A History and Thought of Western Man
Scrapbook

1999-2002

  
  Student Projects

Just because students are involved in an academic course doesn't mean they don't get involved in projects which allow for synthesis and higher level thinking.

 

This frontal based art project shows "The Wizard of Oz." Note Toto who appears to fly above the basket--in context, he is actually considered in the basket. Since the Egyptians could write in columns either direction, the head at the beginning right says to read right to left. Since they did not use vowels, there are none here.Note the grid used to create each figure. The figures have a specific number of squares used

  

Frontal Based Art Project. The class learned the principles of frontal based art as practiced by the Egyptians. Then they were to take a fairy tale, movie or contemporary moment and render it using the Egyptian canon of art.
Here we see a couple sitting enjoying their pool and garden. Note that things seen floating over the ground are accepted as being in the ground.
  
This model shows in three-dimension the prisoners who see only the shadows of the real things on the wall.The stairs above show the real upper world illuminated by the sun. Plato's writing deals with the struggle a person has seeing truth.
   The Myth of the Cave. Students were to visually show the elements of Plato's work, "The Myth of the Cave": prisoners chained facing a wall on which shadows are projected. People carry real objects but the prisoner only sees the distorted shadows. When the prisoner is dragged into the sunlight, he finally sees the real for the first time.
This plate of flowers offers a 3-dimensional variation.
  

Variation on the Color Wheel. This year students have studied color and were challenged to take the basic color wheel and present it in a new form.

 

This page was updated by David Claudon, May 17, 2006 .

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