Project 4: Picasso Celebrity Portrait Sculptures
Materials: Paper, Pencil, Cardboard, Scissors, Elmer's Glue, Tempera Paint, and Sharpies
Vocabulary: Balance, Shape, Composition, Unity, Color
Vocabulary: Balance, Shape, Composition, Unity, Color
Day 1: Learn about Pablo Picasso, choose celebrity, and start sketches
Day 2: Construct final design out of cardboard and glue Day 3 & 4: Paint sculpture and add details with a sharpie Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso is probably the most important figure of 20th century, in terms of art, and art movements that occurred over this period. Before the age of 50, the Spanish born artist had become the most well known name in modern art, with the most distinct style and eye for artistic creation. There had been no other artists, prior to Picasso, who had such an impact on the art world, or had a mass following of fans and critics alike, as he did.
Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881, and was raised there before going on to spend most of his adult life working as an artist in France. Throughout the long course of his career, he created more than 20,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and other items such as costumes and theater sets. He is universally renowned as one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the twentieth century. Picasso's ability to produce works in an astonishing range of styles made him well respected during his own lifetime. After his death in 1973 his value as an artist and inspiration to other artists has only grown. He is without a doubt destined to permanently etch himself into the fabric of humanity as one of the greatest artists of all time. Cubism (1909-1919) It was a confluence of influences - from Paul Cézanne and Henri Rousseau, to archaic and tribal art - that encouraged Picasso to lend his figures more weight and structure around 1907. And they ultimately set him on the path towards Cubism, in which he deconstructed the conventions of perspective that had dominated Renaissance art. During this period, the style Georges Braque and Picasso developed used mainly neutral colors and was based in they're "taking apart" objects and "analyzing them" in terms of their shapes. Non-painted objects such as newspapers or tobacco wrappers, are frequently pasted on the canvas in combination with painted areas - the incorporation of a wide variety of extraneous materials is particularly associated with Picasso's novel technique of collage. This collage technique emphasizes the differences in texture and poses the question of what is reality and what is illusion in painting. With his use of color, shape and geometrical figures, and his unique approach to depict images, Picasso changed the direction of art for generations to come. |
Project 3: Pointillism Holiday Cards
Materials: 9X6 paper, pencil, sharpies
Vocabulary: Pointillism, Balance, Composition
Vocabulary: Pointillism, Balance, Composition
Day 1: Read about Pointillism & start sketching card ideas
Day 2: Draw out sketch using pencil. Start adding Pointillism using sharpies
Day 3: Finish Holiday Card
Day 4: Blog
Day 2: Draw out sketch using pencil. Start adding Pointillism using sharpies
Day 3: Finish Holiday Card
Day 4: Blog
http://www.ducksters.com/history/art/pointillism.php
Pointillism
General Overview
Pointillism is often considered part of the Post-impressionist movement. It was primarily invented by painters George Seurat and Paul Signac. While Impressionists used small dabs of paint as part of their technique, Pointillism took this to the next level using only small dots of pure color to compose an entire painting.
When was the Pointillism movement?
Pointillism reached its peak in the 1880s and 1890s after the Impressionist movement. Many of the concepts and ideas, however, continued to be used by artists in the future.
What are the characteristics of Pointillism?
Unlike some art movements, Pointillism has nothing to do with the subject matter of the painting. It is a specific way of applying the paint to the canvas. In Pointillism the painting is made up entirely of small dots of pure color. See the example below. See the dots that make up the man from Seurat's painting The Circus Pointillism used the science of optics to create colors from many small dots placed so close to each other that they would blur into an image to the eye. This is the same way computer screens work today. The pixels in the computer screen are just like the dots in a Pointillist painting.
Examples of Pointillism
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat)
This painting is by far the most famous of the Pointillism paintings. It was George Seurat's masterpiece. It is over 6 feet tall and 10 feet wide. Every bit of the painting is done with tiny little dots of pure color. Seurat worked on it for around two years. You can see it today at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sunday (Paul Signac)
Paul Signac studied Pointillism with George Seurat. In the painting Sunday you can see his technique. The colors are very bright and the lines quite sharp when viewed from a distance. The painting is of a typical Parisian husband and wife spending Sunday afternoon together in their home.
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Project 2
Self Portrait Collage
Day 1: Create a list of objects that are important to you. Start creating sketches of these objects.
Day2: With partners, create your silhouette. Begin to create your self portrait collage
Day2: With partners, create your silhouette. Begin to create your self portrait collage
Project 1
Leaf Contour Line Drawing on Collage
Materials: Leaf, Pencil, Sharpie, Tissue Paper, Wooden Canvas Panel
Vocabulary: Contour line drawing, line, composition
First Day: Create contour line drawings of 4 leaves
Second Day: Tissue Paper Collage
Third Day: Using a Sharpie, draw the contour line drawing on wooden panel
Project Due: Week of October 3rd
Posting Final Project:
Block A: kidblog.org/douglas-art-6a
Block B: kidblog.org/douglas-art-6b
Block C: kidblog.org/douglas-art-6c
Block D: kidblog.org/douglas-art-6d
Type in your name: (First & Last)
Password: douglasart
(please change your password, write it down, let Miss Murphy know your new password)
Blog Post (block A) must include:
2) How did your group come together as a team to finish painting the logo?
3) Compare your answer in question 2 to how players of the team that you created the logo of work together.
4) Were there any challenges?
5) If you were to paint a large area again, how would you approach it differently?
6) Create your own sports team logo and post it with your blog post.
Blog Post (block B, C, D) must include:
Block B: kidblog.org/douglas-art-6b
Block C: kidblog.org/douglas-art-6c
Block D: kidblog.org/douglas-art-6d
Type in your name: (First & Last)
Password: douglasart
(please change your password, write it down, let Miss Murphy know your new password)
Blog Post (block A) must include:
- Title
- Header Image
- Photograph of your:
- In the body of your blog please answer the following questions:
2) How did your group come together as a team to finish painting the logo?
3) Compare your answer in question 2 to how players of the team that you created the logo of work together.
4) Were there any challenges?
5) If you were to paint a large area again, how would you approach it differently?
6) Create your own sports team logo and post it with your blog post.
Blog Post (block B, C, D) must include:
- Title
- Header Image
- Photograph of your project and sketches
- In the body of your blog please answer the following questions:
1) What is a contour line drawing?
2) What is a collage?
3) What color scheme did you use in your collage and what colors belong in that color scheme?
4) What did you enjoy most about the project? What was most challenging?
5) If you could do the project again, what would you do differently?