Typography and Pattern with Lou Dorfsman

Discussion: 

Typography

What does it mean? 

Where do we see it? Daily lives, Computer

ARTIST

Louis "Lou" Dorfsman (1918 – October 22, 2008) was a graphic designer who oversaw almost every aspect of the advertising and corporate identity for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in his 40 years with the network.

In Eero Saarinen's CBS Building on 52nd Street and Sixth Avenue, Dorfsman was responsible for all of the building's graphics, designating the type, design and spacing for wall clocks, elevator buttons, and elevator inspection stickers.[2] He designed a 35-foot-wide (11 m), 8 1⁄2-foot-tall (2.6 m) design called Gastrotypographicalassemblage for the building's cafeteria that listed all of the foods offered to patrons in hand-milled wood type. Dorfsman considered this work to be "his magnum opus, his gift to the world".[3] The work has now been installed in a building on the campus of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.

Pattern

What is pattern? 

How do we create pattern in art? 

Project
Step1: Grab small square of practice paper

Step2: Practice your letter

Step 3: Make suer the letter is open, like a coloring book 

Step4: Fill the page

Step4: get your letter approved by an adult

Step5: Recreate your letter on the page with type

Step6: Make sure your type page in long ways

Step7: Draw your letter again in the same manner as your practice

Step 8: Fill Your letter with pattern

Step9: Turn in your letter to mrs. Mollie

Materials: 

Pre-cut paper with type

Thin Sharpie markers

Practice paper

Sticky notes for each student with their letter on it (ABC etc). 

Collaboration: Mixed Movement Dot Circles with Sonya Delaunay, Elizabeth Murray and Seurat

THREE WEEK COLLABORATION PROJECT

Final Project at the end of third class 

WEEK 1

Discussion: 
Primary Color
Secondary color
Mixing colors to make new colors
Show a piece of Delaunay's artwork
Discuss color and shape

Artist:

Sonia Delaunay
(November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) 
Jewish-French artist 
Married to  Robert Delaunay 
Co-founded the Orphism art movement: noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. 
Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design. 
She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor.
Her work in modern design included the concepts of geometric abstraction, the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, and clothing.

Project: Create mixed color circles for colloboraration canvas
Step1: Studenst mix two colors together in a small cup
Step2: studenst paint large circle on canvas

Materials: 
Tempura paint: primary secondary black and white
Paint brushes
30x40 canvas


WEEK 2

Discussion: Movement
Talk about movement and music in art work
Show Elizabeth Murray's work and ask if they see music
iPAD: Use the MOMA art app to add music to Murray's work and let studenst here the noises
No iPad: Study Keith Haring and talk about black movement lines

Artist: Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007):
Inspired by Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock’s work, as well as Pablo Picasso’s Cubist works 
American painter Elizabeth Murray’s oeuvre span styles from a Minimalist use form and color to bold, cartoonish Surrealism. 
Her works push the boundaries of a two-dimensional medium; the irregular triangles in the “Giant Maiden” series (1972) strain against the edges of canvases painted in high relief, while the explosive colors on an intricate collage-like canvas in Do the Dance (2005) lend the painting a kinetic, almost optical quality.

Project: using medium brushes have students add lines to circles
Step1: grab a brush with black paint and add one curved line 
step2: add a few straight lines

Materials: 
Black paint
Brushes
Circles canvas; see above. 

WEEK 3

Discussion: Dots
Mixing colors with your eye balls
Look at the Seurat work: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884
Ask students what they see (make sure they see the monkey) 
Have a close up of one spot on the final work that shows the dots. 
How does  the view mix the dots? Is this science? 

Artist: Georges Seurat 

(1859-1891)

French Painter

Invented pointillism

Took informal art lessons as a teen

Attended art school in Paris

He studied the relationship between lines and images and the effect light had on color

He wanted to know more about the emotional effect of color

He influenced science with his studies of colors

Project: add dots to the movement circles

Step1: using q-tips add put color dots to the final work

Materials

Tempura Paint

Q-tips

School picture portraits with Picasso

Discussion: what is a portrait? 

