WEEK 13

• Art making

  A fun and rewarding way for people to express themselves and to learn a broad. Art making is a fascinating and effective way to introduce students to a wide variety of textures and help them develop their tactile exploration skills.
• Art making process

  • Students explore the materials and techniques used by others
  • Focus on developing studio skills and a fully realized final product
• When educators emphasize the art-making process over the final product

  Students increase
• When students make art

  • They can express their feelings, fantasize, tell stories, and give their the ideas and feelings explored and expressed by well-known artists
  • Art making is a fascinating and effective way to introduce students to a wide variety of textures and help them develop their tactile exploration skills
• The art making process

  1. Phase One: Begins with sketching, grid-lining, drawing, or filling in under-paintings. Students learn about introductory best practices on techniques and approaches and understanding the art concepts.

  2. Phase Two: Includes adding multiple layers of tone, color, or paint within an artwork. Students are required to problem solve and are encouraged in their art to explore, manipulate, and master technique-based art applications.

  3. Phase Three: Ends with students adding final detail and craftsmanship showcasing their finished projects. This includes demonstrating the understanding of the art elements, habits of mind and effort,communication skills, habits of work, composition concepts, and execution into a well-crafted project.
• Stages of art making

  1. Inspiration: The beautiful moment when inspiration strikes.

  2. Percolation: The time that elapses after you've had your idea, but before you start making art.

  3. Preparation: Obtaining and organizing your supplies, plus creating a blueprint for what your piece will be.

  4. Creation: The time during which you are solidly on your path. The process of creation can vary depending on your personal temperament, your artistic style and your medium.

  5. Reflection: A period of reflection after you create a piece of art.
• 7 Da Vincian Principles

  • Curiosita (Curiosity): An insatiable curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning.
  • Dimonstrazione (Demonstration): A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and a willingness to learn from past mistakes.
  • Sensazione (Sensation): Continual refinement of the senses as the means to enliven experience.
  • Sfumato (Going Up in Smoke): Embracing ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty.
  • Arte/Scienza (Art and Science): Developing a balance between logic and imagination.
  • Corporalita (Of the Body): Maintaining a healthy body as well as a healthy mind.
  • Connessione (Connection): Recognizing the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena.
• Narrative

  In art and history refers to the practice of artists using existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original
• Appropriation


  The action of talking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission
• Borrowing


  The state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property
• Ownership


  Understanding of Appropriation that the concept of a new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work
• Acts of cultural appropriation


  • Object appropriation: Transferring possession of a tangible object from one culture to another
  • Content appropriation: Reproducing non-tangible works of art produced by another culture
  • Stylistic appropriation: Producing works with stylistic elements in common with the works of another culture
  • Motif appropriation: Being influenced by the art of a culture other than one's own without creating works in the same style
  • Subject appropriation: Representing members or aspects of another culture