Pattern and Shape Repetition with Miro

DISCUSSION: Repetition of shapes and line 

Look at the painting: "The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown Pair of Lovers", by Joan Miro from the Constellation series, July 23, 1941.

What do you see in this painting?

What shapes? Geometric shapes? Organic shapes

What lines do you see? zig zag, curved, straight?

What colors do you see? Primary Secondary?

What is happening in this work?

Can you make up a story for what you see?

Is this work an abstract work of art?

What shapes and lines are repeated?

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

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

PROJECT: Repeat shapes and lines to create a Miro style painting

Step1: using the side of illustration board drag forward to make black squares, repeat several times

Step2: using the side of illustration board twist to make an X in black, repeat several  times

Step3: using the side of illustration board print straight lines in the shape of a star, repeat several times

Step4: using the side of illustration board print just straight lines as many as you like

Step5: using black oil pastels add in black dots all over the piece could be at the ends of lines
Step6: using green, yellow, red and blue oil pastels add in some colored shapes 

Step6: using a thin black sharpie attach lines to shapes

Step 7: using thin black sharpies add lines through out the work, zig zag, curved, spiral

MATERIALS: 

Black paint

Illustration board

Oil pastels

Thin black sharpies


This is a great recap project after you have studied line, shape, and the color wheel. It gives you a chance to revisit each element in one project. 


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This awesome lesson plan was inspired by:  http://www.vsanevada.org/lesson15.htm

Cubism Portraits with Picasso

Discussion: Cubism

Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. 

In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—Artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. 

Analytic Cubism was an analysis of the subjects (pulling them apart into planes), 

Synthetic Cubism was the second main movement within Cubism that was developed by Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris and others between 1912 and 1919. 

Synthetic cubism is characterized by the introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements

Synthetic Cubism is more of a pushing of several objects together.

Synthetic Cubism has fewer planar shifts, and less shading, creating flatter space.
for additional information about cubism; please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism


ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)

He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. 

He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. 

He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, 

He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; 

During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. 

Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes throughout his life, making him the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

for additional information; please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

MATERIALS:

                Pencils

Wooden Geometric shapes

Oil pastels

PROJECT:   Use Picasso’s Weeping Woman 19 as inspiration for your shape portrait

Students explore shapes. WRITE YOUR NAME ON YOUR PAPER

Step1: Look at the portrait and try to find or make geometric shapes

Step2: use the block shapes to begin to create your work

Step3: trace the shapes onto your white paper

Step4: Use black sharpie to out line where you would like

Step5: fill in with bright oil pastels

Step6: add one pattern into the background, stripes, lines, dots, etc...

Step7: clean your mess.

CONCLUSION: revisit Picasso’s time line

Vocabulary words: Analytic cubism: planes, broken up objects

Synthetic Cubism: Texture, collage, pushing objects together, flat.

EVALUATION: 

Were students able to recreate Picasso’s Weep ing Woman 19 from geometric shapes?

Were students able to participate in a conversation about cubism and it’s two forms

Did Students follow Picasso’s Time line and relate it to other art studied during that period? 
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Form and Shape Clay Houses with Maud Lewis

Two week Project to allow for a bisque fire in between lessons

DISCUSSION:  Clay: what is it? Where does it come from?

what can you make with it?

when you make things with clay are they flat like paper?

Mrs. Brown says you have been talking about houses

what does a house need to be a house from the outside?

windows: what shape: square, rectangle

door: rectangle

roof: triangle

ARTIST: Maud Lewis

Folk Artist 

1903-1970

Nova Scotia, Canada

Born in Ohio

She suffered from disabilities as a result of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

lived most of her life in poverty with her husband in Marshalltown. 

he began her artistic career by hand-drawing Christmas cards. 

These proved popular with her husband's customers as he sold fish door to door and encouraged her to begin painting. 

She used bright colors in her paintings and subjects were often of oxen teams, horses, or cats. 

All of her paintings are of outdoor scenes. 

Her house was one-room with a sleeping loft and is now located in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax.

Most of Maud Lewis' paintings are quite small - often no larger than eight by ten inches

She is known to have done at least three paintings 16 inches by 20 inches. 

Her technique consisted of first drawing an outline and then applying paint directly out of the tube. 

She never mixed colors.

