Hidden Curriculum of Vision
Painting is the process of applying paint or pigment to a surface and may also refer to the artwork created through that process. Artists use materials, tools, techniques, color, shape, line, texture, arrangement, and style to create visual representations or abstract works. Understanding painting requires more than knowing that a brush is dipped into paint. Learners need to understand how materials are used, how marks accumulate to create an image, how a flat painting can represent three-dimensional people and ob...
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Painting means using paint or pigment to make marks, colors, shapes, or images on a surface. Artists can paint something to look like a real person, object, or place, or they can change, simplify, or invent what they show.
Much of the concept of painting is learned incidentally through vision. Sighted children repeatedly observe people painting, see paintings in books and classrooms, encounter portraits and illustrations, and compare paintings with photographs and real objects. Through repeated visual exposure, they gradually understand that paint can be manipulated to repres...
Understanding painting supports broader development of visual literacy, symbolic representation, cultural knowledge, academic access, creativity, and interpretation of the visual world. Paintings appear throughout literature, history, social studies, religion, museums, media, and cultural discussions, where students are increasingly expected to analyze not...
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