Curriculum Sketch

Figure Drawing: Body and Soul

Essential Questions

What is drawing?  Where did it start?  Is there value in figure drawing?  What does the figure represent?  How does our body relate to our soul?  How is the silhouette important?   How are our bodies represented?

Rationale

What do I really want them to be able to do?  I want them to think critically about drawing.  Within their own practice, within the history of the world, the way we think about humans, within the history of art.  How has it’s importance changed over time?  How has it stayed with us?  There are ideas about humanism, about classical drawing and what art education should be.  There are so many things to consider.  Why do we draw the body?

Learning Goals

Knowledge Base

Silhouettes: Kara Walker.  http://www.art21.org/artists/kara-walker

Michelangelo’s David

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel the later period when he started even adding muscles that aren’t even there.  “Last Judgment”

Leonardo da Vinci’s studies

Neoclassicism, why did we keep coming back to that ideal?

Fashion illustrators: ?

Janine Antoni “Loving Care”

Heather Hansen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4oBc-o1npg

Learning Activities:  

Make a drawing - first let the students draw anything.  

    Figure drawing

Drawing with sticks

Drawing from fashion illustrators

Drawing from the masters

Doing anything (from what we have done so far)

Drawing as an explorer as an excavator.

Drawing with tools.

Drawing with machines

The Big Project

Figure drawing: Drawing with your body somehow.  Needs to be a work that you spend a certain amount of time on.