Introducing:(Assembly) | “LEARNING FROM”:(Learning Packet) | “WORKING WITH”:(Classroom Activity) |
| Portfolio No Assembly (See Implementation Guide, Section 7) | Learning to Look Carefully Introduction to Learning Packets Visual exercises Line analysis | Portfolio Making All Levels: Introduction to classroom activities; portfolio is made to hold student artwork for the year (lamination is recommended) |
| Rosa Bonheur French Line, Texture, Color | Realism Beg. Level: Animal realism, texture Int. Level: Realism, texture, symmetry Adv. Level: Realism, texture, symmetry | Bonheur’s Realism Oil Pastels and Crayon Beg. Level: Cats Int. Level: Dogs Adv. Level: Big Cats |
| Alexander Calder American Shape, Balance | Calder’s Abstract Shapes All Levels: Abstract shapes; shapes for mobiles; the expressive quality of shape | Calder’s Sculpture Beg. Level: Stabile, black paper base, colored paper, wire top Int./Adv. Levels: Mobiles, Calder style; wire, colored paper |
| Mary Cassatt American Impressionism Color, Line | Portraits and Hats All Levels: Drawing hats, portraits, contrast | Cassatt’s Portraits All Levels – Pastel strokes Beg. Level: Hats (cut and mounted pastel) Int./Adv. Levels: Portrait with hat (cut and mounted pastel) |
| Paul Cezanne French Shape | Shape All Levels: Using shape instead of pictures to show meaning Int./Adv. Levels: Cezanne’s use of shape | Cezanne’s Shapes All Levels: Still life tissue collage (cut shapes) using Cezanne’s basic shapes |
| Marc Chagall Russian Line, Color, Pattern | Patterns All Levels: Sketches for art activity; color value, pattern feeling | Chagall’s Enchanted Village All Levels: Village outline on colored paper with oil pastel (Chagall style), shapes filled with pattern |
| Leonardo da Vinci Italian Line, Value | Drawing Exercises: All Levels: Outline aided drawing, simple line copying, looking closely Adv. Level: Mirror image drawing | Da Vinci’s Drawing All Levels: Botanical string print Int./Adv. Levels: Cut, fold, staple to add dimension |
| Edgar Degas French Line | Drawing Secrets Beg. Level: Drawing practice Int./Adv. Levels: Showing depth using perspective, overlapping, location, line | Degas’ Drawing Secrets Right Brain Drawing Beg. Level: Bow with colored chalk/pencil Int./Adv. Levels: Ballerina or horseman with colored chalk and pencil |
| M. C. Escher Dutch Pattern, tessellation | Escher’s Tessellations All Levels: Patterns and coloring shapes that become tessellations | Escher’s Tessellations All Levels: Drawing a tessellation with abstract shapes, staining with dry tempera paint |
| Paul Gauguin French Color | Color Moods All Levels: Colors, South Sea subject matter | Gauguin’s Colors All Levels: Oil pastel on black background Beg./Int. Levels: Palm trees Adv. Level: Tahitian landscape |
| Katsushika Hokusai & the Asian Brush Japanese Line, composition | Asian Composition All levels: Chinese writing, bamboo drawing, simple composition | The Asian Brush All Levels: Bamboo brush strokes (black tempera “ink”), bamboo composition on white paper |
| Winslow Homer American Value | Value Beg. Level: Value scale, color value Int. Level: Line value, crosshatching Adv. Level: Inventing value with line | Homer’s Values Beg./Int. Levels: Cut paper and crayon seascapes using black and white values Adv. Level: Value with drawing pencils from Homer small prints |
| Edward Hopper American Line | Line Beg./Int. Levels: Directional Lines Adv. Level: Lines in composition, drawing boats | Hopper’s Seascapes Paint and Paper Collage Beg./Int. Levels: Seascape with beach umbrellas Adv. Level: Seascape with sailboat |
| Frida Kahlo Mexican Color, Texture | Composition All Levels: Drawing parrots, leaves and fruit with texture. Emphasis on composition. | Kahlo’s Compositions Oil Pastel on Colored Papers Beg. Level: Parrot and leaves Int./Adv. Levels: Parrot, fruit, leaves |
| Paul Klee Swiss Line, Color, Texture | Abstraction All Levels: Movement of the eye through shape, line, color, texture, and pattern | Klee’s Abstraction Black Crayon Resist with Tempera Wash Beg. Level: Fish Int. Level: Neighborhoods Adv. Level: Tree houses |
| Gustav Klimt Austrian Pattern | Abstract Design All Levels: Abstract patterns Beg. Level: Dot-to-dot | Klimt’s Designs All Levels: Embossing foil paper with pencil Beg. Level: Kimono Int. Level: Tree of Life Adv. Level: Abstract |
| Jacob Lawrence American Shape | Shapes Beg./Int. Levels: Tool shapes; flat and shaded shapes, overlapping, and depth Adv. Level: Composition; overlapping, color balance, and depth | Lawrence’s Shapes Beg./Int. Levels: Tool shape paper collage with marker Adv. Level: Cityscape collage using tissue and starch |
| Maria Martinez Native American 3-Dimensional Shape | Symbols All Levels: Native American symbols and patterns and their meanings | Martinez’s Pots All levels: Working with clay and paint Beg. Level: Plate Int. Level: Pinch pot Adv. Level: Coiled pot |
