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Joseph Cornell Appreciation Boxes
Conceptual Essential Question: How can art celebrate and appreciate people
who are meaningful to us?
Technical Essential Question: How do I create an assemblage box with paint,
images, drawings, and sculpture to symbolize someone important to me
Standards: 1.2 Analyze and Justify how student art choices contribute to the
expressive quality of their art
YOUR TASK:
To create an assemblage box through painting, drawing, collage, and sculpting that
symbolizes a family member/extended family member of importance to you
STEPS TO COMPLETE THE TASK:
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1. Complete PART 1 “Interview”
2. Complete PART 2 “What is symbolism?”
3. Complete PART 3 “Thumbnails and Checking for Requirements”
4. Complete PART 4 “Construction procedures”
5. Complete PART 5 “5 Paragraph Biography/Artist Statement”
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:
Box:
Material
What it should represent
Painting: Color Scheme
Personality, characteristics
Complimentary, analogous, primary, monochromatic
Drawing: 4-6 Drawings
(Can be done with ebony, #2 or sharpie)
Collage: 3-5 Images
Images (photos or magazines)
Sculpture/Found objects:
2-5 3D objects (not drawings/photos)
Choice:
Any of the following materials
Technique:
(Example: Calm=cool colors=Blue monochromatic)
Goals and dreams for their life
Interests, hobbies, occupation (work)
Heritage, Culture, Occupation (work)
Why you appreciate this person
A quality of them that you appreciate:
(Example Quality: Caring = Drawing/picture
of 2 hands holding each other
1. Construction of box 2. Painting of box
3. Application of all materials 4. “Finished” Look
Part 1: Interview
Due Next Class period
The interview portion of your project is the most important part of you your project
development. You will use the information you gather to produce the symbols that reflect
the person you are going to represent.
Your interview must include 10-12 different questions. You will need to find out the
following required information:
1. Personality, Characteristics
2. Goals
3. Dreams
4. Interest,
5. Hobbies,
6. Work
7.Heritage
8. Culture
The other questions can be about whatever you feel is important. (A meaningful
experience, a life changing experience, who influenced them, their religion etc..)
To generate a list of questions go to Go to Storycorps.org
Click The “Record your story tab” and select “Great Questions”
Write your questions and answers below…
Use a different color pencil/pen for the questions and the answer…
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Part 2:
Symbolism
You will be using different images to symbolize the person you have chosen to do the box about.
Define Symbolism: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Complete the table below to generate a list of drawings, images and objects that you will use in your box..
Idea/Concept
What you will use to represent it
Painting: Color Scheme
What colors will you use?
Example: Personality: Loud and Excited
Characteristic: Focused
Personality:
Painting the box yellow, red and orange
Blue lines coming from the middle of the box
A.
Characteristic :
Drawing: 4-6 Drawings
(Can be done with ebony, #2 or sharpie)
Example: Goal to be a Mechanic
Goals:
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Dreams:
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B.
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Collage: 3-5 Images
Example: Interest of building furniture
Interests:
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B.
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Hobbies:
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B.
C.
Sculpture/Found objects: 2-5 3D objects
Example: New York
Heritage (Where they are from):
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B.
C.
Culture (Traditions, Religion)
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B.
C.
Choice: what else do you want to represent.
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B.
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Complimentary, analogous, primary, monochromatic
What drawing will you use?
Drawing of a wrench
Drawing of Goals:
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B.
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Drawing of Dreams:
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B.
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What photos or images will you use?
Image of a hammer
Image of Interests:
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B.
C.
Image of Hobbies:
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B.
C.
What objects will you use?
Flag or souvenir from New York
Heritage (Where they are from):
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B.
C.
Culture (Traditions, Religion)
A.
B.
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