Primary colors with Mondrain

Discussion

Primary colors

What does primary mean?

What do primary colors do?

Where do colors come from?

Art and Artist

what was the artist trying to say by using only line and primary colors?

ARTIST: Piet  Mondrian

1872 – 1944),

He was a Dutch painter.

He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group

He evolved a form that consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.[1]

he termed his artwork Neo-Plasticism

In his most famous works: The black lines are the flattest elements, with the least amount of depth. 

The colored forms have the most obvious brush strokes, all running in one direction. Most interesting, however, are the white forms, which clearly have been painted in layers, using brush strokes running in different directions. 

This generates a greater sense of depth in the white forms, as though they are overwhelming the lines and the colors, which indeed they were.

PREPARATION: cut strips of black lines in short and long lengths. 

Project: Collage/painting inspired by Mondrian

Step1: using pre-cut black lines glue in grid like Mondrians

Step2: add as many or as few as you like

TO PREVENT COLOR MIXING: hand out plates of red paint, yellow paint and blue paint with brushes. do not put all three colors on one plate. 

Step3: in one small square add in the color red

Step4: in one small square add in color blue

step5: in one small square add in color yellow

Step6: make artist decisions about adding more square of colors and/or more black lines

MATERIALS: 

Pre-cut black lines

Tempura paint in red blue and yellow

glue sticks 

Scissors

PREPARATION: create grid paper with six blocks 

DISCUSSION: 

Colors: what is color?

Where does it come from

What colors come first?

Primary colors

Name the primary colors

What colors make all other colors

What colors come second

Look at : Gerhard Richter’s 4900 Colours: Version II via Serpentine Gallery

artist

Artist

Gerhard Richter(born February 9, 1932) 

German visual artist.

Known for his blurred painting of photographs

Known for abstract paintings of pulled paint

Project: 

Create a Gerhard Richter style square artwork by painting primary and secondary colors in a grid

Step1: paint in primary colors

Step2: paint in secondary colors

Step3: do your best job to stay in the lines

MATERIALS:

paint

Brushes

Grid paper

Discussion: line 

shape, circles

still life

horizontal 

vertical

Artist: Cezanne

Paul Cézanne  (1839 – 1906) 

French artist and Post-Impressionist painter

His work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. 

Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. 

The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" 

Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, color, tone, composition and draughtsmanship. 

His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. 

He used planes of color and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields, at once both a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature. 

The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.

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

PREPARATION: precut apple circles in shades of green and yellow and strips of red lines in advance. 

Project: collage apple shape still life on line picnic blanket

Step1: one a sheet of white card stock, students will place three line of red horizontal

step2: one a sheet of white card stock, students will place three line of red vertical

Step3: glue in three circles in different apple shades pink, yellow, lime green on top of your picnic paper

Step4: using a brown crayon, add the stem of each apple on top.

Materials: 

half sheet white card stock

1” cut red lines

Glue sticks

circles in shades of green and yellow

brown crayon

Facial Proportion with Romare Bearden

Discussion

Facial Proportion

Colors

warm and cool colors

complementary colors

neutral colors

Shape

collage

artist, Romare Bearden

His piece Mother and Child, 1968

on display at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

ARTIST: Romare Bearden, (1911-1988)

American, Collage 

• Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and died in New York City at the age of 76. 

• His life and art are marked by exceptional talent, encompassing a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, including music, performing arts, history, literature and world art. 

• Bearden was also a celebrated humanist, as demonstrated by his lifelong support of young, emerging artists.

• Recognized as one of the most creative and original visual artists of the twentieth century

• He experimented with many different mediums and artistic styles, but is best known for his richly textured collages, two of which appeared on the covers of Fortune and Time magazines, in 1968. 

• An innovative artist with diverse interests, Bearden also designed costumes and sets for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and programs, sets and designs for Nanette Bearden's Contemporary Dance Theatre.

Facial Proportion: The face extends from the top of the head to your chin

This puts your eyes right in the Center of your face

The bottom of your nose falls in the Center of your eyes and chin

Your mouth is in the Center between your bottom of the nose and your chin

Let’s try this with newspaper

Step1: cut out a circle roughly the size of your hand from newspaper

Step2: fold your circle in half and cut out two ovals (eyes)

Step 3: fold your “chin” to your eye fold

Step 4: cut out a small triangle or circle

Step5: fold your “chin” to your nose fold

Step6: cut out a long oval for a mouth shape

Project: 

Step1: glue down your newspaper face to the card stock on the top and slightly right

Step2: Cut out a strip of newspaper and glue it along the bottom of your page

Step3: using yellow add some hair. This could be thickly applied

Step4: using your first complementary color add shape somewhere on your page

Step5: using the second complementary color fill in the background

• first: go around the shape
• second: paint over the newspaper strip but make sure you can see some of the newspaper through the paint
• third: fill the page with the color

Step6: mix your two complementary colors on your plate

Step7: somewhere on your painting add a neutral shape

Materials: 

paint in complementary colors

newspaper

glue sticks

Scissors

paper plates or trays for paint

paint brushes

water 

Imagination "Outrigger" Paintings with Robert Hudson

Robert Hudson's

Outrigger is on display at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA

Discussion: Find this sculpture in the museum and sit for discussion

What do you see here?

Is it an animal

How is it different from the painting we have seen?

Do you think the other side is painted or is it blank?

How many animals do you see?

What two different items are on top?

Why antlers? What is the artist trying to say? (NO WRONG ANSWERS)

How does the artist use color? Value?

ARTIST: Robert Hudson (born 1938) is an American artist who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in Richland, Washington. He received a B.F.A in 1961 and an M.F.A. in 1963, both from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Hudson is best known for his funk art assemblages, of the late 1950s and 1960s. He has also produced non-objective paintings, ceramics and large steel and bronze sculptures.

Project: inspired painting of or inspired by this piece of art

Step1: draw the most important two things that you saw in the sculpture

Step2: draw two things that you would add to the sculpture, if it was yours, to improve it.

Step3: Draw two shapes, one organic, one geometric into the painting 

Step5: balance one shape on two sides

Step6: add a base

Step7: add one additional item of your choice, hat?

Step 8: using primary and secondary colors, paint your version of “outrigger”

MATERIALS: 

Paint

Paper

imagination

Line Mammals with Victor Vasarely

(because we are beginning a new school year I included my first day introductions)

Introduction: 

I am Mrs Mollie

Let’s talk about art

what is art?

where do we see it?

what should we talk about when we look at it?

color, shape, line, texture, value, hear, see, smell, 

Is Art right and wrong?

mistakes in art: good or bad?

One Rule: do not comment on your neighbors artwork.  

Discussion:

Line: what is a line?

Where do we see lines

what do lines do in art?

How many line scan you name  and where might we see them in life:

zig zag, swirl, straight, thin, thick diagonal, curves, wavy

Shapes: name a shape

how do lines make shapes?

Mammals: you have been talking about mammals in class

what are mammals

where do we see them?

might we see them in art?

show artwork of tangled black and white zebras. 

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

1906-1997

born Hungarian:

French artist: sculpture, painter printmaker 

He lead 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 influeneced 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

PROJECT: Draw a mammal using shapes fill in with lines

Step1: Pick a mammal in your head and think about what shapes you could use to draw him

Step2: using a pencil, begin to draw your shape mammal

Step3: once completed fill in your shape mammal with spiral lines

Step4: Fill in your background using straight or zig zag lines

Materials:

card stock

sharpies

pencils

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