Create, Imagine, Play Final
When observing and analyzing the realities portrayed in children's drawings, more than one reality can often be seen
True
You can put stop motion animation software on your phone
True
According to Heck (2001) in the second chapter from Artful Teaching, what is required when creating an environment where multicultural identities and social justice are explored? (Select all that apply.)
problem solving interpersonal dialogue collaboration criticism and judgment intrapersonal dialogue risk-taking
If you stare at a spot of color for a minute, you will start to see an after-image of
the complement of the color
The best approach to mask making and learning about other cultures is to do a project about making an African mask.
False
There is a direct connection between childhood Worldplay and adult creativity.
False
Hypnagogic Images
"An image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination"
Abstracting
"paring down complicated things to simple principles"
Imaging
"seeing" in the mind things recalled or created
The child has basic skills for beginning to present their own ideas and experiments of reality/experiences in symbolic form around ages
1-2
Integration of subjects can be enhanced by connecting similar standards from each domain. Match the Art Learning Standard with the related Language/Literacy Learning Standard.
1. Reading Standards for Literature K-5, Example from Grade 3: RL.3.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. 2. Literacy. RL. (Grade 3).7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of character or setting). 3.Reading & Writing Standards for Literature K-5. Benchmark Grade 3: W.3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective details, and clear event sequences.
Some of the characteristics of children who draw as "Meaning Makers" include (mark all that apply).
1. The work can include drawing, scribbling, creating letter-forms, or creating random strings of letters, all used—sometimes even simultaneously—in the child's attempt to communicate an idea. 2. Children begin to use emergent writing. 3. Because of their cognitive advances, children are able to write and tell more elaborate stories based on their drawings.
Developing Peace
14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah
Approximately what percent of your brain is visual processing?
25%
How much of the time when we are awake do we daydream?
25%
According to the study: Arts Foster Scientific Success: Avocations of Nobel, National Academy, Royal Society, and Sigma Xi Members (Authors: Robert Root-Bernstein, PhD Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Lindsay Allen Leighanna Beach Ragini Bhadula Justin Fast Chelsea Hosey Benjamin Kremkow Jacqueline Lapp Kaitlin Lone Kendell Pawelec Abigail Podufaly Caitlin Russ Laurie Tennant Eric Vrtis Stacey Weinlander) Science Nobel Laureates are how many times as likely to have arts and crafts avocations as general scientists or the public?
3 times more likely
Although this U-shaped decline in creativity can occur at any point, generally it occurs around the ages of
8-11
Who said this about how to define abstraction? "...the possibility of considering as object or group of objects under one viewpoint while disregarding all other properties of the object. The essence of abstraction consists of singling out one feature, which, in contrast to other properties, is considered to be particularly important."(Root-Bernstein & Root-Bernstein (1999). Sparks of genius, pp. 72-73)
A physicist
In the lecture, "Art Appreciation and Art Museum," which of the following is NOT a benefit of visiting and art museum?
A place to buy good art
Children who are gifted in art typically exhibit the following behavior
A rage to master
Playing
A tool that integrates use of other tools such as body thinking, modeling, empathizing, etc. Childlike joy of "fooling around' and challenging limitations.
Which of the concepts in Ten Lessons the Arts Teach, Elliott Eisner (2002) and highlighted in the lecture, is something to keep in mind, especially when working with student who are very young or have learning differences/disabilities?
A. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
The type of paint was used in making prints during Week 3 Studio. This polymer based paint the can be used for painting and printmaking. It is relatively permanent and will stain clothing.
Acrylic Paint
Mathematicians
Adaptive Creativity
Scientists
Adaptive Creativity
When does imagination typically start to emerge?
Age 2
Pseudo-Naturalistic Stage, Age of Reasoning
Ages 11-14
Scribbling Stage
Ages 2-4
Preschematic Stage
Ages 4-7
At what age does the "meaning making" art process begin?
