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"Table Cultures"

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A Three Day Lesson

Big Ideas

  • Culture

  • Identity / Individual

Project Description: 

Day Two: Workshop & Ideation

Part Two of this lesson will be a workshop to push students’ understanding of abstraction and represent their identified personality traits. The students will learn about Mark Bradford and fill out a worksheet to expedite this process of art-making.

Essential Understanding

  • Students will understand their identities within their culture.

  • Students will understand how collaboration and communication connect them to their culture and identity.

  • Students will understand how to work together to reflect on their individuality within their cultures.

Objectives

Day Two Objectives:

  • Using contemporary artist examples, students will be able to observe abstract artworks made by another artist to talk about how another artist represents their identity in their artwork.

(Comprehend, GLE 1: Investigate works of art and design to recognize how to create meaning with purpose and intent, SHoM: Observe, Understand Art World, Art Learning: Art Analysis.)

  • Given abstraction worksheets, students will ideate using different lines, colors, and shapes to demonstrate emotions and feelings to match. 

(Create, GLE 1: Plan and create works of visual art and design recognizing various purposes and intentions, SHoM: Develop Craft, Stretch & Explore, Art Learning: Materials and techniques)

 

  • Using preliminary sketches, students will be able to create at least three ideations to represent their personal identities using a variety of lines, shapes, and colors.

(Create, GLE 1: Plan and create works of visual art and design recognizing various purposes and intentions, SHoM: Develop Craft, Express, Art Learning: Conceptual-Ideation and Expressive features.)

 

  • Utilizing worksheets and individual sketches, students will reflect on their experiences using lines, shapes, and colors to ideate emotions abstractly. 

(Reflect, GLE 1: Demonstrate an understanding of how intent and purpose are informed by research and experimentation, Reflect, GLE 2:Synthesize ideas about personal works of art and imagine possible next steps, SHoM:

Art Methods​​

  • Drawing 

  • Sketching

Art Vocabulary

  • Two-dimensional

  • artistic intent

  • abstraction

  • planning

Lesson Materials:

  • Pencil 

  • Sharpie

  • Oil pastels

  • Colored Pencils 

  • Markers

Fitting In by Standing Out

Abstraction Worksheets 11/5/21

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