HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES
"Art evokes the mystery without which the world
would not exist"
~Rene Magritte~
CENTRAL IDEA:
People express their uniqueness through arts. PROFILES:
ATTITUDES:
CONCEPTS: Form, Reflection, Perspective |
LINES OF INQUIRY:
SKILLS REQUIRED:
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Formative 1
Students will make a diagram using wisemapping.com, of THREE different forms of art and include some prominent artists who have influence on the arts.
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Formative 2Students will compare 2 different artworks from the same art form, but from different artists to show understanding of how artworks reflect on the artist's identity.
Then, students write some paragraphs concluding the artist's identity from their chosen artwork using Thinking Hats:
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Summative TaskEach student has to create and produce an artwork that shows their uniqueness (personal style).
Students will create a work of arts based on the artwork they have studied, they may represent it in many formats based on their preferences using Multiple Intelligences:
Criteria:
the artwork; how s/he envisions the final product and can describe some of the steps s/he will use to reach the goal. - Focused with some planning.
used source material as a starting place. - The student's personality comes through in parts of the artwork.
- Accurately relates how these are used to reinforce mood or feeling of the artwork. - Explains fairly the artist and artwork which inspired his/ her artwork and cited them correctly. |
Provocation - Movies
This video will show you the steps to draw a realistic eye.
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The style of direct drawing by The Portrait Art
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Hand puppet sillouette to the song "What A wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.
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A Sand Art by Ilana Yahav - SandFantasy - "EMOTIONS"- created for the spiritual music composed by the famous musician Shlomo Gronich, who plays the ram's horn (shofar).
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This video can help you to see how children (around your age) are capable to act in a drama very well.
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This is a dance performance of a 10 year-old boy and an 11 year-old girl in a TV competition called "Live To Dance"
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A dance competition is also considered as performing arts.
Pre-AssessmentStudents bring certain artwork.
Respond to your artwork by answering these questions:
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7 Visual Elements of Art
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COLOR - Is an element of art with three properties:
1) Hue, the name of the color, e.g. red, yellow, etc.
2) Intensity or the purity and strength of the color such as bright ness or dullness.
3) Value, or the lightness or darkness of the color.
FORM - Is an element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses volume. Cubes, spheres,and cylinders are examples of various forms
1) Hue, the name of the color, e.g. red, yellow, etc.
2) Intensity or the purity and strength of the color such as bright ness or dullness.
3) Value, or the lightness or darkness of the color.
FORM - Is an element of art that is three-dimensional and encloses volume. Cubes, spheres,and cylinders are examples of various forms
LINE - Is an element of art which refers to the continuos mark made on some surface by a moving point. It may be two dimensional, like a pencil mark on a paper or it may be three dimensional(wire) or implied (the edge of a shape or form) often it is a outline,contour or silhouette.
SHAPE - Is an enclosed space defined by other elements of art. shapes may take on the appearance of two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects. |
SPACE - Refers to the distance or area between, around, above or within things. It can be a description for both 2 and 3 dimensional portrayals.
TEXTURE - Refers to the surface quality or "feel" of an object, such as roughness, smoothness, or softness. Actual texture can be felt while simulated textures are implied by the way the artist renders areas of the picture. VALUE - Describes the lightness or darkness of a color. Value is needed to express Volume. |
Taken from: http://carlmont.seq.org/~ca_art/Carlmonts_Visual_Arts_Dept_Homepage/Art_Wiki__Element_of_Visual_Arts.html
8 Principles of Design
Movement adds excitement to your work by showing action and directing the viewers eye throughout the picture plane. |
Rhythm is a type of movement in drawing and painting. It is seen in repeating of shapes and colors. Alternating lights and darks also give a sense of rhythm. |
Balance is a sense of stability in the body of work. Balance can be created by repeating same shapes and by creating a feeling of equal weight. |
Proportion or scale refers to the relationships of the size of objects in a body of work. Proportions gives a sense of size seen as a relationship of objects. such as smallness or largeness. |
VARIETY and UNITY are represented by the same example. Variety refers to the differences in the work, You can achieve variety by using difference shapes, textures, colors and values in your work. Unity is seen in a painting or drawing when all the parts equal a whole. Your work should not appear disjointed or confusing. Taken from: http://carlmont.seq.org/~ca_art/Carlmonts_Visual_Arts_Dept_Homepage/Art_Wiki__Principles_of_Design.html
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Elements of Literature
A writer appeals to our feelings, emotions through various elements of literature, such as plot, character, theme, etc.
Have you read "Robinson Crusoe" or Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations"? If yes, then you must know the taste of literature. Have you gone through Virginia Wolf's often quoted line: "Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,
a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end." This echoes the beauty hidden in literature.
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We can summarize literature in the words of Ezra Pound that' great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree'. Various types of literature such as story, novel and drama delight us through the elements of literature. In literature, theme is important to reveal the story. An author depicts the ups and downs of the protagonist with the help of characterization. The story progresses through various plots. There are prologues and epilogues in Shakespearean drama.
The Different Elements of Literature
Elements of literature denote the things that are used to make up a work. There are different types and forms of literature. They are novel, drama, poetry, biography, non-fictional prose, essay, epic and short story. All these types have some elements. To complete a piece, a writer, dramatist or a novelist needs to use certain elements like plot, character, theme, etc. However, elements of fiction and elements of drama differ from elements of poetry. These elements are discussed below:
Elements of literature denote the things that are used to make up a work. There are different types and forms of literature. They are novel, drama, poetry, biography, non-fictional prose, essay, epic and short story. All these types have some elements. To complete a piece, a writer, dramatist or a novelist needs to use certain elements like plot, character, theme, etc. However, elements of fiction and elements of drama differ from elements of poetry. These elements are discussed below:
Elements of Fiction and Drama
Plots of dramas are divided into "Acts" and "Scenes". Drama has five essential parts.