Ages 7-9
Schematic Stage
Ages 7-9
Gang Stage: Dawning Realism
Ages 9-12
This Japanese origamist has been credited for helping to popularize it in the 20th century, developing a picture-based set of instructions that served as a universal language, fostering collaborations between artists and scientists.
Akira Yoshizawa
This artist began his career as an engineer and was known for his sense of humor and playful attitude toward life and art. Best known for his mobile sculptures, he also created a line of moveable toys for children, as well as a toy circus.
Alexander Caler
This scientist once commented, "I play with microbes..." Also was well known for a love of playing in all aspects of life and work and painted with bacteria. This scientist noted, "There are, of course, many rules to this play... but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and be able to find something nobody had thought of." (Root-Bernstein & Root-Bernstein, 1999)
Alexander Fleming
According to Polster ("Artful Teaching") who are the art makers?
All of us
Robert Lang left his previous job to become a full-time origami artist. What was Lang's previous job?
American physicist, worked for NASA
This tool, called _____________________, has a hardened steel point used to punch sewing holes through book board and layers of paper.
An awl
Transforming
An integrative tool that is the process of translating between tools and between imaginative tools and formal languages of communication in any domain
Gender and Families
And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
According to Beverly Gerber in your reading from Reaching and Teaching Students with Special Need through Art, the trouble shooting process in adapting lessons for special needs students includes all EXCEPT:
Anticipating "Murphy's Law."
The spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena (such as conspiracy theories, magic tricks) is called
Apophenia
Which of the following have an open-symbol system as their domain language? Mark all that apply.
Creative Writing Visual Art
Contextualism
Art is a social communication system, looking at the aspects of the world in which it was created.
This individual is quoted as saying, "The sense of play is the essence of inventive activity. Invention begins in the joyful, free association of the mind."
Arthur Molella
In art, this term refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the creative process.
Automatism
6th Grade
Being to study global connections
Contradiction
Beyond different narratives, the words and pictures seem to assert the opposite of each other.
A ______________ tool is used to make creases and folds in paper, cardstock, and other fold-able media.
Bone tool Bone Folding bone
Video Game Designers
Both Adaptive and Expressive Creativity
A hand-tool used in printing and printmaking to spread ink or paint on the plate.
Brayer
In examining the development of creativity in young people, educational psychologists have documented a "U-shaped decline" in creativity. Although can occur at any point, generally it occurs around the ages of 8-11 (3-6 grades). What is NOT one of the main reasons given for this slump?
Change of interests. Moving from Concrete Operations to Formal Operations Self-critical toward own art production Self-imposed demands for realism Correct Answer None of these answers. All of these answers Lack of resources.
Composer whose play and fooling around with homemade and "found" instruments, lead him to "harmonic discoveries" that are important to modern twentieth-century music.
Charles Ives
Some of the characteristics of children who draw as "Meaning Makers" include (mark all that apply).
Children begin to use emergent writing. The work can include drawing, scribbling, creating letter-forms, or creating random strings of letters, all used—sometimes even simultaneously—in the child's attempt to communicate an idea Because of their cognitive advances, children are able to write and tell more elaborate stories based on their drawings.
Researchers have identified many side-effects of trying to "multi-task." Which of the following were cited as examples?
Cognitive imparirment of short term memory Suppresses flow states Making more mistakes
Ages 5-12
Complex play-acting of social roles or characters. Re-enactment of stories heard or read in books
Pseudo-Naturalistic Stage, Age of Reasoning
Critically aware of own shortcomings in art; closer to correct proportions; cartooning popular; facial expressions vary for meaning
Gang Stage: Dawning Realism
Disappearance of a baseline; objects overlap for depth; less exaggerated disproportion of the human form; greater awareness of clothing details; self-conscious of own drawings.
