My Visual Reaction 7th grade

Agenda Group Discussion Brainstorming Paragraph Compositional Sketches (3 minimum) Refine Ideas Clean up Next Class

Challenge Create a work of art that expresses your reaction to an emotional experience you had.

Reaction & Emotion ?

Reaction: (n) The way someone acts or feel in response to something that happens, is said, etc. Emotion: (n) A strong feeling (such as love, anger, joy, hate, or fear.

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist 1904 http://www.pablopicasso.org/old-guitarist.jsp

Kathe Kollwitz The Survivors 1923 http://www.wikiart.org/en/kathe-kollwitz/not_detected_235978

Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953 Francis Bacon Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/great-works-study-after-vel-zquezs-portrait-of-pope-innocent-x-1953-153cm-x-1181cm-by-francis-bacon-8688702.html

Frank Auerbach Head of E.O.W 1956 https://gerryco23.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/frank-auerbach-head-of-e-o-w-charcoal-on-paper-1956.jpg

Jean-Michel Basquiat Scull 1981 http://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-michel-basquiat/head?utm_source=returned&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=referral

Shepard Fairey Power and Equality n.d. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/0c/85/db/0c85db602c8702d908a84aab399abca8.jpg

How To Get Started Challenge - Create a work of art that expresses their reaction to an emotional experience of choice. Step 1 – Think and pick an emotional experience you’ve had and try to remember your reaction to it. Step 2 – Reflect and write a paragraph describing that emotional experience and how you reacted. How would you depict it? Step 3 - Create at least 3 compositional sketches that depict your reaction to an emotional experience

Format Portrait Landscape

Questions to ask yourself How much of the composition does my subject want to take up? What color(s) will best depict the mood of my reaction of the emotional experience? What kind of mark making will enhance the depiction of my reaction to the emotional experience?

Agenda – Session 2 Review objectives Finish 3 sketches Group Critique to pick best composition Studio Time Clean up Next Class

How To Get Started Challenge - Create a work of art that expresses their reaction to an emotional experience of choice. Step 1 – Complete 3 compositional sketches Step 2 – Participate in group critique to help pick best composition that depicts the chosen emotional experience Step 3 - Work Step 4 – Continue working

Agenda – Session 3 Individualized critique Studio Time Clean up Next Class

How To Get Started Challenge - Create a work of art that expresses their reaction to an emotional experience of choice. Step 1 – Work on final artwork Step 2 – Prepare any questions/concerns by the time I come by Step 3 – Check to see if image matches your written paragraph from session 1

Agenda – Session 4 Final Edits PQP at your table Reflect/Review Clean up Next Lesson

How To Get Started Challenge - Create a work of art that expresses their reaction to an emotional experience of choice. Step 1 – Make any final edits Step 2 – PQP at your table Step 3 – Reflect/Review as a class Step 4 – Hand in work

Criteria Written paragraph of emotional experience and how you wish to depict your reaction Compositional sketches (3 minimum) Final piece depicts written paragraph PQP Group Critique participation