How Do I Love Thee: Abstracting

Abstracting Complementary Colors:

I choose the abstractions of complementary colors in two different mediums: digital photos and song/video. I choose the image as an activity in which students would create a Pop art inspired art piece using a digital photograph of a person or animal. This will allow the student to have a hands on approach to using complimentary colors. I choose the song on YouTube so students could see an entirely different perspective of complementary colors, giving the colors a character in which they compliment one another a way a couple (people) would. This would allow the students to make the real life connection to compliments in art.

Using abstraction as a cognitive tools allows for the learner to view a topic in a different perspective that may allow for understanding that was not there before. The learner can see the topic in a new light, so to speak. Abstracting is an art term as well, in art abstracting is reducing a subject to basic shapes, lines and colors. I think this correlates with using abstracting as a cognitive tool, because the purpose is to allow the learner to create a better understanding by reducing a subject matter to the fundamentals for deeper understanding.

The video and visual representations allows for a real world connection to complementary colors. Did you know that many professional sports teams use complementary colors as their team colors? When you look through a magazine many advertisements use a complimentary color scheme. This notion of color theory and color schemes is not useless information art teachers teach, but basics of design that are used throughout our popular culture. Abstracting this information will allow for students to create a deeper understanding of color theory and complementary colors.