2.2 Sound & Movement Activities for Analyzing and Reflecting

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Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

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The Museum of Modern Art

Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art

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Art can be a powerful catalyst for building skills and understanding a range of subjects. Intended for primary and secondary teachers of all disciplines, Art & Activity builds upon the inquiry-based approaches of Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies for Your Classroom, while delving into activity-based strategies that will make your students empowered participants.

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Activities for Analyzing and Reflecting

In this module, we’re moving from theory to practice, with videos that discuss drawing, sound, movement, writing, and game-based activities that build skills for analyzing and reflecting about art. Most videos touch upon a variety of methods, while the Take Action segments are in-depth demonstrations of specific activities. You’ll get the most out of these videos by actually doing the activities yourself. We encourage you to snap a photo of something you’ve made in response to a Take Action prompt, and then share it in the discussion forums.

2.1 Drawing Activities for Analyzing and Reflecting4:42

2.2 Sound & Movement Activities for Analyzing and Reflecting3:30

2.3 Take Action: Blind Contour4:57

2.4 Writing & Discussion-Based Activities for Analyzing and Reflecting4:45

2.5 Take Action: DJ the Artwork4:18

2.6 Games and Play-Based Activities8:53

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We often find that students may be more reluctant to speak in a group but are willing to engage

their bodies. We also recognize that older students might be more reluctant to express

themselves through movement or sound. But more often that not, with a few tweaks in

terms of facilitation, we find that even older students enjoy and welcome the chance to express

themselves in a form of communication that is more kinesthetic.

"Follow a Line" is an activity that I find especially helpful for teaching with abstract

works of art like One Number 31, by Jackson Pollock. After I give the students time to

look at and discuss the painting, I then have them choose one line at a time and follow

it with their finger and their eyes, mapping the trajectory of the line through space in

front of them. Once they follow their line, then I have them jump to another and repeat

this process for a few minutes. This guided looking gives them time to consider the qualities

of their chosen lines. Are they thick or thin? Solid or intermittent? Does their line travel

over or under other lines? What does the quality of the lines, tell us about the artist process?

These are all questions that can be discussed just from looking closely. For any age student,

this is a great activity for practicing observational skills and recording visual information with

the body. It's also an example of an activity that gives a sense of the importance of movement

and gesture in the artist's process.

Getting students physically engaged can be challenging, but often times, I find it one

of the most effective ways to encourage students to interact. Some of us are more kinesthetic

type learners, who benefit from exploring concepts through the use of movement. To engage

these types of learners, you can create a "Living Sculpture". As always, we start with

our observational techniques. For example when looking at this Brancusi sculpture, have

your students consider the material. How does what the sculpture is made of, affect its

form? Is it solid? Heavy? Tall? Short? Now you will allow individual students or groups

of students to take on a pose, gesture, or form that they observe in the work of art.

Have your students take on a pose or gesture that embodies what they observe with their

eyes.

Having the chance to embody the artwork allows for a very different experience, one that

you can't always get from just visual observation alone.

Sound is another great way to engage students' senses. You can have your students observe

works of art and assign sounds to the visual elements that they see. Yellow. Beep Beep.

Blue. Whosh. Yellow. Beep Beep. Red. Grr. By assigning sounds and having students repeat

them, they will learn about the relationship between color, form and pattern. This painting,

it is part of the artist's intention to illustrate a connection between pattern and rhythm. I

encourage you to try making up your own twists and variations on all of these activities.

Don't be afraid to test out different ideas. You can also change the prompt or directions

in the moment based on how your students respond.And remember, don't be afraid to jump in and model

sound and movement for your students.

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