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Mind Maps

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Title:

Mind Maps

URL:

https://magazine.art21.org/2016/05/13/mind-maps/#.YMaFWqhKjIV

Content Source:

Other
Art21

Type:

Learning Activity

Overview:

Students will create a mind map based on the word "creativity." They will add to the mind map throughout the year as they learn about new artists, vocabulary, and elements of art.

Content Standard(s):

Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: K Visual Arts	6) Share and talk about the art they are creating. a. Use art vocabulary: line, shape, color, and pattern. Example: Use the book Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work. Process Components: Reflect, Refine, Continue Essential Questions: EU: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time. EQ: What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely? Concepts & Vocabulary: Art Artwork Collaboratively Collage Cool colors Warm colors Elements of Art Color Line Shape Imaginative play Play Portfolio Primary colors Principles of design Pattern Printmaking Skill Examples: Create two-dimensional artworks using finger painting, watercolors, paper collage, and rubbings. Create three-dimensional artworks using techniques such as rolling, folding, cutting, molding, pinching, and pulling clay. Work with a partner to create works of art. Working in small groups, use recycled materials to create artworks. Explore the books Why is Blue Dog Blue? by G. Rodrigue and My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss to understand color meanings and moods. Read the book Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman to explore different styles of line. Safely use and share scissors, pencils, crayons, markers, glue, paints, paintbrushes, and clay. Use symbols to help tell a personal or make-believe story. Manipulate art media to create textures and patterns. Identify and use organic and geometric shapes to create works of art. Show respect for self and others while making and viewing art. Use the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) to create a free-style painting while singing the names of the colors. Use patterns in designing colored stripes on the shirt of a person you know. Collect found objects such as paper tubes, forks, and pieces of cardboard. Press them in shallow tempera paint, and stamp them on paper to show printmaking. Create a T-chart that separates cool (blue, green, and purple) and warm (red, yellow, and orange) colors in different columns. Use the symbols of water waves for the cool column header and the sun for the warm column header. Work with a partner to find colors, lines, and shapes in art and tell each other what you see.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 1 Visual Arts	6) Use art vocabulary while creating art. a. Apply primary and secondary colors in a work of art. Example: Use Mouse Paint book by Helen Walsh to teach color mixing of primary to achieve secondary colors. b. Apply line, shape, texture in a work of art. Line: Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, straight, curved, dotted, broken, or thick/thin. Shape: Geometric and organic. Texture: Smooth or rough. Example: Create a painting inspired by Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work. Process Components: Reflect, Refine, Continue Essential Questions: EU: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time. EQ: What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely? Concepts & Vocabulary: Complementary colors Contrast Curator Elements of Art Texture Landscapes Portrait Positive/ negative space and shape Principles of design Repetition Variety Secondary colors Still life Technique Venue Skill Examples: Work with a partner or small group to create an artwork. Use the book Perfect Square by Michael Hall to help "thinking outside the box" skills. Create two-dimensional artworks using a variety of gadgets for printmaking. Use paint media to create paintings of family portraits or a favorite memory. Create three-dimensional artworks such as clay pinch pots or found-object sculptures. View a step-by-step demonstration of an artistic technique. Properly clean and store art materials. Use Mouse Paint book by Helen Walsh to teach color mixing of primary to achieve secondary colors. Create a painting inspired by Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie. Create a "Pop Art" inspired artwork of positive and negative spaces and shapes by using colored paper cut-outs and gluing to different background squares. Make a color wheel and identify the complimentary colors (red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple). Draw different forms in the school environment: cones in the gym, cubes in math center, and sphere used for a globe. Create texture rubbings by placing paper over different surfaces and rubbing with a crayon or oil pastel. Use a rough brick wall, a smooth table, bumpy bubble wrap, or soft felt shapes. Use repetition in art by looking at the designs on a shell or the stripes of a zebra for inspiration.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 2 Visual Arts	6) Integrate art vocabulary while planning and creating art. a. Elements of art: line, shape, neutral colors, value, texture. b. Picture compositions: overlapping, background, horizontal, vertical orientation. c. Colors in the color wheel: primary, secondary, warm and cool. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work. Process Components: Reflect, Refine, Continue Essential Questions: EU: Artists and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time. EQ: What role does persistence play in revising, refining, and developing work? How do artists grow and become accomplished in art forms? How does collaboratively reflecting on a work help us experience it more completely? Concepts & Vocabulary: Principles of design Balance Brainstorming Composition Concepts Characteristic Elements of art Space Value Expressive properties Foreground Middle ground Neutral colors Resist Skill Examples: Create two-dimensional artworks such as drawing or painting by using a variety of media. Use the book, The Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood & Martin Link to learn about weaving. Use clay or pipe cleaners to create small animal sculptures. Work in groups to brainstorm ideas for a collaborative art project. Use a book about clay, When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor to study Native Americans and their traditions. Use the book A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle to explore collage techniques. Create a real or imagined home using two-and-three-dimensional media. Learn how to properly use and store brushes, close glue bottles and marker tops. Use found objects such as leaves, rocks, paper tubes, egg cartons, etc. to create artworks. Use the book A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch to explore different colors and values. Create a landscape showing depth by placing the foreground, middle ground and background in their correct positions.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 3 Visual Arts	13) Use learned vocabulary to evaluate artwork based on given criteria. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Responding Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Process Components: Perceive, Analyze, Interpret Essential Questions: EU: People evaluate art based on various criteria. EQ: How does one determine criteria to evaluate a work of art? How and why might criteria vary? How is a personal preference different from an evaluation? Concepts & Vocabulary: Creativity Criteria Critique Design Media Mixed media Monochromatic Principles of design Rhythm Technology Visual image Skill Examples: Identify the basic elements of art in a work of art through discussion and writing. Observe and compare similar themes in artwork from historical and contemporary eras. Theorize how individuals can have different opinions about works of art. Demonstrate and apply critiques of personal work and the work of others in a positive way. Select an art object and explain reasons why it is a work of art. Use feedback and self-assessment to improve the quality of personal artwork. Discuss the difference between Meret Oppenheim's Object and an everyday cup. Discuss how art can be related to other subject areas.

Tags:

artists, creativity, mind map

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Art21 Magazine issues are published four times per year and devoted to a single theme. Led by Art21’s executive director and chief curator Tina Kukielski, each issue’s articles and essays are carefully selected to connect to both the theme at hand and to broader conversations happening in the art world and the world at large.

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Author:	Tiffani Stricklin
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Mind Maps