One of the main points in the article, "You Can Hide, But You Can't Run: Interdisciplinary and Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Mask Making," by Ballengee-Morris & Taylor is that "Learning how to make connections and not see subjects or people in isolated, unrelated ways is a lifelong skill that is vitally important for our students to learn." One example of how they facilitated this process for the students is to
Discuss students' ideas about themes, Issues and interests
Enhancement
Each extends the meaning of the other.
Complementary
Each provides information.
According to Clements, R. D., Wachowiak, F. (2010) in the chapter on Art and Literacy, observation, critical thinking and communication skills are mainly developed through learning to drawing and make art, not through discussion of art.
False
There are several child-centered social justice themes mention by Sarah Ryder in her article, "Teaching Ideas of Social Justice Using Children's Literature?" Which of the following is NOT an example?
Economic Equality Environmental Awareness Gender and Families Understanding of Other Cultures Correct Answer None of these answers.
During childhood play and drawing, a child experiments with self-images and images of otherness. Psychologists call this the
Ego-Ideal
Color
Element
Form
Element
Line
Element
Shape
Element
Space
Element
Texture
Element
Value
Element
Preschematic Stage
Emerging human form; Head and torso with arms attached; images placed haphazardly in space; colors of choice (not realistic), one symbol may represent many ideas
According to the chapter on Art and Literacy, there are certain design principles/concepts that are important not only to art but writing as well. These include (mark all that apply)
Emphasis Dominance Point of view
According to Clarie Golomb in the reading, "Child art in context: A Cultural and Comparative Perspective," the following are the main sources of the differences seen in children's art between cultures and geography include: (mark all that apply).
Emphasis on types of art forms in the culture Visual culture Approach to art pedagogy
What behaviors are associated with creative potential (creative gifted-ness as an adult)? Mark all that apply.
Engaging in Worldplay Participating in play/theatre. Having an imaginary friend.
1st-2nd Grade
Explore self and their relationship with and to family.
4th Grade
Exploring their state
Creative Writers
Expressive Creativity
Visual Arts
Expressive Creativity
According to G.W. Paget (in "Child Art in Context," by Golomb, 2002), there are some visual differences across cultures, as well as differences in the structural characteristics of children's art development as well.
False
According to the reading on Troubleshooting an Art Lesson from Reaching and Teaching (Gerber & Guy, 2006),the right kind of motivation will overcome a learning deficit.
False
Andreasen mentions several studies in this chapter that point to the realization that by age 25 it is too late to continue training the brain once it is past the critical periods of childhood and young adulthood development.
False
Based on the work of Anna Mary Robertson Moses (Grandma Moses), art development stops by the time that an individual is in their early 20's.
False
Children's invented human forms are directly taught to the next generation.
False
Cultural assimilation does not influence a child's drawing content or process.
False
Engagement with nonviolent virtual games, books, movies, board games, and virtual simulations are the best ways to help develop a child's creativity and imagination. These often lead to the invention of a child's own world
False
Lowenfeld's stages of art development are absolutes and cannot be skipped or reversed.
False
Prophetic reality themes are only a part of children's artwork, adult artists "outgrow" this theme.
False
Traditional coloring books offer only passive activity or stress-relieving processes. "Anti-coloring books" provide opportunities for creative and artistic development because they have blank pages to fill in.
False
Visual symbolism starts after a child learns to communicate with words and numbers
False
Visual thinking benefits people in only certain professions (such as art and engineering).
False
A sharp, tapered-blade tool used for cutting and trimming clay or other materials. Used in bookmaking to cut paper. This tool is called a _______________.
Fettling tool/ knife
The creativity theory developed by Csikszentmihalyi (1988) describes the phenomenon of optimal experience as being a state in which (during and activity) the individual loses track of time, there is a good match between challenge and ability/skills, the activity is enjoyable for its own sake, and there is a sense of control over the outcome of the activity. What is the term for this theory?
Flow
Ages 7-12
For some children, the invention of imaginary worlds takes place in the context of private play or play shared with a few others.
