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8th grade students bring art to life. Each
group of students selected a painting. They looked closely at
the composition (the arrangement of the elements within the work)
and the content (feeling or mood) of the selected work. Next they
painted or constructed the background environment in which the
action was to take place. Then individuals from each group assumed
the role of the various figures, recreating the sense of movement
and emotion of each character. Students gathered props from home,
family, friends, and even the Goodwill store in an effort to create
each figure as accurately as possible.
Images included Homer's Snap the Whip, Leonardo's famous
The Last Supper, Cezanne's The Card Players, Caravaggio's
Supper at Emmaus, and African American artist Faith Ringgold's
story quilt, Groovin' High.
While working with the composition, students began to notice the more subtle details like the point of view, the lighting, spatial relationships, and each artist's unique style of paint application.
Students then attempted to reinvent the wheel by creating these images "with a twist." Each group had to bring the composition into the '90s by making subtle changes to the already perfect compositions. Suddenly Christ is serving subs at the Last Supper, Big Macs are served at Emmaus, Homer's frolicking lads become caught up in Hoosier Hysteria with a game of hoops, and Cezanne's Card Players are no longer interacting with each other, but each is lost in his own world of Gameboy!
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