What do you find in a portrait? 

Nose? Mouth? Shoulders? Ears? 

How do you draw a portrait? 

Now look at this portrait? What?????

What is up with her eyes? 

Why is her nose like that?

What about the background?

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

He was a Spanish painter 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.

Project: create a picasso portrait using your school picture

Step1: draw a circle for a head on your small paper

Step2: add a neck and shoulders

Step3: cut out one eye and glue it to the small paper

Step4: cut out one ear and glue it somewhere on your face

Step5: cut out your mouth and glue it on your face

Step6: cut out your hair and glue it on your portrait

Step7: finih your portrait in oil pastel

Step8; Draw a pattern in the background

MATERIALS: 

2”x3” paper, tagboard

School pictures

Oil pastels

Pattern Britto All Student Art Project

Discussion,

Pattern

Artist Britto

ARTIST: Romero Britto (1963-      )

was born in Recife, Brazil 

Self-taught at an early age, he painted on surfaces such as newspapers. 

In 1983, he traveled to Paris where he was introduced to the work of Matisse and Picasso. 

He combined influences from cubism with pop, to create a vibrant, iconic style that The New York Times describes, "exudes warmth, optimism and love."

In 1988, Britto moved to Miami and emerged as an international artist.  

He has also illustrated several books published by Simon & Schuster and Rizzoli. 

Britto's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in over 100 countries 

Britto considers the role of an artist to be an agent of positive change. 

He serves as a benefactor, donating time, art and resources to over 250 charitable organizations and several boards such as Best Buddies International, and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. 

Project Mini Britto for all students art project

Step1: using a pencil, draw in a rectangle

Step2: draw in a second rectangle

Step3: draw in a pattern in the largest ring

Step4: draw in a pattern in the middle ring

Step5: Draw in a heart in the middle

Step6: fill in each pattern in only two colors. 

Materials:

Primary and secondary paint

Pencils

Sharpies

Card stock rectangles

Watercolor

Oil pastels

Portfolio

Tooling Foil Masks with Folk Artists

Discussion: Mayan Masks

Pattern

Tin Art

Folk Artists

Folk Art Tin work, known in Mexico as hojalata, goes back to the 16th Century. Artists use natural, oxidized and brightly lacquered paints to create ornaments, nichos, mirrors, lanterns and other decorative pieces. Our interesting variety of tin work comes from Oaxaca where the artists use more natural and lacquered tin, and from San Miguel de Allende where oxidized tin is more popular.

The Maya occupied a vast area covering southeast Mexico and the Central American countries of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador. Mayan culture began to develop in the Pre-Classic period, around 1000 B.C. and was at its heyday between 300 and 900 A.D. The Maya are well known for their writing, of which a great part can now be read, as well as for their advanced mathematics, astronomy and calendrical calculations.

Mayan masks had a wide variety of uses: 

Some of the most complex masks were created to adorn the faces of the dead.

The Mayan's wore masks during important events, including during battle.

Whatever the use of masks in battle was, today’s scholars are able to learn a lot about the Mayan civilization from surviving masks made by the Mayan people.

There were also masks that showed the faces of people. We know that some masks were used in wedding ceremonies, 

There were masks made to commemorate many births and deaths.

The Mayan's also used masks for entertainment.

The uses of masks by the Mayan people were as varied as the style of the masks themselves.

Tips for tooling Foil: 

Use dull pencils (we used colored pencils

Work on a pad of folded newspaper

Project create a two tear tooling foil sun mask 

Step1: On the first square, draw a new pattern on each of the four sides

Step2: cut the corners off the second square turning it into a circle

Step3: Think about what type of mask you are making, add eyes, nose, mouth, ears hair, etc. 

Step4: using sharpies color both of the tooling foil pieces

Step5: using a large bead hot glue the square pattern foil underneath the round, mask foil 

MATERIALS: 

2 sheets of 5”x 5” tooling foil

Dull pencils

Newspaper

Sharpie markers. 

