Big Idea: Ancient cultures are still part of our lives today
Summary: Students will look at ways that Ancient Greek art, mythology, and culture, are a part of their lives today through pop culture examples and discuss the ways culture impacts art throughout the process of making coil pots. Students will then smooth the outside of their coil pots, and use red and black glaze to emulate Greek Black Figure Pottery. Vases will be painted with two different traditional Greek patterns, and an image of an original monster or personal story.
Rationale:
Students may often feel that learning about history and ancient culture is disconnected from their everyday lives. By starting out with looking at the ways Ancient Greek art and culture are part of their own lives, students will be more invested in understanding art history, and understand how they can reference and draw inspiration from art history in their own work. They will put that inspiration into practice by drawing from major themes in Ancient Greek art for the images on their own vases.
National Standards:
VA:Cr2.2.3a
Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.
VA:Pr6.1.3a
Identify and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.
VA:Cn11.1.3a
Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made.
Pennsylvania Standards:
9.1.3.B
Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts.
9.2.3.D
Analyze a work of art from its historical and cultural perspective.
Objectives:
The Student Will…
Knowledge
• Understand how Greek art and culture is part of their lives by viewing and discussing pop culture examples that reference Ancient Greece.
Skills
• Create clay vases using coils and smoothing the outside, and carefully glazing their final design and patterns.
Disposition
• Demonstrate artist behavior, and engage with the art world, by creating final designs that incorporate their own ideas and experience, with themes and techniques from art history.
