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Proportion and Symmetry Grade 7 | |
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Feedback from Janice Rahn for above Grade 4 Art and Science unit:
This is great. It is very clear and has a logic in its flow from observation and respect for nature, looking at Darwin’s sketches, giving that historical history to the relationship of art and the environment. At this time the disciplines were not so separate, including Science, which became more elitist with grants and specialization, the same as art.
If I was to teach this unit, I could give more time for lesson one, making it a unit in itself, looking at Darwin’s journals and other explorers, like Shackleton who took a Photographer and a drawer to record. The photos are very famous and the reason there are so many books on the expedition. Explorers always took a Scientist/artist with them for it was part of exploring/recording.
Segal is the perfect encounter for your photography lesson. Another photographer who would fit into this unit if you wanted to expand it when you teach is Andy Goldsworthy. He would be great for lesson two. He only uses natural objects to design beautiful assemblages for the purpose of taking a photo. Even if he wants to attach things, he will use what he can find like gum from a tree, but they are mainly arrangements of objects which are gathered and categorized for color and hue, then arranged to create a photo. For example, if it was the fall, your students could collect leaves, separate them into piles of categorized color and compose a design. If you showed his photos to students they would get ideas to play with natural objects to create photos. It teaches about design in nature, design in composition using natural objects and his work is very respectful of nature.
This would be a nice transition to another artist who arranges objects for photos, but he uses garbage, like Segal but in a different way.
There is a documentary on this art project called Wasteland. google Youtube wasteland and watch the trailer. He is a Brazilian artist living in New York. He goes back home to work with the community of scavengers in the dump.
He takes their photo in famous art historical tableaux, like the Death of Marat (a famous painting by Jaques Louis David) or the Madonna. He projects this image on the floor and they arrange the garbage in the cartoon. They take a photo from above. The photos are beautiful and are auctioned off for hundreds of thousands of dollars. What I like is that he gives back to the community. He gives money back and he gives each of the pickers a photograph.
I think it is a great unit and could be expanded to last a whole semester as a big project on waste. You could have an exhibition at the end to invite parents and to have the students speak about what they learned. This could be the LA integration, having students write about it or make a book. There is a good picture book in the curr lab called Garbage.
this unit also includes mapping in lesson one.
This is great. It is very clear and has a logic in its flow from observation and respect for nature, looking at Darwin’s sketches, giving that historical history to the relationship of art and the environment. At this time the disciplines were not so separate, including Science, which became more elitist with grants and specialization, the same as art.
If I was to teach this unit, I could give more time for lesson one, making it a unit in itself, looking at Darwin’s journals and other explorers, like Shackleton who took a Photographer and a drawer to record. The photos are very famous and the reason there are so many books on the expedition. Explorers always took a Scientist/artist with them for it was part of exploring/recording.
Segal is the perfect encounter for your photography lesson. Another photographer who would fit into this unit if you wanted to expand it when you teach is Andy Goldsworthy. He would be great for lesson two. He only uses natural objects to design beautiful assemblages for the purpose of taking a photo. Even if he wants to attach things, he will use what he can find like gum from a tree, but they are mainly arrangements of objects which are gathered and categorized for color and hue, then arranged to create a photo. For example, if it was the fall, your students could collect leaves, separate them into piles of categorized color and compose a design. If you showed his photos to students they would get ideas to play with natural objects to create photos. It teaches about design in nature, design in composition using natural objects and his work is very respectful of nature.
This would be a nice transition to another artist who arranges objects for photos, but he uses garbage, like Segal but in a different way.
There is a documentary on this art project called Wasteland. google Youtube wasteland and watch the trailer. He is a Brazilian artist living in New York. He goes back home to work with the community of scavengers in the dump.
He takes their photo in famous art historical tableaux, like the Death of Marat (a famous painting by Jaques Louis David) or the Madonna. He projects this image on the floor and they arrange the garbage in the cartoon. They take a photo from above. The photos are beautiful and are auctioned off for hundreds of thousands of dollars. What I like is that he gives back to the community. He gives money back and he gives each of the pickers a photograph.
I think it is a great unit and could be expanded to last a whole semester as a big project on waste. You could have an exhibition at the end to invite parents and to have the students speak about what they learned. This could be the LA integration, having students write about it or make a book. There is a good picture book in the curr lab called Garbage.
this unit also includes mapping in lesson one.