Learners: Art students in grades 9-12.
This presentation can be teacher led, or visited by individual students.
1. Students will interpret several "rooms" for meaning and message.
2. Students will examine how elements within the artworks convey different meanings.
3. Students will gather ideas to create a room that describes who they are.
Every room tells a story. Each has its own history and energy. Here is a collection of rooms from the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Uncover the meaning and story of each room's inhabitants by interpreting their past, present, and future as told by the room. Culminate the experience by creating a room that expresses your life story using one-point perspective and the elements of art.
ArtsConnected us all. From windows in Nuremburg, to an iPad in Duluth, this set is a sure winner. Take the challenge. Let the stories engage you #2.
Begin by looking...
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The old house will guard you,
As I have done.
Its walls and rooms will hold you,
And I shall whisper my thoughts and fancies
As always,
From the pages of my books.
You will sit here, some quiet Summer night,
Listening to the puffing trains,
But you will not be lonely,
For these things are a part of me.
And my love will go on speaking to you
Through the chairs, and the tables, and the pictures,
As it does now through my voice,
And the quick, necessary touch of my hand.
Amy Lowell
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Watch for a bit.
What history does a room hold?
What stories unfold before our eyes?
What can our minds and imaginations grab from walls and objects?
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Examine a moment.
What faces fill the chairs?
What food fills the table?
What sounds are heard?
What smells surround?
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Take a closer look.
What kind of mood comes forward?
What do you see that helps to create this feeling?
How could this mood be changed by altering the room?
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What is the first thing you notice while looking into this space?
Based on what you see, what conversations do you think might be heard while visiting?
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Spend a minute in Pierre Bonnard's Dining Room.
Artist: Pierre Bonnard
Date: 1913
Medium: Painting
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How does the mood of this room change when the interior walls are made of blues,
instead of oranges and reds?
Which do you prefer?
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Visit this studio from 1797.
Artist: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Date: 2008
Medium: commentary
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Displayed above, are two studio spaces.
How are they different?
How are they the same?
Which studio is most like your personal story? Why?
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Leaves float, hours seasons
from room to room.
Snow blows, and in the opening curtains.
Desolation leans against the walls,
spreads the house,
shadows lean and creak.
Snow, like a low creature moves,
nests in corners.
Sparse squares and eyes freeze.
If bird strays inside, it falls.
This hand that freezes does not warm it.
Here
Only voices stray
from wall to wall,
nest in my hair.
in the thin snow of my mind,
beneath which closed away are depth,
broken openings,
darkness smothered,
and mice eager to live.
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How is a forlorn quality depicted through this room?
Who are the people that move through this space?
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What do you think this "room" is about?
What do you see that makes you think this?
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How can an artistic idea like this take us beyond our own understanding of what makes a "room"?
Read more about the full installation here: Integrity of the Insider
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Here is another artist's use of a "room" to convey a message.
Two long cords-------------- are made of bundles--------- of thread.
On both------------- ends of each cord------------ are approximately---------------- fifty needles.
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How does this artist use the idea of rooms to tell a story about two people?
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Using the multimedia technology of CD-ROM, Starr divided these objects into a series of nine collections, each identified with a particular emotion or state of being, including loneliness, happiness, sorrow, or fantasy. At once autobiographical and fictional, these memories and images are referenced and cross-referenced in a latticework of associations that inspire a whimsical sense of wonder.
What do you feel like when you walk into this room?
Why do you think this is happening?
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You may think,
but why not dream a little,
Our past doesn't contradict our future;
they're swatches from the same fabric
stretching across our minds.
one image sewn into another,
like the relationship between
a foot and a boot.
Covariant in space and time-
one moves along with the other,
like an actor in a shadow play-
like a streak of scarlet light
across the skyline of your city
sweeping the debris,
which is simply confetti,
candy wrappers, a can of soda,
all the experience of a day discarded
and now picked up
even down to the youthful
screams of play
that put smiles on the faces of the adults
who hear remnants of their own voices
through a doorway leading back
to a sunrise they faintly remember.
A. Van Jordan
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This room juxtaposes space toys of the 1980s with a floating iPad of the present.
How can a room hold time?
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A room may stay the same,
but the world around can change in an instant.
Do you know a room like this?
What does it make you think of?
How does it make you feel?
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What do the elements say?
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Now, it is your turn to share. What are you going to say?
How will you use line, shape, color, form, texture, value, and space to give your room meaning?
Here is a website to help you brush up on your art elements.
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