ArtEd online: environmental art.For Teachers What do you think of when you hear the term environmental art? Is it art about the environment, art that addresses environmental issues, art that restores the environment, art that is affected by natural forces such as water and wind, of art made from recycled materials? All of these approaches may be called environmental or ecological ecological emanating from or pertaining to ecology. ecological biome see biome. ecological climax the state of balance in an ecosystem when its inhabitants have established their permanent relationships with each art and explored online by you and your students. www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/Ecology/ One of the best resources of contemporary ecological or environmental art for teachers is Art & Ecology ecology, study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. The study of an individual organism or a single species is termed autecology; the study of groups of organisms is called synecology. : Interdisciplinary in·ter·dis·ci·pli·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or involving two or more academic disciplines that are usually considered distinct. interdisciplinary Adjective Approaches to Curriculum, both a set of resources and an online exhibition. Four orientations to ecological art ate included: Environmental Design, Ecological Design, Social Restoration, and Ecological Restoration. Author Dr. Don H. Krug expands on these concepts in Teaching in the Context of Daily Life. www.greenmuseum.org Greenmuseum.org also features a number of contemporary artists. www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/Aeia/studio-lp.html Highlighting Studio Production and Student Social Commentary is a comprehensive secondary level instructional unit on six contemporary artists who use landscape forms in their work. www.getty.edu/artsednet/images/Ecology/index.html Arts Ed Net has eight galleries of ecological art, a great place to look for artists to investigate. www.the-artists.org/Artmovements/Land-Art.html An extensive list of artists. wead.dreamfish-creative.com/index.html The Women Environmental Artists Directory provides information on a number of female arts professionals concerned with environmental issues. arts.envirolink.org/visual_arts/index.html The EnviroLink Network is a collection of essays, poetry, interviews, and portfolios of images by some of the best environmental writers and artists. Browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser. the visual arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → section to learn more about these contemporary works, especially the Zero-Circles Project by Daniel Dancer. For Students Directions: Visit the websites listed below and answer the questions on a separate piece of paper. www.nceas.ucsb.edu/nceasweb/kids/ What is ecology? Find an answer on this site. wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. .greenmuseum.org/index.php/What%20is%20environmental%20art%3F What is environmental art? Read the comments on this site and choose the one that is the most meaningful to you. www.getty.edu/artsednet/images/Ecology/gallery1.html Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy (born July 26, 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. is an artist well-respected for his artworks This article is about the software drawing application. For art objects, see work of art. ArtWorks is an advanced vector drawing package for RISC OS created by Computer Concepts (now Xara) in 1991. It has been developed by MW Software since 1996. built or arranged in natural environments using natural materials, then photographed. Look at the images on these two sites. What does he say is his goal? Which of his works appeals to you the most? Why? arts.envirolink.org/visual_arts/Daniel_Dancer/bearwitness_circle.html Do you think natural materials can be used to create a meaningful response to environmental damage? Visit EnviroLink to see and read about one approach. What is the meaning of Bear Witness Circle? arts.envirolink.org/visual_arts/Daniel_Dancer/catalogcircle.html What is the meaning of this work? What kind of "circle" could you make about your environment? Draw a sketch sketch, a rapidly executed kind of pictorial note-taking. The sketch is not usually intended as an autonomous work of art, although many have been considered masterpieces in their own right. of your idea. www.kid-at-art.com/ The Imagination Factory offers creative ways to recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. by making art. Click on "Trash Matcher" and then "Project Matcher" and see how many matches you can make for each. Next click on "PR/Trashasaurus." What is the Trashasaurus? How could you encourage your art teacher to help your school make one? www.papaink.org/gallery/home/index.html Papa Ink presents a gallery of student works (ages nineteen and under) that you can join, either with one work or as a portfolio. They will even digitize To convert an image or signal into digital code by scanning, tracing on a graphics tablet or using an analog to digital conversion device. 3D objects can be digitized by a device with a mechanical arm that is moved onto all the corners. your original artwork for you. Visit the site to find student works about the environment, then create one of your own to send in. |
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