These are:
Character plays a pivotal role in a drama, novel, short story and all kinds of narratives. In drama, character reflects the personality of the protagonist and other related characters. The method of conveying information about characters in art is called characterization. Characters can be fictional or based on real, historical entities. It can be human, supernatural, mythical, divine, animal or personifications of an abstraction. There are round characters, flat characters, stereotypical stock characters, etc. In Marlowe's drama "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus", Faustus is the main character of the play. Setting refers to geographical location of the story, time period, daily lifestyle of the characters and climate of the story. In a novel, the setting plays an important role. In short stories, sometimes it plays an important role, while for others it is not. Settings of literary forms have been changing according to theme of the literary piece, for example, Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies have the setting of palaces, castles whereas modern and post-modern dramas have setting of houses of common people. There were supernatural elements in earlier literature and nowadays absurdity rules. Setting can take place in a house, school, castle, forest, hospital or anywhere that the writers want to extend their scenes. Theme is another prime element of literature, which contains the central idea of all literary forms such as a novel, drama and short story. It reflects innocence, experience, life, death, reality, fate, madness, sanity, love, society, individual, etc. Thus, it reflects the society as a whole, for example, the theme of Hardy's novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" reflects the role of fate in our life. Likewise, in a drama, theme represents the brief idea of the drama. Structure is another important element of a drama, novel or short story. In dramas, there are plots and subplots. These also are divided into acts and scenes. Here the contrasting subplots give the main plot an additional perspective. Likewise, novels have different chapters and scenes. Point of view is another element of the narrative, through which a writer tells the story. Authors use first-person point of view or third-person point of view. First-person point of view indicates that the main character is telling the story, whereas the third-person point of view directs that the narrator is telling the story. A novel can be written in the first-person narrative, third-person narrative, omniscient point of view, limited omniscient point of view, stream of consciousness and objective point of view. These points of view play an important role in the distinct structure of the story or a play. Conflict - Be it a short story, drama or novel, conflict is the essential element of all these literary forms. A plot becomes interesting and intriguing when it has its share of inbuilt conflict and twists. Conflict can be internal conflict or external. It can take place between two men, between the character and his psychology, between the character and circumstances or between character and society. Diction or use of language is another essential element of drama. A playwright exhibits the thoughts of characters through dialog. "Dialogue" has come from the Greek word "dialogosa" which means "conversation". Shakespeare used this to portray the thoughts, emotions and feelings of the character. This also provides clues to their background and personalities. Diction also helps in advancing the plot. Greek philosophers like Aristotle used dialogue as the best way to instruct their students. Foreshadowing is another important element of literature that is applied as hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story. It creates suspense and encourages the reader to go on and find out more about the event that is being foreshadowed. Foreshadowing is used to make a narrative more authentic. |
Elements of Poetry
Poetry is literature in a metrical form. However, free-verse became the popular style towards the modern and post modern age. Like fiction, it may not have plots, setting, etc, yet it has a structured method of writing. There are various kinds of poetry such as ballad, sonnet, etc. All these forms have some elements such as style, theme, rhyme, rhythm, metaphor, etc. that are described below: Style refers to the way the poem is written. Poems are written in various styles, such as free verse, ballad, sonnet, etc., which have different meters and number of stanzas. Symbol represents the idea and thought of the poem. It can be an object, person, situation or action. For example, a national flag is the symbol of that nation. Theme - Like other forms of literature, poetry has a theme of its own. Theme contains the message, point of view and idea of the poem. Imagery is another important element that a poet often uses in poems that appeal to our senses. In the age of modernism, T.S. Eliot used images of urban life in his poems. Wordsworth used nature as poetic images in his poems. Rhyme and Rhythm: Rhyme is an element that is often used in poetry. It's a recurrence of an accented sound or sounds in a piece of literature. Poets and lyricists use this device in various ways to rhyme within a verse. There is internal rhyme, cross rhyme, random rhyme and mixed rhyme. It gives the poem flow and rhythm. It contains the syllables in a poem. Every poem has a rhythm in it. It's about how the words resonate with each other, how the words flow when they are linked with one another in a poem. Meter - This is an important rhythmic structure of poetry. It is described as sequence of feet, each foot being a specific series of syllable types - such as stressed/unstressed and makes the poetry more melodious. Alliteration is another element used in poetry for the sound effect. It indicates two or more words with same repetition of initial letter, for example, "dressy daffodils". Here the sound of the letter 'd' is repeated. Simile is a figure of speech used for comparison in the poetry with the words 'like' or 'as', for example, "as black as coal". Metaphor is used in poetry to make an implicit comparison. Unlike simile, here the comparison is implied, for example, 'Her laughter, a babbling brook'. Onomatopoeia is one important element of poetry, which refers to words that sound like their meaning, for example, buzz, moo and paw. |
Element of literature includes all the elements that are essential to create a piece. These elements help a writer to create splendid poetry, superb drama and soul-touching novel. These elements are used to form the structure of a literary piece.
Taken from: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/elements-of-literature.html
Taken from: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/elements-of-literature.html
Formative #2
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Summative Task
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Unit Reflection
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