Symmetrical butterflies with Andy Warhol

DIscussion: Symmetry: what does this word mean?

Balance

We know something is balanced if it is the SAME on two sides. 

As artist how do we create symmetry?

What parts of Warhol’s butterfly is exactly symmetrical?

What parts are different?

How does he use color? and shape?

Asymmetrical: Different of two sides but balanced

Look at Van Gogh’s bedroom to discuss this concept

Andy Warhol

(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)

An American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker 

leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. 

After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, 

Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter

In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.

He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." 

The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. 

Died during routine gallbladder surgery in 1987

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

PROJECT: Create a symmetrical Butterfly inspired by Andy Warhol

Step1: Fold a piece of Card Stock in half

Step2: On one half of the page draw half a butterfly in oil pastel

Step3: Fold the paper and rub until the butterfly transfers to the other half

Step4: draw in the lines so the two sides match 

Step5: using oil pastel draw in details on the wings, line on the body any ideas to make your

Butterfly unique. All details on one wing need to also on be on the other wing. 

Step6: using watercolor paint in the butterfly so it is symmetrical 

Step7: use oil pastel and paint the background another color and design. It does not have to be symmetrical. 

MATERIALS: 

Card Stock

Oil pastels

watercolor

cups

brushes

I was inspired to expand upon a lesson plan from one of my favorite sites: http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2009/02/symmetrical-butterflies/

Collage Overlapping with Matisse

DISCUSSION: 

still life: group of object placed together in interesting ways

Perspective: near and far

Overlapping: one object covering a portion of another object

Look at Matisse’s work: "Red Interior: Still Life on a Blue Table," by Henri Matisse 45 5/8 by 35 inches, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 1947

What colors does he choose

   Do they help tell the story

What about the lines he chooses 

What do we know about zig zag lines and the color red?

What story does it tell?

Can we tell what time of year or day it is?

What might it smell like

Do you have any other sensory reaction to the scene?

MATERIALS: 

Construction paper scrappys in all colors

9x12 construction paper for window frame

Glue

Watercolors

Paint brushes

Scissors

sheet of white card stock for our exterior (8x11)

ARTIST: Henri Matisse 

1869-1954
French Painter,
Studied law until he was 21

Mother gave him a paint box after surgery and he discovered painting

He returned to work, and every morning before work, he attended drawing classes; at lunch time he would paint for an hour or so, and then return to work. After work he would paint till night fell. It was his life. 

In 1891 set off for Paris. 

Matisse began his journey of studies which ultimately lead him to his love of line, shape and color. 

Matisse felt that his greatest influence had been the work of the artist Cezanne (1839 – 1906, French). 

In the 1950‘s, Matisse began creating paintings using paint and paper cut outs. 

In his last years, as he aged and fell ill, Matisse continued to paint, this time on the walls of his room, using a piece of charcoal attached to the end of a bamboo pole. He painted until his death in 1954. 

Matisse had strong feelings about only one thing, the act of painting. 

The purpose of these pictures, he always asserted, was to give pleasure. 

For Matisse, painting was the rhythmic arrangement of line and color on a flat plane. 

He had created the technique of striking contrasts, unmixed hues, flat planes of color (similar to Gauguin, 1848 – 1903, French) 

expressive brush strokes (similar to Van Gogh, 1853 – 1890, Dutch). 

Light was expressed, not in the method of the Impressionists, but with a harmony of intensely covered surfaces. 

For additional information please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse

PROJECT:  Could take two weeks

Step 1: on your white card stock create a view from your window. Use weather from your favorite time of year

Step 2: set your painting aside for it to dry

Step 3: cut out a window frame from construction paper

Step 4: on a large piece of construction paper use marker to create wallpaper

Step 5: cut out a chair or table from construction paper

Step 6: cut out a pet or a vase of flowers from construction paper

Step 7: create a piece of fabric for your table or chair with markers and paper, cut it out

Step 8: cut out a piece of carpet from construction paper

Step 9: glue all of the objects on your page, create depth

Step 10: clean up

Value Hearts with Jim Dine

Week one of a two week project: 

      grades 2-6

DISCUSSION: Value

What does value mean?

What happens when you add white to a color? TINT

What happens when you add black to a color? SHADE

How important is it to have value in art?

     DRAW A VALUE CHART: 

White is on this end

Black is on the opposite end

        Pure color is in the middle

                what is pure color? Color in it's truest form right from the bottle

Tint is between white and pure it is a little of both mixed together

Shade is between pure and black and it is a little of both mixed together.

