MANDALA OVERVIEW
Motion with the Phenakistoscope
Snowy Mandala Formations
PERSONAL MANDALA:
BIG IDEA: You will create a personal radial design while discovering both cultural and scientific origins. Different techniques will be explored for each grade level. 1. Printmaking and printing blocks, tessellations (6th grade) 2. Shape, texture and form with color – large single paper (7th grade) 3. Paper-mache bowls with radial designs, Icosidodecahedrons & Polyhedra (8th grade)
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can a mandala design be connected and reflect science, math and world culture?
KEY KNOWLEDGE: You will review and know:
Creating mandalas have benefits. They allow you to relax, become clear-headed, even fulfilled. Creating mandalas builds experience is a means of self-discovery. And your experience in drawing mandalas grow, you begin to discover how they can be a means of self-discovery. They give insight into your inner self and are an enjoyable way of healing emotional issues.
· CYMATICS – Sound is the basis of all form and shape. Matter and energy form into everything from the human form to patterns on wings of birds and insects which is caused by the ionic structure and atoms bonding. When sound can be seen, each frequency and vibration also has its own unique pattern along with color; creating their own “mandala” and or radial design created by that energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
1. Relationship to water crystals and the power of water. We are all made of 70% water.
2. What you give out is what you create.
3. We all have our own unique “sound”, pattern and signature.
· Know what a MANDALA is:
1. A mandala is a symbolic diagram, often symbolic of the universe and used in Eastern cultures as an aid to meditation. Most mandalas represent love, compassion, unity, balance and peace.
2. Sanskrit for circle - The single point at the center of the circle is called the "Bindu."
3. YANTRA – Sanskrit for “instrument” is a geometrical diagram meant to inspire inner visualizations & meditations.
· GAIN INSIGHT TO CULTURE: It is hard to find a culture (past or present) that has not recognized the symbolic qualities and transcendental potentials of the circle and its various geometries. The circle is the first two dimensional archetype, a metaphysical doorway of Oneness.
· Use SYMBOLS (and patterns) to communicate ideas.
· REVIEW ART ELEMENTS and basic vocabulary of (sacred) geometry – pattern, unity, balance, symmetry, radial design, golden mean, PI, geometric ratios, and geometric figures were often employed in the design of Egyptian, ancient Indian, Greek and Roman architecture. Medieval European cathedrals also incorporated symbolic geometry. Indian and Himalayan spiritual communities often constructed temples and fortifications on design plans of mandala and yantra.
MAGNET THEME CONNECTION: Engineers study the radial balance of birds, insects and other animals (BIO-MIMICRY) to develop aircrafts for aerospace technology. Bio mimicry is the examination of Nature, its models, systems, processes, and elements to emulate or take inspiration from an order to solve human problems. As symmetry underlies nature, science and mathematics, many problems can be solved and many issues resolved by the application of principles based on symmetry in engineering and science.
http://www.art-is-fun.com/how-to-draw-a-mandala.html
http://www.geometrycode.com/free/archimedean-solids-fold-up-patterns/#4ervb http://www.crystalinks.com/sg.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGSU5rcHmRQ&feature=related
BIG IDEA: You will create a personal radial design while discovering both cultural and scientific origins. Different techniques will be explored for each grade level. 1. Printmaking and printing blocks, tessellations (6th grade) 2. Shape, texture and form with color – large single paper (7th grade) 3. Paper-mache bowls with radial designs, Icosidodecahedrons & Polyhedra (8th grade)
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can a mandala design be connected and reflect science, math and world culture?
KEY KNOWLEDGE: You will review and know:
Creating mandalas have benefits. They allow you to relax, become clear-headed, even fulfilled. Creating mandalas builds experience is a means of self-discovery. And your experience in drawing mandalas grow, you begin to discover how they can be a means of self-discovery. They give insight into your inner self and are an enjoyable way of healing emotional issues.
· CYMATICS – Sound is the basis of all form and shape. Matter and energy form into everything from the human form to patterns on wings of birds and insects which is caused by the ionic structure and atoms bonding. When sound can be seen, each frequency and vibration also has its own unique pattern along with color; creating their own “mandala” and or radial design created by that energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
1. Relationship to water crystals and the power of water. We are all made of 70% water.
2. What you give out is what you create.
3. We all have our own unique “sound”, pattern and signature.
· Know what a MANDALA is:
1. A mandala is a symbolic diagram, often symbolic of the universe and used in Eastern cultures as an aid to meditation. Most mandalas represent love, compassion, unity, balance and peace.
2. Sanskrit for circle - The single point at the center of the circle is called the "Bindu."
3. YANTRA – Sanskrit for “instrument” is a geometrical diagram meant to inspire inner visualizations & meditations.
· GAIN INSIGHT TO CULTURE: It is hard to find a culture (past or present) that has not recognized the symbolic qualities and transcendental potentials of the circle and its various geometries. The circle is the first two dimensional archetype, a metaphysical doorway of Oneness.
· Use SYMBOLS (and patterns) to communicate ideas.
· REVIEW ART ELEMENTS and basic vocabulary of (sacred) geometry – pattern, unity, balance, symmetry, radial design, golden mean, PI, geometric ratios, and geometric figures were often employed in the design of Egyptian, ancient Indian, Greek and Roman architecture. Medieval European cathedrals also incorporated symbolic geometry. Indian and Himalayan spiritual communities often constructed temples and fortifications on design plans of mandala and yantra.
MAGNET THEME CONNECTION: Engineers study the radial balance of birds, insects and other animals (BIO-MIMICRY) to develop aircrafts for aerospace technology. Bio mimicry is the examination of Nature, its models, systems, processes, and elements to emulate or take inspiration from an order to solve human problems. As symmetry underlies nature, science and mathematics, many problems can be solved and many issues resolved by the application of principles based on symmetry in engineering and science.
http://www.art-is-fun.com/how-to-draw-a-mandala.html
http://www.geometrycode.com/free/archimedean-solids-fold-up-patterns/#4ervb http://www.crystalinks.com/sg.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGSU5rcHmRQ&feature=related