How do you convey emotion from furniture?

How do you convey emotion from furniture?

I Lead in. Answer the questions.

1.    What did you like to draw or paint when you were a child? What were your favourite subjects?

2.    If you had to create a drawing or a painting that shows an emotion, for example happiness, what would you draw? What would be in your painting or drawing?

3.    Take two minutes to note down your ideas on how you would represent sadness, anger, and love. Compare your ideas with other students in the group. What are the biggest similarities and differences between your ideas?

II Vocabulary focus. Study the active vocabulary and focus on Ukrainian equivalents of English words.

fascinating захоплюючий

weep ридати

inanimate неживий

boring нудний

devoid позбавлений

 tension напруга

blur затуманювати

precise точний

exaggerate перебільшувати

simplify спростити

envy заздрість

confidence впевненість

arrange влаштувати

alter змінювати

III Pronunciation focus. Look at the phonetic symbols [ʃ], [tʃ], [s], [k]. How do you pronounce them? Put the words in the list in the correct column based on the way you pronounce the underlined letters. Listen or watch and check.

fascinating; face; emotion;  show; actually; tension; chance; chair; emotional; furniture; convey; melancholy; confidence

[ʃ]	[tʃ]	[s]	[k]
mention	match	nice	colour

IV Watch the video above and fill in the gaps with the words from the list. There are some words you don’t need to use.

 actors; face; things; emotion; picture; furniture; emotive; smiling; objects; forgetting; story; people; things; photography; smiles; chair; car; assignment; young; thinks; emotions; fascinating; small; emotion; cards

My name's Christoph Niemann and this is your art 1)______. The first thing you draw when you're a kid, you draw people. It's the most 2)______thing. There's nothing greater than a face with 3)______. You can do something 4)______or weeping, and this is great and it's the most direct way I think to communicate emotions. But I realized after a time that it's also limiting, because the moment you show a 5)______, I'm so drawn to that face that I actually don't look at anything else. So I realized there's a beauty in doing inanimate 6)______. Because they're not like a girl or a boy, and they are 7)______and old. They're just like a thing. They're just boring, that's completely devoid of 8)______. And then you can start putting things in context. You can have something 9)______versus something big. You can have something far away to something close. And if this is only a building or a 10)______or a leaf or a piece of fruit, then all of a sudden you can create tension in a very pure way. I think in a way that you could never really achieve with 11)______. Because the moment you have a person in there you think is he beautiful, is she smart? There's all these things are starting to blur this 12)______. So I think inanimate objects are great because they're so pure and they give you the chance to use them as 13)______and put them into context and tell very precise and I think really beautiful stories. I started working much more with 14)______recently because it's a fascinating medium. You can also often do 15)______that are more objective. The moment I draw a chair, it's my chair. It has my handwriting. The moment I photograph a 16)______it feels more like it's from real life. Drawing always exaggerates or simplifies. And sometimes a photo of a chair just gives you a lot of background meaning to ease you into a 17)______. So the assignment is called emotional furniture. And you have to take three photos, and each of the photos should convey one 18)______. The first one envy, the second one melancholy, and the third one confidence. And the elements that should convey that emotion should be pieces of 19)______, and you should arrange them in your shot only through composition, not through altering. If I as a viewer look at these 20)______, and go, oh, this is envy. This is all about confidence. And oh my god, this is so melancholy. I can't even believe it. That's your assignment.

V  Watch the part of the video and answer the questions.

1.    What is the first thing people draw when they are kids?

2.    What image is the most common way of representing emotions in a drawing or painting?

3.    How can inanimate objects be used to create tension?

4.    Why does the speaker think that photograph of an object is better than a drawing when he wants to show emotions?

5.    What emotions does the speaker ask the students to portray?

6.    Can students alter the photos of the pieces of furniture? If no, what elements (line, colour, shape) or principles of art (balance, proportion, harmony, etc.) can they use?  

VI  Analyse the painting. Look at the painting below. It is an edited version of the painting by Edward Hopper.

a)    What do you see in the picture (remember the Art Criticism Description stages). Can you name the elements of furniture or objects in the painting?

b)    What are your associations with the painting? What emotions and feelings does the image represent or show?

c)     How does the painter create the emotional effect in the painting? What elements and principles or art does he use?

d)    Follow the link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_(painting)#/media/File:Nighthawks_by_Edward_Hopper_1942.jpg) and examine the original work by Edward Hopper called ‘Nighthawks’.  Does the presence of the people in the painting change your impressions and feelings the painting creates? Why or why not? Justify your point of view.

VII  Vocabulary focus. Study the active vocabulary and focus on Ukrainian equivalents of English words.

ethos дух

coffee urn електричний кавник з підігрівом

pepper shaker перечниця

cash register касовий апарат

setting оточення

numbness заціпеніння

impact вплив

awkward незграбний

angled під кутом

 viewpoint   точка зору

prop опора

coalesce зливатися

evocative що викликає почуття

VIII  Sentence matching. Watch the video and match the parts of the sentences.

For example 1-a

1.    You definitely want to figure out what's

2.    I would argue that the emotion of this scene would be just as strong

3.    Look at the attention paid to the coffee urns, the salt

4.    Let's take the well-known 1942

5.    The painting lets the setting, the furniture, the lighting, and the perspective

6.    Hopper was an absolute master at creating a mood

7.    There's something distinctly human-like about the furniture

8.    The impact of this picture is in the artificial

9.    They are all props for

A.   going on between these two.

B.   lighting, the somewhat awkward arrangement of furniture, and angled viewpoint.

C.   communicate the emotions of loneliness, distance, and numbness.

D.   and capturing the ethos of wartime and post-war American culture.

E.    the artist's arrangement creating strongly evocative scenes.

F.    and pepper shakers, the cash register in the shop across the street.

G.   painting "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper.

H.   and something furniture-like about humans.

I.      without the figures.

IX  Vocabulary focus. Study the active vocabulary and focus on Ukrainian equivalents of English words.

ultimately зрештою

daily life повсякденне життя

type шрифт

scale масштаб

tilt нахиляти

lean притуляти

upside down догори ногами

X  Watch the video and fill in the missing words.

The great thing with 1)____ is that they ultimately have so much to do with us. Not only are they an object of daily life, but they have legs. There's something 2)____ about them, but on the other hand, they are so 3)____. I think for this assignment there should be no altering, there should be no 4)____, no signs, no type. And really the idea is to work with the 5)____ as one and as a tool instead of paint and type, use scale, use arrangement, 6)____. How far do I put something? Maybe tilting something, leaning a chair against something, putting a chair upside down. That's totally fine, but it should be done without props. It should really, every scene, even if it's arranged, should be possible in 7)___  ____. It should have something of like you walk into a 8)____ and see this arrangement, and then you call it like envy or happiness and then all a sudden, now it makes sense. It's like 9)____ played out with furniture.

XI OVER TO YOU. Follow the artist’s instructions (see the tasks above) and make 3 photos (using  pieces of furniture in every photo) to show 3 different emotions. Remember that you cannot edit the photo, add text or graphics to it. You can only use pieces of furniture, lighting, and composition to express your idea. Bring your photos to class or post them to share with other students. Give a brief description of your work (give it a title, explain what ideas you wanted to show and how you created your composition). The emotions you have to show in your photos:

·       happiness;

·       anger;

·       (choose the emotion or feeling yourself).