Four Great Lives: Take Another Look

Facilitators: Cathy Davis, Holly Easterling, Su’Brina Mason, and Katie Zehentner

Guiding Questions:

• How does art affect the person looking at the piece?
• How did the western time period affect the artists? Other time periods?
• What are different types of art?

Outcomes:

• Students define art terms: collage, impressionist, fresco, seascapes, sculptures, and landscapes.
• Students can view examples of artist. Students infer on works of arts.
• Students collaborate in detail: Leonardo da Vinci, Winslow Homer, Vincent Van Gogh, and Romare Bearden.
• Students conduct an artist study on the artist of their choice.
• Students are to interact with artists by performing the art type.
• Students present presentations based on the knowledge they have gained.

Focusing Questions:

• What is art?
• Who does a work of art?
• How is art formed; composed?
• Can one color be dominant in a piece of art, and how can color tell about moods?

Practice:

• What are some jobs that an artist make take on?
• Why should the study of art continue?
• Why should current art continue?

Identity:

• Why is art important to you?
• Of all the pieces of art we’ve studied, which piece of art relates to you most?

Activities:
Vincent Van Gogh

• Discuss time period/relate other events
• Read biography.
• Discuss impasto, self portrait, subject matter, vibrant, and emotion.
• Show pieces of art.
• Have students consider the color yellow. Allow students five minutes to think of a picture they can pain with the dominant color being yellow. Mix a thick yellow paint (half glue and half paint). Encourage students to put a lot of emotions into the painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

• Students use a mirror to draw or sketch outline of a face.
• Punch holes through the outline of the face
• Place drawing or sketch on top of wet plaster; use charcoal to pat outline onto the wet plaster.
• Remove sketch and paint cartoon on fresco.

Winslow Homer

• Slideshow to introduce him
• Use water color to depict bodies of water.
• Explore feeling about friendship.
• Compare and contrast the work of Homer and Grandma Moses.
• Styrofoam printing
• Compare realistic landscape with painting of same place.

Romare Bearden

• Slideshos to introduce him
• Discuss collages.
• Explore examples of Bearden’s work.