Unit 2: Relationships
Artist: Mary Cassatt
- Portraiture: Printmaking
Artist: Rene Magritte
- Surreal Journey Postcards: Collage
Artist: Do Ho Suh
- Pop-Up Homes and Habitats: Mixed Media
Unit 2: Relationships Reflection
I really was able to connect with the studios from the relationship unit. It really made you take a step back and think about different relationships that you have with people or things that you may usually overlook. I think that Elliot Eisner makes a good point when he says, “unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail” (p. 3 2002). I feel this goes along with relationships because there may not always be a correct reason why or why not a relationship might be created, a lot of times something just happens. I really liked the printmaking studio from this unit. It was really open ended and there were so many different relationships that you could portray or represent in so many different ways. As Eisner says, “it is imagination, not necessity, that is the mother of invention” (p. 7, 2009). Giving students time to think on an broad idea such as relationships allows room for imagination and not having to follow a list of rules. I also liked the post cards we made. I thought it was really cool how we actually created the basis of our story based on clippings that others had cut out for us. It was fun to get to create your own story or adventure based on the random pictures on your postcard.
I think that there would be plenty of appropriate times to incorporate a studio from this unit in my own classroom. Going the postcard route, I could see us doing a process like this but in the opposite direction. I see us creating a story about a person, place or thing and then having to find clippings from magazines to represent what we have written. Of course, they could be literal representations or not. I also think that children would really like the pop out studio that we did. It adds the three dimensional aspect that a lot of art that we do in the classroom doesn’t have.
References:
Eisner, E. W. (2002). The arts and the creation of mind. New Haven: Yale University.
Eisner, E. W. (2009). What education can learn from the arts. Arts Education, 62(2), 22-25.
I think that there would be plenty of appropriate times to incorporate a studio from this unit in my own classroom. Going the postcard route, I could see us doing a process like this but in the opposite direction. I see us creating a story about a person, place or thing and then having to find clippings from magazines to represent what we have written. Of course, they could be literal representations or not. I also think that children would really like the pop out studio that we did. It adds the three dimensional aspect that a lot of art that we do in the classroom doesn’t have.
References:
Eisner, E. W. (2002). The arts and the creation of mind. New Haven: Yale University.
Eisner, E. W. (2009). What education can learn from the arts. Arts Education, 62(2), 22-25.