The Art Room: 01/23/13

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

First grade warhol flakes

First graders watched a youtube video about the colorwheel- www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGrGkJtSLsk
After discussing primary colors, secondary colors, warm colors, cool colors and complementary colors. We looked at some of Andy Warhol's "Pop Art". Pop art refers to popular culture. Warhol's artwork is infamous for its use of repetition and color. Using the primary colors for back ground colors and the secondary colors for snowflakes, we created our art. The rule was that each secondary colored snowflake had to be glued to its complementary primary color. We had a large color wheel projected on the wall as reference.

Kindergarten Winter Collage

Kindergarten artists read the book "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats. We read the book online using the website www.wegivebooks.org. It's a free site that requires an email address to register and then you have access to thousands of books online--for free! I like it because you can zoom in quite a bit and look at details of the artwork. After reading we talked about collage. Collage is a french word meaning "glue". Using construction paper and glue we created these paper collages of a street during a snow storm. We finished our collages with white paint for snow.

10 things learned in Art

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships.
Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.

9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

First grade warhol flakes

Kindergarten Winter Collage