Integrating Disciplines

 

In class today we incorporated writing and language arts into different art activities. The first one was a letter to an artist which involved having our class to become familiar with a particular piece of art and then compose a letter to the artist asking questions or making comments. The second activity was called the script and this was where our class got to look at a painting and decide what we thought the people in the painting were having conversations about, and then write a dialogue of that. The third activity was an activity where we described a piece of artwork in 5 sentences and then also picked a sound we thought this piece made. The fourth activity was called diamante and this was an arrangement of words that described the artwork, but there had to be four lines and the first line had to be a one-word descriptive, the second line had to be an action phrase, the third line had to be a simile and the fourth line had to be a one-word summation. These activities were a great way to include another subject in art!