Schematic Stage
Form of the concept/person is repeated; establishment of a baseline; very little or no overlapping for depth; X-ray drawings.
Psychologist Jean Piaget suggested play is useful because it strengthens mental skills. What three types of play processes does he identify? Mark all that apply.
Game play Symbolic play Practice Play
Jane McGonigal and other game creators see themselves as social activists by creating games that help people to learn, improve their communities, and contribute to make the world a better place. What is the name of the group of video-game designers who started this movement in 2004?
Games for Change
In her book, Unselfie, Michelle Borba (2016) discusses how empathy can be developed in children and others. Which of the following are displayed by empathetic individuals? (Mark all that apply).
Have a Moral Imagination Think "Us" Not "Them" Stick Their Necks Out Can Recognize Feelings
What behaviors are associated with creative potential (creative giftedness as an adult)? Mark all that apply.
Having an imaginary friend. Engaging in Worldplay Participating in play/theatre
Modeling
Higher-order thinking tool that requires combination of other thinking tools: construction (physical or intellectual) that "stands in" for the "real thing"
Mathematician, Diana Taimina crocheted models in yarn to help explain and illustrate
Hyperbolic geometry
According to the Root-Bernstein & Root-Bernstein, "Play returns us to presymbolic drives of gut feelings, emotions, intuition, and fun from which creative insights stem, thereby making us inventors." Several examples of practicing play are given at the end of the chapter. Describe an example of how you currently, personally practice playing.
I practice playing by changing up the way that I dress, and decorate my room.
The "Thinking Tool" discussed in the Root-Bernstein article, "What Mr. Spock Can Teach Us..." and described as: The ability to recreate sensory impressions and feelings in our minds in the absence of extrinsic or direct physical stimulation from our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, hands or body.
Imaging
In Lowenfeld's stages, which of the following in NOT a sub-stage of the scribbling stage?
Imitation
Reasoning about art
Improvement of reasoning about scientific images and concepts
Drawing
Improvements in content, elaboration and organization of writing.
Instruction in Art
Increased development of reading readiness (and computer readiness).
When it comes to TV, movies, video games and other projected, passive media in general, children often have a difficult time separating reality from make-believe-- especially in the case of media violence. Grossman & DeGaetano (2014) identify the effects of media violence. Mark all that apply.
Increased fear Desensitization to real-life and screen violence Increased aggression Increased appetite for violence
Visualization Training
Increased sophistication of reading skills/interpretation of text.
How is empathy defined by Root-Bernsteins as one of the The Thirteen Creative Thinking Tools?
Integrating 'I' and 'it'
Secondary School
Intellectual move from concrete forms of reasoning to abstract and hypothetical; a tendency to adapt to reality rather than distort reality in art or play.
Which of the following is NOT one of the outcomes of asking children questions about their drawings (in "Why Children Draw," by Wilson and Wilson)?
It causes the child to become self-conscious
What is the term for this type of binding?
Japanese Stab Binding
The definition of the term "schema" is
Latin for universal shape, figure, form, or outlines Organized pattern of thought or behavior Stereotypical images that sometimes inhibit original thinking None of these answers. Correct Answer All of these answers (except none of these...)
Empathy is an underlying factor for the 21st Century _______________
Learning & Innovation Skills
Observe
Learning to attend to visual contexts more closely than ordinary "looking" requires, and thereby to see things that otherwise might not be seen.
Express
Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.
Engage & Persist
Learning to embrace problems of relevance within the art world and/or of personal importance, to develop focus conducive to working and persevering at tasks.
Understand (Arts) Community
Learning to interact as an artist with other artists (i.e., in classrooms, in local arts organizations, and across the art field) and within the broader society. Arts is in parenthesis here as it can easily be switched with other disciplines, like science or history.
Envision
Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.
Stretch and Explore
Learning to reach beyond one's capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes.
