Directing your own ideas:

We are at a point of the year, when you get to direct your own learning. particularly in relation to upcoming PBL.

Last week you were asked to come up with a brainstorm on "what do you care about?"

It is a crazy, broad, open question...

Artists always have a message. Sometimes the message is boring to you, but to someone else. sometimes it is too intense for you, but not for someone else. sometimes you just like it or you don't.

Art is like having a conversation with your own head. You think, you discuss, you answer back, you agree or disagree or slightly one or the other. You can be moved by Art, but you don't need to tell anyone why, so it's a private conversation.

It is a very brave thing for an artist to put their side of the conversation out there for you to be with. you wont necessarily 'get' it all. That is ok, the artist will never get your response, unless you directly go and tell them!

 We start with the WHY.

Why do you want to make Art?

Painters in 9mn

Paint technique:

End of Woodcut Printmaking

Expectations are:

3 good copy prints of your block
2 pages of planning/thinking
3 research posts on artists you were influenced by from within the German Expressionist movement
ALL your work documented on your blog.

A great example is:



Click on the picture to take you to all of Scarlett's Art posts (because she used her labels effectively).

Week 3 Term 3

Stuff you should know that we went over today:

Stylisation. You all should have chosen one of these four styles as your MAIN style to know

1) Kowhaiwhai (printmaking)
2) Art Nouveau (printmaking)
3) Manga (painting)
4) Pasifika (painting)


Further reading:
https://literacynz.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/teaching-maori-art-to-children/
https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/maori-art
http://www.designishistory.com/1850/art-nouveau/

Week Three Term Three

Where you are at is where you can find what you should have done and what we are working on.

Today was cut short by assembly, with a 15 minute class and not much time to get things sorted. Friday, we will be cutting up your custom wood to work on and drafting up your prints.




By the end of Friday success means:
- You have all of your book work done and documented on your blog
- You have completed a reflection blog post
- You have drafted your final idea onto wood that you have helped to cut up... :-)

Term three week one

Choices:

This first week is about getting to know 4 different movements of Art from a visual point of view. That means, you look at them and you can see what of the four movements of art they belong to.

We are also wanting to see some drawing from you, with an emphasis on looking after your page and setting it out nicely.

Eventually, you are going to decide which of these 4 movements of Art you will use as a focus. each one comes with a contrasting movement that you will then be directed to use (one choice, one given).

Why we are making art? To demonstrate your understanding of at least one of the school values - Commitment, Achievement, Resilience, Respect.

Keep this in your mind for week 2 as well. Which school value are you going to focus on?

Below is a sample of amazing sketch book pages. have a look, and consider what it is you are doing with your page.

Success criteria for making your design work:

9 BR recap

Stylisation

• Art Nouveau

• Kowhaiwhai

• Beatriz Milhazes

You should have a beautiful research page done and in your folders that I can check off.

There are things you should be noticing about both art movements and the artist chosen;

• forms are simplified, curves are amplified. 
• geometry, pattern and repetition all strongly feature in all 3
• there is no real use of three-dimensional space in any of these

Specific to each; Kowhaiwhai

- regulated circular curves

- principles of mathematics are employed exactlingly; rotation, scale, reflection, repetition, pattern

- the pattern, scale and proximity of the forms help to convey a story, whakapapa, or even emotion

Specific to Art Nouveau

- dominant tell-tale form is called a whiplash

- all derived from plant forms

- detail is more important than kowhaiwhai

Specific to Beatriz Milhazes

- patterns and forms are over-layed

- intersecting forms are a strong feature

- colour and layers of colour/texture are a feature

- composition is tightly balanced and intense