Perceptions of Beauty 2015

Welcome Grade 9's!

Our theme for the year is the question ...

How do we perceive beauty in art?

Our first activity is in Visual Literacy.

Jane Alexander - Oh Yes Girl.......(3-D)

Disney's new Sofia princess (2-D)

Discuss the 'beauty' you see here with your group. 


Now create a chart on foolscap so you can write your observations on the types of Beauty that you see in these two figures. Find and interpret 5 aspects for each. 

1. OBSERVE carefully!
2. Follow the links to read up about them.

This chart method helps you think ......but now you need to write this up as an article to post to our blog. Please write using full sentences, good spelling and punctuation. Explain what you mean so that readers can understand you.

Link to Sofia article

Here is a very interesting article on Baby-face Bias which may influence your thinking
....... LINK

"Baby-face characteristics include round features, large eyes, small noses, high foreheads, and short chins. Super-neonatal and super-mature features are usually only found in cartoon characters and mythic creatures. Baby-face features correlate with perceptions of helplessness and innocence, whereas mature features correlate with perceptions of knowledge and authority."

Mrs Hellmann made an interesting presentation on application examples of this 'baby-face bias' - have a look!
HERE

Miss de Vries collected these interesting images of other Disney princesses - have a look!  HERE
And another one......  HERE

Open a Google Doc and work in this until you are happy with the result. Copy and paste your answer into the Activity 1 Reply Form link below. This will take the answer directly into your teacher's mark-sheet. If you 'share' the Doc with her then it will go to her email and Incoming Drive traffic - not good for her!

Activity 1:
Write an analysis of Princess Sofia in Docs and copy and paste into this LINK.
It will send to me automatically as a reply.

RUBRIC LINK

Activity 2:
Write an analysis of 'Oh Yes Girl ...'
Your teacher will tell you how to hand this in.
Possibility ... work in Docs and then paste into the Form LINK?

Link to 'Oh Yes Girl.......'
Link to Tatham Art Gallery

Link to Assessment Rubric