-dominated teacher training and influences current thinking and practice with respect to early childhood art.

-comprehensive approach to instruction and learning in art, developed sure to, provide experience with , and acquire content from several disciplines of knowledge : art making, art criticism, art history, and aesthetics.

-education in these disciplines contributes to the creation, understaning, and appreciation of art, artists, artistic processes, and the roles and functions of art in cultuires and societies.

1. sensory experiences

2.aesthetic experiences

3. time, space, and materials for making art

4. an introduction to the world of art, artists, and a variety of art forms and styles.

(first three componments should be emphasized during early years) but the four componments are interrelated

Ex: making art is dependent on sensing and experiencing

-children do not create in isolation

-art originates from something personally experienced, an idea, an object of importance, an event, a feeling, or a person

ex: painting scenes from a farm experience

taking  field trip to the farm allows new content

-encourage parents to take their children out

-study of beauty in color, form, and design

-human need to make sense of one's self

-can be found in nature

-children can appreciate and have beautiful experiences

-not confined to interior environment

-beauty abounds in nature and the community

-teachers can encourage children to give artistic form and substance to their ideas,urges, wishes, and dreasms, fears, or interest

-practice deciding what to create

-over time children practice deciding what to create and learn to focus their attention and that of others in a specific area

-Art is a basic human need

-ppl make art to reflect and symbolize

-children are active makers of images, and feel connected to artists whom they see as trying, as they do, to do a good job

-children can learn that artists work in different media

-mixed paints out of plants, berries, and other foods as well as earth, animal blood

-sharpened sticks to draw

-symbolize something meant to somehow capture or control it

-outlines were bold, and picrures were decorated with geometric patterns and designs

-became popular in the US in the 19th century

-landscapes, birds, farms, etc.

-people

-scenes, landscape usually

-artistic style in which artists pain what they perceive rather than what they know to be there

-fascinated with color

-unmixed primary colors

-an offshoot of impressionism, involved a concern for color and an innovative technique for representing it

-worked on large canvases

-small dots or points of pure color were used instead of dashes or strokes

-didnt mix colors but required the observer to fuse neighboring colors

-artistic  style based on an expression of the artists emotions and feelings

-reacting against impressionism, searched for emotional expression in their artist statements

-purposely altered space, form, line, and color to make it emotional

-disorted reality to express their own views and moods

-violent, depressing, and highly emotional

-intrigued with color and the physical qualities of paint

-began after world war II

-jackson pollock: practiced action or gesture by dripping, dribbling, spraying, pouring, throwing, and splashing paint

-design was often left to chance or accident

-offshot of expressionism

-experimented with pure, bright colors in daring and innovative ways to represent postiive emotions, including joy, pleasure, comfort, love, and happiness

-human skin was painted different colors

-intellectual conception of form and shape

-break down everything down into component geometic shapes

-3D

abandoned traditional treatment of space and form and instead focused on the use of the cylinder, sphere, and cube

-objects appear flat, with little concern for background or foreground

-collages

-attempts to incorporate physical movement by using levers, gears, and movable parts

-invites participation

-involves wind

-moving junk sculpture

-super-realism

-attempts to create a magical, dreamlike world that is more intense than reality

ex: fish with a human head

-makes a social statement or critique of contemporary American culture

-chose subject matter that was familiar to everyday life (ex: soda cans, movie stars, etc.)

-photographic realism

-artistic style that developed in the psychedelic

-intrigued with effects of black and white, color, figure-ground relations, and depth

-optics perception to create optical illusionswith shapes and patterns

-expressions of members of a cultural group

-integral part of social life because it describes the beliefs, customs, values, and behaviors, and practices common to a particular cultural

-teacher facilitates an aesthetic and verbal encounter between children and a work of art