When you make a cake you need flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and baking soda. When you build a skateboard you need wheels, a board, some screws, and perhaps paint for decoration. When it comes to art there are also things that you need. These things exist EVERYWHERE and are part of EVERYTHING. These things can also help you be the best at whatever it is you want to do in life. What are these things? Why, they are known as the 7 ELEMENTS OF ART!
This week, students from all grades learned to identify the elements of art and recognized how they are used not only in art, but in everything that they do.
Students had a chance to compare the elements of art to the ingredients of a favorite dish, the parts of an object, or the steps of an activity. Students also delved into thought provoking questions related to NON-ARTSY things. Questions like these encourage us to think outside the box and make connections we didn't know exists. For example:
- Why do you doctors need to know COLOR?
- How can knowing TEXTURE help a BMX racer?
- Can knowing SPACE help a mechanic?
- Which ELEMENTS OF ART would be beneficial for parents to recognize?
Afterwards, students helped to create visual representations of the elements of art or participate in a hunt. Nothing like a good scavenger hunt to strengthen other important art skills: observation and inquiry!
The ELEMENTS OF ART: line, shape, color, value, texture, form, and space. Take a look at your world, which can you find?