Color as actor.(art ACROSS the CURRICULUM)

From: Arts & Activities | Date: June 1, 2008| Author: Sartorius, Tara Cady | Copyright information

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"We should discover, for instance, that music, too, has to do with proportion and the values of line and volume; also that literature can be static or dynamic, and can have staccatos and crescendos, and poems can have color; that the play on the stage has not only dramatic climax but also optical and acoustical ones; that there are musical qualities in all art--that every art work is built (i.e., composed), has order, consciously or unconsciously."...

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