Lesson 3: Emotion Landscape
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Students will create a Surrealist Landscape based on one dominant feeling, using scale and perspective to show the "size" of that emotion.
If you had to live inside one of your emotions for a day, what would the weather be like? How does the "scale" of an object show its importance?
Surrealism: A 20th-century movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. Scale: The size of an object in relation to another.
VA:Cr3.1.HS: Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design in response to personal artistic vision.
Analyzing Perspective: Understanding how a narrator’s (or artist’s) "point of view" distorts or clarifies the "truth" of a situation.
Description: Painting a landscape based on one emotion. Purpose: Moving from identification to narrative expression. DOK Level 4: Extended Thinking.
Set Design: How filmmakers (like in the movie Inside Out) use "Islands of Personality" or landscapes to represent psychological states.
"Landscape means trees and grass." Correction: A landscape is any "world"—it can be geometric, cosmic, or underwater.
Use Photo-Collage: Students who struggle with painting can cut out magazine images to build their "world."
Artist Statement: A short paragraph explaining why they chose their specific landscape elements (e.g., "I chose mountains because sadness feels like an uphill climb").
Canvas or mixed media paper, acrylics or oil pastels.