How do we perceive beauty in art?
This activity is for Visual Literacy and looks at the study of beauty - called 'aesthetics'.
We will first learn to look carefully at an artwork and then secondly to research it, think about it, formulate and answer questions about what we see and think.
Lastly we will put this all together in an interesting way.
We call this sequence - 'analyzing' an artwork.
- You will work in groups that your teacher will allocate.
- The learner who is first in the alphabet will set up a research slideshow in Google Slides and share it with her group.
- Discuss the 'beauty' and stereotypes of beauty - Princess Sofia' - you see here in your group by using the 'Comments' function on the top right on the Slide screen.
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
This chart method helps you think ......but now you need to write this up as an article. Please write using full sentences, good spelling and punctuation. Explain what you mean so that readers can understand you.
What do you see?
‘Observation’
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What could it mean? (read the research!)
‘Interpretation’
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Why?
Substantiate your thinking.
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Activity 1:
Open your own Google Doc in Google Classroom and write an analysis of Princess Sofia.
Aim for at least 300 words.
You may copy and paste pictures and your references.
Please BEWARE of plagiarism (not using your own words) even if you started by working in a group.