Sketchnotes 5/5/2021
- Delaney Kjellsen
- May 5, 2021
- 1 min read
Today's sketchnotes are about talking about and interpreting art. While in college, I took a class entitled Slow Looking, which emphasized a particular way of approaching artwork for interpretation. For this class, we read the book Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation. This book has the description:
Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active cognitive opportunities for meaning-making and critical thinking that may not be possible though high-speed means of information delivery. Addressing the multi-disciplinary applications of this purposeful behavioral practice, this book draws examples from the visual arts, literature, science, and everyday life, using original, real-world scenarios to illustrate the complexities and rewards of slow looking.
The other resource I wanted to add was one that gives tips for facilitating critiques with high school students. I do not agree with everything in the paper, namely that it places a lot of the critique on the artist's intent rather than viewer interpretation. However, I do enjoy the different methods it talks about to facilitate critique, such as in pairs, small groups, as exit tickets, gallery walks, etc. I think all of these are very useful, I would just change the responsibility to lie more with the viewer rather than the artist.
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