School of Education
Curriculum & Teaching
Prof. John Toth, Ph.D. / jtoth@hunter.cuny.edu
HISTORICAL COMMENTARIES
for the post modern educator
ART HISTORICAL COMMENTARIES
- This idea calls upon the capacity to consider relationships and meanings
about personal, social, cultural differences using symbols to communicate.
AIM: Find the Wonders and Differences in cultural symbols, beliefs, music, dance, theater. By decoding shapes and symbols we find meaning. By using
shapes and symbols to make art, we find that creativity opens the
possibility for appreciating the differences and
similarities of each culture.
OBJECTIVE: Draw 8 symbols of a historic event. Create a painting that tells a story using symbols.
ART ELEMENT: Color, Shapes & Symbols: Symbols, anthems, icons,
Art Principles:
Scale, emphasis, order.
LINE OF INQUIRY: How does Marc Chagall in I and
the Village use symbols to make a
statement about his world?
CURRICULUM INQUIRY:
How do artists present worlds that draw upon a combination of
real world events and imaginary events that call attention to ideas on
cultural identity?
ART STANDARDS:
Museum Artworks
The Arts Standards for NY
The Arts Standard 2 key Idea:
Dance - Know how to access dance-related material from libraries, resource centers, museums.
Music -They will use various resources to expand their knowledge of listening experiences.
Theater - Know the basic tools, media, and techniques involved in theatrical production.
Visual Arts - Use appropriate materials (art reproductions, slides, print materials, electronic media).
Rubric
1:45
15
View artworks under study
Rossiter and Mignot, Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon. 1859
- Image - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
Dance / Bill T. Jone / Ghostcatching - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 -
THEATER / Ricardo Khan, Fly,
MUSIC - Woodie Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads,
MUSIC - John Lennon, Imagine.
MUSIC - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Afro-British Composer & Conductor, Ballade in C Minor, Op. 73
ART / SCULPTURE
Dogon, Seated Couple, Ancestral Figures
ART / COLLAGE / PAINTING / Shapes and Symbols /
(left)
Florine Stettheimer, Cathedrals of Wall Street.
Marc Chagall, I and the Village. 1911(MoMA)
Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel.
Analyze Symbolic Shapes: create a vocabulary list
OBJECTIVE: use geometric shape to construct complex a collage, objects, dance.
Art - Write a list of symbols. Draw symbols. Cut symbols. Combine symbols like hieroglyphs to tell a story. Write a poem about the symbols.
Draw. Use circles, squares and rectangles to construct 5 objects, such as, a face; a lamp; food; home; etc.
TECHNOLOGY OBJECTIVE:
Develop a simple structure for a podcast of your own using your favorite art work. 4 Hyperlinks.
THEATER / STORY TELLING /
STORY TELLING / Native Am. Navajo, Bird Nester Myth Make shapes with your body to tell a story
Consider Faith Ringgold's Street Story Quilt as a source for creating a neighborhood sstory.
SAMPLE ACTIVITY
SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE
student work examples
art supplies - pencil, glue, paper, color construction paper, scissors, scissors, color pencils.
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SOCIAL COMMENTARY
Make a drawing or painting that uses simple geometric shapes as symbols that represent or elude to a dramatic social experience in history. Consider using scale as a means of organizing symbols to show the importance or insignificance in effecting this event. Use symbolic setting and props. Or develop a theatric tableau.
REFLECTION ACTIVITY
OBJECTIVE: develop an appropriate symbols activity that compares the consequences of cultural similarities and differences that occur in daily life.
Music - Combine musical phrases to re-enact a historic event that is currently relevant.
Activity Instructions for children:
- Each student will tell a short story about the things they like doing at home and the things they don't like doing at home.
- Students will make a finger painting, drawing or painting that shows the story
CONTEXT:
THE ARTS
Podcast - Washington and Lafayette
Article - Research - Timeline - Transcript - PowerPoint Show
SOCIAL STUDIES
Symbols in American History
MUSIC - Keam, Glenda Ruth, Lanscapes-In-Music. Musical Space.
THEORY- Taxonomy of Effective Teaching- Positive Framing
Taxonomy of Effective Teaching- Strong Voice
VOCABULARY:
Symbols: icon, metaphor, representation, emblem, badge, stamp, trademark, crest, insignia, coat of arms, seal monogram, flag, motif.
Please complete this
Survey: Symbolic Language
Symbolic language Museum Artworks