Super Identity- Part One!
Lesson Description:
Students will be exploring their identities through creating a collage self-portrait using images or personal drawings as symbols to represent aspects of themselves. We will be introducing elements of a collage like exaggeration, placement, and color so that the students can use them to better express their story. Students will also be introduced to representational and abstract self-portraits created by contemporary artists. Throughout the next few classes, students will further explore the different aspects about themselves they picked and transform that into a super power.
Essential Understanding:
Learning Target:
Students will create a collage using symbols to create meaning and be able to discuss the intent.
Key Concepts:
Characteristics and expressive features
Intent and Purpose
Identity
Narrative or story
Symbols
Skills:
Explaining and interpreting artistic choices; Planning for art making
Art Focus/Techniques:
Literary Focus:
Lesson Description:
Students will be exploring their identities through creating a collage self-portrait using images or personal drawings as symbols to represent aspects of themselves. We will be introducing elements of a collage like exaggeration, placement, and color so that the students can use them to better express their story. Students will also be introduced to representational and abstract self-portraits created by contemporary artists. Throughout the next few classes, students will further explore the different aspects about themselves they picked and transform that into a super power.
- Lesson plan is attached below
- presentation is attached below
Essential Understanding:
- Expressive features of art can communicate the intent and purpose of an artwork.
- An artist's identity can influence the visual narrative or story expressed in artwork.
- Symbols create meaning using the characteristics and expressive features of art.
Learning Target:
Students will create a collage using symbols to create meaning and be able to discuss the intent.
Key Concepts:
Characteristics and expressive features
Intent and Purpose
Identity
Narrative or story
Symbols
Skills:
Explaining and interpreting artistic choices; Planning for art making
Art Focus/Techniques:
- Collage
- Ideation
- Investigating composition
Literary Focus:
- R.A.F.T.
- Students will share their artwork and explain to fellow students the meaning behind the images used to express themselves.
- New vocabulary word
Documentation:
During the creation process Bronson made connections to his identity with the images he chose to include in his self-portrait collage. He described choosing images of interesting sea creates because he liked to discover new animals. |
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Students collaborated together to outline each other silhouette so that they could attach the silhouette to their collage to make it more personal to themselves.
Niyah chose to label the things she was adding to her collage so that people could see how these images related to her identity.
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While brainstorming things about himself, Noah used the collage technique, exaggeration, to show that he likes squirrels because the squirrel was larger than the tree. |
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