Integrated Arts?

The Integrated Arts is a model designed to offer support, extension, and supplementary experiences in content areas through interdisciplinary arts activities. The Common Core Standards' emphasis on developing depth and rigor in thought and the ability to communicate relevant information with increasing skill provides the necessary impetus for this model. Content will be viewed through many lenses, allowing the entirety of relevant ideas to be processed and applied broadly and with added depth. Work with visual arts, music, drama, literature, writing, technology, and design will be incorporated and collaboration with classroom teachers will be ongoing. As Yeats wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire". The Integrated Arts is an opportunity to light a very purposeful, very directed fire.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Freidreich styled trees and ruins

 Admire the atmosphere in process.

....Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) was a German landscape painter often thought of as one of the key artists of Romanticism.   Second graders are looking at his "Abbey in an Oak Forest" which shows his atmospheric use of light and his gloomy trees.


Students were taught about developing a scene with composition that focuses attention on a central element as they created their trees and ruins scene. Trees  frame a ruin of some type, with the trees exhibiting a ghostly quality and the ruin standing in sharp contrast. Top off with a glowing moon and clouds created with thinned tempera paints and you have a perfect October project with good art education connections.

This project will wrap up next week- just in time for the 31st!
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