After studying various artists and styles I would have the students decide which one they like the best. After choosing their top two I would want them to combine them and make it their very own. Perhaps some students will like Monet and the meaning behind the impressionist movement. But perhaps they do like Jackson Polluck's style; by combing these two movements the students can come up with something very unique and something they can claim as their own!
To make your own Jackson Polluck, simply take varying shades of colors and random utensils (Paint sticks, screwdrivers and the like). Polluck's original artworks were very large but you can accomodate the size to your needs.
since kids are more prone to copy what is put in front of them as opposed to adults, i think it may be a little difficult to get this point across. a way I might try to get students to realize the difference between imitation and their own ideas is to, one week, tell them to draw a certain figure. then the next week (so they can possibly forget about what they had drawn the week before) show pictures of the figure they drew, and then ask them to draw that figure again. then compare both of the pictures they drew. see if kids changed their pictures at all or not, and have a discussion about why they did or didn't. was it because they were trying to imitate the pictures they had already seen? be sure to use the same wording when talking about the figure to draw both times!
ReplyDeleteChildren are prone to copy other artists when they are younger! It will be hard for them to create their own artwork without having a copy to look at first. I would pick random artists that I have learned about or heard about and have the kids copy their work. I want them to have their own imagination and to come up with their own ideas but to start them off I would show them a piece of artwork from Picasso that I really like and I would have them imitate his work. The next couple times of doing this I would give them different ideas to draw. I don't want to get them stuck on only imitating someone else's work! It would be fun to do an activity where we made something like the pizza thing we ate in class! I know the kids would remember doing that and why we did it!
ReplyDeleteI would use this theory to lead a discussion with my students to teach them that it is okay to take inspiration from other people. Its good for us to share ideas with each other and try things that others have done. I would discuss the difference between being inspired by others ideas and techniques and just copying their work. I would show the class artists like Alexandra Nechita and discuss how her technique is very similar to Picasso's but she has made it her own. Hopefully through showing many different kinds of examples each student could find something that they like and connect with that they could try and imitate. After imitating for a little bit, we would move on to trying to take elements of the artists they have chosen and create pieces that have a personalized twist to them
ReplyDeleteWhen using this lesson in my own classroom I would for sure use her as an example and compare her to the regular Picasso. I would then use this theory to do an art project. Something fun would be to have the children bring in a favorite painting, picture, sculpture, or anything, and have them do an art project based on what they like from what they brought in.
ReplyDeleteTo adapt your lesson into my classroom I would collect a very wide variety of paintings. I would have all sorts of different types to try and find a painting that each student will have the opportunity to relate to. I would then have them pick their favorite painting and try to imitate it. I think it is awesome that you brough Alexandra Nechita into this lesson because I think it is a great way to show children that they can create art at a young age.
ReplyDeleteI really love the principle behind this theory that new artwork and creativity often comes through immitating, then assimilating, and THEN innovating! I would have to agree with everyone else's posts. If i were to teach this theory in my classroom, I would have them immitate a drawing but I would love it if they could think about it in their head before. For example, most kids have at least seen the Mona Lisa, but not all of them know exactly what it looks like off the top of their heads. It would be interesting to have the kids immitate a drawing of the Mona Lisa from memory first and then later have them do it again with a copy of the painting in front of them and compare the results. I do not really know what we would teach from that but maybe something science related about our visual memories and how we look at things and what we remember?
ReplyDeleteI was also thinking it would be cool to apply the principle of this theory (immitate, assimilate, innovate) into more ciriculum. We could use what we are studying in history and look at what societies or peoples in history used this approach. For example, the foundation of our country being taken from the principles that ancient Greece and Rome were built upon. It would be a cool project to have a class notice these similarities and maybe draw a picture of life in Greece and life now and accentuate the similarities. Great lesson girls!