She painted on everything in the home as she often did not have enough money to buy supplies

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

PROJECT: create a clay house like Maud Lewis

Step1: Roll out the clay and warm it up

Step2: Flatten the clay and make a flat square

Step3: use your toothpick to draw in a triangle roof

MAKE SURE NOT TO POKE YOUR TOOTHPICK ALL THE WAY THROUGH, JUST DRAW ON THE SURFACE

Step4: draw in windows

Step5: draw in the door

Step6: add texture to the roof

Step7: Draw in some pictures on the house like maud lewis

MATERIALS:

                clay

toothpicks

Popsicle sticks

Second week: DISCUSSION: Ceramics: throwing on a wheel 

Hand building (we did hand building)

Kiln: Fire Clay so it become hard 

Shrinks in the kiln

First fire is a bisque fire

Glaze Paint like substance that turns to glass when heated

Glaze fire in the kiln to cause it to change to glass

Glaze WILL fuse to shelves of the kiln : 

DO NOT GLAZE THE BOTTOM

ARTIST: SALLY RUSSELL   (A California Ceramics leader)

Sally Russell was born in San Francisco 

Sally’s affinity for vivid colors, organic textures and playful patterns 

She credits her parents with cultivating her creative spirit 

Sally had a flourishing career in the competitive world of fine art. 

Her larger-than-life size papier-mache sculptures and whimsical ceramic totems, some reaching 12 feet in height.

Creating and selling her line of ceramic dinnerware was initially a way for Sally to finance her fine art, but the thriving business has now become her focus. 

 "I've always played with irregular textures, colors and patterns, and bringing these elements to everyday objects seems to be a natural extension of what I am already doing with my fine art."

Sally studied fine arts and studio arts at both Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Sally Russell lives in Carmel Valley

for additional information; please visit: http://sallyrussellstudio.com/

PROJECT: Glaze your bisque fired pieces and place them on the cart to go to the kiln

PREPARATION: I have found the best way to have students glaze their artwork is to create a table for each color of glaze and the children walk from table to table to complete their piece.  Foe example: at the "red" table there would be a large cup of red glaze with 5 or 6 brushes. Under the cup would be a piece of red construction paper so that students will know what color they are using. 

MATERIALS: 

Bisque fired clay pieces, 

        Glaze in primary, secondary, black and white. 

        Brushes, 

        Water

        large plastic cups

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Wet and Dry Watercolor Balance with Paul Jenkins

DISCUSSION: What is balance?

Do you ever spin around in a circle and then try to stand up?

Have you ever pulled on a rope with a friend..as long as your both 

                      pulling it is a fun game

what happens if your friend lets go?

Balance the same or equal on two sides

Show Paul Jenkins symmetrical ex: what do you see?

if we folded it in half would it be the same on both sides?

how did he make this

what colors do you see?

did he mix colors?

Show Paul Jenkins asymmetrical example: what do you see in this picture?

if we folded this pa[er in half would it be the same on both sides?

how did he make this painting

what colors does he show in this work

What do you think about the white in his work? Is it as important as the color?

ARTIST: Paul Jenkins

(1923-    )

American Painter

Born in Kansas City

Jenkins was raised near Youngstown, Ohio. 

Drawn to New York, he became a student of Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Art Students League

Ultimately became associated with the Abstract Expressionists

The paintings of Paul Jenkins have come to represent the spirit, vitality, and invention of postWorld War II American abstraction. 

Jenkins's fame much identified with the process of controlled paint-pouring and canvas manipulation 

He is also known for gem-like veils of transparent and translucent color which have characterized his work since the late 1950s.

He was inspired in part by the "cataclysmic challenge of Pollock and the total metaphysical consumption of Mark Toby." 

An ongoing interest in Eastern religions and philosophy and the study of the I Ching.

Jenkins was celebrated as a cornerstone of Post Painterly Abstraction (umbrella term applied by Clement Greenberg to describe the post-Abstract Expressionist approach to painting characterized by "color fields." )

PROJECT: Create balances watercolor work using blue tape

Step1: apply your two pieces of blue tape remembering that will remain white

Step2: on one side of your artwork paint liquid watercolor on dray paper

Step3: On the opposite side> Wet your paper first to and then apply color and see the results

Step4: do not put in morw then two colors on either side as your work will turn brown

Step5: turn in your finished Jenkins inspired watercolor

MATERIALS: 

Watercolor Paper

Blue tape

Liquid watercolors in primary and secondary colors

water

Brushes

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