Reflect
Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one's work or working process, and learning to judge one's own work and working process and the work of others.
Develop Craft
Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions; and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.
Although there are some positive reasons to allow children to borrow or copy art images there are several reasons copying may impede art development. Which is NOT one of the reasons copying may impede art development?
Mastery of conventional ways of drawing
Which of the following does not have a direct influence on art development?
Memory Correct Answer: None of these answers. Environment/support Experience/practice
"So observing is a form of thinking and thinking is a form of observing. In consequence, the purpose in practicing observation is to link sensory experience and [ what? ] as closely as possible." (Root-Bernstein, 1999)
Mental Awareness
Yani, a precocious and highly motivated young Chinese artist, showed the influence of Chinese art style and traditions in her paintings that have a theme of
Monkeys
A type of printmaking that uses a flat surface (such as a mirror, plexiglass or gel plate), upon which paint or ink is applied and a unique image is designed using various techniques. The exact image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows for multiple originals.
Monoprint
Understanding of Other Cultures
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me by Maya Angelou and Margaret Courtney-Clark
At what stage has a child's thinking changes from pure kinesthetic thinking in terms of motion to an imaginative thinking in terms of pictures?
Named Scribbling
5th Grade
Natural histories and culture
Another term for Worldplay
Paracosm
This term is associated with the psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.
Pareidolia
Ages 4-5
Partner with others to take on larger challenges; also individual play for ultimate pleasure
According to Studio Habits of Mind and Elliot Eisner's Ten Lesson, which of the following personal creative attributes/attitudes is encouraged through art education and promote a creative growth mindset?
Persist Engage Stretch and explore Take risks & look for the unexpected.
Positive After-images happen when an image quickly moves out of field of vision, but an afterimage briefly remains behind. Negative After-images happen when you look at a bright pattern, then look at a white/blank background and continue to briefly see that pattern of a "complementary color to the original." Both these phenomena are related to how we "see" the illusion of animation and are part of what is know as
Persistence of Vision
"...the creation of new thoughts or ideas are not determined 'by encounters with the environment, but are constructed within the individual himself... the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must reinvent it.'" Which theorist said this?
Piaget
Through recycling and art, Joshua Allen Harris used
Plastic bags and the subway to create wind creatures
According to Andreasen (2005) in "Building a Better Brain," the human brain is responsive, adaptive and eternally changing. We are literally remaking our brains every second of our lives in response to the demands and pressure of our environment. It is the ability to retain and store specific memories. What is the term neuroscientists use for this concept?
Plasticity
Primary School/ Elementary
Play reflects social change - peers are more important. School emphasizes structure and logical problem solving. Less creative playtime- after school time becomes more important for sustaining ability to flourish as and inventive player.
The psychological term for an individual who has mastery (is an expert) in more than one domain is
Polymath
Early Childhood (Ages 1-3)
Practice of individual communication and learning; explorers of their own interests and desires.
Which of the following are considered attributes, behaviors and/or traits associated with creativity? Mark all that apply.
Preference for asymmetry Tolerance for ambiguity Overactive physically and mentally Curiosity Openness to sub-conscious material Sarcastic or cynical
Balance
Principle
Contrast
Principle
Emphasis
Principle
Movement
Principle
Pattern
Principle
Rhythm
Principle
Unity
Principle
After ink/paint has been applied to the plate and designs have been created, a paper is pressed over the plate and then carefully taken off to reveal the image.
Pull a Print
Art can help students understand and engage in the interconnectedness of community and helps develop 21st Century Skills. Examples of collaborative art learning processes that promote this understanding include: (mark all the apply)
Puppetry Stop motion animation Creating a Tableau Playing Tag the Art Game Worldplay
K. Danko-McGhee & R. Slutsky (2007) discuss children as "Meaning Makers" and indicate this is usually seen at which stage of development?
