Collage Matisse

Collage: How can it be good?

Freeing, not drawing, not defeating, a good way to make lots of compositions, a good way to study design, lots of possibilities, lots and lots of layers, spare parts available. Good way to get things started…some students are going to be good a design and designing.Why is collage also a most difficult and a potentially disaster

Bricolage, French for "tinkering" is the construction a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available. This process, in literature and in art, is about shaping a text or the meaning of an image by reference to other texts or images, making meaning within  intertextuality...The collage is an apt metaphor for postmodern notions of art-making, drawing upon the semiotics of reusing and recasting signs and creating new referents and new meaning. In a photograph, we attempt to capture the ephemeral fleeting moments of life as it is lived

1. What are the characteristics of a good unit, lesson, curriculum?

A Quality Curriculum

has essential deep profound questions

is an ongoing investigation

has time for research, gathering, analyze, curate, making meaning, put things together, it has sequence

activities that build skills, perspective, understanding, possibilities toward an inspiring destination

fun

A pool of activities or mediums from which students can choose

embraces multiple viewpoints and divergent outcomes

Helps self discovery, inquiry,  identity construction

Evocative Questions

Allows for Divergent Outcomes

Allows for many topics to be explored

Allows for student interests

Adaptable

Allows some space

Balance Between Skills and Artistic Freedom

Interesting

Good scaffolding

It builds toward sustained investigation: a big project

Challenging, but not defeating

Good learning goals

Title for Collage Unit:Possible Title: Collage Design Obsession-Absence-the Bricolage-Stories-Making Sense-Absurdity-Steal Like an Artist-Ownership-Dreams

Rationale and Learning Goals

Not drawing

Allows a space for not so experienced in art students

Gain understanding of design principles

Provide opportunities for personal expression

Gain an appreciation art and artists who use collage

Evocative Questions

What is good design?

What role does sustainability have in art?

What is ownership?

How is collage art?

How does art reflect post-modern artistic practices?

Does art have to be original?

Romare Bearden meets Henri Mattisse 

What is good about making a Henri Matisse inspired collage?

Appreciate the artist, really see the artist

Gain skills in making shapes

Understanding the artist language he uses (working with a convention or against a convention)

To learn design principles through doing

Learning in a mentoring environments, like an apprentice

But note the divergence in art education theory: to be creative you need to not be tied down to adult models…or everyone learns by mimicking or making some kind of copy.

The imperfect copy.

Sara Anderson Collage

Hannah's Collage