1. My Visual Reaction
7th grade

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

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

4. Reaction & Emotion ?

5. 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.

6. Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist 1904

7. Kathe Kollwitz The Survivors 1923

8. Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1953
Francis Bacon
Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X
1953

9. Frank Auerbach Head of E.O.W 1956

10. Jean-Michel Basquiat Scull 1981

11. Shepard Fairey Power and Equality n.d.

13. 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

14. Format
Portrait
Landscape

16. 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?

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

18. 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

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

20. 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

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

22. 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

23. 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