Hot glue gun

Beads

Pattern Gum balls with Wayne Thiebaud

TWO WEEK PROJECT

WEEK ONE: 

DISCUSSION: repetition, pattern, Pop Art

Show one of Wayne Theibaud's Gum ball Machines

Where do we see repetition in this artwork

Where else?

What does this piece of art make you think of?

How does the gum taste? Does each color taste different?

Do you see where the light hits the gum balls inside the glass?

How did Mr Thiebaud create light? white 

How did he create shadows? black 

ARTIST: Wayne Thiebaud 

(born November 15, 1920) 

He is an American painter 

most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. 

He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture,

His works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. 

Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects

Well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.

Project: create pattern bubble gum from shrinky dinks

Step1: use colored pencils to create a pattern on the round shrinky dink

Step2: shrink them in a toaster oven

Step3: using clear adhesive adhere the shrinky dink to the clear rock

step4: place adhesive magnet on the back of the shrinky dink rock. 

Materials:

shrinky dink paper cut to 2 inch circles

clear rocks 1” flat on one side bubbled on the other (dollar store, 30 for one dollar, in floral supply)

clear silicone glue to adhere shrinky dinks to rocks

button magnets 

colored pencils

WEEK 2

DISCUSSION: 
Review Artist information
Review pattern

ALL STUDENT ART PROJECT: 
what is it?
why do we create an all student art project?

PROJECT: create a gum ball machine on a wooden board
preparation: buy a wooden board and have it cut to 18x24
divide the board into 3"x3" squares
label the squares with numbers to make a paint by number for students to create
Make plates of paint with corresponding numbers for the painting

Step1: Students get to paint one of the 3" by 3" squares in the color/colors it is labeled. 

MATERIALS: 
Paint
wooden board in 18x24
paint brushes

Chenille Stem Mesh Kandinsky Art

DISCUSSION: Line, Shape, Color.

Line: go over each and talk about how they might make us feel

Angled or curved

Shape: go over several geometric shapes again and talk about how it makes them feel? circle vs. square

Organic shapes: more free, of nature not so regimented.

Color: go over colors again and talk about how they make us feel. Red vs. blue etc.

Expressionist artwork: Expressionism was a cultural movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the start of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world in an utterly subjective perspective, radically distorting it for emotional effect, to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of "being alive" and emotional experience rather than physical reality.

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

ARTIST:

Wassily Kandinsky 

1866-1944

Russian Painter

Taught art in Munich Germany for ten years

Moved to Paris in 1933 became a citizen in 1939

He was excited by COLOR as a child

He related painting to playing music

Credited with painting the first modern abstract

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

PROJECT: Create chenille stem “paintings” with plastic mesh canvas

Step1: using black stems add in a strong (angles or curves) line somewhere on your canvas

Step2: now add two geometric shapes in different colors

step3: add one organic shape in a third color

Step4: think about your color choices as you begin to fill in the remainder as you see fit

add more shapes, lines, color, pattern etc.

Step5: the canvas must be filled in all the way

MATERIALS:

chenille stems in every color and black

dick blick mesh canvas

The end result is a large mesh quilt. All student art is quilted together for the art show. 

I adapted this cool project from a dick blick lesson plan: 

http://cdn.dickblick.com/lessonplans/chenille-stem-stitchery/chenille-stem-stitchery-chenille-stem-stitchery.pdf

Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree ASAP

Lesson Plan for 6-8 Grade

DISCUSSION:  Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree

Texture, movement, balance, 

        color and value

        perspective, 

Why does it work?

What do we think of

Why does it feel like we are there?

ARTIST: VAN GOGH

Vincent  van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter 

His work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art

Known for his  vivid colors and emotional impact. 

Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties

most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. 

He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. 

His work was a strong influence on the Modernist art that followed. 

Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.

Known for his paint application creating texture and movement.

He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life,

died largely unknown, at the age of 37

sold only one painting while he was alive

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

PROJECT: 

Each student is given 1/6 of the mulberry tree painting to recreate on their canvas. 

There are no parameters they may interpret it anyway they like. 

MATERIALS:

Canvas

Acrylic paints

Paint brushes

water


ADDITIONAL Student picture from a similar project students did with Picasso: