Negative and positive Space with Mathilda Roussel

Discussion

Positive space and Negative

What is positive space? 

When we cut something out positive is the object

Negative is the hole

In a sculpture positive space is the materials

Negative space is the holes in and around the work

Space is also the distance between points and planes in an artwork

Show the artwork of the pillow and hands from the artist: 

What do you think of this piece? 

What is positive

What is negative

What is the work made from? 

ARTIST: Mathilde Roussel (Ma-tit   Rou-sel) 

French artist based in Paris. 

Her work is a sensible and symbolic research about the nature of physical life. 

She is interested in the cyclic metamorphoses that transform organic matter, whether vegetable, animal or human. 

Roussel interrogates the ways in which time weighs on our body, leaving its traces as an imprint and thus creating an invisible archive of our emotions, a mute history of our existence. 

She uses a diversity of materials from paper to fabric, from rubber to graphite. 

Her ephemeral sculptures she uses organic matter such as wheat grass, pollen, sap or milk. Her work becomes a mapping of the body, an anatomy of the time and space inhabited by our fragile presence in the world.

PROJECT: 

Step1: Fill your paper with different colored tissue paper. Glue them down

Layer and overlap to show change in color

Step2: Using a second paper cut out a shape, any shape and throw the shape away

Keep the hole

Step3: Layer the hole on top of the paper with the tissue. Glue it top top

Step4: crop the sides if needed. 

MATERIALS
Tissue

Two pieces of card stock the same size

Scissors

Glue

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

Abstract Portrait Collages 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, 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.

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: finish your portrait in oil pastel

Step8: Draw a pattern in the background

MATERIALS: 

2”x3” paper, tagboard

School pictures

Oil pastels

Warm Sunsets with Van Gogh

DISCUSSION: 

Warm Colors

Positive space

Negative space

Landscapes

Trees

Van Gogh

Van Gogh's:  Landscape at Sunset

ARTIST: Van Gogh

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

PROJECT:

Step 1: paint your sunset in warm colors of watercolor

Step2: Using pencils draw three trees across your black paper 

Step3: carefully cut out your trees leaving your land to hold the three trees together

Step4: Paste your black paper on your watercolor sunset

MATERIALS: 

Thick paper

Paint white and black

Paint brushes

Water

Scissors

glue

Collage Painting with Roy De Forest

TWO DAY PROJECT

DAY 1

Discussion: Painting and texture

Painting: 

What does it mean to paint something?

What can we paint on?

How many different kinds of paints are there?

What did they first use to paint

How is paint made?

How is/was the color created

What is texture?
Where do we find it?

Why is it important in art?

Project: Enjoy creating texture scrappy paper

Set-up stations for children to move around and create texture scrap paper

Station 1: rolling cars in paint

2: dry brush painting

3: sponge painting

4: stamp painting

5: Qtip painting

6: fork painting

7: rolling brayers

8: painting lines

Using 4x4 to 4x6 pieces of paper have the students draw and paint tiny animal heads and faces. 

      each student should create 6. 

These will be incorporated into the project tomorrow

Materials: 

Scrapes of construction paper in all colors

4x4 or 4x6 white papers

Q-tips

sponges

brushes

pencils

paint

Pattern stampers (made from cardboard and foam stamps)

plastic forks

Brayers

DAY 2

Look at the artist Roy De Forest's work: Rainforest Painter, 1996 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rocor/5610454118/

Discussion:

what do you see

what time of day is it?

Is it a happy piece?

What is happening in the work
Where does the work take place

What is the meaning behind the piece (NO RIGHT ANSWERS)

ARTIST: Roy De Forest (1930–2007) 

American painter known for his comic-like patchwork regionalist (California) style, often depicting dogs & other figurative content in his art.

Born in North Platte, Nebraska, De Forest grew up in Yakima, Washington and attended junior college there. He then attended San Francisco Art Institute and earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree at San Francisco State University.

His first show was in 1955. He taught at the University of California, Davis, from 1965 to 1992. A retrospective organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art toured in 1975.

He was one of the originators of a Northern California art movement once described by Washington Post art reviewer Sidney Lawrence as a style "in which counterculture thinking fused with an anything-goes, anti-art attitude harking back to the Dadaists of the World War I era." called "California funk," a classification De Forest disliked.

"At 75, Mr. De Forest is painting pretty much what he has painted for years: dogs, men in hats or headdresses, and supernatural beings against a flattened terrain 

De Forest was born in 1930 in North Platte, Neb., the son of migrant farmworkers. 

In addition to Thiebaud and Arneson, De Forest's colleagues in the UC Davis art department included such prominent artists as William Wiley, Manuel Neri and Ralph Johnson.

Prominent American sculptor John Buck, a student and longtime friend of De Forest, called the artist "the champion of imagination."

De Forest and his wife, Gloria, lived in Port Costa, Calif., on land populated by cattle, birds and the dogs that inspired so much of his art. 

for additional information please visit http://www.fantasyarts.net/roy_de_forest_bio.html

PROJECT: 

rip and collage your patterns and texture pieces that you created DAY 1 together on one paper; trying to create a jungle environment: Trees, moon, leaves and water

Step1: find brown texture paper to form a tree

Step2: find texture paper to form the leaves and flowers of the jungle

Step3: tear out or cut a round texture paper to make the moon

Step4: using blue texture paper create some water somewhere on your page.

Step5: collage at least two animal head paintings (day 1) into your work

Step 6: paint and animal into and on top of your collaged pieces

Materials: 

Brushes

Paint

paper

glue

texture paper

scissors

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