The Teaching of Art Related to the Home: Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economicsFallgatter, Florence
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The Teaching of Art Related to the Home: Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics
Fallgatter, Florence
Art -- Study and teaching; Home economics -- Study and teaching
9. "I have an odd picture frame that I wish to use for this
landscape which came from a magazine illustration. The picture
is the right width, but it is too long for the frame. How do you
suggest cutting it so that it can be used in this frame and still
retain its pleasing proportions?"
(Such a landscape will obviously have a division of space in it
by the line of the horizon. The problem will be one of retaining
pleasing space divisions in the picture, as well as retaining
pleasing proportions of the whole, while fitting it to the frame.)
[Sidenote: Possible assignment]
10. "Choose a plain card most pleasing in proportion, which may be
used as a place card for the home economics luncheon that the class
is giving to the mothers. Plan the placing of the names on these
cards. Justify your choice of card and the place you have chosen
for the name."
Problem 10 may well be given as an assignment. It may be given
at any desired time in the problem series as a judgment problem
following the establishment of the principle. A definite attempt
has been made to arrange problems 1 to 8 in order of degree of
difficulty. It is evident that those which necessitate creative
planning and manipulation call for greater ability than the
problems of selection.
Although problems 9 and 10 are given last they may be introduced
at any point. They are given last here because they require the use
of two principles of proportion, i. e., relation of length to width
in objects and division of a space into two parts. Problems 1 to 8
make use of only one, i. e., the principle concerned with the
division of a space into two parts.
=Further Suggestions for Problems, Illustrative Materials, and
Assignments=
There are various possibilities of introducing this lesson on proportion
other than through the arranging of curtains. The curtain problem
is used here because it involves a school situation. Such a problem
sometimes has as great an appeal for girls as some of the most personal
ones. However, any one of a number of problems, such as the placing
of a belt on a dress, the depth of a flounce or yoke on a dress,
the relative lengths of jacket and skirt in a suit, or the length
of candles for candlesticks may be used for the introductory one.
Choice will be determined upon class needs and school possibilities.
The important factor will be to see that the problem is so stated that
it stimulates a desire on the part of the pupil for adequate solution.
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