How to create the best visual to illustrate a story?

How to Interpret Visual Arts? (Read New York State Visual Arts Standards )

Procedure: 

  1. Read an example of "how to interpret a visual art".
  2. Resources of How to Interpret Visual Arts
  3. Take a virtual trip to one of the New York City Art Museums. Select one art work you would like to view and criticize:T

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/

    The Museum of Modern Art: http://www.moma.org/

    Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence

    http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Tapestry/renaissance_images.htm

    1. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Tapestry/24.L.htm
    2. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Tapestry/24a.L.htm
    3. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Tapestry/40.L.htm
    4. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Tapestry/49.L.htm
    5. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Tapestry/53.L.htm

    Surrealism: Desire Unbound

    http://metmuseum.org/special/surrealism_desire_unbound/desire_unbound_images.htm

    Each Group picks one art work to respond to. Write down the URL of the art.

Day 4 (4/11):  Aim: How to respond or criticize visual arts?

Procedure:

  1. Locate the art work you want to criticize. 
  2. Have the art in front of you and follow  the instructions to interpret the art work. Write your interpretation on a piece of paper.
  3. Share your interpretation of the art work within your group.
  4. Decide on the final group interpretation of the art work that you'll publish in the website. You can not copy the original art work on your website. Instead you link to the website directly to avoid stealing.

Homework: Turn your notes into an essay. Due next Monday.

Critical Analysis Process

Responding to Visual Arts

(Adapted from Drawing Insight (Secondary Level): Teaching Visual Thinking Art Concepts,

Book I, Ivan E. Cornia, A. Steven Egna, Marc A. Curtis, Gibbs-Smith, Salt Lake City, 1994)

DESCRIBE

Discover as much as you can about the artwork.

Think like a detective. Tell what you know about who made it. How? With what?

Are there some things in the artwork that you recognize?

Are people shown to you? Is a time, place, or event shown?

What kinds of colors, shapes and lines has the artists used?

Are these repeated? In what ways?

What is the first thing you notice when you look at the artwork?

 

EVALUATE

Tell how the artwork is important or special.

Give thoughtful reasons for your opinion.

Is the artwork important or special because of what it does? Why?

Would you like other to see this artwork? Who? Why?

INTERPRET

Explain what this artwork means.

Give reasons for your interpretation.

What mood or feeling is expressed in this artwork?

Does it seem quiet? happy? Frightening? Powerful? Friendly?

Can you think of other words to describe the mood or feeling?

How has the artist suggested the mood or feeling?

Is there a message or deeper meaning in the artwork than is apparent at first viewing?

What in the artwork leads you to interpret the artwork the way you do?

 

Aim: What artistic elements can you include in your web site to illustrate the literary works? How to upload them into the Internet?

Procedures-

I. Ideas for Artistic presentations of your Website:

A) of theme B) Character C) Title Design D) Photo Collage E) Design collage - Illustrate Significant things about storm.

*keep in Mind: Patten/color Backgrounds   Ghosting Photos   Super-imposing   Font      Use contrast ( Dark Against Light)        Using visual clues

II. How to edit an image file?

a. Find an image from the Internet you'd like to use.
b. Copy it on your Paint program blank page.
c. Use the brushes and pencils and various colors to edit your image as you need.
d. Save the image on you floppy choosing  jpg or gif type.

III. How to upload the images into your website?

a. Save the image file as "jpg" or "gif" file.

b. Insert the image on a blank document and save the file.

c. When uploading the file, you need to upload both the document file and the image file. I recommend not to make the page background too fancy ,which might distract your audiences from reading your written work. Leave it plain or use a ghostly image.

*** If you decide to use the original photos, you need to get the permission to use the work by sending an email to the webmaster of the page. It's much easier if you use Paint to create, or edit  the image, then you don't need the permission. You can even draw on paper and I'll digitize the drawings for you.

Aim: How to respond to literature?

Do Now: What is one of your favorite books or poems? What make it so unforgettable? In what way are you affected by it? Write your thoughts down and they are your responses to a piece of literature.

Procedure:

I. What can you write about Greek tragedies?

II. For poetry, you can create writings such as-

  1. Stanza by stanza interpretations
  2. Analysis of the poem, i.e., its use of literary devices, or the poet's unique view on a certain subject
  3. Reponses about how the poem affects you
  4. Comparing the poem to another literary work

III. What can we write about a short story or a novel/play?

  1. Write about the protagonist, his characteristics, his involvement in a conflict, his relationships with other characters, his changes or lack of changes, his ups and downs, what makes him the most important character of the work, etc.
  2. You can compare and contrast two characters from the same work or from two different works
  3. Write about symbolism or irony in the work
  4. Respond to the theme 
  5. Choose a character and pretend to be him/her and follow her through the whole book. Write diaries from his/her point of view retelling or responding to the events happened in the book.
  6. Be a news reporter and turn certain events into news articles.
  7. Rewrite a scene using a different genre, for example, you can turn a very interesting chapter of a novel into a dramatic scene, or a narrative poem; or you can choose a different point of view to retell the story (see lessons on Point of View Writing)
  8. Critical essays on a certain aspect of the novel
  9. Use different literary response approaches, such as psychological, historical and political perspectives, to prove the significance of the work( Read an example)
  10. You can also write about the connections between an art work and the story (read an example: art's unfighting feelings)