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Build Your Reality
Build Your Reality
Yayoi Kusama
Studio Investigation:
Build Your Reality
(6th grade)
VIEWS OF REALITY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZR3nsiIeA (7:24)
https://www.facebook.com/JungleFourNine/videos/vb.251962071804061/654791314693555/?
type=2&theater (1:30)
About Kusama
- Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama's life is a poignant testament to the healing power of art as well as a study in human resilience. Plagued
by mental illness as a child, and thoroughly abused by a callous mother, the young artist persevered by using her
hallucinations and personal obsessions as fodder for prolific artistic output in various disciplines. This has informed a
lifelong commitment to creativity at all costs despite the artist's birth into a traditional, female-effacing Japanese culture
and her career's coming of age in the male dominated New York art scene. Today, Kusama reigns as one of the most
unique and famous contemporary female artists, operating from her self-imposed home in a mental hospital.
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kusama-yayoi.htm
Yayoi Kusama
Lesson Overview:
Students will explore their
understanding of reality and related
concepts. They will build a 3D shape
using a net and use various mediums
to create a unique and personal
representation of their view of reality
OBJECTIVES: Build Your Reality
! Reality: the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to
an idealistic or notional idea of them.
! Perception: the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through
the senses.
! Choice-based: students are regarded as artists and direct their own learning
by coming up with their own art problems to solve.
! Octahedron: a three-dimensional shape having eight plane faces, especially
a regular solid figure with eight equal triangular faces.
! Dodecahedron: a three-dimensional shape having twelve plane faces, in
particular a regular solid figure with twelve equal pentagonal faces.
! Scissors
Supplies ! Q-tips
! Paper
! Pipe cleaners
! Glue/ Glue sticks
! Glue guns
! Sparkles, glitter
! Templates
! Jewels, decorations
! String ! Confetti
! Yarn ! Clear scotch tape
! Wire ! Colored masking tape
! Sharpies ! Markers
! Found ! Colored pencils
objects ! Paint
! Cardstock
3D Origami
Instructions:
http://www.greatlittleminds.com/pages/maths/3d-nets/3d-nets-octahedron.html
Studio Investigation