Schematic Stage (ages 7-9)
Middle School/ High School
Self-Aware, Influenced by peers & belong to peer groups. Revisit earlier themes/topics with more complexity/ambiguity.
In the video, "Learning in a Visual Age - Why Art Education Matters", by the National Art Education Association, which of the following are identified as the visual literacy skills developed through art education/ art integration?
Sensitivity Recognition Perception
Lowenfeld's Scribbling Stage is most closely aligned with Piaget's
Sensorimotor Stage
A group of pages is known as a __________________. Typically these can include 4, 8, 16, or 32 pages (sometimes more). In commercial printing, these are often designed out of a single large sheet.
Signature
Ages 2-6
Simple substitution of one object for another. Animation of inanimate things.
Preschool
Size of play group increases, play becomes richer in invention with complex voices, figures and props.
Clements and Wachowiak include the following in advocating for arts education, except
Small differences can have large effects
Which of the following have been designed with an important component of origami?
Solar Panel Telescope Heart Stent Air Bags Self-functioning Robots
Clements and Wachowiak's use 5 metaphors to talk about the factors or intrapersonal aspects that influence or guide the art learning process. Which one of these is not a factor/metaphor they used?
Soul
"That doesn't look like any person I've ever seen!" At what stage of cognitive development in Aesthetic Experience is this individual?
Stage 2 - Beauty and Realism - Age 10
Scribbling Stage
Starts out as being done for purely kinesthetic pleasure; relates marks to things they know; images are assigned meaning, but the meaning may change over time.
In the lecture on collaborative art and social issues, which of the following is an example of a collaborative project we looked at that helped students understand and engage in the interconnectedness of community
Students grouped in a heart-shaped formation on a football field
3rd Grade
Study Community
Formalism
Study of art by analyzing the way objects are made and their purely visual aspects and emphasizes compositional elements.
When a child experiments with self-images and self-possibilities but substitutes another image (i.e., an animal or object) for themselves this is called a
Surrogate Self
The Bouba Kiki Effect is a study that investigated
Synesthesia
According to Studio Habits of Mind and Elliot Eisner's Ten Lesson, which of the following is encouraged through art education and promote a creative growth mindset? Mark all that apply.
Take risks & look for the unexpected Persist Engage Stretch and explore
A simple animation device that is a two-sided disk with images the "fit" together when the disk is flipped rapidly
Thaumatrope
According to Lowenfeld, the Gang or Dawning Realism Stage is also known as
The Golden Age Child Art
Environmental Awareness
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry
Acceptance of Others/Individuality
The Sneetches and other Stories by Dr. Seuss
Normative
The basis of this reality is the exploration of roles and good and evil in the eyes of the child. You may see a conflict or resolution between a "right" side and a "wrong" side. This based on a reality of standards concerning the implicit and explicit rules by which an individual or a society behaves.
Archeological
The reality of the self, explores questions like Who am I? What am I? What will I be?
Prophetic
The reality that portrays images of future selves & actions, inventions and created worlds.
Common
The reality that refers to the familiar and everyday perceptions and experiences of objects (a drawing of a vase of flowers or other things in the environment) and events that humans share.
In the reading on Art and Social Justice, according to Donahue, Stuart, Elkin, and Mistry (2010), artists have raised a number of issues and questions related to social justice. They have made visible and helped define people's identities (observe & express), particularly those on the margins of power. And, they have named and documented injustice (reflect). What is the third main issue/question related to social justice that some artists address through their work?
They have provided alternative perspectives
Mental Imagery "Library" (Visual Memory)
Those images we can recall from what we have seen in our personal experiences.
Art is valuable for its own sake.
True
Art processes and creative thinking tools can be of service to other domains. In other words, practicing a think tool in one domain can compliment work in another domain.
True
Children develop a graphic vocabulary
True
From the reading on Cultural Influences in Children's Drawings (Paget cited in Golomb, 2002), children in each culture naturally invent drawings that represent human forms.
