Artist: Mary Cassatt
- Studio
Artist: Rene Magritte
- Studio
Artist: Do Ho Suh
- Studio
Unit 2: Relationsnhips Reflection
Before starting Unit 2, I was predicting that this studio would be about relationships with other people. When I thought of relationships, I thought of communication between 2 people or a group of people. After doing this unit, my understanding of relationships has been stretched in include relationships/connections with the environment around you as well.
The studio based off of Mary Cassatt's artwork was really meaningful to me. Printmaking is something that I really want to continue working on because I love when words and pictures come together to mean something special. I used a very dear picture of mine that included my late father, who passed away a year ago and my sister and me at the beach. This picture brings back so many great memories and I picked the quote, "You never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory" because it hits the nail on the head. This quote is also relatable to everyone. Memories are so important with relationships and remembering and honoring my dad is also important to me. This would be a good way to get students to open up with their feelings and a good way for the teacher to see what is on the students' hearts.There are many struggles that our students will face outside the classroom and it is important for us, as teacher to acknowledge these and understand what they are going through outside the classroom. As Johnson (2008) describes "a picture may be worth a thosand words, but these words can remain unsaid or misunderstood when adults do not attend to their development" (p. 79).
In the next studio we also studied relationships, but a lot differently from the first studio. This time, it was up to my classmates to collage different pictures together based off of the relationships. After then getting my two postcards back, I had to make connections between the different pictures and colors and write a letter on the opposite side explaining why they all connect to form relationships. This was a really fun experience and although my art did not turn out the way I would have liked it to look, it was neat trying to pinpoint different ideas and connections between pictures and ideas and then explain on the other side. I also liked how the studio incorporated literacy by writing a letter explaining our thinking. Not only did we get to practice writing, but we really analyzed our postcards and that shows higher-order thinking.
The last studio, based off of Do Ho Suh's artwork was a really difficult studio for me. My childhood home is about to be sold and I was very emotional while Amber explained this studio to the class. Instead of focusing on a house that would no longer be my family's, I decided to focus on a place that I would be for eternity. I decided to depict Heaven as my studio. As Nuovo states in Pink's book (2005), "Design in its simplest form is the activity of creating solutions. Design is something that everyone does every day" I really took off once I created a solution to the fact that I didn't have a "home example" to use (p. 75). Once I found a solution, I really took off with the idea to make ti the best I could. Using Heaven as my studio really provided my with hope and strength during a really difficult time so I was extremely proud of my artwork when I was done with the piece. I used scripture and my hopeful picture to come up with a sliver of an idea of what Heaven will look like. I then found a verse that gave me hope and incorporated that into my artwork.
Overall, the relationships unit was eye-opening. It made me really think of all the diverse relationships and connections I have in my life with others, things and the environment around me.
References:
Johnson, M. H. (2008). Developing verbal and visual literacy through experiences in the visual arts. Young Children,
63(1), 74-79.
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind. New York: Riverhead Books.
Before starting Unit 2, I was predicting that this studio would be about relationships with other people. When I thought of relationships, I thought of communication between 2 people or a group of people. After doing this unit, my understanding of relationships has been stretched in include relationships/connections with the environment around you as well.
The studio based off of Mary Cassatt's artwork was really meaningful to me. Printmaking is something that I really want to continue working on because I love when words and pictures come together to mean something special. I used a very dear picture of mine that included my late father, who passed away a year ago and my sister and me at the beach. This picture brings back so many great memories and I picked the quote, "You never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory" because it hits the nail on the head. This quote is also relatable to everyone. Memories are so important with relationships and remembering and honoring my dad is also important to me. This would be a good way to get students to open up with their feelings and a good way for the teacher to see what is on the students' hearts.There are many struggles that our students will face outside the classroom and it is important for us, as teacher to acknowledge these and understand what they are going through outside the classroom. As Johnson (2008) describes "a picture may be worth a thosand words, but these words can remain unsaid or misunderstood when adults do not attend to their development" (p. 79).
In the next studio we also studied relationships, but a lot differently from the first studio. This time, it was up to my classmates to collage different pictures together based off of the relationships. After then getting my two postcards back, I had to make connections between the different pictures and colors and write a letter on the opposite side explaining why they all connect to form relationships. This was a really fun experience and although my art did not turn out the way I would have liked it to look, it was neat trying to pinpoint different ideas and connections between pictures and ideas and then explain on the other side. I also liked how the studio incorporated literacy by writing a letter explaining our thinking. Not only did we get to practice writing, but we really analyzed our postcards and that shows higher-order thinking.
The last studio, based off of Do Ho Suh's artwork was a really difficult studio for me. My childhood home is about to be sold and I was very emotional while Amber explained this studio to the class. Instead of focusing on a house that would no longer be my family's, I decided to focus on a place that I would be for eternity. I decided to depict Heaven as my studio. As Nuovo states in Pink's book (2005), "Design in its simplest form is the activity of creating solutions. Design is something that everyone does every day" I really took off once I created a solution to the fact that I didn't have a "home example" to use (p. 75). Once I found a solution, I really took off with the idea to make ti the best I could. Using Heaven as my studio really provided my with hope and strength during a really difficult time so I was extremely proud of my artwork when I was done with the piece. I used scripture and my hopeful picture to come up with a sliver of an idea of what Heaven will look like. I then found a verse that gave me hope and incorporated that into my artwork.
Overall, the relationships unit was eye-opening. It made me really think of all the diverse relationships and connections I have in my life with others, things and the environment around me.
References:
Johnson, M. H. (2008). Developing verbal and visual literacy through experiences in the visual arts. Young Children,
63(1), 74-79.
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind. New York: Riverhead Books.