CLASS NOTES

Date

Important notes

September 14, 2015

1. Stay in motion, surface
changes and purposes
2. process of becoming
3. themes and prompts,
guiding questions
review: seeing potential and
invisible implementations,
every details matters

Terms

Gesso
Didactic
installation: make each
student take something home

Banking education:
- no teacher-student
relationship
- info only transmitted
- invisible implication:
memorize, repeat,
PASSIVE
Problem-posing education:
-teacher-student relationship
-communication is key
-imagination. discovery,
solutions
-invisible implication:ACTIVE

September 21, 2015

why is art education

important for human
development?
It allows children to think
critically and develop their
identity
-the starting point for les is
theme and guiding question
how can andy Goldsworthy be
used in the class:
- art based on process not
product: he takes time to
make sculptures and art in
nature
- how to make art with no
glue-material

-seeing potential; invisible

implications, every detail
matters
-stay in motion: surfaces and
purposes
-themes and prompts
-theme: prompt, guiding
questions.

Date

Important notes

Terms

September 21, 2015

6 Principles of design:
balance, repetition,
movement/rhythm,
emphasis, unity, variety

6 Principles of design:

balance

repetition

movement/rhythm

emphasis

unity

variety

Why are the elements

and principles of
design important?

- In the curriculum

- They are the

guidelines for
creation art

- They help us pay

attention to the real
world: can be found
all around us

- if we don't

understand how they

work, we wont be
able to notice it in
real life, create it.

it is a language
important for us to
understand

technique: ways to use

a pencil

skill: how well you can

do something