Eighth grade art studio is a time to find out about yourself as an artist. Students are working on a year long slideshow that includes their work and their thoughts about what they like in other artwork. By examining their own work in a critical way and by looking at what they admire in works of others, in specific materials and in what artists have to say, they discover more about themselves as an artist.Most of the students have chosen to work in clay this term, although we also have life size drawings of sports figures, popcycle stick cities, murals, collages and drawing studies in progress as well.
Before beginning their art, each student must think carefully about why they want to make their work, answering questions such as:
What is the theme of your work?
How is it different than any other work you have done?
Why is this valuable for you to do?
Upon completion, students must do a self critique, considering the following questions:
Describe: Wht did you create? Did the project stay close to the original plan or did it eveolve into something else. What elements did you use in it and where?
Analyze: Is the composition good? What art elements and principles ae working the hardest in your piece to express your idea?
Interpret: What meaning does your project have for you? What do you want the viewer to see in it?
Judge: What parts of the project are most successful and why? Are there any parts that you wish you did differently? Explain.
2 comments:
That's awesome Tara. Thank you for sharing it. But I don't think we can share those kind of websites on a school site. We need to keep a bit more on topic with some kind of art subject...
Have you seen the cars all painted up as ads? That is a way some people make money, driving around an ad. When I look at them, I think, wouldn't it be fun to be the person painting those cars to look like ads. I'd love to paint a car, maybe all wild like a Van Gogh "Starry Night".
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