Artifacts as Art and Inspiration
Inquiry Statement Artifacts from the past can often be interpreted in a more complex manner far beyond their original purpose Inquiry Questions Factual:
Conceptual:
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Criteria B and DTASK 1 FORMATIVE:
We will go into the clay studio and learn how to make three different styles of pottery: Pinch Pots, Coil building, slab building Once you feel confident with these techniques, we will learn about a certain type of pottery that was discovered in tombs in Mexico. They are from prehistoric times. Criteria B/D: Summative: You will choose 2 of artifacts that we have studied and try your best to replicate them using the techniques you know. Then using value, you will draw the pieces that you have made in your workbook. Respond to one another's work using stickies and respond to your own work. |
OBSERVING ANCIENT ARTIFACTS
Look at the grouping of figures below. Using the table below, fill in what you know by observation and then fill in your interpretations of this artifact. Pay particular attention to the areas that are circled in red. They can give clues understanding. |
This is an artifact grouping found in a Tomb in Jalisco,Mexico: 300 BCE
EXPERT INTERPRETATION
Click on the link to review the google slides
Task 1 Compare and Contrast (part of Summative - Criteria A)
Investigation of Ancient Mexican Art (Tomb Shaft Art)
1. Look at the ceramic art (above) from each region. Using the appropriate language, make a Venn diagram of how they are similar and how they are different. Do this using images and annotations. You can go online to search other images if you wish. Make sure to paste the images in your venn diagram.
Do NOT write in paragraph form.
Investigation of Ancient Mexican Art (Tomb Shaft Art)
1. Look at the ceramic art (above) from each region. Using the appropriate language, make a Venn diagram of how they are similar and how they are different. Do this using images and annotations. You can go online to search other images if you wish. Make sure to paste the images in your venn diagram.
Do NOT write in paragraph form.
Form, Size, Color
What is depicted?
Realistic, Imaginative - How?,
Details: surface markings , painting, carving, added clay?
Material, hollow/solid?
Technique
What emotions do the works convey?
Symbolism?
What purpose might they serve? Your best guess...
Function
What is depicted?
Realistic, Imaginative - How?,
Details: surface markings , painting, carving, added clay?
Material, hollow/solid?
Technique
What emotions do the works convey?
Symbolism?
What purpose might they serve? Your best guess...
Function
Ancient Mexican Ceramic Vessels and Figures Found in Tombs - from 1000BCE - 300AD
NAYARIT STYLE CERAMICS 1000 - 300 BCE
JALISCO STYLE CERAMICS 1000 - 300 BCE
Criteria A/B - Developing skills/Investigation (Summative)
Choose 2 pieces of ceramic sculpture from each region to investigate in your workbook. One should be a vessel and the other should be a human or animal figure.
Use the sites below to help you with your research. When you go to the sites, skim through them for the region that you are looking for and to get all the information that you need, use the menus that are on the top and the right of the pages.
- In your book, sketch one vessel and one figure from each region. Your sketches should be observational using value and tone to show form. Work slowly and observe what you are drawing. (Half Page)
- Find out where the artifact was made and when it was made (if it is known).
- Use the appropriate language to describe the piece. Describe objectively what it looks like: shape, size, realistic?, imaginative - how?, details?, surface markings? , material, hollow/solid?
- What is your interpretation of the piece? From your in-class learning, why do you think it was it buried in the shaft tomb along with the dead? Take a look at the slide presentation above to give evidence of what your opinion is based on.
- By studying the piece, think about how the artist made it? Was it the slab method. the coil method, a pinch pot? Was clay added? Is it a combination of techniques
- What is it about this artwork that inspires you?
- Be sure to record the source of the image. Please make sure to write about each piece in depth - core of criteria A
Use the sites below to help you with your research. When you go to the sites, skim through them for the region that you are looking for and to get all the information that you need, use the menus that are on the top and the right of the pages.
ALL REGIONS:
- University of Maine:
COLIMA:
- http://cookjmex.blogspot.com/2012/02/etzatlan-adventure-part-5-shaft-tomb.html
- http://steveinmexico.blogspot.com/2011/01/stuffing-my-mouth.html
- http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/but06/hillwood/pre_columbian/objects/cf16/index.html
- http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-9573061257322881%3A2093422672&ie=UTF-8&q=ancient+mexico#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=colima
- http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/Heritage_of_Power_Ancient_Sculpture_from_West_Mexico_The_Andrall_E_Pearson_Family_Collection
NARAYIT:
- https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/the-haunting-subhuman-monstrosities-of-ancient-nayarit-a-critical-reassessment/ This is a very informative article with excellent images at the end
- http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/but06/hillwood/pre_columbian/objects/general.html
- https://www.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/artmuseum/docs/preview_magazine_04-2011rev.pdf
- JALISCO:
Many of the sites above mention Jalisco
MODERN ARTISTS OFTEN LOOK TO THE PAST FOR INSPIRATION
Shaft-tomb figures from West Mexico and objects produced by indigenous artists in Africa, New Guinea, and other underdeveloped areas, sometimes described as “primitive art,” have influenced popular culture by appearing in the background or as props to lend atmosphere to television shows, movies, and advertisements. Apparently attracted by the appearance of a figure from Nayarit, Alfred Hitchcock gave it an important role in his classic film, North by Northwest. An advertising campaign in magazines during the early 1990s for Kahlúa liqueur, which is produced in Mexico, used tomb figures in the background.
