Exhibition
For the winter exhibition, we had our parents come into the gym to look at our work. What did we even do? We presented a set of 3 tableaus, one in medieval times, one in the Renaissance, and one in contemporary time. A tableau is made up of people that stand without moving creating art or a scene. In each tableau we had to include seven different aspects of worldview. “Woah woah” I know, it sounds like a lot of information, but allow me to explain.
Medieval Tableau
For the medieval tableau, Julia was horse to represent Geography, I was the speaker and I explained the tableau, Carmyn was a king to represent society and the wagon represented Economy, we had a sundial to represent time. We represented knowledge by adding a map, this is because educated people knew how maps worked and how to make them. The king also represented values because people valued a king to make important decisions for a society. To show beliefs, we had a cross on the king’s neck, this is because at the time, Christianity was a very popular religion.
Renaissance Tableau
The Renaissance tableau was the second hardest one to make and present (in my opinion.) To represent time, we had a more modern clock like the ones that were used in clock towers. We showed values and society by including the king, because in the Renaissance times, the king held tons of power and pretty much every society had a monarchy. Economy was represented using the food wagon, because many people’s source of income was through farming and agriculture. Knowledge was the painter because painting is very difficult and requires someone who’s smart and knowledgeable. Me reading the bible represents beliefs because the bible is a book the many Christians refer to.
Contemporary Tableau
The contemporary tableau was likely the hardest one because we had many props such as the voting booth, the ballot box, the food truck, and the clock. This made it hard because we had to take out multiple props out, and we only had 20 seconds to do so. The voting box represented values because most people today value the right to have a say and voice their opinions. The food truck represented economy and geography because many people buy and eat food from restaurants and the food truck represented geography because it could move to different places to sell food. The large clock represented time, Economy would also been showed by Ella holding the phone, because she was ordering food. The voting booth also demonstrated and displayed knowledge.
Triptych
We made the triptych using the three different tableaux. We made it digitally in Super Impose X. Most of the time, something the same carries through all three panels.
Renaissance Artwork
We also created the Renaissance artwork in Super Impose X, and by the time this project ended, I was a lot better with using it then I was at the beginning of the project. It was a lot like the Medieval one that I did, except it was in the Renaissance. One thing that I would’ve done differently was to do a better job of combining the image of me with the background.
Renaissance Paragraph
When we had completed the majority of the project, we had to write a paragraph talking about it. This was kind of difficult because there was many things that we had done so far, and it was hard to explain all of it. We had to revise it, and before I talked and talked, so I shortened it, and talked about my main points.
Conclusion
this project was definitely the hardest one yet in PLP that I’ve done. We had to put in many hours after school working on the project, and it was difficult working in a group because we had to communicate with all of our group members. The good thing about it was that I learnt how an exhibition worked, and I also learnt so much about the Renaissance and medieval times. Thank you for reading my blog post and hopefully you’ll look out for my next ones 😁.