Inspiration Artist

Yayoi
Kusama
VIEWS OF
REALITY
Throughout history and across cultures, people have
been concerned with views of reality.

KEY CONCEPTS: Views of Reality...

are experienced by different people and cultures

influence actions and art
affect mental health (and vice versa)
are personal
VIEWS OF
REALITY
Throughout history and across cultures, people have
been concerned with views of reality.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: Views of Reality...

How is reality experienced differently by different people and

cultures?
In what ways do views of reality influence actions and art?
How do views of reality affect mental health?
How are views of reality personal?
About Kusama

My artwork is an expression of my life, particularly of my mental disease.

- Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama's life is a poignant testament to the healing power of art as well as a study in human
resilience. Plagued by mental illness as a child, and thoroughly abused by a callous mother, the
young artist persevered by using her hallucinations and personal obsessions as fodder for prolific
artistic output in various disciplines. This has informed a lifelong commitment to creativity at all
costs despite the artist's birth into a traditional, female-effacing Japanese culture and her career's
coming of age in the male dominated New York art scene. Today, Kusama reigns as one of the
most unique and famous contemporary female artists, operating from her self-imposed home in a
mental hospital.
Yayoi Kusama
 Lesson Overview:
Students will explore their
understanding of reality and related
concepts. They will build a 3D shape
using a net and use various
mediums to create a unique and
personal representation of their view
of reality
OBJECTIVES: Build Your Reality
TSW
Determine the essential idea of the reading
and how it relates to the lesson through a
memo
Create an object or pattern that represents
their view of reality
Represent three dimensional figures
using nets (templates) made of triangles,
rectangles, and pentagons
Formative Assessment
(of assigned reading):
Analysis of a central idea,
using textual evidence for
support shown through a
reading memo.
Summative Assessment
(of studio investigation):
Self-assessment checklist.
Vocabulary

Reality: the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed
to an idealistic or notional idea of them.
Perception: the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something
through the senses.
Choice-based: students are regarded as artists and direct their own
learning by coming up with their own art problems to solve.
Octahedron: a three-dimensional shape having eight plane faces,
especially a regular solid figure with eight equal triangular faces.
Dodecahedron: a three-dimensional shape having twelve plane faces, in
particular a regular solid figure with twelve equal pentagonal faces.
 Scissors
Supplies Q-tips
Paper
Pipe cleaners
Glue/ Glue sticks
Glue guns
Sparkles, glitter
Templates
Jewels, decorations
String
Confetti
Yarn
Clear scotch tape
Wire
Colored masking
Sharpies
tape
Found
Markers
objects
Colored pencils
Cardstock
 3D Origami

Instructions:

1. Fold along lines

2. Glue tabs to form
shape
http://www.greatlittleminds.com/pages/maths/3d-nets/3d-nets-octahedron.html
Studio Investigation

1. Visually depict a representation of your view of reality.

Use any object or medium to create a literal, figurative,
representational, abstract, or nonobjective artwork.
2. Create at least one 3D figure using a template.
3. Photograph your work.
4. Set up your artwork for a gallery walk.
5. Add a title tag if desired.