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.
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
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| 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 |
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| Title for Collage Unit:Possible Title: Collage Design Obsession-Absence-the Bricolage-Stories-Making Sense-Absurdity-Steal Like an Artist-Ownership-Dreams |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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| Sara Anderson Collage |
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| Hannah's Collage |
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