Week 3, Visual Arts.

Visual Arts Workshop

This workshop we were introduced to a version of cubist portraits. We had to cut our portraits (from last week) into 4 pieces, write our names and two colours on the back of each piece and the class would share pieces and paint four pieces that was not their own.

I chose pink and blood orange. These are the pieces put together after they were painted by the class. There was some smudging on one of the pieces but it has it's unique abstract effect.

Teaching tip: Ensuring the students painted pieces that were not their own seemed like a good idea. There are always children who are more advanced in artistic skill than others and the children who have low confidence in visual arts are not eager to participate in class. By allowing different students to paint different pieces, each student will work hard on the pieces as firstly it is not theirs and secondly, they know somebody else is trying hard on their own. It also allows the appreciating of different perspectives which highlight the underlying factors of cubism.

Before I use this idea in my art lesson, I would have to explain cubism and ensure that the students understand that cutting a portrait into four pieces does not mean it is a cubist portrait!
Cubism: Displaying multiple viewpoints in one picture!