Artists often use geometric shapes as a representation of the world that they see around them. This is often combined with primary and secondary colours to abstract more organic shapes and colours. Mondrian was an artist who took inspiration from Jazz music and the city around him. The lines and colours in this artwork entitled "Broadway Boogie- woogie" were his way of showing the syncopated beat in jazz music coupled with the grid pattern of a city.
To learn about this abstraction process, the students first completed Mondrian inspired cubes. The students were given the net of cube as a base for their artwork. They drew inspiration from Mondrian's artworks which they replicated using paper collage, sticking lines and squares over the net. This lesson could also be used for Mathematics looking at 2D and 3D shapes together. The resulting cubes were
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Mondrian's artwork is a good example of abstraction, which is not using shapes to be representational of images or figures but using art to represent ideas or concepts. To help students understand this process we watched a clip from the movie "Inside Out".
The movie clip shows how shape moves from being representational to abstract. After watching the video, the students were asked to brainstorm ideas about how they could interpret Piet Mondrian's artwork in their own artwork. They were asked to consider designs such as:
spider's web
an umbrella
a piece of clothing
a portrait
a name or their initials
The could use mediums such as collage, drawing or digital artwork which they could use to create their own interpretation.
The students completed this challenge with creativity and enjoyed having the freedom to use Mondrian's artwork as an interpretation. There were some creative results as can be seen from the artworks below:
Josh's digital Art
Sian's digital Art
Alexandra's Artwork
Michaela's clothing design
If this unit were to be repeated, I would look further at Mondrian's other artowrks and the development that he made as an artist.
The process of drawing inspiration from artist such as Mondrian has helped the students to understand the process of abstraction, while also using an understanding of two dimensional and three dimensional shapes.
What was something new that you learned about Mondrian or abstract art? What would you change about your Artwork? What was the most successful part of your artwork that you achieved? Why?
Words can have an impact when we use them in ways that create images and evoke emotions. Poetry is a way of writing that allows someone to communicate these images and emotions in a deeply personal way. They require creativity and thought about a subject, often using a limited amount of words to so.
Dorothea Mackellar is an Australian poet, who uses imagery in her poetry to great effect. They portray her love of her country by creating images of colour and ruggedness through a rich use of descriptive words. The most famous of her poems is called "My country", which the students then compared to another poem of hers called "Colours of the Light".
After completing the lessons on imagery from these poems, we came up with a definition and looked at the words that can evoke the 5 senses.
To start the process of using imagery in our own writing, we brainstormed ideas for poems. This helps the process of pre-writing. Getting ideas written down assists the students' …
Pop Art was an art movement in the 20th Century that features bright colours and strong contrasts in graphics. Andy Warhol was one of the key artists of the movement who became renowned for bright two-dimensional portraits of famous people. The portraits were often repeated a number of times
Making our own version of a Pop Art portrait turned out to be a lot of fun. Photos of each student were taken and uploaded to Google Photos. I made a folder for all the photos which Stage 3 were able to access. I then created an Assignment in Google Classroom.
Each Stage 3 student chose their own photo, which they downloaded to their picture files. The students then opened a Google doc and uploaded their photo to the document. They then cropped the photo so that it focused on the face of the student more. They then copied and pasted their photo into the document a number of times.
To recolour the photo, Stage 3 edited their photo using different filters, changing the brightness and contrast to m…
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The Burnt Stick is a book written with that intention. The story is about an aboriginal boy called John Jagamarra who was taken from his family when he was 5 years old. He was taken by the Welfare man to live with the Fathers at Pearl Bay Mission for Aboriginal Children, to learn the ways of the white man.
The students in Stage 3 have been learning about how to write a personal response to a story. Personal responses come in many forms but always need to have a summary of the story and a personal response or opinion about it.
The criteria for our personal response is:
The starting point for the writing was to brainstorm ideas about the feelings and thoughts about the story. What would it like to …
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