Friday, 10/4 Objective: In what ways do humans adorn their bodies? How is the way we perceive a person affected by their physical appearance and adornment choices? Goal: Create two different personas out of the same picture that explore the relationship between body adornment choices and how they are perceived by others. Copy the following notes: Adornment: something that adds attractiveness; an ornament; accessory; embellishment. Something that decorates, or beautifies.
Assignment Overview Explore the way humans adorn their bodies and the messages that our choices convey. Take pictures of upper body/faces to be used as canvases for adorning. Enlarge images using a grid and drawing. Learn how to shade with charcoal. Learn how to shade in color. Add layers of adornment that change the way we perceive the person with each layer.
To Do Spend five minutes taking turns with the people at your table to discuss different ways in which humans decorate their bodies. Categorize them into permanent and temporary.
Body Adornment TemporaryPermanent
Make Up
Hair
Jewelry
Tattoos
Piercings
Scarification
Think about the question: How is the way we perceive a person affected by their physical appearance and adornment choices? Explore this idea visually: In a spread in your journal: -Create a background (watercolor, gesso, collage etc.) -Choose one of the copied images to work with and take two copies of the same image. -Note your thoughts about the person represented in the picture. What do you think they are like? What conclusions have you drawn about them based on their appearance? -Cut around the image. -Alter each image by cutting, drawing over, collaging over or otherwise experimenting with it so that you are adorning each figure in two different ways. -Glue one image on each page of the spread. -Compare the two. -How has your perception of the person represented changed?
Exit Ticket In what ways do humans adorn their bodies?
Friday, 10/4 Objective: What has caused the need in humans to decorate their bodies since ancient times? How do symbols function as a language with which to communicate a message within a culture? Goal: Create two different personas out of the same picture that explore the relationship between body adornment choices and how they are perceived by others. Drill 1.List three temporary ways that humans use to decorate their bodies. 2.List three permanent ways that humans use to decorate their bodies. 3.Explain what you had to do yesterday in your journal.
Notes Symbol: A color, shape, image or subject representing a meaning to a culture or group of people other than its actual appearance.
What has caused the need in humans to decorate their bodies since ancient times?
How do symbols function as a language with which to communicate a message within a culture?
Think about the question: How is the way we perceive a person affected by their physical appearance and adornment choices? How does symbolism and being on the inside or outside of the person’s culture affect our perception? Explore this idea visually: In a spread in your journal: -Create a background (watercolor, gesso, collage etc.) -Choose one of the copied images to work with and take two copies of the same image. -Note your thoughts about the person represented in the picture. What do you think they are like? What conclusions have you drawn about them based on their appearance? -Cut around the image. -Alter each image by cutting, drawing over, collaging over or otherwise experimenting with it so that you are adorning each figure in two different ways. -Glue one image on each page of the spread. -Compare the two. -How has your perception of the person represented changed?
Exit Ticket What has caused the need in humans to decorate their bodies since ancient times?