VISUAL ART CELEBATORY REFLECTIONS: TERM 1
Celebration is in order as we congratulate our students on their achievements over the past 60 classes! It is my intension to present a slide show to you all presenting 1 art piece from every student in the 1st trimester WITH reflective notes as to what makes their artwork unique and vital to our community. 6th grade seminar work: Rebecca has used our "Tiny Art exhibit" frames to make her Candy Land invasion comic. This is a brilliant means to panel a comic. Notice her attention to detail and the arrows that point the direction of the comic. It is clear she wants you to read this story! Victory, REBECCA! For his Olmec head, Kam followed suit and made the head of his favorite basketball player, Lebron James. This is very fitting, as it is believed that the ancient Olmec heads are of ball players/warriors; the theory goes, as anthropologist David Graeber tells us, that for the ancient Olmec, sports and war were interchangeable, and large conflicts were o...