The object I chose for this blog entry is Fred E. Conway's Mardi Gras Scene.
Inspiration Board
1. What big ideas does your MUMAA artwork contain?
The artwork that I chose contains the following big ideas: holiday, festival, celebration, costume, religion, and music.
2. How would you utilize the artwork in a "juicy" Tiger Artist lesson?
This artwork would be a great tool to be utilized in a Tiger Artist lesson because it is an exciting and colorful piece that shows one person's perspective of a specific holiday. Holidays are a big idea that all children can relate to because all families have their own traditions and holidays that are celebrated in special ways. This would be an opportunity for students to create a work of art that embodies what his or her favorite holiday may look like.
3. Referencing your reading in the Walker text, develop essential questions that your students could investigate.
-What is going on in this work of art?
-What do you think of when people talk about Mardi Gras?
-What colors do you see in this artwork?
-How is Mardi Gras being celebrated in this painting?
-How does your family celebrate your favorite holiday?
4. Develop key artistic concepts connected to the Big Idea contained in the work from which TA students could make meaning and build art-making knowledge.
Students can use inspiration from the shape, line, color, texture, and collage style of Mardi Gras Scene to create their own work of art representative of their favorite holiday.
As to your big idea of Multiple Intelligences you could look at different ways that ideas and meaning are understood and conveyed. You could look at visual, musical, body kinesthetic, patterns, verbal story telling etc.
ReplyDeleteWith celebrations like Mardi Gras, you would ask why celebrate Mardi gras? What is the cultural history? Why do we set up rituals that are supported by collectives? How is this an individual ritual? How sacrifice seen in various cultural celebrations. What does celebration look like?