MatisseI chose to make the top collage because I have moved from home to home throughout my life and my family have always pushed me to become a teacher throughout my life. I am very creative and children mean a lot to me. The bottom collage I made because I travel a lot and to a new place every year. I love to travel because it gives me a sense of that areas culture and I get to see all of the beautiful sights with my family and make many memories.
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Lineage
This picture was created to represent the teachers in my life that were positive, negative, and in between. The purple stands for the negative teachers which is why they are underneath the other colors because the positive teachers outweighed the negative ones. The orange stands for the in between teachers because there were days where I really didn't like them and we would butt heads but they would always make sure I did what I was supposed to do in order to succeed. The green represents the positive teachers and they are on top because they outweigh every other teacher. Their support and drive to help me succeed is what makes them such a positive aspect in my life.
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PersonificationI chose to make a picture of Elsa from the movie Frozen with a cat as her face because cats are cold animals that don't like to be around people. In the movie, Elsa disappears into the mountains and casts winter over the city which causes everyone to be cold and no one likes her. Not a lot of people like cats because they are sneaky and don't like to be around humans so I thought of Elsa as a cat.
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Final Reflection
The studio lessons related to
the big idea because they each showed a part of someone. They showed a part of
each person’s identity by how they made their artwork. The first studio lesson
showed the positive and negative teachers in my life and I used that to show
that even though there were negative teachers in my life, the positive teachers
overshadowed them. The Matisse collage showed my identity in a sense of who I
am. I travel a lot so I put a bunch of traveling pictures on there and then
made another one that represented a family and a teacher. Using the
personification piece that I did can really help in a classroom. As said in the
book, “The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes
are seldom fixed, but change with circumstances and opportunity. Learning in
the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the
unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds” (MMBooklet, 3). To me
this gives children the opportunity to make something that they don’t
anticipate. When I made the personification piece, I had no idea what I wanted
to do and I just came up with it and it ended up being much better than I could
have imagined. Children can learn from these studio lessons because it helps
them to open up and show a part of their identity and their imagination. “Education
can learn from the arts that open-ended tasks permit the exercise of
imagination, and the exercise of imagination is one of the most important of
human aptitudes” (MMBooklet, 7). I really liked this quote in particular
because I believe that children don’t know what they are capable unless they
are open-minded with their tasks. With my personification piece I didn’t know
what I wanted to do as my background so I used watercolors to just make marks
all over the page and I ended up really enjoying what became of it. Showing
children how to do these studio lessons and implementing them in your classroom
helps students to show a piece of their identity to help them become more
creative with their artwork.