5th Grade - Lesson 8 : Ratio and Proportion in the Human Figure
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Description of Project
Students represent the human figure proportionally using two different art media - drawing and assemblage. (Teach in multiple sessions).
Washington Masterworks
Folk Dance on Independence Day by Mark Tobey
Untitled by Elizabeth Dwight
Photos courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture.
Instructional Video
Learning Standards
Arts GLEs
- 1.1.a Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for artmaking.
- 1.2.a Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.
- 2.1.a Experiment and develop artistic ideas and work.
- 3.a. Create artist statements using art vocabulary to describe personal choices in art-making.
- 7.1.a Compare one’s own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.
- 8.a Interpret art by analyzing characteristics of form and structure, contextual information, subject matter, visual elements, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed. *10.a Apply formal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through art-making.
Common Core Math
- 6.RP.3.d. Use ratio reasoning to convert measurement units; manipulate and transform units appropriately when multiplying or dividing quantities.