Week 2 Reflection

I want to share a reflection that gave me one of those terrific "AHA!" moments.  I just love the perception that "art is everywhere".  


Week Two Reflection:

 I realized the other day that art is everywhere, it surrounds us. It is in the song that the bird sings, the distance horizon as the sun greets the morning, and in the night sky as a blanket of stars come out each night to dance with the moon. As I was looking up at that clear, beautiful night sky I began thinking about the true artist who started with a blanket canvas and in a few days He created a world full of color and life. Our Heavenly Father is the first and only true artist to me. When you view something and your emotions and feelings are stirred you have witnessed true art. To me art is passionate, emotional, serious and funny. It is everything and it is nothing. It is whatever you make it to be or whatever you want it to be.

This week was a learning experience for me. I did not know that there were different approaches to art. There are three to be exact: Contextualist, media, and formalist. For me I believe I would lean more to the media approach. This approach allows your students to learn and work with different art media. This approach opens your students to the world of art and the different types of media. It could also spark an interest for some students that could carry on throughout their life. 


Now the interesting information came from chapter six this week and how Bloom's taxonomy is weaved throughout art. The three domains are all present: Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor and if I am not mistaken I believe it was Kellie's paper that did a good job of explaining how each domain is present in art. Her explanation was short and to the point; just the way I like it. I am very thankful to all my classmates that responded to my paper this week with sweet words. It puts a song in your heart and a smile on your face. If time had permitted I would had responded to all of my classmates' papers, but seeing that it did not I responded to three this week: Linda, Kellie, and Shirley; each expressing their thoughts and viewpoints on the two chapters this week. You know you could look at the papers we write as art. We all read the same information, but get a different view of what we read. Like I mentioned at the beginning of this reflection art is everywhere, we just have to open our eyes and it is there.