Aim:
- to respond to arts using elements of arts terminologies
- to analyze an artwork using thinking hats.
Preparation:
1 artwork
Papers
Procedure:
- Show 1 painting done by famous artist e.g Starry Night by Van Gogh.
- Discuss about the painting and analyze the meaning and the story behind the painting.
- If students have familiar with thinking hats ask them to make questions based on the thinking hats and put them on table. Download the file below to see the sample.
Red Hats activity:
Focused questions (perspective): what kind of feelings involved n the arts? what makes you feel when you see this art?
· Discuss how certain feeling expressed in the
- Then continued by letting students do individual research to find out information about the artwork.
White hats activity
focused questions (forms): what kind of art is it? what elements of arts being used? who paint it, when, where?
· discuss the elements of arts used in the painting and how helpful they are to analyze an artwork in detail and accurate.
- Find information about the artist life, to find out how it can affect him/her in creating the art works and to get the general idea of the artwork by looking at the background story of the painter.
Blue Hats activity:
focused questions (function, connection): how is it done, how did the artist get inspration? think about materials, equipment and tools to paint and also, consider about the background story of the painting which realted to the atist life.
Green hats activity
focused questions (reflection, perspective): how to make it better? How can we improve it?
- Then for assessment task, ask students to evaluate or analyze an artwork from their favorite artist using thinking hat form/ worksheet. Below is the example of the worksheet, you may encourage your students to write question for each thing hat:
Thinking Hats Worksheet |