Printmaking with a Japanese Influence Context of the video lesson This unit concentrates on printmaking with Japanese influence.
Students are aware of Japanese art from study in a previous unit.
They have practiced an approach to formal analysis that focuses attention on the sensory, formal, technical, and expressive properties of artworks. They have studied earlier paintings by Mary Cassatt, noted how her style changed as a result of coming into contact with Japanese prints, and discussed how this influenced her to work as a printmaker. This art specialist teaches children in the elementary grades and works closely with their teachers, cooperating with curriculum, schedules, and so forth. She has her own art classroom to which students come for their assigned art period once a week. The classroom teacher does not remain in the art room.