the idea is not just to depict an astronaut in a blue area, or a black hole spitting out the earth. “The idea came to mind when I heard the word science." It represents a lot if not all aspects of science somehow, and it’s a painting you can really look at for a long time, and let your mind play with it. It was designed to provoke creative, also scientific and philosophical questions in a very simply drawn portrait style.
Artistic Statement - Science and Ludicracy.m4a
Andrea Vazquez Segura, Lukas Schneider
United by Language, 2021
In the middle of our work is the flag of the United States of America. Surrounding this flag there are six other flags from different countries around the world: Brazil, Mexico, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy. Around all of these flags there’s a DNA strand with the German flag’s colors. These flags represent at least one member of our 10th grade class.
In our school community there are people from different countries, from Brasil, to Mexico, to the Netherlands, to Germany. All of us are united by the German language, and because of different reasons we are living in an english-speaking country, the United States. Nationality doesn't matter because at the end we are all the same. We are a part of GISB.
Our main goal was to represent our multicultural community. Everyone is different, and therefore everyone should be represented in a place as important as our second home. Our school is our family and even though we might come from different places, we’re all part of the same community. A language is our key, it’s our rope. Each DNA from this school might be different, but German makes us the same. We’re united by a language.
At the beginning, we thought the meaning of our art work was something that represents our community. We thought that the message was great, but we weren’t sure about how the different flags would look on a mural. After finishing this piece we can conclude that it really belongs to this school. It represents our community and the fact that we tried to do everything with many details is better than doing it superficially. We did a piece of work, for us, and for our school, that maybe looks simple, but the meaning behind it is bigger than it looks like.
United by a Language (1).m4a
Mariane Abdeljalek Miller / Caterina Faust Torres
The garden of freedom
While painting our artwork we took a lot of freedom in between each step, and this is why the name is so fitting. This artwork reflects society. We are small insects in a big garden. The flowers and mushrooms represent our problems, goals, dreams, ambitions and overall everything that’s bigger than us.
Our mural is supposed to inspire its viewers to achieve those goals and dreams and to motivate them to solve those things that are bothering us.
Each individual creature and object in our artwork is beautiful and valuable on it’s own, but together they form a unique and cohesive environment.
The insects are living in harmony and freedom in a big garden with big flowers. Our artwork has a connection with science.
We were doing the theme of ecology in biology, so we decided to paint an ecosystem on our mural. One of the things we learned was that each element of an ecosystem, no matter how small and irrelevant it may seem, is essential for the ecosystem.
We incorporated flowers, mushrooms and a variety of insects. We paid a lot of attention to adding detail, as the viewer is able to see on the petals of each flower. We used many different techniques while painting, the first one we used was charcoal on the white wall, to get a general idea of what we wanted to paint, as a kind of sketch before adding the paint.
The second technique is called the speckle-technique, for it we used a big paintbrush and mixed different shades of yellow, for the flower on the left, lastly blue and green for the background. We also used the mural technique, where the architectural elements are incorporated into the artwork to give a beautiful three-dimensional painting, which we tried to achieve.
New Recording 2.m4a
Korbinian Parnell, Christopher Wirtz, Jasper-Vincent Eis
Geometric shapes, 2021
Our artwork starts with cold colors and ends with warm colors. It starts with a dark blue and goes to dark purple then to purple to magenta to red to orange and finally to yellow. In between the colors are white lines which divide the artwork into little geometric shapes, most commonly triangles. The shapes are different because they have different formats and different sizes. Some look like triangles, some you don't know what they are and some look like trapezoids.
First we had to get a white background, so we painted our wall white. We used tape for the geometric forms and different shapes. After we taped all the different shapes, we started painting in between the tape so that the lines of the tape would stay white, first we used dark blue, then we started to use purple mixed with blue for a slow and fine transition. As we started painting we used only one color, then we mixed the first color with the following one and then only one again, we did that until there was no more space and we went from dark blue to yellow.
Our artwork was mainly inspired by our presentation about EVO by David Teng a great example of painting a wall with geometric shapes. We wanted to lighten up the mood of the students, teachers and parents that would see this colorful and mathematical.
