As students work they must solve visual problems and establish their own process. This is the part of the project that is a great introduction to artistic problem solving. Some students will use collage methods and use magazines, old calendars, maps, patterned papers, others will work with drawing and some will combine both collage and drawing. Once students have their profiles (traced or generic) they use a proportions guide I pass out to help them find the different volumes and features of the face to find images to replace. I find that this option of choice gives students some agency and helps with buy in and it doesn't effect the quality of the finished pieces- there are incredible pieces created by both starting methods. I offer this option because it is the first week of school and some students are very shy to have a teacher they don't know take their photo. Students have a choice of how they would like to begin the project- they can have a photograph of their profile taken and trace that to begin or they can use a pre-made generic profile outline. We also look at some contemporary artists that use a similar approach to portraiture. I like to tell students some fun Art History tid-bits in here to make the artist come alive- about how he was the Hapsburg court painter and that some of his portraits subtly mocked the aristocracy.Īfter our discussion we look at more slides of his work together and talk about the anatomy of the side of the face - what volumes do we see and how Arcimboldo shows these in his work. Another thing students might pick up on is that the scale of the fruit/veggies are being manipulated to fit the composition and are not appearing to true scale. For example using wheat for the eyebrow because they have similar textures.
Some of the things students will typically notice is that Arcimboldo is choosing particular fruit/veggie forms to stand in for particular facial features because of their visual similarities.
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I keep it very simple this first time to see what students will notice and how to guide the conversation toward the formal elements/strategies we want to identify and focus on in final pieces. I use many of thinking strategies from Project Zero and VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies) in my classes and this very simple close viewing and partner share is the first introduction of this way of visually analyzing images for my students. Some of my students may have seen this work before and others have not. Students begin the lesson by analyzing the work of Arcimboldo visually.
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