A visual arts lesson that introduces students to Native American cultures expressed through rock art. Students will, utilizing earth-tone colored paints and a rough textured paper medium, create primitive forms and caricatures. Students will develop insight by creating their own meaningful rock art as to how Native American cultures lived and communicated through rock art. Students will present their own works to the class, and attempt to interpret the relevant meaning from other student's work.
Different cultures express themselves in different ways.
This lesson provides students with a better understanding of, and appreciation for, Native American cultures and art through rock art. Students will gain a better understanding of primitive visual art and its related interpretation as a meaningful expression of culture. This lesson will enable students to appreciate cultural art and artifacts as a means of communication. Images created on rock, either by etching or painting. A rock art image that is painted or drawn.