Ornaments and patterns on dishes

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Since ancient times, people have tried to make the world around them more beautiful. Therefore, they decorated everything that surrounded them: the walls of dwellings, clothes, household items. The simplest were the patterns on the dishes, consisting of repeating geometric shapes, segments, dots. Gradually, plant elements began to be woven into the ornaments, symbolically close to geometric ones.

Geometric ornaments on dishes

Ornaments are drawings in which one (main) part is repeated. Typically, patterns on tableware have striped designs that either wrap around jugs, glasses, vases, or run around the edges of plates, saucers, trays, bowls, pots, and other kitchen utensils.

However, today the art of decorating dishes has stepped far forward. Artists who paint plates and services no longer want to limit themselves to geometric ornaments. Such a technique as bas-reliefs, when decorating dishes, is used together with patterns in the strip. Thus, it becomes clear that the patterns on the dishes are made not onlypaints.

Subject painting of dishes

Everyone knows the “Shepherdess” coffee sets, painted with plot pictures of a romantic date between a nobleman and a young shepherdess – each item is painted differently from the others, illustrating one of the scenes of the meeting. Patterns on the "Shepherdess" utensils in the form of a geometric ornament can be seen only along the edges of cups and saucers. This method of painting is used today by many firms, famous modern brands that make dishes.

Drawing up a second grade project

Today's curriculum often uses the teaching method of project writing. For example, second-graders in a mathematics lesson are offered the following project: “Patterns on dishes and ornaments: shape, alternation of elements, the rule for their arrangement one after another.”

First, the student must define the words "pattern", "ornament", "geometric shapes", "bas-relief". Then it is explained what ornaments can be.

As they proceed further, children identify patterns from combinations of dots and solid, zigzag, or winding lines. Describing certain patterns on the dishes, photographs of which are provided in the project, the child notes whether they are made with paints or look like a bas-relief.

Master class in the project

You can also include a master class on decorating dishes with geometric ornaments in the project. To do this, you need a camera and didactic material:a paper circle imitating a plate and colorful geometric shapes: circles, triangles, rhombuses, squares.

- 1 photo should capture all the material prepared for work.

- 2 photos - the first step, for example, sticking diamonds on a plate at the same distance from each other.

- 3 photos - the second step, for example, the location between the diamond circles.

- 4 photos - the third step, during which the distribution between the triangles is made.

- 5 photos can be final, which depicts the final product - a finished decorated plate.

Since the patterns on the dishes can also be in the form of solid lines (straight, wavy or zigzags), it is appropriate to use this method of painting in the master class.

Under each photo in the master class, you need to make an exhaustive description of the action performed.