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Music in Art

Art Journaling Summative

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Consider what music and/or lyrics could represent you and/or holds significant meaning for you

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How can you use art to show what music means to you?

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Synesthesia?

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Artist: Vassily Kandinsky

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Album Covers

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Capture the identity of the music within
Curate an overall experience
Can either spark interest or put off someone who is searching for something to listen to

Album Covers…

Which one would you listen to?

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Musicians that are also visual artists:

David Bowie

Miles Davis

Kurt Cobain

John Lennon

Ringo Starr and Paul Mccartney

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Options

Illustrate what a song “looks like” to you

Abstract/colors like synesthesia
Or a story/images

Design or redesign an album cover
Something else?

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Scoring Criteria:

Mixed Media / Media Use
Technical Competence
Use of Page / Composition
Engaging / Expressive
Connection between Images / Music / You
Decision-Making / Perseverance / Effort

Talking about criteria:

Grading art is weird- I’m learning that being in school myself. My insight is that generally speaking, grading criteria are designed to encourage you to push yourself, make more original, thoughtful, and impactful work. The things teachers want you to do arent arbitrary rules that make your life harder. I feel like it at least usually starts from a place of “how can we share in this cool subject and learn new things and become better thinkers and people” So when we require mixed media use- its not because more materials is always better, but that is a way teachers can persuade you to do something that could be more complex and interesting. So that being said…

Mixed media means using a good variety of materials or using them in a unique way

Technical competence is how you use those materials- if you use hot glue are there glue strings that might not demonstrate the strongest technical competence (that don't add to the overall effect)

-There's a difference between breaking rules on purpose and being careless

Use of page means things are arranged to use the entire space you have available, or the arrangement is deliberately an uniquely considered

Engaging, expressive: does it show your unique voice and capture the viewer's attention… (maybe the most subjective?)

Connections and decision making: these last parts are all about intention. Did you have something to say and does it come across in your work? Did you think about the project or just throw something together. Even if you made spontaneous decisions- did you work with those decisions to develop your thinking and skills.

Some of art is being able to interpret things. Why did you make the decisions you did? Look deeper- there is usually an explanation. Debate and breaking conventions is also part of art- but that's the cool part. If you can argue against any criteria up here and have thoughts or ideas to back it up- that’s also meeting criteria in my mind.

At a good point, plenty of things you could add