:Wearable Arts
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Approach: One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus:   Students can form and explain a personal response to artists’ works and consider artists’ intentions. 
Resources:  Video on laptop computer, 2 pictures.
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Questions/instructions:

Some artists have a lot of fun, and work very hard, to make art that people wear. This is called “wearable art”. I’m going to show you a video of some people wearing art at a special show. As you watch the video, think about the colours, lines, textures and shapes that have been used.

Click the Wearable Arts button. The video will start.
[No voiceover; soundtrack of atmospheric music only]


 
% responses
y4
y8

Here are pictures of two different wearable arts.
Give pictures to student.
Choose the picture you like most, and we’ll talk about that one.
Remove other picture.

          

    

Preferred picture:
   
warrior woman
64
66
graceful woman
36
34
 
1. What does this wearable art make you think of?
strong ideas, well explained
6
10
strong ideas, but not well explained
8
16
limited ideas, some explanation
20
27
limited ideas, no explanation
56
44
other responses
10
3
2. Where do you think the artist got the ideas from to make this?
imagination
11
5
works of other artists
16
16
cultural or other real-life situations
58
68
3. What do you think the artist used to make this?
3 or more appropriate materials/objects
47
64
2 appropriate materials/objects
30
25
1 appropriate material/object
17
9
any other response
6
2
4. What kind of feeling would you have if you wore this?
strong positive feeling appropriate to costume
9
13
weaker positive feeling appropriate to costume
36
29
negative response or embarrassment
29
39
any other response
26
19
5. Why do you think artists make this kind of art?
creative enjoyment
25
52
challenge, competition
17
20
financial rewards, recognition
30
27
Commentary:
The results suggest a certain ambivalence among students in identifying with the purposes and meanings of wearable arts. Twice as many year 8 than year 4 students recognised the artists’ intentions of seeking creative enjoyment from their works. Under half of year 4 and year 8 students had a positive sense of feeling about wearing such costumes. Most success in this task related to descriptions of visually obvious features, whereas students tended to be less confident in making interpretative observations. 
 
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