We be will using a blog, (basically a web log) as a journal/portfolio for this course. I will be posting Journal entries for you to comment on as well as assignments and deadlines for projects. You will be creating your own blog to post your artwork, lesson ideas, and reflections.
For your first assignment is to read Chapter 1 and Chapter 14 in the text Emphasis Art.Please comment on Journal #1 due Friday September 7, 2012.
For your first assignment is to read Chapter 1 and Chapter 14 in the text Emphasis Art.Please comment on Journal #1 due Friday September 7, 2012.
Journal #1
What is your definition of art? What is Wachowiak and Clements' definition of art from Chapter 1?How does your past experience with art compare to the qualitative art program that the authors advocate in your text?
How does the Children's Learning and Creative Development discussed in Chapter 14 relate to your own childhood experiences in Art?
How does the Children's Learning and Creative Development discussed in Chapter 14 relate to your own childhood experiences in Art?
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Jennie Podoll
ReplyDeleteMy definition of art is anything that expresses emotions and feelings. Art can be anything from a painting to a dance to a song. These are all forms of art. Wachowiak and Clements' definition of art from Chapter 1 is something that distills the essence of an experience through expressive and discriminative choices. I don’t really remember any of my past experiences with art; I do remember never enjoying art because we were graded/judged on the quality of the work, which mine was never very good, not the effort or emotion put into the piece.
Chapter 14 talks about “The Eye” which is the ability to see and draw and object with accuracy in representation. Young children can be exposed to drawing the figure or still life; however, teachers must accept the efforts of those still employing their own fixed schema of how to represent something rather than attempting to capture its visual appearance. I feel if my teachers had this mindset I would have enjoyed art more as a young child. My teachers, from what I remember, were more concerned with a figure being drawn how they see it and not accepting my interpretation of the object.
Rachel Haug
ReplyDeleteI would say that my definition of art would be anything that allows people to express their creative instincts and allows them to show their emotions and what is happening around them. In Chapter 1 it gives the definition of art as something that is an international language that is universally accessible even to those with little knowledge of how it was used in a culture. I have always enjoyed art, and really enjoyed taking over the art room at my job and coming up with different fun projects for the little kids to do. I really remember taking art in middle school and learning about all the different materials. I really enjoyed painting and pottery.
In Chapter 14 it talks about "The Heart" which represents our cognitive and emotional knowledge. Art draws in on our emotions and feelings of our heart. I always feel what I am creating and usually enjoy it. I may not be the best at art, but do like being creative.
My definition of art is that it is an expression of emotion. I believe that art can be done through dance, drawing, painting, sculpting, song, poetry, or really anything that allows you to express their emotions. Based on my interpretation of the text book, the authors of this book believe that art is:
ReplyDelete-An international language and universally accessible
-A way to make or give meaning to different personal experiences
-An outlet to make an individual statement
-A way to employ and develop individual creativity
-A way to heighten an individuals awareness of the different qualities of the world around them
-A way to develop the skill of processing information of the world through the use of sight, sound, movement, and taste.
-Art "distills the essence of an experience through expressive and discriminative choices."
My experience in art differs from the program advocated in the book because I don't feel that my art teacher challenged us to really think about the process of creating art. I don't feel that I was ever encouraged to put any true emotion into any art projects. I remember just showing up to art and being told what we were going to make. Instead of my art being an expression an emotion of life event, it was just an attempt to reproduce the teachers example.
One specific idea of creative development that sparked my interest in the text was the constructivist approach. The constructivist approach focuses on challenging the student to discover answers themselves. It requires students to attempt to discover a solution rather than an answer. I find this approach to be an appealing one to employ in art class because I feel it gives children more creative freedom and an outlet to express themselves in new and challenging ways. I feel that this approach would have been more effective in the art program I had in my school.
Katelynn Lovrien
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ReplyDeleteKyla VanDenHemel
ReplyDeleteMy definition of art would be anything that has colors and lines or even just lines. They make not make an object but it could tell a story. In chapter 1, they define art as universal language that is important in every nation and culture. My art past is nowhere close to what the book talks about. In school, we did not have an art program so the only time we talked about it was in class for a brief time.
I would have to say that “the mind” is the closest development I have been around for art. I have not had much art experience. When I think of art, it is usually color just splattered on paper. I can draw stick people but that is as far as my drawing skills go. If I had to I could maybe make the color wheel but in my mind, art is no more than colors placed on paper.
In my opinion art is a form of expression that is unique to each individual. It is something that is undefinable because we each have our own take on what art is, and what it is not. As long as it means a great deal to the person who produced the painting, sculpture, pottery, ect, then it should be respected as art.
ReplyDeleteI took formal art classes in 5th and 11th grade at my schools back home. They were both pretty intensive courses where the teacher really did want you to put meaning behind whatever we were working on at that time. Chapter 14 talked about “The Hand” and how some young children require a longer time to develop hand eye coordination. Just looking back to the work I did as a 10 year old, and the work I did as a 16 year old there is a major difference.
Krystal Hughes
I think of art as any object (person, place, or thing!) that helps a person understand a perspective. Wachowiak and Clements describe art as a method for people to understand different cultures and time periods. Art uses a universal language in which anyone can express themselves.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly to the qualitative art program in our textbook, I remember there being an allotted time for art each week. I believe it was every Friday -- another reason to enjoy the last day of the week! In fourth through sixth grade, our math teacher was in charge of art, so most art projects had a mathematical dimension to them. She loved pointing out the math in each project, too, which shows that our projects consisted of peripheral activities. This focus also stunted our artistic growth because she was more interested in our mathematical growth instead of our artistic growth.
I think I went through similar creative developments as other children. My artistic development stalled in high school though when I took the only high school art class, which was filled with students who did drugs. I didn’t take art again. Other high school teachers incorporated art through drawing geographic maps and creating pinatas, but they critiqued work like parents -- everything was wonderful!
- Richard Schmit
Amber Couch
ReplyDeleteMy personal definition of art, is just about anything that is purposely placed or manipulated by a person, as a form of expressing what the artist is thinking or feeling at the time.
Wachowiak and Clements’ definition of art is that art is an international language, that is universally accessible even to those with little knowledge of how it was used in a culture. Art communicates without words; reflecting a time period and culture. Art is one of the main ways cultural identity is transmitted, maintained, and analyzed. Art is also a way of making the ordinary important and special; a way to commemorate a special event and make it memorable. Also, art is a way of personal communication and expression, a way to show or tell people without verbal (or often) written words.
My personal experience with art started before I went to school. My grandmother was an artist, and lived across the street, and I grew up watching her do multiple arts and crafts. As I watched her, she often set me up with a small portion of acrylic paint and canvas board. As I played with the colors, creating mud, she’d gently guide me in proper color mixing, and would give me pointers if she saw me struggling to copy her techniques. She often made crafts; such as wood ornaments, or sewing quilts or clothes for me. I was exposed to a lot, and as I got older, my interest never wavered, and I eventually became more accustom to water color on canvas. As I practiced, I became better and better, and learned a lot more as I attended painting classes with her, and watched Bob Ross.
As for the Children's Learning and Creative Development in ch.14, I can see that my artistic career does follow them. A lot of my earlier paintings in the schematic or symbol-making stage, were very much indeed incorporated more symbolic meaning than color arrangement. I used a schema of the same colors in them, and rarely changed them; but focused on the symbols instead. Also, as I entered the dawning realism, or the gang stag; I really did focus on trying desperately to make my drawings more realistic. I used it as a challenge to myself, to see if I could also become as good of an artist as my grandmother; though I focused on the human figure instead of landscapes or still life as she did. Though my siblings were raised the same way as I was, none of them decided to take up art as I did. They lost interest around the schematic stage, and were constantly comparing their skills to hers, and gave up. It’s very interesting to me to see that their ages of lost interest coincide with the stages in the book.