(KG) Creating in the style of Brice Marden

Students learned about the work of Brice Marden by looking at and discussing the meaning of gestural abstraction in his art.
Brice Marden traveled in Thailand in the 1980s, where he became interested in Far Eastern

calligraphy and the art of the brush stroke.

Brice Marden

Students used four different color pencils to create the

overlapping lines in their work.

Students learned how to use overlapping in their artwork to show that

something is in front or behind another object.

Brice Marden at work creating his brush stroke with a wooden stick. 

Brice Marden

Brice Marden

Brice Marden

Students were encouraged to create overlapping lines using yarn.

Brice Marden

We tried to hide the ends of the yarn.