Author : Brad Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781799144786
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (447 download)
Book Synopsis Studio Approach to Teaching Art for the Elementary School Student by : Brad Moore
Download or read book Studio Approach to Teaching Art for the Elementary School Student written by Brad Moore and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for the art educator who wants to take a studio approach to the teaching of art. While you do not expect to turn all of your students into artists, you do want to elevate them to their fullest potential as visual people and make them comfortable in their own skin in terms of demonstrating their ability. Another goal is to nurture their appreciation for the visual arts and the hard work and commitment that goes into creating a work of art. They may not comprehend the artwork, but they can at least appreciate the work that goes into creating it.Drawing and design are like reading and writing is to many of the other disciplines in school. I use the word discipline because art is also a discipline. It has a relevant body of knowledge and is considered an important part of a classical education. Drawing can be compared to reading, for as the child attempts to make sense out of the shapes that form the alphabet in order to develop language, he constantly makes marks to express himself and formulate a visual language. Design has an affinity with writing, whereas the child learns to take the alphabet from the spoken word and transcribes that language in to the written word to form sentences and then paragraphs in order to organize thoughts and ideas, so as to express himself in a different form. Design takes those marks of their visual language and organizes them on a two dimensional surface to give form to those marks in that space. Without some grasp of the principles of drawing and design, the child may experience difficulty in expressing himself in other areas of the visuals arts. That is why drawing and design form the building blocks of a strong program in the visual arts. Without these two forming the cornerstone of any program in the visual arts, the foundation of that program would have an inherent weakness to its structure and overall focus. For once students grasp the skills of drawing and design to the best of their ability, they are ready to explore the other areas of the visual arts.This book will cover Kindergarten through fifth grade. It will cover six different areas of the visual arts. The first two areas covered on each grade level will be drawing and design. After studying these two areas the student can move on to painting, (I suggest painting simply because of all the two dimensional groundwork that was laid with the initial study of drawing and design.) From painting it could be appropriate to study sculpture and explore how those principles of design take on a different function in three dimensional forms of art. From sculpture one could return to two dimensional art forms by studying such areas as printmaking, or printmaking could be done before sculpture. With each of these units there will be a list of vocabulary words that if you wish you can expand upon. Vocabulary is important because, just like other areas have a language, so too does art. An understanding of this language, no matter how rudimentary, is essential to understanding the concepts being taught.