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   View Standards     Standard(s): [ARTS] VISA (4) 3 :

3) Generate ideas and employ a variety of strategies and techniques to create a work of art/design.

[ARTS] VISA (4) 10 :

10) Compare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.

Example: Gyotaku Japanese fish printing and printing with a rubber stamp.

[ARTS] VISA (5) 2 :

2) Demonstrate the methods of the art-making process, including brainstorming, sketching, reflecting, and refining, to create a work of art/design.

Students will study and analyze the works of Tom Rollins.  They will be given a page from a discarded book, read the page, and write a one sentence summary.  They will create a found word poem, trace around the words, draw a picture to enhance the poem, and color in the drawing.  They will mount the page and draw a border around it.  Finally, they will compare their work to Tom Rollins' pieces.