Teacher: Mr. Tyler Anewalt
Grade Level: Middle school
Title: The Silhouette and its Place
Brief History and Background:
A silhouette is a view of an object that consists of only the outline. Details within the object are left blank, creating a flat shape (usually in black) that is still recognizable without interior detail. Silhouettes can be thought of as seeing the outline of a dark image against a light background.
Silhouettes became a popular form of portraiture in the 18th century and are still used today in all kinds of visual art. Kara Walker is an African American artist who uses silhouettes in much of her artwork. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Walker
The Silhouette can carry with it a tremendous amount of emotion and meaning. By seeing only a black outline of an object the viewer is forced to think about the object as a whole and it’s meaning. The silhouette of an object can be used as a vehicle to express wholeness or emptiness by not being able to see detail within. A silhouette is the ghost image on an object.
PA Standards:
9.1. Production Performance and Exhibition
9.3. Critical Response
9.4. Aesthetic Response
1.4. Types of Writing
3.6 & 3.7 Technology Education and Devices
NET standards
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Goal: Students will make a silhouette of themselves either with digital manipulation or drawing, cut their silhouette out of black paper neatly and paying attention to details, and then place it according to their choice. Write a short response about their silhouette, the place they chose, and meaning created.
Objectives:
Students will recognize silhouettes and identify silhouettes as images
Students will illustrate a feeling by putting their silhouette in text or a place and discussing it
Students will be able to use techniques in cutting, drawing, and photo manipulation
Students will address an emotion by creating meaning in the place they choose to put their silhouette.
Resource Materials/Visual Aides: PowerPoint with links to artists’ works, exemplars
Supplies/Materials: Digital camera, black paper, scissors, glue
Teacher Preparation: PowerPoint on silhouettes, examples, meanings for examples, history, current uses in arts and media.
Teaching:
Introduction: Show PowerPoint on silhouettes and history, how does a silhouette make you feel? What is the purpose of a silhouette? If silhouette is a ghost of an image, where would the silhouette of yourself be? What book or text?
Directions: Take a photo of each student and have them think about where their silhouette should be placed and what it should be doing. Show students how to Photoshop a silhouette, print it out, enlarge and cut out of larger black paper. Create meaning in the placement of silhouettes.
Critique/Evaluation/Assessment: Students can be graded on a rubric including criteria for craftsmanship, meaning to their placement of the silhouette, and a brief response to the meaning of their silhouette and where it’s placed.
Time Budget: two to three fifty minutes classes
Vocabulary:
Silhouette – outline of an object, profile image of a person in black against a light background
Contre-jour – French ‘against daylight’, photography taken with camera pointing directly toward light source
Shadow – area created as an object blocks light source
Shadow Play – Shadow puppetry
Safety Concerns: N/A
Bibliography/References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/walker/index.html
http://www.henri-matisse.net/cut_outs.html
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