STAGE: 5 (note this lesson plan could easily be adapted for stage 4 - by abandoning kinetic sculpture element - you could either make painted cardboard relief sculptures influenced by Arp or paper cutouts influenced by Matisse)
FRAMES: STRUCTURAL & SUBJECTIVE
OUTCOMES: 5.1, 5.3, 5.6
LESSON OBJECTIVE: On concluding this lesson students will better understand the ART ELEMENT SHAPE and DESIGN PRINCIPLE BALANCE. Students will be able to recognise and create amorphous shapes and demonstrate their understanding of the design principal balance by configuring shapes in a kinetic sculptural format. (This lesson should follow on from lessons focusing on organic and geometric shapes).
STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT:
-The structural conventions of art - focusing on the art element shape and the design principle balance
-Through the subjective and structural frames students create their own intuitive amorphous shapes whilst listening to emotive music
- Kinetic Sculpure through visual investigation and discussion of artist Alexander Calder
STUDENTS LEARN TO:
- Record their understanding of amorphous shapes by creating a visual bank of their own amorphous shapes
- Learn the properties of and how to manipulate mixed-media materials
- Translate 2D drawings into 3D forms
MATERIALS: Wire, Tissue Paper, PVA
INTRO: Define Amorphous shapes - discuss and show slideshow of artists who create amorphous shapes - suggested artists include Robert Motherwell, Jean Hans Arp, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore. Later discuss Mobiles and Kinetic sculpture - Core focus on Alexander Calder (this could be a critical/historical lesson of its own).
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. draw amorphous shapes on paper intuitively whilst listening to music (subjective frame)
2. bend wire to make selected amorphous forms - leaving a 3 inch tail to attach later by either converting tail into a jump ring or wrapping around wire branches
3. on tissue paper rougly trace around shape leaving a 1-3cm border (pending shape size) then cut out
4. wrap border over wire form and glue to secure
5. move your shapes around on a large piece of paper to map out a rough hanging configuration - then map out how you are going to make a suspending armature of rods (or branches) to hang the shapes. (Teacher should make a slideshow of mobiles-kinetic sculptures to demonstrate possible options - calder great to look at here) as well as design principle BALANCE.
SUGGESTED ARTIST INVESTIGATIONS:
Jean Hans Arp
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Henry Moore
Henri Matisse
FRAMES: STRUCTURAL & SUBJECTIVE
OUTCOMES: 5.1, 5.3, 5.6
LESSON OBJECTIVE: On concluding this lesson students will better understand the ART ELEMENT SHAPE and DESIGN PRINCIPLE BALANCE. Students will be able to recognise and create amorphous shapes and demonstrate their understanding of the design principal balance by configuring shapes in a kinetic sculptural format. (This lesson should follow on from lessons focusing on organic and geometric shapes).
image from Marie Claire Ideas: Calder Inspired Mobile
STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT:
-The structural conventions of art - focusing on the art element shape and the design principle balance
-Through the subjective and structural frames students create their own intuitive amorphous shapes whilst listening to emotive music
- Kinetic Sculpure through visual investigation and discussion of artist Alexander Calder
STUDENTS LEARN TO:
- Record their understanding of amorphous shapes by creating a visual bank of their own amorphous shapes
- Learn the properties of and how to manipulate mixed-media materials
- Translate 2D drawings into 3D forms
MATERIALS: Wire, Tissue Paper, PVA
INTRO: Define Amorphous shapes - discuss and show slideshow of artists who create amorphous shapes - suggested artists include Robert Motherwell, Jean Hans Arp, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore. Later discuss Mobiles and Kinetic sculpture - Core focus on Alexander Calder (this could be a critical/historical lesson of its own).
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. draw amorphous shapes on paper intuitively whilst listening to music (subjective frame)
2. bend wire to make selected amorphous forms - leaving a 3 inch tail to attach later by either converting tail into a jump ring or wrapping around wire branches
3. on tissue paper rougly trace around shape leaving a 1-3cm border (pending shape size) then cut out
4. wrap border over wire form and glue to secure
5. move your shapes around on a large piece of paper to map out a rough hanging configuration - then map out how you are going to make a suspending armature of rods (or branches) to hang the shapes. (Teacher should make a slideshow of mobiles-kinetic sculptures to demonstrate possible options - calder great to look at here) as well as design principle BALANCE.
SUGGESTED ARTIST INVESTIGATIONS:
Jean Hans Arp
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Alexander Calder
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