Chapter 11 & 26 Chapter Presentation

Chapter 11: Art and Performing Arts

The Arts
Children use the arts as a way to express themselves and communicate.
The various art forms each have their own symbol system, grammar, and syntax.
The various elements that make up the performing arts are music, dance, and drama.
Music
Children express themselves through music by listening, chanting, singing, playing, improvising, dancing and symbolizing.
Integrate art and music by having students paint to different types of music with different rhythms.
Dance
Children learn about elements of dance by composing, performing, and learning to appreciate dance.
The elements of dance to remember are space, time, effort, abstraction, representation, alignment, and axial movement.
Drama
There are many elements of drama that children need to be taught. For example, sound, lighting, character, and style.
Students should be encouraged to incorporate some of these elements into their art work to make it more exciting.
Integrating Art
It is important to allow students to work in groups with others that share the same strengths, according to Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences and Performing Arts.
Incorporating art into the curriculum makes learning even more of a positive learning experience by adding value to the lessons and making material more fun to learn.

Chapter 26: Paper Projects in 2-D

Collage
Collage is a popular art form.
It is derived from the French term coller, which means “to stick or adhere.”

Things to remember when making a collage…
Arrange your larger pieces of material first.
Add small details to larger pieces.
Use shiny materials to emphasize certain areas.
Make patterns using uneven repetition to unify the piece.
Focus on asymmetrical balance.
Mosaics
The pieces of a mosaic are called tesserae.
Small pieces of material are pasted together to form one whole work of art.
Things to remember when making a mosaic…
First, sketch the design.
Next, it is important to begin pasting the tesserae on the outer edge of the design and work inward.
Pieces should not touch or overlap.
Use contrasting colors, as well as different shades to add emphasis.