| What is Nature?
Lincoln Center Institute at the Museum of
modern Art
BROOKLYN COLLEGE / CUNY
Pre-Service Program (Fall ‘98)
Visual Arts Facilitator John Toth
Exploring A Work Of Art...
Creating an
Elegant Lesson
Elegant Plans...... Sept. 28 1998
Howard Segan, Transformation, Game as maetaphor, Design, Rules, Fashion, Movement
Joe Proglar, Art as a view on society, alchemy, Escher, Mandalas, Islamic design, Time,
creation
Peter Taubman, Art as a node for guiding learning, Desire as a motivation for learning
/ teaching, Light
Jay Lemke, Darwin,
Composition as beauty
Phyllis, Symmetry and pattern, Economy of means, Simple / Complex, Passion of the
Senses
John Toth, Teaching as art.... Learning as art
Explore the narrative aspects of a visual work of art.
Sequence an investigation that moves from simple to complex
Explore choices in representing a similar theme.
Unfold dilemma of how we learn.
External meaning... Internal meaning
Practice method of Visual Literacy. (MoMA)
Describe... Analyze... Interpret
Goals...
Let the conversation at hand move you into an understanding that the
conversations around an art work contain the elements of a lesson that is student centered
and contextually related to the students interests.
Create an activity that comes out of the looking.
How can the activity come out of an
organic need to physically explore some aspect of the art work.
Brainstorming:
Theater as contact with desire.
Human expression
Art is nodal
Questions:
How do we see ourselves through nature? (PT)
How do different cultures represent nature (JT)
Art Work to Explore:
Brooklyn Museum of
Art
Kerry James Marshall, "Mementos"
Albert Bierstadt,
(1830-1902) "Storm in the Rockies"
"View of Brooklyn"
Pat Steir, "Everlasting Waterfall"
Museum
of Modern Art
Jackson
Pollock, "One, #31" (press release)
Metropolitan Museum
of Art
Thomas Hart Benton, "July Hay"
Tools ..... choices of ways
to express....
Oct.
7
Shapes, lines and planes
Transformation
Body Language
Essence
Activity:
Divide into small groups and discuss as a team :
metaphors for... nature / artist / teacher
Draw something that does not have form:
Draw something that has structure:
A TREE IS......................
Draw the above metaphor
NATURE IS......................
0ct. 8
realism
Symbolism
Random
Reflection:
Develop a conversation around the
ideas of this work
 A Distant Learning Community
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