Art
With an introduction to action art by famous artists such as Jackson Pollock, students will work together to learn how to program Sphero using the Tickle app to create a collaborative art piece! Yes, you will be painting with and programming Sphero.
Filling the archives with rich imagery is one thing, but how can educators truly innovate how students engage with art beyond looking at it and reading about it?
Touch Van Gogh, an interactive-art mobile app for iOS and Android, allows students to poke, rub and expose layers of the art in ways they couldn’t before.
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The app includes several paintings. As a detective of sorts, the user can unravel Vincent van Gogh’s paintings at his/her own pace to find out more about the life and work of this famous artist. Among other things, the app shows what a painting looked like before a restoration, exactly where it was painted, which paints discolored and even the composition of the painting. This information can be accessed by means of various tools. Layers of paint can be rubbed off, timelines can be changed and details of the painting can be zoomed into for a closer look. Painting can also be ‘turned around’ as it were, to study the back.
