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The DMA is now in the third year of its Learning Lab partnership with Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, a collaboration in which DMA Education staff work with Visual Arts teachers to lead experiences and projects at the DMA and at the school. The students recently completed a project that used Instagram as a means to explore artistic inspiration.  

We asked the students to choose an artist in our Modern European or Contemporary art collection and re-imagine that artist’s specific point of view in a contemporary setting. The Booker T. students did a wonderful job documenting these artistic re-imaginings by collecting images of objects, scenes, people and materials that they felt would give their particular artist inspiration.

Georges Braque, Still life with Bottles and Glass, 1912

#POVbraques (Crystal & Paige)

Naum Gabo, Constructed Head No. 2, 1923-1924

#POVgabo (Vicki)

Arshile Gorky, Untitled, 1943-1948

#POVgorky (Demorious & Grant)

Juan Gris, Guitar & Pipe, 1913

#POVgris (Lesley)

Jasper Johns, Device, 1961-1962

#POVjohns (Amber)

Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau, Burggrabenstrasse 1, 1908, 1908, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase, 1963.31

#POVkandinsky (Courtney)

Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau, Burggrabenstrasse 1, 1908, 1908, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase, 1963.31

#POVkandinsky (Annabella & Sadie)

Franz Marc, Fate of the Animals, 1913 (Basle, Kunstmuseum)

#POVmarc (Nick)

Jean Metzinger, The Harbor (Le Port), 1912

#POVmetzinger (Lilana & Jordan)

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray, 1921

#POVmondrian (Avery & Beatle)

Robert Rauschenberg, Skyway, 1964

#POVrauschenberg (Astrid & Haley)

Gerald Murphy, Razor, 1924

#POVmurphy (Grace)

Mark Rothko, Orange, Red and Red, 1962

#POVrothko (Kayla)

Do you see something around you that could have been inspiration for Mark Rothko or Jasper Johns? Join the conversation on Instagram! Simply tag your images using #POVartists name. Make sure to post them in our comments section if you feel so inspired!

Danielle Schulz
Teaching Specialist