Responses for two articles

This article talks about the big ideals in artmaking. How to make art close to the big ideals you already set? What is a good big ideal? This article talks much details of this kind of question which engage me a lot. All we can see this passage is a teaching plan of artmaking. It includes many interesting activities and summary of knowledge points. For instance, it gives guide lines for developing essential questions of big ideals. Because it is a teaching plan, for a student’s perspective it is very easy to understand.

Because it is a teaching plan, it covered many aspects. However, it is too general to go deeply. It also provide student’s big ideal of artmakings which is not very useful for me to learn something in detail. In addition, the activities are in teacher’s perspective. From my perspective, I cannot figure out why teacher does this. In a way, it makes this article too general for a normal reader.

The second article is about interpreting and culture. This article talks much about how people learn or know something from visual culture. It says all learners can learn things from visual culture. I know visual culture is the easiest culture to understand. This is why history left many painting on the walls. However, there is one thing shocked me, any ages of human beings can understand visual culture.

In conclusion, it say any ages can understand visual culture, but in this article, it only do some experiments in kindergarten and pre-school children. Could elder learn something from visual culture? From perspective I believe about the experiments can choose width ages and then reach the conclusion.