I teach sculpture at a magnet high school for the arts and technology. The orientation of the visual arts department is to give the students a strong foundation in skill building techniques based in observation. Subsequent advanced level courses seek to apply skills in observation and aesthetic judgment in order, for each student, to eventually develop a focused body of work.
Many students earn scholarships to art colleges across the country.
This lesson is an intermediate step to developing one's own body of work. The student will be able to apply basic handbuilding skills to an intermediate level project. Students will be able to understand the art historical development of Surrealism as a movement and its application to current contemporary art. Students will be able to apply basic understanding of color, to an intermediate level work, that indicates an understanding of how color enhances form. You may show slides of previous student's work- only the best work.