Did you know that most artist are illusion masters? If you walk into a gallery or even just open a magazine, you will have an image. It could be any image: a famous landscape by VanGogh or an advertisement for Kraft Mac and Cheese. All of it is an illusion. It is not real, you cannot touch it or hold the real object. It was all created through artistic understanding of value, space, color, and much more.
Delta Center 5th graders learned about how artist use two specific art elements (think ingredients) to create illusions in their work: Space and Value. By focusing on these we can define where objects are and whether they are 2D (shapes) or 3D (form). Some artist use these to create pretty pictures. Others use them to melt your minds!
Delta Center 5th graders learned about how artist use two specific art elements (think ingredients) to create illusions in their work: Space and Value. By focusing on these we can define where objects are and whether they are 2D (shapes) or 3D (form). Some artist use these to create pretty pictures. Others use them to melt your minds!
5th graders put together their understanding of space (one point perspective and positive/negative) and value (lights/darks) to create very fun optical illusions. Study the pictures above; are you able to make out the spiral vortex? Can you see the face...Or is it a vase? Maybe it's both!
After making their, we looked at artists such as: M.C. Escher, Oleg Stuplack, Briget Jones, and Julian Beever. I love it when students have a chance to connect their understanding to other works and make connections. I love it even more when afterwards they are jumping at the chance to practice other illusions in their sketchbook, or, discover that they've hit the library immediately afterwards to look for more!
After making their, we looked at artists such as: M.C. Escher, Oleg Stuplack, Briget Jones, and Julian Beever. I love it when students have a chance to connect their understanding to other works and make connections. I love it even more when afterwards they are jumping at the chance to practice other illusions in their sketchbook, or, discover that they've hit the library immediately afterwards to look for more!