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE DONALD DUCK TO YOU?
Shaft-tomb figures from West Mexico and objects produced by indigenous artists in Africa, New Guinea, and other underdeveloped areas, sometimes described as “primitive art,” have influenced popular culture by appearing in the background or as props to lend atmosphere to television shows, movies, and advertisements. Apparently attracted by the appearance of a figure from Nayarit, Alfred Hitchcock gave it an important role in his classic film, North by Northwest. An advertising campaign in magazines during the early 1990s for Kahlúa liqueur, which is produced in Mexico, used tomb figures in the background.
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE DONALD DUCK TO YOU?
Response - Group Drawing - Criteria D Making Connections between "The Ancient" and "The Modern"
In a group of 4 - 5, draw figures inspired from what we have studied in class. The theme of your drawing is "Connecting the Old with the New". All the figures should be visually connected in some way. Fill the whole paper with figures. You may draw them in any style that you like.
Once you have finished drawing the foreground (figures), do something interesting with the negative space in the background that will enhance your theme.
When you finish completely, give your drawing a title and put all of your names on the back. Make a key so I know who did which part of the piece. Take a picture of your piece and paste it into your book. Next to the image, write what the image represents and the positives and deltas of working collaboratively on an artwork
In a group of 4 - 5, draw figures inspired from what we have studied in class. The theme of your drawing is "Connecting the Old with the New". All the figures should be visually connected in some way. Fill the whole paper with figures. You may draw them in any style that you like.
Once you have finished drawing the foreground (figures), do something interesting with the negative space in the background that will enhance your theme.
When you finish completely, give your drawing a title and put all of your names on the back. Make a key so I know who did which part of the piece. Take a picture of your piece and paste it into your book. Next to the image, write what the image represents and the positives and deltas of working collaboratively on an artwork
Artists Inspired by Ancient Artifacts
Click on the link below
https://docs.google.com/a/nist.ac.th/presentation/d/16jUTN-xcjmvxC4ok5_2bojHyblQ3fMYSqqke-9VOeiA/edit?usp=sharing
Click on the link below
https://docs.google.com/a/nist.ac.th/presentation/d/16jUTN-xcjmvxC4ok5_2bojHyblQ3fMYSqqke-9VOeiA/edit?usp=sharing
Criteria B and C- Creating Artifacts for the year 2525
Imagine that 400 years from now someone finds a tomb filled with sculptures and vessels (containers) made from clay. What will be inside the tomb?
You are going to design and create a ceramic piece based style of the tomb artifacts we have studied. Your piece should be inspired by what you have learned and seen, but not a copy. Put a modern twist on the ancient.
You will create one piece using the clay techniques that we learn in class: slab, coil, pinch pot
1. Sketching for Inspiration.
Divide your page into quarters. Draw 4 sketches of different figurative clay pieces that you might like to make in class
You can incorporate carving, sketching, adding clay, writing text, anything that sends a "message" to the viewer about our times.
No Cell phones or computers.
Think about:
Fashion
Entertainment
Food
Drink
Family
Language
Holidays
Travel
World events: Monsoons, earthquakes. Trade towers
Weapons
Crime
Travel
War
transportation
Imagine that 400 years from now someone finds a tomb filled with sculptures and vessels (containers) made from clay. What will be inside the tomb?
You are going to design and create a ceramic piece based style of the tomb artifacts we have studied. Your piece should be inspired by what you have learned and seen, but not a copy. Put a modern twist on the ancient.
You will create one piece using the clay techniques that we learn in class: slab, coil, pinch pot
1. Sketching for Inspiration.
Divide your page into quarters. Draw 4 sketches of different figurative clay pieces that you might like to make in class
You can incorporate carving, sketching, adding clay, writing text, anything that sends a "message" to the viewer about our times.
No Cell phones or computers.
Think about:
Fashion
Entertainment
Food
Drink
Family
Language
Holidays
Travel
World events: Monsoons, earthquakes. Trade towers
Weapons
Crime
Travel
War
transportation