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Friday, 10/4Objective: In what ways do humans adorn their bodies?How is the way we perceive a person affected by their physical appearance and adornment choices? Goal: Create two different personas out of the same picture that explore the relationship between body adornment choices and how they are perceived by others. • Copy the following notes: • Adornment: something that adds attractiveness; an ornament; accessory; embellishment. Something that decorates, or beautifies.
Assignment Overview • Explore the way humans adorn their bodies and the messages that our choices convey. • Take pictures of upper body/faces to be used as canvases for adorning. • Enlarge images using a grid and drawing. • Learn how to shade with charcoal. • Learn how to shade in color. • Add layers of adornment that change the way we perceive the person with each layer.
To Do • Spend five minutes taking turns with the people at your table to discuss different ways in which humans decorate their bodies. • Categorize them into permanent and temporary.
Think about the question: How is the way we perceive a person affected by their physical appearance and adornment choices? • Explore this idea visually: In a spread in your journal: • Create a background (watercolor, gesso, collage etc.) • Choose one of the copied images to work with and take two copies of the same image. • Note your thoughts about the person represented in the picture. What do you think they are like? What conclusions have you drawn about them based on their appearance? • Cut around the image. • Alter each image by cutting, drawing over, collaging over or otherwise experimenting with it so that you are adorning each figure in two different ways. • Glue one image on each page of the spread. • Compare the two. • How has your perception of the person represented changed?
Exit Ticket • In what ways do humans adorn their bodies?
Friday, 10/4Objective: What has caused the need in humans to decorate their bodies since ancient times?How do symbols function as a language with which to communicate a message within a culture?Goal: Create two different personas out of the same picture that explore the relationship between body adornment choices and how they are perceived by others. • Drill • List three temporary ways that humans use to decorate their bodies. • List three permanent ways that humans use to decorate their bodies. • Explain what you had to do yesterday in your journal.
Notes • Symbol: A color, shape, image or subject representing a meaning to a culture or group of people other than its actual appearance.
What has caused the need in humans to decorate their bodies since ancient times?
How do symbols function as a language with which to communicate a message within a culture?
Think about the question: How is the way we perceive a person affected by their physical appearance and adornment choices? How does symbolism and being on the inside or outside of the person’s culture affect our perception? • Explore this idea visually: In a spread in your journal: • Create a background (watercolor, gesso, collage etc.) • Choose one of the copied images to work with and take two copies of the same image. • Note your thoughts about the person represented in the picture. What do you think they are like? What conclusions have you drawn about them based on their appearance? • Cut around the image. • Alter each image by cutting, drawing over, collaging over or otherwise experimenting with it so that you are adorning each figure in two different ways. • Glue one image on each page of the spread. • Compare the two. • How has your perception of the person represented changed?
Exit Ticket • What has caused the need in humans to decorate their bodies since ancient times?