True
From the reading on Cultural Influences in Children's Drawings (Paget cited in Golomb, 2002), young children's drawing styles and meaning-making strategies develop independently from adult image models
True
Inventors, Elmer Sperry and Jerome Lemelson, found scientific value in playing with and inventing toys.
True
Reading an artwork can be used to help develop a moral imagination.
True
Some types of visual thinkers can bring up an image with their eyes open and superimpose that image onto what they are looking at
True
This term is associated with the psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.
True
Typically, development of imagination, especially Worldplay, diminishes or fades out around puberty.
True
Using geometry-based origami can be an open-ended art lesson.
True
Visual symbols from TV, Internet, films, drawings, paintings require reading just as much as word symbols
True
Well-known creative adults who invented imaginary worlds as children include: (mark all that apply)
True
Synesthesia is about connections between
Two or more of the senses
Children begin to understand visual symbols
Very early, just after birth
Entoptic Images
Visual effects originating within the visual processing system of the individual.
According to Clements, R. D., Wachowiak, F. (2010) in the chapter on Art and Literacy, even after we learn to write, drawing is essential because
We formulate meaning through representation
What 3 basic questions do we ask when looking at art? Mark the correct 3 answers.
What does it mean? What is its value? What is it?
Visual Culture/ Environment
What you are seeing and experiencing around you and its influence your thinking.
Referring to the article, "You Can Hide, But You Can't Run: Interdisciplinary and Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Mask Making," when do forms of cultural re-representation become especially problematic and conflictive?
When images and objects have significant, sacred, or spiritual meaning for the social group from which they are appropriated. When images/ objects are used in a fashion that misrepresents or maligns the original social group When the original, cultural intent of an object is disregarded or over simplified
Symmetry
Words and pictures are on equal footing.
Counterpoint
Words and pictures tell different Stories.
This is a complex and elaborate form of make-believe that is more persistent behavior that last for weeks, months, even years--- and is revisited over and again
Worldplay
Kindness to others
Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth
Pattern Forming
combining simple elements in unexpected ways
Synthesizing
combining ways of experiencing
What 21st Century Skills Learning and Innovation Skills are directly associated with the study and practice of art making? Mark all that apply.
creativity collaboration communication critical thinking
Recognizing Patterns
discovery of natural laws, structures, rhymes, rhythms, intentions...
The best time to seek feedback on your assignments is
during work time in class or office hours
Empathizing
integrating "I" and "it." "Becoming' another person, animal, plant, electron, or star
Dimensional Thinking
interpreting "pictures" in one set of dimensions as objects in another set
Observing
knowledge about the world acquired by paying attention to what is seen, heard, touched, smelled, tasted, or kinestheically experienced.
List the "Thirteen Creative Thinking Tools" described by the Root-Bernsteins in their book, Sparks of Genius.
observing, abstracting, imagining/imaging, recognizing patterns, forming patterns, analogizing, body thinking, empathizing, modeling, dimensional thinking, playing, transforming and synthesizing.
According to Clements & Wachowiak in Emphasis Art (2010, chapter 1), there are many benefits of studying art? Identify one that resonates with you personally and explain why it is meaningful to you.
personal expression, and this is meaningful to me because I think it is important for people to be able to express themselves through something besides words
According to Piaget in Chapter 14 of "Cognitive and Psychological Factors in Children's Learning and Creative Development," his theory of constructivism refers to
the self-constructed nature of knowledge
Body Thinking
thinking that occurs through sensations and awareness of muscle movements and emotion
You can generally identify a student who has gifted potential in the arts or other areas
through early childhood drawings
When a child experiments with self-images and self-possibilities but substitutes another image (i.e., an animal or object) for themselves, they use this process
to safely experiment with sometimes adverse feelings and ways of being so the possibilities can be considered.
Analogizing
two apparently different things share important properties or functions