| Henri Matisse French Shape, Color | Shapes Beg. Level: Abstract sea shapes Int./Adv. Levels: Positive and negative shapes, abstract shapes, creating sea shapes for art activity | Matisse’s Abstract Shapes All Levels: Paper cutouts with sea life motif; drawing with scissors Int./Adv. Levels: Emphasizes positive and negative shapes |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti Italian Form | Architecture All Levels: Renaissance detail, architectural form and elements | Michelangelo’s Architecture Chalk and Paper All Levels: Marbleizing paper, composition of architectural model |
| Joan Miro Spanish Shape, Line | Abstract Shapes & Drawings All Levels: Simplifying details, combining abstract shapes, drawing, and imagination | Miro’s Surrealist Shapes All Levels: Abstract drawing (marker) with paper cutouts Int./Adv. Levels: Tempera powder background with abstract shapes |
| Piet Mondrian Dutch Balance | Balance All Levels: Shape, color, and line combine to balance designs Adv. Level: Repeated texture added to create rhythm and movement | Mondrian’s Balance Paper Collage All Levels: Primary colors and cut shapes combine with lines to form abstract compositions |
| Claude Monet French Color | Color Beg. Level: Primary and secondary colors Int. Level: Color wheel, color feelings Adv. Level: Color wheel, color schemes, color vocabulary | Monet’s Colors Tempera, paper plate palette, and Q-tips All Levels: Impressionistic color wheels and trees |
| Georgia O’Keeffe American Color, Value | Color Value Beg. Level: Color value, hill drawing (practice for art activity) Int./Adv. Levels: Color value, scaling technique, shading | O’Keeffe’s Color Values Beg. Level: New Mexico hills; black crayon, and paint crayons Int./Adv. Levels: Enlarged flower drawing in black crayon, paint crayon values |
| Pablo Picasso Spanish Composition | Cubism All Levels: Use line, shape, color, and texture to create musical, cubist compositions | Picasso’s Cubism Black Marker and Chalk Stain All Levels: Cubist composition of musical instrument right-brain drawing |
| Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch Value, Space | Value and Basic Forms Beg. Level: Light and dark, shadows Int./Adv. Levels: Highlights, shading, and shadows on the basic forms | Rembrandt’s Light All Levels: 17th Century Holland Landscape White chalk on black paper with oil pastel details |
| Frederic Remington American Detail | Realism – Western Landscapes Beg. Level: Drawing desert plants Int./Adv. Levels: Backgrounds, foregrounds, drawing desert plants (preparatory for activity) | Remington’s Realism Colored chalk and paper Beg. Level: Desert sky background with torn mountain silhouette, black crayon details Int./Adv. Levels: Desert plant from Learning Packet on chalk desert; black pencil details |
| Pierre Auguste Renoir French Color | Color Beg./Int. Levels: Color contrast, landscape drawing, reflections Adv. Level: Color contrast, reflections Impressionist shading technique | Renoir’s Colors All Levels: Impressionistic landscape with reflections in rainbow colors using paint crayons |
| Faith Ringgold African-American Patterns | Design & Balance All Levels: Quilt designs inspire a geometrical look at symmetry and balance using color and shape. | Ringgold’s Quilt Designs Oil Pastel with Cut Paper Shapes All Levels: Visual story telling combined with cut-paper quilt design, and patterning |
| Norman Rockwell American Detail | Illustration All Levels: Drawing on a grid, seasonal symbols, lettering, fonts, layouts | Rockwell’s Magazine Covers Oil Pastel All Levels: Illustrations, lettering, layout |
| Henri Rousseau French Shape, Value | Shapes All Levels: Drawing jungle foliage and animals | Rousseau’s Shapes All Levels: Paint crayons on colored backgrounds Beg. Level: Snakes Int. Level: Lions Adv. Level: Tropical Birds |
| Georges Seurat French Color | Color Beg. Level: Light and dark, warm and cool colors Int./Adv. Levels: Preparatory boat sketching for classroom activity | Seurat’s Pointillism All Levels: Sandpaper & paper Beg. Level: Boat Int. Level: Boat/reflection Adv. Level: Landscape/seascape |
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French Line | Line Beg./Int. Levels: Horizontal and vertical line design; using line instead of pictures to show meaning Adv. Level: Lautrec character sketch | Lautrec’s Lines All Levels: Lautrec-type character using water-color wash and crayon resist technique |
| Vincent van Gogh Dutch Texture | Texture Beg. Level: Drawing with texture Int. Level: Drawing, inventing, and using texture Adv. Level: Drawing and creating movement with texture | Van Gogh’s Textures Oil Pastels Beg. Level: Textured spirals & foreground Int./Adv. Levels: Textured spirals, foreground, middle and background Adv. Level: Adds a village |
| Andy Warhol American Color | Contrasting Colors All Levels: Explore “pop” art with repeating shapes and contrasting colors Int./Adv. Levels: Practice graphic art lettering | Warhol’s Colors Beg. Level: Tissue collage Int./Adv. Levels: Campbell’s Soup Portrait with paper and pens |
| Grant Wood American Perspective | Perspective All Levels: Agricultural patterns, texturing Int./Adv. Levels: Showing perspective with size, placement, and clarity. | Wood’s Perspective All Levels: Agricultural landscapes, texture rubbings, patterning with crayon, tempera paint with round sponge brushes |
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