"What is essential is invisible to the eye"
from the Little Prince
Another full day of learning, organizing, preparing, and just plain taking care of "bidness". This blog won't be very long because its mostly just a report on the "day to day" of my classes.
I went through the text "The Visual Experience" that is our current art textbook in Texas and jotted down all the pages listed in the index for the main EXPRESSIONS that the students will be choosing from in order to work on their particular assignment they give themselves. Other than REALISM, which is a little easier to understand and a concept which the students are familiar, I felt that they needed to familiarize themselves with the other choices before committing themselves to one of them.
The illustrations in the text concerned with IMPRESSIONISM had some nicely chosen ones by RENOIR.
It happens that I had brought in a couple of personal books on Renoir, so I felt good about having even further research material available for them later.
And so it went with EXPRESSIONISM as well. I had to point out that in this first cycle, since we are concerned with the STILL LIFE along with the other factors, that Abstract Expressionism will need to wait until a later cycle. Picasso and Braque were well represented in the discussion of CUBISM so I hope they gleaned some good information from that research.
I told them to keep in mind the test they will be preparing as they take their notes. Some later asked if they could give themselves a grade on the test portion for today if they wrote some down. Good things to hear.
I told them to not be satisfied with the cursory, obvious bits of information, but search out that meaningful piece of infor they think no one else would bother with. THAT'S what they'll take home!
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