Citizen Art

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Citizen Art Visual Literacy
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Essential Understanding

• Language, literature, and the arts reflect the
  values and beliefs of a society and impact the
  transmission of culture.

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Social Contract

• In order to live in society, human beings agree
  to an implicit social contract, which gives them
  certain rights in return for giving up certain
  freedoms they would have in a state of nature.
  Thus, the rights (and responsibilities) of
  individuals are the terms of the social contract,
  and the state is the entity created for the
  purpose of enforcing that contract. Also, the
  people may change the terms of the contract if
  they so desire rights and responsibilities are
  not fixed or "natural". However, more rights
  always entail more responsibilities, and fewer
  responsibilities always entail fewer rights.
• -Jean-Jacques Roussseau

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Student Activity

• Turn to your elbow partner and provide at least
  two examples of a modern social contract.

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Constitution of the United States Preamble

• We, the people of the United States, in order to
  form a more perfect Union, establish justice,
  insure domestic tranquility, provide for the
  common defense, promote the general welfare, and
  secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
  our posterity, do ordain and establish this
  Constitution for the United States of America.

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Artists Purpose

• I liked the idea of using individual license
  plates from each state in the Union they work
  together to form this bigger message. That was
  the same spirit and design of the real
  Constitution.
• -Mike Wilkins

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Question One
How does Wilkins artwork reflect a modern social
contract?
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Question Two
How does Wilkins artwork address the Essential
Understanding Language, literature, and the
arts reflect the values and beliefs of a society
and impact the transmission of culture.
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Optional Activity

• If you were to create this same type of art
  today, how would you represent a modern social
  contract?