Post on 27-Dec-2014
description
"When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created."
Louise Nevelson
Assemblage Art: Transforming Trash into Treasure
By Marie Max
For students grade levels 9-12
Objectives • Select recycled items to produce a theme or
narration. • Design a sculpture and base.
• Construct and assemble sculpture and base. • Create a narrative assemblage sculpture.
Motivation• Re-invent functions of trash• Social, cultural, and environmental
awareness• three-dimensional format• curiosity for investigating an
explanation.
Louis Nevelson
Isaiah Zagar
Phoebe Washburn
Essential Questions
• How can the term 'trash' be reinvented to define 'treasure' when it is recycled into an art piece?
• Can assemblage art successfully be an aesthetic narrative of society, personality, or culture?
• How?
Transforming Trash in to TreasureGather discarded objects.
What might they have been used for? What were the objects were symbolic of? Design a layout and base support: think about layers, or relief surfaces. Assemble: glue, found wire, etc. Attach sculpture to base.
Evaluation•Group critique•Written responses:
•What was the benefit of using discarded materials?
•How did the objects transform?
•How do the individual objects function as a whole?
•What Art Elements were incorporated?
•Do you feel successful in your transformation?
•Why?