The last art class lesson. Some history and the design
museum are the things that we have seen.
Ones
in the cathedral, we have to take a look to the furnish into the St Bavo cathedral
and identify with our card. First we organize in couples and then they give a
card. In our card we can see a orange cat painting a drawing. In the drawing we
could see a lake or a fish bowl. Maybe the cat was hungry or she/he has a wish
and the cat want to focus the wish in the drawing.
One’s
we take a look inside the cathedral, we
create a nice link, saying that in both places we can see different stories.
The fish of the cats drawing it seems to be alive. The same happens with the
cathedral drawings. For my point of view, they want to show that, although they
are paintings they show stories, happenings..
I like
this activity to make it with the children in the school. They develop their
creativity in a funny way. Depending on the children age, maybe some variations can be needed; you can give
them different cards related with a
theme that they like… and instead of
going to the cathedral do it in the museum, or in a park, forest, the street
what can they see in the street… Furthermore, it is a nice idea to work in
groups, so instead of making couples you can make fours and give two cards or
you can give some clues to manage the exercise.
Moreover,
in the way from the cathedral to the museum I realize about different things. All
the part of the Centrum of Ghent is design, they build a new Ghent with lot of
things to see for the tourists. All the roofs are design in a vertical way. The
teacher ask a question What can you see
that is design here? The answer was all, just because everything is design
in a certain way. Us a person also we are design.
Going on with the design museum, in my opinion it is a nice place to go.
At the beginning it is strange because it is a combination of things that it is
not easy to understand. We have to watch or observe the museum and answer some questions. Here are
some examples:
Find an
object that it looks as if it was dancing.
There are three innovative fan. They do not have
blades but in the purpose is the same. The air is generate in a other way,
maybe they become our future fans.
I spy with
my little eye a flower. Draw that flower.
When I saw this object a tulip comes into my mind.
Find an
object in the museum that consist out of mainly your favourite colour. Does
this colour look good on the item chosen?
Both blue
and green are my favourite colours. I saw lot objects with those colours but
the one that attract me most was the next lamp. The combination of
colours, with the lines and the light of
the light bulb it makes something especial.
In
addition, the design museum was nice. Lot of different designs were there,
vacuums, bicycles, home tools, chairs, lamps, paintings, vases...
I
have to say that some designs were old fashioned for my point of view. This
museum is a clear example of the evolution in the word of design. Different
ways and different materials are expose there. Wood, wool and porcelain are
getting older while metal and glass are the most common materials nowadays.
Anyway,
if for us this trip was interesting for the pupils too. That is the reason why I think that these
type of museums give nice opportunity to work with children. It is a pity that the objects that are expose
there cannot be touch. Children love experimenting and exploring with new
things. Nevertheless, it is not a big impediment. I was thinking of making like
a game, in which the children must found objects giving them some clues. The
exercise is similar with the one we did, but in this case focus on the smaller.
For them it will be fun and it will have a nice experience.
Going
on I would like to make a remark. In the museums the staff was controlling if
we were touching the objects or not. I do not argue in this point, just because
I think that there are lot of attractive objects offer for the public. Ones you
are inside the museums and you see those objects with different shapes,
textures and colours it is inevitable to touch and experiment by yourself. So
someday if I have the opportunity of making my own museum it would be allow
touching the objects. In my opinion it is a different way of interiorising
things.
To end with the publication I would like you to
compare this museum with the one that is in my town. We only have a museum
“Ibarraundi museoa” in which depending the season different works or objects
are exposed. One of my favourite exposition was about the old castle founding’s
that the scientists did. In the next
photos you can see the middle ages
``Aitzorrotz´´ castle how it was. Although the web page is in Basque there are
more photos uploaded. http://zaharra.eskoriatza.net/ezagutu/atxorrotz
To end with, I make the next chair design. It is very comfortable and not expensive, so the ones who are interested in the sketch let me know !
