Writing analysis paragraph
Teaching writing in Art classroom is not exercised as often as in English class room like rest of my inquiry group member's. In art class, students should know how to describe, analyze, and make interpretation. They usually discuss out loud together or make their own brainstorm but they also need to be able to carry and organize these process into a form of writing.
Previously, I discussed about teaching students descriptive writing. After students know the art vocabularies and know how to describe an object using those terms, they can reflect them on actual writing. When students understood the process of writing description, they are ready to learn writing Analysis. With the elements they found from the observation, they determine how those elements work in the art piece. Students decide on were made, what effect they creates, how they contribute to the appearance or other extended questions. They can extend their question and make determination. Is he creating certain style by using specific choice of lines and colors? Does the structure system makes certain value? Is it warm or cold? Does the color he used makes the entire mood blue? Is it showing dramatic light and shadow? How does the idea of certain thing composed with using only specific elements? What is your perception to specific things. What are the impact and reaction to the object due to having certain elements?
Again, students are using the vocabularies to determine what and how the features convey certain ideas. Numerous questions cross their mind in analyzing thinking process. They find their own answer to each question and organize one by one in paragraph. They determine the function and balance of the object according to the elements they found.
Writing an art analysis paragraph could be hard but very flexible and authentic exercise. It requires lots of thinking process and they set their opinion and purpose in their own analysis. Since art is very subject matter, the analysis of classmates could vary little or a lot due to their characteristic and perceiving subject matter. They is not right or wrong answer. Through analysis writing activity with their friendly art work, students can be engaging and thought provoking.
Reference Cite
http://hsblogs.stanford.edu/arthistoryta/teaching-formal-analysis/ (MicrosoftWord/ PDF)
Helpful Video: How to Look at Art-Formal Analysis.
Hi Seajin, nice work!
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Do the students do all of this in one paragraph?
I think we are close to establishing a coherent plan for our inquiry project - teaching writing to teens. Emily is doing the pre-writing process, you are doing paragraph writing, I am doing the role of grammar throughout the process, and Kristina... darn it; I forget! Oh well, see you this evening.
Hey Adam, first the answer to your question could be honestly yes or no because in Analysis writing, they could do few sentences in each paragraph of three OR do one big paragraph BUT in either form, they have to mention about all three parts: Describing,analyzing, and making their final interpretation. Usually students begin to learn by writing short three paragraph so they clearly know what to write step by step from description to interpretation.
ReplyDeleteso here for our group, I am applying 'doing paragraph' to the writing we do in Art class room.