Teaching Contemporary Art With Young People by Julia Marshall Connie Stewart & Anne Thulson

Author:Julia Marshall, Connie Stewart & Anne Thulson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2021-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

MINING AND MAPPING THEMES

The concepts are in the artwork. Our challenge is to locate and extract them (so we can discuss them with students) and then help students to do that too. Looking beyond the appearance of an artwork for meaning and themes embedded in it is an important skill for both teachers and students. Moreover, searching for the concept, the meaning of a work, is a basic conceptual skill. How do we build that skill? Teachers often maintain that young people cannot think conceptually or abstractly. This is far from true. They just need a concrete strategy for doing it. Concept mapping an artwork is one such strategy; it can guide students to focus in on concepts and meaning, open up space to associate freely, and lead them to conceptualize.

Concept mapping an artwork is simple. First, glue a reproduction of the artwork in the center of a large piece of paper, leaving lots of space around it for writing and mapping, and ask students to write what they see and what they know about the subject of the work. They can be prompted to write their thoughts or impressions in the space surrounding the artwork.

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