Unit 4: Celebrations
Artist: Nick Cave
Finger Puppets: Modeling Compound
Artist Norman Rockwell
Celebrating 21st Century America: Graphic Design
Artist: Miriam Schapiro
Artist's Choice
Unit 4: Celebrations Reflection
Celebration is someone’s pleasure at an important event or occasion by taking part in enjoyable, social, and happy activities. Celebrations can take place for large events in life, small events in life, or everyday life. Celebration is a topic that isn’t specifically discussed in classrooms, aside from the celebration of holidays. I want my future students to understand that celebration can occur anywhere, in any form, about anything, and with anyone! According to Dalai Lama, used in Pink (2005), “I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So I think the very motion of our life is towards happiness” (p. 220). This quote relates directly with celebration because happiness in life is what we are all seeking, which is something to celebrate.
The first inspiration artist was Nick Cave. Nick Cave creates sounds suites to celebrate. In relation, we created finger puppets, as a way to show celebration. I created a pig because when I laugh, I snort like a pig and feel that is something to celebrate! Our next artist was Norman Rockwell. According to American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell – part 1, “Rockwell’s work featured themes he would return to again and again; celebrating the common place, change and invention, honoring the American spirit, tradition, and the past.” Inspired by Rockwell, I created a magazine cover celebrating the traditions of Fall and the month of October. Our Last artist was Miriam Schapiro. Schapiro celebrated women, women’s art, and helped make women’s art become noticed. Her artwork told stories about women’s lives. Although my artwork does not directly relate to Miriam Schapiro since it was student choice studio, my artwork relates to the big idea of celebrations.
I created a caterpillar/butterfly, inspired from Eric Carle’s book The Hungry Caterpillar. This artwork resembles a celebration of transformation; a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. This is an example of using visual art integration in my future classroom because it could be used integrated with a lesson about transformation, and how animals, people, and many other objects can go through transformation, which can be something to celebrate!
References:
"American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell- part 1." YouTube. YouTube, 6 May 2008. Web. 24 Nov. 2013.< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiL24GF3q_s>.
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind. New York, NY: Riverhead. (220).
Celebration is someone’s pleasure at an important event or occasion by taking part in enjoyable, social, and happy activities. Celebrations can take place for large events in life, small events in life, or everyday life. Celebration is a topic that isn’t specifically discussed in classrooms, aside from the celebration of holidays. I want my future students to understand that celebration can occur anywhere, in any form, about anything, and with anyone! According to Dalai Lama, used in Pink (2005), “I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So I think the very motion of our life is towards happiness” (p. 220). This quote relates directly with celebration because happiness in life is what we are all seeking, which is something to celebrate.
The first inspiration artist was Nick Cave. Nick Cave creates sounds suites to celebrate. In relation, we created finger puppets, as a way to show celebration. I created a pig because when I laugh, I snort like a pig and feel that is something to celebrate! Our next artist was Norman Rockwell. According to American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell – part 1, “Rockwell’s work featured themes he would return to again and again; celebrating the common place, change and invention, honoring the American spirit, tradition, and the past.” Inspired by Rockwell, I created a magazine cover celebrating the traditions of Fall and the month of October. Our Last artist was Miriam Schapiro. Schapiro celebrated women, women’s art, and helped make women’s art become noticed. Her artwork told stories about women’s lives. Although my artwork does not directly relate to Miriam Schapiro since it was student choice studio, my artwork relates to the big idea of celebrations.
I created a caterpillar/butterfly, inspired from Eric Carle’s book The Hungry Caterpillar. This artwork resembles a celebration of transformation; a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. This is an example of using visual art integration in my future classroom because it could be used integrated with a lesson about transformation, and how animals, people, and many other objects can go through transformation, which can be something to celebrate!
References:
"American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell- part 1." YouTube. YouTube, 6 May 2008. Web. 24 Nov. 2013.< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiL24GF3q_s>.
Pink, D. (2005). A whole new mind. New York, NY: Riverhead. (220).