Line and shape overlap portfolios with Miro

Discussion: shapes

name a shape

how do we use line to make a shape

how did we use shapes to get to school today?

                        what do we eat in the shape of a triangle or square  

Overlapping 

what does it mean to overlap?

                        when you sit on your mom's lap are you overlapping your mom?

can shapes overlap

Show a piece of Miro's artwork:

Do you see shapes in Miro's artwork?

What colors did he use?

Are Miro's shapes overlapping?

Artist:Joan MIRO  (1893-1983)

Spanish painter, sculpture

Would not commit to a certain art style

Associated with the surrealists

Born to the families of a goldsmith and watchmaker, 

young Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse 

1920 moved to Paris, France. He was influenced by the poets and writers, 

He developed his unique style: organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp line. 

He would dream about his paintings

He would see the shapes on the ceiling

Project: create a miro inspired shape overlap on portfolios

step1: draw a shape

step2: draw another shape and have them touch corners

Step3: draw a third shape and have that shape touch both of the other shapes

Step4: add lines in black squiggling around the shapes more then one is great

Step5: using markers, fill in some of the shapes here and there Try very hard to stay inside the lines

MATERIALS:

card stock

sharpie markers

magic markers

Cubist Cityscape with Ethel Pearce Nerger

DISCUSSION: 

Cubism

artist and the artwork: Red Car on view at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

geometric shape and organic shapes

above art and artist

reducing city scape to geometric shapes, reducing a car to shapes

Artist: Ethel Pearce Nerger 

1901-1985

American Painter

Born on February 16, 1901 in Norfolk, West Virginia, Nerger was one of seven children.

In 1932, they moved to San Francisco. 

She was a prominent West Coast abstract impressionist, 

She was active during the 1940's and 50's in San Francisco art circles. 

Many of the over 200 paintings she produced in her career were sold in that period. 

A member of the San Francisco Women Artists

Her work was also shown in the 1950 New York Metropolitan Museum exhibition, "American Art Today."

Nerger began painting in 1936 and from then on, she once said, "I had no other goal." 

My experimenting has led me to what I call my sublinear paintings, many of which are based on my relationship with my children."

Though Nerger's farm background had family inspired many of her works, her "sublinear" style was at time highly abstract, confusing to some peers and critics while it was likened by others to that of Picasso or Chagall. 

In 1948, she defined her style and philosophy in a submission to a book on California art by Arthur Miller, Los Angeles Times art critic:

I will attempt to explain why I describe my style as sublinear. It is to me similar to a combination of several mathematical equations. The given area is designed by shapes, either solid or by implied line, with the negative (the sub) bearing a very close relationship to the principal shape. This happens throughout my work almost automatically as lines define forms and planes. I use all mediums, but water color is my more natural way of expression.

In 1957, frustrated by the politics of the Bay Area art world, Nerger withdrew, continuing to sculpt and paint, but exhibiting infrequently and refusing to promote her work. 

Nerger exhibited for the final time in 1969. Shortly afterward, 1n 1971, she suffered several strokes and never painted again. She died in 1985.

In June of 2009 two of her oil paintings have been accepted for permanent collection by the prestigious Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento

for additional information: ethelnerger.com/paintings05.html

PROJECT: students use geometric wooden shapes to create cubist style cityscape

Step1: using blocks create a car in the foreground lightly trace the blocks with a pencil once created

Step2: using lines create at least two buildings. Using the wooden blocks add windows, doors and details of a building

Step3: using organic shape create several trees in the middle ground of your piece

Step4: using a series of organic shapes create mountains behind your buildings

Step5: trace all pencils line with Sharpie add a few extra lines in the mountains 

Step6: add in oil pastels of all colors and blue tape

Step7: paint in these different shapes using values of colors. Really think about color choices before applying.

MATERIALS:

Wooden blocks

watercolor paint and paper

pencils

Spring Happy Accident Flowers with Raoul Dufy

Discussion: Look at Raoul Dufy’s Flower II 

What do you see in the picture?

How many different flowers

What shapes make up the flowers

When combined what does it look like?

How about the color he chose? is it a rainy day?

Background Color: the color AROUND The flowers, what color is it? Yellow

How did he make a rose? Swirly

How did he draw the irises? Heart

How did he draw the babies breath? just dots.

Raoul Dufy

(3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) 

He was a French Fauvist painter. 

He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. 

He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. 

