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PRIME COMMUNICATION

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INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE:                                         (UC, KSD, P, CLC)             

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Inquiry:

What is your prime MEANS of communication? How many forms does it have?
How does the rhythm and gesture of lines that artists use in artworks affect our experience?

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Objective:

·          Present and explore signatures as an example of how we communicate with line.

·          Present and explore the nuances and differences between Aesthetic Education, Arts Education, and Arts in Education as methods of communication through the arts.

·          Multiple Intelligences: Consider the ways in which the arts engage our multiple senses and modalities by effecting the ways in which we know and experience life.

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THE LANGUAGE OF LINE:  MOVEMENT / SCRIBBLE  

… control, uncontrolled, repetition, emotional, conceptual, sequenced, straight and curved.

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Artworks to consider:

Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956), Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950 (Met)
Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901–1966), Three Men Walking (II), 1949 (Met)

Franz Kline, Chief,

Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night

Thomas Benton, July Hay, (Pollock’s teacher)

Activity:1  SIGNATURE DRAWINGS

-Draw your name.


--Make a list of words that DESCRIBE line qualities.


---ANALYZE relationship between different line situations.


----Sign your name under the influence of three different situations that involve different dispositions; angry, carefree, wistful, accurate.


-----From your three signatures, isolate a specific line quality for each disposition. (angular, frenzied, quite, chaotic, etc.)


-------Use these three different line qualities to make a portrait of your neighbor.  (try considering the relationship between the shape of the lines in your signature to the lines within the shapes in your face; angular eyebrows, curvy hair, almond eyes, -----

----------Reflect and INTERPRET the portraits as a group. How does the quality of lines effect the interpretation of the portraits?

 

Activity:2 GESTURE DRAWINGS

 

Contextual References:

 

Assignment:
The Misunderstood Role of the Arts in Human Development by Elliot W. Eisner   Download .pdf file

Read the article and post your comments on the Disscussion page of the BlackBoard

Examples of previous postings: Fall 2005

 

 

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