Lending One's Life to Art: What to Say?
Lending life to the arts
SERIOUS PLAY
- Learning from objects and museums
- Learn to dialogue with objects and culture comes from practice
- A vernacular that open them to the works of others
What kinds of questions might adults, children, and adolescents ask of works of art?
- Ask works of art questions and it will respond.
- Is it an specific body?
- What is it made out of?
- What is the woman holding?
- How old are you? Where?
- Facial features?
- How were you made?
- Where do you reside now?
- Where was the original location?
- What kind of culture?
- Who made you?
- Why didn't the artist finish it?
- Why is the person shaped that way?
- Is it really a person?
- Is the person sitting down?
- How big is this object?
- Why is it broken, how did they put it back together?
- Where are his clothes?
- What is behind him?
- What is he doing?
- Did he really look like that?
- What is he holding?
- How old is he?
- Prep kids before seeing naked people
- Do I look okay? Am I alright? Am I supposed to look like that?
- STORY TELLING
- What happened to the person lying down?
- Is this like a comic book?
- Is there really two people?
- Cover up nakedness- covering up human body.
- Why are they all naked together?
- Where are they?
- What's the time period where that was acceptable?
- Are they in a real space?
- What are they doing?
- Why are they so fat?
- Why are they touching each other?
- Are they beautiful?
- Is she looking at herself or us?
- Who are these people?
- What is the relationship?
- Why does the baby have wings?
- Breathing skin
- Why isn't this real?
- How do they make the strokes look like that?
- Why doesn't he want her to look real?
- Where are her fingers?
- Is she walking toward me? or away?
- Where is she?
- What's all that stuff
- What's wrong with her?
- Is this real?
- How old is she?
- Did she kill herself?
- Is it right to make pictures like this?
- China. 1980s? Tiananmen Square?
- Is it right to do that?
- Is it good art?
Images tell stories that present us with the human condition. Different times and places, artists have had the same preoccupations.
Artistic experiences: Matisse
CONCERN WITH PEOPLE AND IDENTIFICATION
"I think it's good, but someone else might not"
OLDER- MORE METAPHORICAL THINKING
ART IS A CONDUIT INTO ADOLESCENTS LIVES.
IN SOME POWERFUL AND FUNDAMENTAL WAY, THEY GET IT.
Begin with an authentic questions which embraces what the youngsters bring with them
Then, Problematize.
Value of conversation/dialogue
- For the educator: appraise and take account of a variety of ideas, responses, interpretations and perspectives
- For children and adolescents: to learn from each other, taking account of different perspectives
- Acknowledgement of ownership of learning
- Understanding art as a distinctive and important way of thinking, reasoning, and an important way of thinking.
- Learn the ideas about beauty/value are not stable concepts
- Learn to participate with cultures
What if they mischaracterize the facts?
Realistic --> Men
Ambiguous --> Women
THE STORY OF ART GUMBRIDGE
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