Objective: Students will imitate poses in various artworks and discuss what those poses could mean.
Materials:
- Images of selected artworks
Introduce: Demonstrate how to “strike a pose”.
Ask:
- Was it hard or easy to make the motion?
- Does this pos tell us anything about how that figure is feeling or what they are thinking?
Activity:
- Have students choose a person, animal, or even an object in a work of art.
- On the count of three, students stand an strike that figure’s pose.
- Discuss each pose.
National Standards:
- VA:Re8.1.2a Interpret art by identifying the mood suggested by a work of art and describing relevant subject matter and characteristics of form.
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