http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:29:02 PDT Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:29:02 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84218 This is a tutorial for ceramics students who are learning to use the wheel for pottery making. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=689222 Making the Creative Process Visible: Full FilmsThe resource comprises five short films documenting the development of ideas in the work of a cross-section of students from the BA and MA ceramic programs at the National Centre for Ceramics, Wales. Cardiff School of Arts and design. The films render visible their negotiation of thought and seek to illustrate tendencies and patterns in the ways ideas are developed.Whilst a key concern for students is innovation, the ways in which they negotiate ideas often employ common traits. Within an educational context, the identification of these forms of development can provide a toolbox of possibilities to be altered or rejected at any stage in the development of a given body of work but always present, to generate and keep ideas mobile. Teaching and learning in this way can be far more explicit about ways in which students can forge connections between properties, build upon them, recognize strengths and direct approach toward overriding expression.The significance of identifying these structures is three fold:• encouraging objectivity• generating understanding of aesthetic language• developing analytical skillsThe student can take responsibility to find and employ appropriate methods or indeed devise their own. What is important is that the teaching and learning of art is not solely evidenced according to outcome but more tangibly according to how that outcome can be achieved. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=689320 This resource explores the exhibition space as a site or opportunity for discussion and debate:The relationship between art practice and film can be a vital and powerful tool for the learning and teaching of art, one discipline reinforcing the creative capacity of the other. Art provides the imagery, the making tangible, giving form to ideas and film offers a means of identifying with this process.However, beyond mere documentation of what has happened, film can also enable a re-activation of the happening itself, imbued with the emotion of the moment of its telling. It allows thought to be experienced as a succession of unfolding events; recording connections and associations made and the consequence of their interaction.The films contained on this channel include: Claire Curneen’s exhibition 'Passages' discussed through the mode of 'in- conversation' between the artist and writer Dr. Natasha Mayo. The work and its curation are discussed from some of the key critical positions used in the analysis of art to demonstrate the different types of information each approach can uncover about an artwork.In Conversation Between Dawn Youll, Lowri Davies and Natasha Mayo about the Exhibition 'Placement' 2011 For more information on this exhibition please visit: placementceramicconnections.wordpress.com http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=689334 The following films explore the ways in which fragmentation may play a key role in the subject or theme of seven artists work. Each interviewed in turn, the artists discuss where material properties and the processes used to transform them have led to forms of fragmentation and how this has impacted upon the works expression. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=689867 Stage One Creative Strategies: Beginning ApproachesStage one offers methods to get ideas off the ground offering examples of ways to Identify and mobilize Ideas: Each approach is illustrated through student work either two dimensional or where appropriate short film footage with accompanying explanation attempting to demonstrate the common use of a method in the wider field of art and design. Methods include: Use of WordsFixing pointsask a questionforge connections http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=689846 These films show examples of different approaches to display and its impact on the development of ideas. The presentation or curation of work should not necessarily be the last stage of creative practice. A viewers’ interpretation of an artwork can be drastically informed by its presentation - their first impression as they walk towards it, how their eyes are guided around it and move from one work to another. These considerations can become part of a works development, an artist making changes in order to manipulate the viewers’ experience.Stage three explores a range of ways in which curation can inform the development of ideas:Space as an Aesthetic PropertyMaking for DisplayPermeations on a ThemeClear Visual Access http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=689870 Stage Two: Testing PossibilitiesThese films contain examples of tendencies and patterns in idea developed in art practice and explore developmental strategies. The following methods are interchangeable at any stage of development in two or three dimensions:Test Ideas in Practice:1.Define overarching aim 2.Work ideas through a variety of configurations: Juxtaposition Whole and Part Activity of Perception Expression and Representation Continuity Aims and Objectives Equivalents Between Material and Subject