 Look at Jim Dine's Green heart done in the 80’s

how many shades of green do you see?

What other colors are prominent?

        What is hidden in the center? a mitten

What does the work mean? Could we make a story about it?

  Look at the next heart

How many values of red do you see?

How do you think he created this piece?

        can you see the brush strokes?

        if the artwork were only one shade of red, would it be a interesting?

ARTIST: Jim Dine 

born 1935-

American pop artist. 

He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. 

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

He attended the University of Cincinnati and received a BFA from Ohio University 

 He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. 

Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, the "Happenings" were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world. 

In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.

This exhibition is historically considered one of the first "Pop Art" exhibitions in America

Jim Dine’s Hearts were included in this exhibit

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

PROJECT: Create Value Hearts in three colors

Step1: On a 12x18 piece of white paper draw 15 hearts about the size of your fist or smaller.

Step2: Choose three colors, white and black

Step3: Paint three of your hearts white

Step 4: paint three of your hearts in black

Step5: paint three hearts in your pure color (red)

Step6: Mix white and pure (red) together now (about 1/2 and 1/2) and paint three hearts

Step4: Mix black and 1 pure together (black goes a long way so just a dot at a time) and paint three hearts

MATERIALS: 

paint: white, black and one pure (I choose red)

       12x18 paper 

        pencils

WEEK 2 

RECAP last weeks vocabulary, etc.: 

Jim Dine: Value, Value Chart,  Pure color, Tint, Shade

DISCUSSION: Show Jim Dines work again

Collage: What does this word mean?

    Does he use collage in the green piece?

    What is he trying to say in this piece?

Overlapping: to place on top of something 

Balance: finding balance in your art is as important as staying balanced in life

      it is no fun to have someone let go when you are plying tug of war

           or jump off on the see saw. 

  How is Jim Dine's work balanced? 

Project: collage together a Jim Dine style heart with mini value hearts on a large heart

Step1: on a 9x12 sheet of card stock Draw a heart that fills the page

Step 1/2: WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE BACK

Step2: cut out all your hearts from last week

Step3: begin to lay out your small hearts into the larger heart

will the be light to dark, dar to light of random?

Step4: Think about all the things we talked about. 

Is it balanced?

Should I overlap?

Step5: when you get it just right you may begin to glue down each heart. 

Materials: 

Painted hearts from week 1

scissors

Card stock

glue sticks

Collage with Dr. Seuss

PRESCHOOL Lesson Plan

PREPARATION: see material list below to see what collage items need to be prepped.

DISCUSSION: 

Read a few pages (or all) of the cat in the hat

Ask the students what they think about Dr Seuss’s use of color

How many colors did he use?

How did he use color to create emotion?

On what objects did he put red?

What objects did he make blue?

What objects only were black and white?

   What is collage?

Have we done it this year?

What artist did we use collage already? Eric Carle.

Is he also and Illustrator like Dr Seuss?

ARTIST DR SEUSS: 

March 2, 1904

Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts

Graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925, went on Oxford University, intending to acquire a doctorate in literature.

In May of 1954, Life published a report on illiteracy among schoolchildren, because their books were boring. This problem inspired Geisel's publisher.

He sent Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important for children to learn. 

The publisher asked Geisel to cut the list to 250 words and use them to write an entertaining children's book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of the words given to him, published The Cat in the Hat, which brought instant success.

He wrote green eggs and ham on a bet with a friend that he could not write a book with less than 50 words
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and three Academy Awards

Geisel authored and illustrated 44 children's books. 

Theodor Geisel died on September 24, 1991

Dr. Seuss lives on in the stories
for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss

Materials: Light blue card stock

Red strips of construction paper

White card stock cut in a square

White card stock cut in a long rectangle

Orange paper cut in 3”x3” squares

Glue sticks

Scissors

Black pens

Cut water drops in white. 

PROJECT: Create Suess hats with the goldfish Playing "Up, Up, Up"

Step 1: Grab a piece of light blue carrd stock and write you name

Step2: Glue a white square piece to the center of the blue paper

Step3: Glue a white long rectangular pice to the bottom of the white square creating a hat

Step 4: using red strips add stripes to the hate creating a dr. Suess hat style

Step5: Draw the fish using a black pen on small orange paper

Step6: Cut our your fish and glue it to the middle of the hat

Step7: add the water drops