Analyze the ways in which color influences the mood, emotion, and interpretation of a work of art.
Write about their personal experiences, changes, challenges, and accomplishments throughout the previous school year and establish goals for the next year and beyond.
Learn about alternative book forms such as Boustrophedon, and discuss how a narrative can shift when presented outside of a linear format, as the “snake book” form is more of a continuous spiral. How does a narrative shift if the viewer begins at the end or middle of a narrative?
Create mixed-media, collaged portraits that focus on student’s recent experiences and the near future (next school year or beyond) to create a unique sculptural book form that conceptually merges their past, present, and future selves.
5.V.1 Use the language of visual arts to communicate effectively.
5.V.2 Apply creative and critical thinking skills to artistic expression.
5.V.3 Create art using a variety of tools, media, and processes, safely and appropriately.
5.W.5.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
5.W.5.3.B Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
● Engage in VTS of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Portrait of Emy, 1919, Oil on Canvas
● Discuss the following questions as a class:
○ What do we know about the subject, Emy, based on her portrait? What emotions do you think Emy is expressing?
○ How does Schmidt-Rottluff use color to influence or subvert how we interpret Emy’s character?
○ How has Schmidt-Rottluff abstracted (exaggerated or simplified) the facial features in Emy’s portrait?
● Participate in a writing exercise using the following relevant guiding questions and writing prompts:
○ Based on the discussion regarding observed emotions connecting to the color and expression used in Portrait of Emy, have students identify one emotion that they connect with (optimistic color palette (OPTIMISM), etc).
○ Have students engage in 10-minute reflective writing exercise inspired by their selected emotion.
○ Ask students to partner with a classmate and share their reflections. Ask students to revise and edit their their reflective narrative based on their peer editing.
● View and experience examples of the Boustrophedon form. Explore the history of the Boustrophedon or “ox-turn” form, and look at examples of Ancient Greek boustrophedon inscription.
● Transcribe their revised reflection, based on an emotion illuminated from Portrait of Emy in the ox-turn style, or snake like form. This allows for students to experience their narrative in an alternative and surprising manner. Students will fill the entire sheet with text at varying scales and fonts if they choose. The text will serve as the unifying background for their portrait.
● Select and combine colors and shape that reinforce the overarching narrative and mood in their artwork.
● Create a collaged self-portrait reflecting the changes in the last school year, focusing on color and shape abstraction.
● Using the same process as above on the reverse side of the collage, create an additional portrait focusing on the future (next school year or beyond). Student writing responses should focus on goals, hopes, transitions and change.
● Offer and accept respectful, specific, feedback to and from fellow artists
● After both portraits are complete, fold and cut the Boustrophedon form. Discuss how visual narrative shifts when viewing the work in an alternative point of view
● Exhibit the sculptural books as a class.
● Observation of student dialogue during class discussion of focus art works
● Observe student engagement during art production stage
● Mid-project peer feedback session
● Student self-assessment (using rubric given to student at beginning of lesson)
● Teacher assessment (using rubric given to students at beginning of lesson)
symbolism, portraiture, abstraction, geometric, organic, collage, Boustrophedon, book arts, chance, reflection, identity, font, scale, perception, sculpture, technolog
18” x 24” (or smaller) heavy drawing or watercolor paper, color paper and materials for collage, markers, crayons, water activated watercolor crayons, glue stick/glue, scissors.
Websites:
Information on Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Portrait of Emy: http://artnc.org/works-of-art/portrait-emy
General Information on Boustrophedon writing forms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
Information on making the Boustrophedon or “snake book” form: http://makinghandmadebooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/lessons-from-snake-book.html
Symbolism of Color: http://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/middle/color2.htm
Artists who have challenged popular uses and assumptions of color: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/colorchart/flashsite/
Contemporary Artists that investigate identity and cross-cultural influences:
● Jiha Moon: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aima/hd_aima.htm
● Ellen Ghallagher: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ellen-gallagher
● Kerry James Marshall: http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-kerry-james-marshall-in-identity
Books:
Golden, Alisa. Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms. Lark Crafts, 2011 [ISBN: 1600595871]
Community:
The Scrap Exchange: A creative Reuse Center. 2050 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham, NC 27707. http://scrapexchange.org
