Title

MAN A VR - OP ART

Short description
A lesson in optical illusion and op art
artworks.
Digital and non digital artworks will be
created by students.
Besides, they will experience
Immersive Virtual Reality in an op art
enviroment.

Age group and subject

13/14 years old students
2nd ESO VISUAL ARTS
(Educación Plástica, Visual y
Audiovisual)

Timing
12 sessions (55 minutes each)
Aims
 I can identify optical illusion artwork and artists.
 I cam distinguish background and foreground and their relationships.
 I can discover optical illusions.
 I can discuss the science behind op art.
 I understand the principles of multimedia language, give value to digital
technologies and be able to create new products with them.
 I can use IT, mobile devices an VR (virtual reality) aplied to image.
 I can create my own non digital op art artwork using line, color and shape.
 I can create digital op art artworks using variations of shapes, color and
composing visual and sonorous sequences.

Crosscurricular aims
 I can collaborate with peers to create a groupal work.
 I can use IT devices with responsability, caution and following the rules.

Essential questions
 How do op artists manipulate space to create the illusion of movement?
 What are the different categories of optical illusions?
 Who are the artists working with optical illusions today?
 How does our physiology work with art to create illusions?

Subject Curriculum
Educación Plástica, Visual y Audiovisual. 2º ESO
Bloque 2 de contenidos: Comunicación audiovisual
Bloque 2. Comunicación audiovisual
CONTENIDOS CRITERIOS DE EVALUACIÓN ESTÁNDARES DE COMP. CLAVE
APRENDIDAJE EVALUABLES
1. La 2. Reconocer las leyes de 2.1. Identifica, clasifica MAYCT
percepción la Gestalt que posibilitan diferentes ilusiones ópticas CL
visual: las las ilusiones ópticas y según las distintas leyes CD
leyes de aplicar estas leyes en la de la Gestalt
Gestalt elaboración de obras 2.2. Diseña ilusiones AA
propias ópticas basándose en las MAYCT
leyes de la Gestalt CD
Steps

1. Warning activity
Cautions and rules to work with VR glasses and permission slips for parents
(previous days).

2. Inmersive Virtual Reality MAN A VR

 Review of cautions and rules
 Watch videos Man A App testing and Man a VR
3. Padlet, collaborative wall
With questions about experiences with immersive reality and artistic creation
"lived" in the first person.

4. OP ART presentation.
OP ART presentation, Slideshare by Rosa Fernández

5. Reading activity
 How did an artist help Britain fight the war at sea?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zty8tfr
 Op Art in Fashion and Design http://www.op-art.co.uk/op-art-fashion/

6. Visualize recent works of OP ART

 Op art in Flickr.

7. Op Art Fashion.
 Visualize moda opart, video 1 and video 2.

8. Create an OP ART in a A4 following one of the given models.

Individual task
o Several students projects
o Op art 1 paso a paso
o Op art 2 paso a paso
9. Create your Digital OP ART with one of the tools and apps given.

o Opartica at http://www.opartica.com. Opartica is a

fully interactive optical art maker that lets you spin and overlap shapes
like rays, concentric circles and squares, zig zags, and spirals. You can
change color and centers.

o LineSublime at http://www.linesublime.com/. One

continuous line of varying thickness creates amazing images. use your
own photos to create unique masterpieces. ¡Mejor con tu foto!

10. Create a non digital OP ART in a free format, technique an style.

Group task (4/5 students)

11. Exhibition with VR glasses to test and sumative assessment.

12. Assessment of the activity on Google Form.

Assesment
Self assessment, peers assessment and sumative assessment using these two
rubrics:

 Rubric for individual task - optical illusions

 Rubric for team work - optical illusions

 Google Form to assess the project.

Materials and Apps needed
Tasks 1, 2 and 3:
 Brochure with VR rules for children
 Permission slips for parents
 Students mobile devices (BYOD)
 VR glasses (we have 10 units)

 MAN A VR app (By Gibson Martelli) installed in

Android or iOS devices.

 Padlet app to share experiences and a wall created with

questions.

Tasks 4, 5, 6 and 7
 Slideshare, Flickr and Vimeo
 Students mobile devices (BYOD)

Task 8
 A4 white cardboard
 Black markers
 Ruler, set squares, drafting compass

Task 9

 Opartica at http://www.opartica.com.
 Bring one picture of yourself (portrait) for next task.
  LineSublime at http://www.linesublime.com/.

Task 10
 Arts materials depending on size, format and techniques.

Task 11
 Rubrics to be given to students at the begining of the project.

Task 12
 Google form

Tutorials for the Apps

 Tutorial

 Tutorial.
 Opartica at http://www.opartica.com. Instructions on
the app.

 LineSublime Tutorial.

Rosa Fernández Alba

@RFA2009

November, 2018