Visual Culture Database Form
ARTE344
Spring 2012
Provider: Catherine Tromp
Number:
6
Big
Idea/Subj
ect:
Nature/Cu
lture
Major
Theme:
Environm
ent
Medium/
Presentati
on:
Plant
Visual
Compone
nts:
Form
Repetition
Shape
Movement
Color
Balance
Category:
Fine Arts
Pop art
Pop
culture
Non-art
Authorshi Nature
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Title:
Venus Fly Trap
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They are originally from the wetlands and bogs of South and North Carolina.
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Descriptio The Venus Fly Trap is a predatory plant that targets on insects. This plant
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does use photosynthesis like other plants, but it has become carnivorous
because the soil it grows in is acidic, nitrogen deprived, and it lacks nutrition.
The nutrients that are lacking in the ground are fundamental to plant growth.
There are two main parts to this plant, first there is the part that is called the
leaf-base, which is the part of the plant that photosynthesizes and grows out
from the ground. Then the second part of the plant is known as the lamina,
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Teaching:
Source:
which is the trap of the plant that has two lobes that are hinged together.
The Venus Fly Trap is unlike other plants because it is very unique in its
means of survival. Amazingly, this plant developed a way to live in this harsh
environment that other plants were unable to do so.
Nature can be an inspiration for art. In an art classroom the Venus Fly Trap
can be discussed and help be a subject for a new project. For this project the
teacher can discuss the ways that make a Venus Fly Trap unique, and how it
had to adapt into a carnivorous plant in order to survive. The students can
discuss ways that people had to adapt and survive. They can deliberate
what makes humans unique compared to other species and how our methods
of gathering food are different from any other species. Or they can discuss
how an animal might have had to devolved and adaption to their environment
in order to survive. For example an anglerfish developed lights to see in the
dark depths of the ocean. So the students can create a painting or drawing
that shows adaption and its importance of a species’ survival. They could
even create a piece that displays a transformation of a species developing
over time to survive in its’ environment.
http://wallpaperswa.com/Nature/Plants/plants_venus_flytrap_meat_eating_
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http://www.flytrapcare.com/venus-fly-trap-background-information.html