Jean-Marie Galing's collections
Alma Thomas: Collection of Colors
<p>Images support discussion of art portfolios and collections with elementary students. </p>
<p>See - Think - Wonder</p>
<p>1. What do you see?</p>
<p>2. What does it make you think of?</p>
<p>3. What do you wonder about them, or what would you like to know more about these artworks?</p>
<p>Further discussion questions:</p>
<ul><li>What do these artworks have in common?</li><li>Do you think they were created by the same artist?</li><li>Why might an artist develop a collection or portfolio of their work?</li><li>If you collect or make things, how would you like to share it with others?</li></ul>
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Sculptures by Sol LeWitt
<p>What geometric shapes/forms do you see?</p>
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<p>How does the artist create a relationship between form and space?</p>
<p>How do the parts interact or intersect?</p>
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Sculptures by Martin Puryear
<p>How does the artist create a relationship between form and space?</p>
<p>How do the parts interact or intersect?</p>
Jean-Marie Galing
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Transformed Environments
<p>Some of these environments have been transformed by natural occurances. Some have been transformed by human activity. </p>
<p>Which transformations are positive ones? Which have negative outcomes? How can humans make choices to limit negative outcomes on the environment?</p>
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Molas Depicting People
<p>Molas are made by indigenous peoples in Panama. They are colorful fabrics with appliqued designs. These molas depict people. </p><ul><li>What colors do you see?</li><li>What shapes can you find?</li><li>What kinds of patterns do you see?</li></ul><ul><li>What do you think the people are doing?</li></ul>
Jean-Marie Galing
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Contemporary & Historic Architecture
<p>How does the past influence the present and future? Compare forms in contemporary architecture with those of buildings from ancient and Renaissance times. What similarities can you find? </p>
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Outside Fun
<p>See: Where are these people? What are they doing?</p><p>Think: Have you ever done something like that outside? </p><p>Wonder: I wonder what it would be like to go there. What would I see, smell, taste, touch, or hear?</p><p>Choose an image and imagine yourself being in that place. Then use that as inspiration for a drawing, painting, or collage. </p>
Jean-Marie Galing
11
Celebrate Good Times
<p>Images support second grade collage lesson. Choose an image that connects to a poem read to students (from <em>Celebrate American in Poetry in Art,</em> edited by Nora Panzer). Use questioning to describe and analyze the artwork: </p><ul><li>"What do you see?" </li><li>"What is happening here? </li><li><span></span>"What clues make you think that?"</li><li> "What else is happening in this image?" </li></ul><p>Ask students to take a minute to think of a personal experience that this image reminds them of, then turn to a partner and share. This prepares them for the next step, which is to visualize a favorite community celebration and sketch in preparation for making a collage.</p>
Jean-Marie Galing
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Art & Culture Sort
<p>First, sort the images by type of art/artist. Teacher should make index card headings for the following categories: Painting/Painter, Textile/Weaver, Clothing/Fashion Designer, Architecture/Architect, Prints/Printmaker, Sculpture/Sculptor, Functional Ceramics/Potter or Ceramist. Sometimes an image may cross categories (painting of a house might be categorized in architecture or painting); either answer would be acceptable if the student can justify why.</p><p>Second, make an educated guess about culture represented in selected images. Students can "guess and check" with teacher. Online research option: students work in pairs to access this collection and click on the info button for an image to learn about the maker, time period, and culture. They can record their findings to help answer the reflection questions below.</p><p>After the sorting activities, ask students to choose an image and answer: <em> Why is/was this object of value (or useful)? How do you think it expresses something important to the people of that culture? </em></p>
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Festivals
<p>Everyone enjoys a festival or celebration! Let's look at some. . . </p><ul><li>Observe images and guess which culture each represents.</li><li>Play "I Spy Juxtaposition." Work with a small group to examine an image and find where the artist has juxtaposed symbols or text with the image to create meaning. </li><li>What might you include in an artwork about a festival or celebration? Would there be dances, special music, food, clothing, or activities?</li></ul><p>Art making challenge: Collaborate in a small group to create a design for a booth, stage, or other area for a cultural tradition at a festival. Designs will be combined into a festival mural.</p>
Jean-Marie Galing
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Abstraction Methods
<p>Artists can abstract people and objects in many ways. Which methods of abstraction can you identify in these artworks?</p>
<ul><li>Simplify</li><li>Fragment (or explode; break into pieces)</li><li>Multiply </li><li>Rearrange (move the parts around)</li><li>Magnify (change the scale)</li><li>Distort (change the shape) </li><li>Morph (change into something else)</li><li>Arbitrary Colors</li></ul><p>Art making prompt: arrange some objects to draw. Then choose an abstraction method to create an artwork based on the objects you see.</p>
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Jean-Marie Galing
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Community Groups
<p>Images support the second grade "Out and About" lesson. </p>
Jean-Marie Galing
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Family Fun
<p> There are many ways that families have fun together. Have you done some of these activities with your family? Draw or paint a picture of you and your family enjoying an activity together.</p>
Jean-Marie Galing
13
Human Figure
<p>This collection supports learning in the Grade 4 gesture drawing and wire sculpture lessons. Activities:</p>
<ul><li>Realism vs. Abstraction: students sort sculptures of the human figure into two categories (realistic or abstract). Describe the ways that some artists abstract the human figure.</li><li>Compare contrast 2D/3D: identify the shapes an artist used to portray the human figure in a gesture drawing, then identify the equivalent forms used in a sculpture. Record findings in a T-chart.</li></ul><p><br /></p>
Jean-Marie Galing
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Figures of Interest
<p>People from different times and places have created portraits in clay. Look at some of these figures and consider:</p>
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<ul><li>What do you know about the figure? What do you see that makes you think that?</li><li>How did the artist show the interests of the figure?</li><li>What did the artist do to make the figure visually interesting?</li><li>For whom might this artwork be special?</li></ul><p>If you were to create a self-portrait in clay, what clues would you add to tell others about yourself? What special object might you include?</p>
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Jean-Marie Galing
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Houses
<p>Images support learning in first grade "Dream House for My Family" lesson. For architecture puzzle activity, print selected images and cut them into pieces that focus on parts of the building. Allow table groups to work together to reassemble the house image and name the parts of the house. </p><p>Discuss images of model houses to introduce the lesson challenge: <em>Create a 3-dimensional model of a dream house for your family.</em></p>
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