Quiz Questions Flashcards
These are questions based on the quiz content presented in class. (36 cards)
How can Social Activism in Art demonstrate a Prophetic reality?
Art allows artists to create a different version of what the world is/could be.
By providing a vision of a different world, artists can not only inspire hope for things to come, but they can also point out injustice in our current world; sometimes the absence of something can create just as strong a statement as its presence.
Relate questions of identity to social justice
Artists create portrayals of who they are and what represents them. While exploring this, artists encounter issues of gender, race, language, culture, sexuality, or socioeconomic status.
This lets students see the positives of community and diversity yet allows the hypocrisy and discrimination to be viewed and discounted. Identity shows the common ties and proves why we should fight for all people, not just ourselves.
Give two examples of art projects that can promote language arts goals
Writing a story Illustrating a story Journaling, Writing a poem or essay Discussing memories Practicing visual literacy (media, technology)
How can art be used to improve vocabulary development?
Art can be used to aesthetically describe and depict something. Knowing what line, shape, color, texture, and pattern are help develop a way to look at the world and be able to describe it.
How can asking questions about art facilitate speech development?
Students can discuss works, methods, and stories. This explanation, done in a group or as a class, gives students a chance to create an opinion and support it with that they have learned about art.
This can also help students use their own experiences to critically examine artworks and share their conclusions with the class.
Art can be a collaborative experience.
How can field trips be a viable method of teaching for students with disabilities?
Places like museums help students increase their awareness and appreciation of the artistic world. Often a museum may already have accommodations for patrons with disabilities and many have supplies geared toward school-age children.
Children can see more of the original art and can associate it with the other artwork of the period.
How does art contribute to therapy?
Art can be an expressive release, where a patient can work through personal feelings and stress. It can also be a starting point for discussions in therapy.
List at least three gains students with intellectual or developmental disabilities can acquire through working with art.
1: Art can allow students an alternative mode of expression that may be easier and more clearly understood.
2: Art can provide tactile, visual, and motor experiences that the student may not be able to access elsewhere. This allows physical and mental processes to be more closely connected.
3: Art becomes problem solving that allows students to make decisions and create solutions.
What is visual culture?
Visual culture works towards a social theory of visuality. It focuses on questions of what is made visible, who sees what, and how seeing, knowing and power are interrelated.
It examines the act of seeing as a product of the tensions between external images or objects, and internal thought processes.
According to Clements & Wachowiak:
List at least 4 reasons that it is important for children to study art
Cultural Understanding Makes the Ordinary Important and Special Personal Communication and Expression General and Artistic Creativity Aesthetic Awareness Literacy and Cognition Core Participant in School Different way learning/communicating school
What is art criticism and what are the three questions that serve as beginning points for discussion?
Art criticism is the term given to "talking, writing, and thinking about art-works." The three questions are: What is it? What does it mean? What is its value?
There are two differing perspectives on art and art critcism.
What are they? Give a brief definition
Formalism: art is the form - how it looks, the materials used, and the skills used to make it.
Contextualism: Art is a social communication system.
Identify the Elements of art
Line, Shape, Form, Space, Texture, Color, Value
Identify the Principles of art
Balance, Emphasis, Movement, Pattern (Repetition), Unity, Contrast, Rhythm
What is Paracosm?
Paracosm is “a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography, language, and history.”
It is a persistent form of make-believe lasting over weeks, months, or years and is revisited over and again.
How does the thinking tool IMAGING relate to what “what cannot be said in words”?
Imaging is the recreation of thoughts feelings and sensory impressions in our minds without extrinsic stimulation from corresponding organs.
Artists attempt to recapture this ineffable amalgam and translate it into a representation that others can experience
How does the design of the Create, Imagine, Play, & Human Development Through Art class attempt to connect art education “illusions” and “reality” for students?
Illusions = academic/intellectual knowledge, formulas, theories, Symbolic Knowledge
Reality = real world, hands-on, direct experimentation, Physical Knowledge
The combination of lecture/lab connect these.
What is the difference between Big “C” Creativity and little “c” creativity?
Give Examples
Big “C” is creative genius - when a person (using symbols of a domain) has a new idea or sees a new pattern and changes a field/domain: sometimes creating a new domain.
Examples: Steve Jobs, da Vinci, Einstein, Picasso, Shakespeare
little “c” creativity is personal creativity that everyone has and can develop. Experience the world in novel and original ways, fresh perceptions, insightful judgments or create/discover something that might be important only to us. This includes personal problem solving.
Everyone has “c” creativity.
When creating lesson plans, what should the resulting projects be?
They should be many, varied, and unusual.
According to Andreasen in “Building Better Brains”, the human brain is very “plastic” (responsive, adaptive, eternally changing). List 5 things she suggests for developing creativity in adults or children.
-Try a new field you know little or nothing about - be a polymath (Renaissance man)
-Practice meditation or “Random Episodic Silent Thought” - allow ideas flow freely sin outside input
-Practice observing and describing
-Practice Imagining
Read interactively with an adult or child
-Turn off the TV
-Go outdoors and look at the natural world
-Develop an interest in music or art
Clements and Wachowiak discuss 5 metaphors/factors that influence the art learning process - What are they?
Mind, Eye, Hand, Heart, and Context
A U-shaped decline appears in creative development of young people. What ages does this occur around and what are possible reasons?
This occurs around 8-11 (3-6 grades).
Self-imposed demands for realism, self-critical toward own art production, and lack of environmental support.
In the reading “Why Children Draw” (Wilson & Wilson, 2009), what are the 4 Krietler “realities” discussed that are used to provide a basis for understanding children’s drawings?
Common reality - everyday objects, household, life
Archaeological - the layers, facets, of self
Normative - Good/Evil, Standards
Prophetic - imagining the future
Give reasons, other than the 4 realities, why children create art.
- Pleasure of Art creation, aesthetic and kinesthetic
- Convey thoughts & ideas: Story telling
- Gain recognition and approval from adults and peers
- Enjoyment of activity for its own sake
- Relieves boredom
- Symbolic possession of an object