41 Murdock St 2.m4a
Lara Hermmann, Fiona Zawieja
Science on Strings - S.o.S.-
Our artwork consists of strings tied to a human hand, holding brightly colored chemicals in test tubes. The chemicals are also the only spot of color in the painting, while the rest is purely black and white. We used white paint as a base and continued with black paint to outline the hand, strings and test tubes. There are five test tubes, each containing a uniquely colored chemical substance. The bright colors we used are yellow, orange, blue, fuchsia and turquoise. They jump out at you, because of the colors' outstanding pigmentation, while also seeming to possess a certain toxic element due to how bright and bold they are. We chose the name Science on Strings (S.o.S.), because it outlines the message we are trying to send in a concise manner. The primary inspiration for our piece were marionette strings. The hand symbolizes humanity as a whole, while the strings attached to each finger holding the chemicals convey control. The chemicals in the test tubes stand for science, explicitly further discovery and advancement. Our general "big idea" is: humans have the control over science in their hands, so they dictate the progress, the headway and the innovation we make. They dictate our future.
Neue Aufnahme 51.m4a
Hanna Süssenbach, Victoria Goldmann
Originated from the body, 2021
Our artwork “Originated from the body” represents a human nerve cell in the form of a flowering tree. In the roots you can see the nucleus of the cell and the dendrites. Both the nucleus of the cell and the roots of a tree have their origin there. This is the place which is responsible for the most important tasks.The dendrites form the many-branched roots of the tree, another common feature. Going further, you see the axon in a tree trunk. Both pass on important information to the next recipient. The tree trunk of the artwork is created like an axon from the cell. In it you can identify the myelin sheath, the Ranvier's nodes and the Schwann cells. The synapses and the axon terminals of the nerve cell form the branches of the tree. This is the place where the flowers and leaves are found in our artwork. The flowers are inspired by the East Asian Cherry, which is the reason we drew them in a bright pink shade. However, the leaves can’t be found in an East Asian Cherry.
We loved how the leaves and flowers go well together, but still have a contrast and a little competition over who stands out more. That way, both the leaves and the flowers stand out beautifully in their own way, but still go well together.
We painted the roots completely black and the nucleus of the cell pink. During the process we worked our way up and finished with the leaves. During the whole process we just used acrylic paint and regular brushes. The only thing we did differently was the little branches. Those we painted with the back of the brush. In general, the goal of our artwork was to connect the human body with nature. We wanted to show that the human is also only part of nature and not superior to it. It is rather the other way around: Humans should subordinate themselves to nature.
Artist Statement.m4a
Carl Philipp Henckel, Luca Bohnet Zurcher, Nedim Srkavolic
Not a normal game of Pac-Man, 2021
Our art piece consists of a black background, on which there is a Pac-Man game drawn. This Pac-Man game is not a conventional one but was modified by us with elements of modern pop culture:
It shows the Pac-Man game with red dots that are eaten by Pac-Man.
Another element added by us is the rocket on the right side of the artwork. Its exhaust is drawn with black on the white background, which also stands in contrast to the general all black background. We thought of this part of the work as a comic section, where everything is black and white like in a comic. The rocket is drawn in a style that matches the pop-cultural style.
The big blue wave with the fish jumping out of it is an illustration of the “Big Wave of Kanagawa”, which found a lot of popularity in modern asian pop-culture. The fish resembles Nemo from the movie “Finding Nemo”. The yellow helps to make a contrast between the light blue wave and the background. The non straight line going over the wave is mimicking a road going into the unknown, while the red dots look like the lines on a road. On the left side of the painting you can see a rainbow in the LGBTQ-colors. We decided to include this political statement into our artwork, because diversity and the gender movement is an important factor and topic of the present time. To the left of Pac-Man there is a Bike. The numbers in light blue are translatable into binary, in which they mean “GISB”, but you have to lock closely, to not forget the 0, that is drawn with a pencil to the right of the last number. Below the numbers, there are three ghosts that are iconic for the game of Pac-Man. In the game these ghosts are Pac-Man’s enemies. Another important ingredient to make this artwork was of course our imagination, which led to most of the motifs. To make a working design, we took inspiration from other pop artists and integrated some of their ideas into our artwork. In the end, we came up with the final design and decided to stay with it and start painting. While painting, more ideas came up which led to funny and interesting details, like Nemo, or Luca’s bike. As pop culture is very flexible, adding those details was no problem and enriched the art work. As already mentioned, the big inspiration to our piece is pop culture, especially the one popular in the last 40 years. Everything since the invention of Pac-Man. The main goal was to really let all of our ideas and imaginations free, which meant painting many details, but due to the limits of brushes and time, we weren't able to put as many details as we wanted into the art piece.
We think that the artwork has its own charm and with a little bit of imagination you can dive into your own world of Pac-Man, with your own story to play.
Artist Statement - Luca, Philipp, Nedim.wavPage updated
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