He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, a theatrical set-dresser, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces

He worked with Matisse and was influenced by Cezanne

Project Create watercolor wash flowers over black line

ALL STAY TOGETHER TO CREAT FINAL PROJECT. STUDENTS WILL FOLLOW A SERIES OF INSTRUCTIONS:

Step1: working from the top of your page to the bottom

Step2: top left: make a series of small circles

Step3: in the middle top make the letter v and put a circle on the top

Step4: repeat same shape again on the right

Step5: On the left middle draw larger circles in two rows and add a line between

Step6: next to that add in a organic leaf shape and add a line down the middle and veins

Step7: in the center of your paper add a diamond, create more and more lines around until it looks like a flower

Step8: Draw a heart and add the letter v underneth

Step9 on the bottom add in a v with a circle on top

Step10: add a few leaf shapes

Step11: color in any flower you want to remain WHITE with a white oil pastel

Step12: using clear water paint your first flower

Step13: drop in color

Step14: add clear water to your second flower and drop in color

Continue with your bouquet until it is complete

Fill in the background yellow last

MATERIALS: liquid watercolors

watercolor paper

Brushes

Water

sharpie pens

white oil pastels

Op Lines with Victor Vasarely

Discussion: Line

what is a line?

how important do you think it is for art?

let’s name a few lines: Diagonal, Curved, spiral, think, thick, wavy,etc...

             want to see drawn lines on paper begin to move?

show Victor Vasarely’s work, then begin to rotate it. 

Op Art: Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.

Op is short for optical illusion. Thinking we see something that we don’t. 

Victor Vasarely, (vah-zah-RAY-lee)

1906-1997

born Hungarian:

was a Hungarian born French artist: sculpture, painter printmaker 

He led the development of the op art movement

Op-Art: an artistic style that uses geometric abstraction

Began painting in 1943

Style is characterized by BRIGHT VIBRANT COLORS geometric forms and suggestive movement

Style influenced by KANDINSKY and KLEE

Zebra, created by Vasarely in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op-art. 

Vasarely died in Paris in 1997

for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vasarely

PROJECT: 

Create an Op Art Pice using Black lines

Step1:Draw three or more rounded shapes anywhere on your paper

Step2: Add concentric lines around each original shape

keep them close together but not touching

Step3: Add another concentric line around each original shape and continue until 

you fill the space. 

Step4: remember to have the lines be as close together without touching

Step5: hold up your piece and see if it moves to you. Rotate it to add movement

MATERIALS: 

White paper

Black Pens or sharpies

This wonderful lesson plan was found in Arts and Activities for more information visit their site: www.artsandactivities.com.  This lesson is perfect for a first day activity. Additional photo's of student work:

Line Portfolios with Howard Finster

Discussion

Line: how important is line in art?

Can we even have any art without line?

where do we find line in nature?

lets think of all the fun lines we can think of and where we might see them

Artist: Howard Finster 

1916-2001

American, folk

He is perhaps the most famous self-taught artist of all time. 

Born in Alabama, he attended school for only 6 years. 

He was a jack-of-all-trades: house painter, bicycle and lawnmower repairman

Howard was a Baptist Minister for about 40 years until, in 1965, he realized no one in his congregation was listening to him. 

In 1976 an angel appeared upon the paint on his finger and said“paint art”.  

Finster and his family produced some 50,000 works many of which were signed, dated and numbered. 

Show his work and discuss

PROJECT: 

Create Finster hands with line

Step1: on your portfolio lay both hands and cross some fingers at the top

Step 2: a parent or  I will come by and trace your hands very quickly

Step3: using black marker begin to fill both hands will tons of different lines

Step4: try to stay inside the lines. Fill each finger

Step5: finish by adding fun color on top like Finster did

MATERIALS:

Poster board cut in half for preschoolers

black sharpies for lines

Markers to fill in the space between the lines

Color play with Gerard Richter

PREPARATION: cut and Glue all paper frames prior to class

DISCUSSION: Color

Where does it come from?

What are the three primary colors?

How do we make red?

What are the 3 secondary colors?

What are the two most important neutrals?

What does white do to colors?

What does black do to colors?

Richter loves to play with color and the best example of this is in his work

The Dresden painter's 4900 Colors contains precisely that: 196 equal-sized panels, 

each containing 25 individual squares of color. 

49 paintings of 100 squares. 

To randomly determine the order and orientation of each panel, the curators rolled dice and drew cards from a pack.

ARTIST: 

Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) 

 German visual artist.

Known for his blurred painting of photographs

Known for abstract paintings of pulled paint

 

for additional discussion:

Show Richter’s Abstract Art work

What do you see?

Does it look like a photograph? It is an Abstract

What does it make you think of?

Water reflections

Tree bark

Evoke textures of natural objects: reflections, shadows

What tools do painters use?

Canvas, brush paint

Where do you see layers of paint?

What order do you think he painted them in?

How do you think he created these effects?

Layers of paint scraped with a squeegee

Can an artist start a painting without knowing what they are going to create?

PROJECT: create a Richter color study on projector paper 11:45-1

PREPARATION: Cut 3 pieces of projector paper (8.5x11) into 8x8 square

Create white frame for the finish product to live in

Step1: draw lines 3 lines across, three lines down creating four open squares 

Across and down

Step2: begin to color in the square with sharpie markers making sure not to repeat colors 

Step3: repeat above steps until all three pages are filled

Step4: place the sheets together and place into white frame

Step5: show the students that every time you flip or change the order of the three pieces of art

           the art changes. 

MATERIALS:

Clear projector sheets cut to 8x8

Sharpies

White construction paper Frame