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Expressing Indigenous Art!
- Grade 5
- The Arts
- Visual Arts
Description
In this activity, students explore and study various works by Indigenous artists. Using the critical analysis process, students appreciate proposed works by making connections between the colours used and the emotions they might represent. Students explain why these colours show various emotions.
Learning goals
- I enjoy various works of art by Indigenous artists.
- I explain how the colours used in the works demonstrate emotion.
Vocabulary
- critical analysis process: initial reaction, description, analysis and appreciation
- colour: warm and cool, primary and secondary, nuance, link to emotions
- line: type (straight, curved, broken, etc.), quality (thin, light, dark), direction of convergence
- form: geometric, organic, compound, symmetrical and asymmetrical
- texture: quality and luminosity
- works by Indigenous artists
