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Creating Expressions with Found Objects

Assemblage Sculpture

Lesson 3

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Creating Expressions with Found Objects

In this lesson, you will create facial expressions with found objects and materials.

You will need:

Your collection of everyday objects and materials

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Creating Expressions with Found Objects: Sorting

Look at the shape, texture and colors of the objects and materials you have collected. Do any of them remind you of parts of the face?

Sort your objects into groups for each part of the face.

Which objects would make a good nose? Eye? Mouth?

Which materials could be useful for hair or other facial details like eyebrows, eye lashes or teeth?

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Creating Expressions with Found Objects: Arranging

Arrange your chosen objects and materials into faces.

Start with the main facial features: eyes, nose, and mouth. Then add details like hair, ears, eyebrows, eye lashes or teeth.

Now arrange and rearrange the parts of the face to express different emotions. You can use the sketches you made for ideas.

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Creating Expressions with Found Objects: Document

Create at least 5 faces that each show a different emotion.

Document each face with a photograph or drawing.

Explore what happens when you change some details like the position of the eyebrows or mouth. How does the facial expression change?

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Creating Expressions with Found Objects: Reflection

How did you create the different faces?

Did you make the face first and then decide what emotion it reminded you? ��Or did you think of the emotion first and then create it with your materials?

Do the textures, colors or shapes of your objects remind you of different emotions?�Which ones?

Which of the faces you made do you like best, and why?

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Creating Expressions with Found Objects: Close Looking

Look at these works of art by Lou Hirshman and Calixte Dakpogan.

What materials and objects do you see?

How did the artists arrange the materials?

What emotions do you think these faces show?

What do you see that makes you say that?

Lou Hirshman, Glutton, 1970s

Calixte Dakpogan, Oba, 2007, Metal, plastic and pens�(on cover)

Calixte Dakpogan, Change-moi la lame, 2006, Plastic, iron, copper

Lou Hirshman, The Artist �in �Caricature, 1949

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Remote Arts Learning Partnership

Module One �

Studio in a School NYC Team

Julie Applebaum, Senior Director

Remote Arts Learning Partnership Project DIrector

Writing Team Project Team

Nick DeMarco Jamie Powell Belinda Blum Nicola Giardina Paul Urevitch

Robin Holder Tim Thyzel Andrea Burgay Katherine Huala

Graphic Design

Don Giordano

NYC Department of Education OASP Team

Karen Rosner, Director of Visual Arts

Amber Lodman, Arts Program Manager Kaitlin Trammell, Remote Arts Learning Partnership Project Coordinator

NYC Department of Education Visual Arts Teacher Team

Maria Bonilla Susan Bricker Amie Robinson Lara Tyson

These educational materials were created through a partnership with Studio in a School NYC and The New York City Department of Education Office of Arts and Special Projects (OASP) and made possible by the generosity of The New York Community Trust.