Think about the meaning of beauty.
Answer the following questions in your sketchbooks
- Who defines it?
- Who decides what is beautiful and what is not?
- What dictates what is beautiful?
- What is your personal idea of beauty?
- How does culture factor into beauty?
Let's look at ideals and beauty standards throughout the ages and the the world.
In your sketchbook, create a timeline that describes the ideal of beauty at that time- write, draw, print photos... put it all in your sketchbook
- As a class, we will go over the different ideals of beauty
- How have artists represented this in the past? Which to you like? Dislike? Find intriguing? different? what do you NOT see enough of?
- Using your photo and photoshop skills, create a discussion on beauty... it can be inspired by previous art, it can discuss art, it can be discussion starting, etc...
- Consider time period, culture, subject matter, gender, location
Create a series of 10+ photos discussing beauty!