This PPT was created to discuss artists that use dots prominently in their work with elementary education majors and art pre-service teachers, to coordinate with reading Peter Reynolds children's book, The Dot. International Dot Day is on (or about) September 15.

1. 
International Dot Day
September 15
To celebrate International Dot Day, we will
first see some work by artists who are
known for using dots in their work

2. Georges Seurat
Pointillism technique
Post-Impressionism
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
1884-1886

3. Australian Aboriginal Art
Dot paintings thought to represent dreams and religion, used in cultural ceremonies

4. Wassily Kandinsky
Circles in a Circle, 1923
Taught at the Bauhaus 1922-
1933 (Russian born)
Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913
“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist
is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul”

5. Yayoi Kusama
"The Earth is a polka dot, Moon is a
polka dot, Sun, Mars, all of them are
polka dots," Yayoi Kusama said. "I
realized my life is only a small portion
of this universe. It's a mere dot."
Japanese artist (born 1929)pre-cursor to Pop
Art, minimalist and feminist art movements;
influenced Andy Warhol

6. Roy Lichtenstein
Ben-Day Dots
American Pop Artist from the 1960s (1923-1997)
Recent retrospective at Art Institute of Chicago
“collision of
commercial
sources and
fine art”

7. Chuck Close
Large-scale portraits made
entirely from inked thumb-
prints
Photo-realism
American, born
1940

8. Damien Hirst
Reportedly England’s richest living artist
(born 1965)
Sees art as the conception of the idea,
not the execution of the work (many
assistants create much of his work)
Spot paintings, 1986-2011
Conceptual art

9. Michelle Grabner
Conceptual – expressions of
orderliness & routine
Women’s domestic productivity
and patterning, inspired by
feminist work of the 1970s American contemporary artist,
teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago

10. Ian Sands, art teacher, NC
http://apexhsart.blogspot.com/search/label/postitstop14
Student self-portraits enlarged using Skittles
Large-scale portraits made from stickie
notes on school wall
http://apexhsart.blogspot.com/2012/02/skittle-art-part-2.html

11. The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
So, what is the main point
of the book?

12. The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
How did Vashti’s teacher impact her?
How did Vashti make a difference for
the younger student at the end of
the story?

13. The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
How will you make your mark?
How can our class make a difference
on campus or in the local
community?