Wk 8: Art Dialogue

This workshop looked at creating an art dialogue for students within a visual arts lesson. When students are able to understand art dialogues they begin to understand art as a whole. Visual arts, especially, has an art dialogue that uses certain elements and principles where students can understand different types of line, colour, size, texture, tone and shape (Gibson, 2013). When they understand this, you can begin to give them questions that will help them get a grip of their artwork, for example can you tell me about this pattern? What materials did you use for your drawing and why did you choose those materials? Questions like these can help students art dialogues become more in tuned with what they are creating. According to McArdle’s (2012) research, looks into a artists that teach children art dialogue by letting them explore, play games and have fun (p. 46). Making children actually experience these art dialogues is a true way of making them understand about visual arts.

This workshop looked at colour schemes, and different ways to interpret it. This picture is of the Earth, the Moon and of the Universe we live in.

Reference

McArdle, F. (2012). The visual arts: Ways of seeing. In S. Wright (Ed.), Children, Meaning-Making and the Arts, (pp. 30-56). Frenchs Forest: Pearson Australia.