Art & the Cosmos Project

“Art inspires Science and Science inspires Art”

Driving Question:

Layout Page for ID Tag and Artistic Elements Description 

(see next page for instructions and content requirements for each box)

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  NASA Image ID Tag                          Original Artwork ID Tag

Title:

Image Description:

Image Credit:

Additional Detail:

Artwork Title:

Artwork Description:

(Materials and Media Used)

Artist Name:

Additional Detail:

Artistic Element Description

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Instructions for use of Layout Page

  1.  Collect the following information:

For left box titled ‘NASA Image ID Tag’ you will need the following:

Image Title (20 pt font):        

Image Description: (18 pt font):

Credit for Image: (18 pt font):

Additional Detail: (18 pt font):

        

For right box titled ‘Original Artwork ID Tag’ you will need the following:

Artwork Title (20 pt font):        

Artwork Description - Materials and Media Used (18 pt font):

Credit for Image- This is your name! First, Last Name (18 pt font)        

Additional Detail - Other thoughts and connections you might have had along the way of producing this piece of artwork: (18 pt font):

  1. Complete two sentence frames describing how you used the Elements of Art (select at least 2 elements of art from the 7 options).  Use your imagination! Use what we know about shapes, lines, color, texture, value, form and space to make your predictions about the images you viewed and what inspired you from the image to create your own piece of artwork.  These sentences will be inserted into one large box just below the two side-by-side ID tags in the layout page above.

The _______________ in this image may be the result of _________________.

The _______________ in this image may be the result of _________________.

Example:  

The irregular blob shapes in this image may be the result of lakes or volcanoes on the surface of this planet.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.  For knowledge is limited,

whereas imagination embraces the entire world.”  Albert Einstein (1929)

Nash Lab 2019 Steindorf STEAM School   adapted from: www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/art-the-cosmic-connection/