Organic Shape Drawing with Scissors and Matisse

Discussion

Organic Shape? What is organic shape? 

Where do you hear the word organic? 

Where do you find organic shapes? 

Matisse
 Drawing with scissors

He worked very large, we will work smaller

Show his work

What do you think of this piece? Color? Shapes? 

What would you do first if you were inside the artwork? 

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. 

PROJECT: Create a matisse style organic shape composition

Step1: glue one large block of color to your white sheet

Step2: glue a second block of color to your white sheet

Step3: begin to cut organic shapes in all colors and glue them to your paper

Step4: create a composition from your random shapes

Step5: pull the piece together by adding smaller pieces in a pattern

Materials: 

Glue stick

Construction paper

Scissors

Discussion: Monochromatic? What does this big word mean?

It means one color, That seems boring? 

What would a one color painting look like? 

Show examples, Show Matisse’s Red Studio

How would this room feel to be inside? 

What would you touch if you were there?

Would the room feel BIG or small? 

What does the color red make us feel? 

Would you feel like that if you were there?

Does Matisse have any items in color here? Why? 

ARTIST: Henri Matisse 1869-1954
French Painter,
Studied law until he was 21

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

He attended drawing classes before work; at lunch he would paint. After work he would paint till night fell. 

In 1891 set off for Paris to study

Matisse’s studies ultimately lead him to his love of line, shape and color. 

Matisse’s 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. 

Matisse continued to paint even after he was ill, 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: Create your favorite room in monochromatic

Step1: Pick a room in your house that is your favorite

Step2: use a white oil pastel and draw several items from your fav. Room

Step3: if one or more items in your room have an important color, fill it in

Step4: Paint your whole paper with red paint to reveal your room

MATERIALS: 

Oil pastels 

red liquid water color

watercolor paper

Slotted Sculptures with Henri Matisse

Two/Three week project


Week 1

DISCUSSION: Pattern

What is pattern? What do we need to create pattern? repetition

Where do we see patterns in everyday life? clothing, wallpaper

Look at the Matisse work:  Odalisque in Red Trousers

what do you see in this piece

is there pattern, how many?

can we create a story for what is happening?

Did he use  live model for this work? or is this a still life?

what do her face and arm say about her mood?

Now look at Goldfish from 1911

        what do you see in the piece

        do you like the colors? are there complementary colors?

        do you see a pattern

        let's make up a story about what might be happening in the piece.

        

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

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. 

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: 

step 1: grab one piece of tag board from the materials table

step2: with a pencil draw the shape of each side of your vase, from top to bottom on each side do not draw along the top or the bottom. 

not too skinny, but fill your page

            DO NOT CUT THE TOP OR THE BOTTOM OF THE PAPER. THEY MUST 

            REMAIN STRAIGHT IN ORDER FOR THE VASE TO STAND.

Step3: Let’s work together now to recreate the fish bowl

Step1: draw an oval in the middle of your vase

Step2: now draw two lines down either side of that oval

Step3: Now draw a curved line at the bottom of those two lines connecting them creating your fish bowl

Step4: Now add your fish  inside the bowl

Step5: draw a circle under your bowl for a table top that the bowl is sitting on add legs at the bottom

Step6: add a pattern behind your bowl: polka dots, stripes, etc.

Step7: You can also add plants if you like like matisse

Step8: now that you have drawn all the details spend the rest of your time coloring them in. 

Remember the lessons in color you have learned.

Step9: fill in the first vase with pattern: stripes, dots, zig zags TAKE YOUR TIME.

MATERIALS: 

tag board, 

oil pastels, 

Pencils, 

Scissors

WEEK 2

Wild Fauves: (French for "the wild beasts"), a short-lived and loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only a few years, 1904–1908, and had three exhibitions.[1][2] The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.[1]

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

Discussion: Collage

Matisse called Collage Painting with scissors

when he was 72 he was so ill he could not stand up to paint 

He would paint paper with paint gouache (gwash) (heavy watercolor) and then cut shapes from them

He then had assistants help to place the shapes on the walls of his studio

He called this last 14 years of his career his second life.

Let’s take a look:

Icarus, 1947

What do you see?

What colors did he use? and what does that help tell you about the subject?
what is the dominant color? and positive space?

What is happening in the positive space?

second piece: what is happening in this work

Very simple: what color does he choose, why?

what do the shapes tell you?

PROJECT: RECREATE matisse’s Icarus

Step1: using your vase from last week cut out a second vase from tag board

Step2: choose a background color in construction paper and cut a third vase

Step3: glue this vase onto the first vase creating a full color background like matisse.

Step4: begin to cut a shape from the black construction paper that resembles Icarus, This is where you paint with scissors. 

Step5: Glue your icarus onto you vase

Step7: Cut out the stars like matisse, think about your color choices

Step8: add the little heart accent on the chest of your Icarus

Step9: on the back Cut and glue a pattern from construction paper. Could be circles, squares, lines.

Materials:

Construction paper in all colors

Scissors Glue

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF ONE FINISHED VASE:

I adapted this project from one I found on Dick Blick. for additional information and many awesome lesson plans, please visit: www.dickblick.com. 

Positive and Negative space collage with Matisse

DISCUSSION: Complementary Colors:

Let’s revisit color for a moment so that we might learn how to use it to our artist advantage

Emphasis: what does this word mean?

How do we emphasis parts of our art we want the viewer to notice?

Look at Matisse’s first painting: what do you notice first? ALL THE RED

and second? the green window

Red and green are OPPOSITE on the color wheel. 

Placing these two colors next to each other draws your attention.

Name another two colors that would use this idea? and the last?

Positive and negative space?

What is positive space?

If I am a sculpture what is positive space?

What is negative space?

How important and what role does each serve?

could the space not filled (negative) ever speak louder then the positive space?

Look again at his first piece: you noticed the red first...That is Negative space.

What story could we tell about the piece.

Look at the second work: what is positive space?

What do you notice first 

What does this work remind you of

is it the same on both sides?

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

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

PROJECT: create complementary, positive and neg space symmetrical  collage

Step1: choose what two colors you are going to use (must be complementary)

Step2: get one half sheet and one whole sheet of construction paper

Step3: Use your half sheet to cut out positive shapes Organic or geometric

Step4: continue until you have 5-7 pieces cut out 

Step5: Glue down your Negative space sheet on one half of your large construction paper

Step6: using your positive cut-out begin to match up on the opposite side 

Step7: continue until all items are glued on your paper

MATERIALS: Construction paper, Scissors, Glue

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