Artist: Mary Cassatt
- Portraiture: Printmaking
Artist: Rene Magritte
- Surreal Journey Postcards: Collage
Artist: Do Ho Suh
- Pop-Up Homes and Habitats: Mixed Media
Unit 2: Relationships Reflection
This unit's big idea was relationships. We studied Mary Cassat for our first studio who uses printmaking to reflect relationships in her art work. For our first studio, I liked how we had the opportunity to use printmaking in a variety of ways to portray different relationships. As you can see, I chose to focus this piece on my relationship with my dog. I used the stamps to print the quote "you'll never walk alone because I'll always be with you" around the picture of us two. I chose this quote to reflect our relationship because I feel like my dog loves me so much that he will never leave my side. I also burned the edges of the piece of paper to give the look a more old/antique feel.
For the second studio we studied Rene Margritte. I had a lot of fun with this studio because we had the opportunity to work with our other classmates to make the postcards! I thought it was most interesting to see how each student chose the picture that best suited the background of the postcard. Since we had the chance to work with our classmates, it gave us the opportunity to see the relationships we have with each other. According to Pink (2005), "Empathy is the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's position and to inuit what that person is feeling" (p.159). This studio allowed us to empathize with others by putting ourself in their position to help finish the postcard that they started. Bang (2000) states "I had read a lot and thought a lot about what went on in pictures, but largely things seemed to either 'work' or 'not work' for unrelated reasons" (pg. 42). This quote pertains to this studio because certain pictures worked very well together, while other pictures were harder to incorporate or fit into the background of the postcard. This studio would also be a great way to integrate art with geography. The student could locate where they are on a map and locate where they are sending their postcard to. That way, the lesson has both aspects of not only art, but geography as well!
We studied Do-Ho Suh who uses mixed media to create pop up homes and habitats for the third studio. I made a pop up home that closely resembled the house I grew up in when I lived in Denver, Colorado. I made a lot of wonderful memories in that house and it is definitely a place I hold near to my heart to this day. The word "home" can reflect relationships in many ways. When we think of home, we not only think of a familiar place, but a place where our friends and family are.
References:
Bang, M. (2000). Picture this: How pictures work. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books LLC.
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future. New York: Penguin Group.
For the second studio we studied Rene Margritte. I had a lot of fun with this studio because we had the opportunity to work with our other classmates to make the postcards! I thought it was most interesting to see how each student chose the picture that best suited the background of the postcard. Since we had the chance to work with our classmates, it gave us the opportunity to see the relationships we have with each other. According to Pink (2005), "Empathy is the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's position and to inuit what that person is feeling" (p.159). This studio allowed us to empathize with others by putting ourself in their position to help finish the postcard that they started. Bang (2000) states "I had read a lot and thought a lot about what went on in pictures, but largely things seemed to either 'work' or 'not work' for unrelated reasons" (pg. 42). This quote pertains to this studio because certain pictures worked very well together, while other pictures were harder to incorporate or fit into the background of the postcard. This studio would also be a great way to integrate art with geography. The student could locate where they are on a map and locate where they are sending their postcard to. That way, the lesson has both aspects of not only art, but geography as well!
We studied Do-Ho Suh who uses mixed media to create pop up homes and habitats for the third studio. I made a pop up home that closely resembled the house I grew up in when I lived in Denver, Colorado. I made a lot of wonderful memories in that house and it is definitely a place I hold near to my heart to this day. The word "home" can reflect relationships in many ways. When we think of home, we not only think of a familiar place, but a place where our friends and family are.
References:
Bang, M. (2000). Picture this: How pictures work. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books LLC.
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future. New York: Penguin Group.