Working with art and relating it to geometry is no easy task, but it can be done. Here is an activity that I carried out during the April work placement with fourth-year students. In mathematics, they had seen the main geometric figures, so I took advantage of the fact that I was starting to write this blog to carry out an activity that I could include in an entry.
The activity is called "Using geometry to make art" and consists of...
Objective: for each student to individually create a painting and an artistic work made up solely of geometric figures.
Materials: drawing paper, watercolours, white sticky paper, brushes and water.
Advice for teachers: let the pupils carry out the activity creatively, do not give any guidelines that could affect the pupils' imagination, act as a guide.
Implementation:
give the pupils their drawing sheet and divide them into groups to share the watercolours and brushes.
give a quick and simple review of the geometric figures using a visual resource such as a powerpoint or infographic.
ask them to include at least five different shapes in their artwork.
explain that they should stick the white sticky paper on the sheet before painting, leaving gaps between the different strips to represent geometric figures.
paint these gaps
leave it to dry for at least one day and then remove the sticky paper to observe the result.
Carrying out this activity with the students I dealt with was not complicated, they were all enthusiastic about painting and doing something related to plastic arts. The latter subject is usually presented to pupils in a more playful and fun way than mathematics, so it appeals to them more. What I did to make sure that the focus was also on geometry was to ask them one by one to show their creativity and point out the figures that made up their creation.
Below I show the result of my students:
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