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7-8th Grade Realist "Nashville Eats"While learning about Realism, we took a look at Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks". Nothing is more real than the great food we have in Nashville, TN. Especially the tasty hot chicken! Students chose their favorite Nashville restaurant and recreated it using realistic value.
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7-8th Grade Art Nouveau "Trees of Life"While learning about Art Nouveau, we stumbled across the work of Gustav Klimt. We talked about his use of decorative patterns and included a border around our trees in the Art Nouveau style. Just like Klimt, we added to our pieces with golden accents. Many Art Nouveau artists used printmaking techniques to make their work available for use in advertising, so we used printmaking techniques for our borders.
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PreK-K Surrealist PopcornWhile learning about Surrealism, we looked at food themed works of art from artists like Dali and Magritte. As a result, we used printmaking techniques to create our very own surreal popcorn pieces. We also talked about how to draw different facial expressions while creating the faces for our silly popcorn.
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1-2nd Grade Surreal "This is Not a Tent"Magritte's artwork, "The Treachery of Images," inspired an amazing discussion in both the 1st and 2nd grade classes. We talked about the strangeness of the text below the image, "This is not a pipe." After much discussion, we finally understood the dichotomy of the text and imagery in the artwork. A painting or drawing is merely a representation of an object, and is not the real life object. This idea led us to make our lively circus tents with the French text below, "This is not a tent." Students learned about the career of an architect and designed and constructed their very own tents. Our drawings were a little too colorful to be blueprints!
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3-4th Grade Surreal Dali Circus ElephantsAfter looking at Dali's painting, "The Elephants," we talked about the importance of the positive and negative space in the piece. We created our very own surreal elephants with a circus twist. The pieces had brightly colored negative space, or backgrounds. The elephants are carrying a circus tent and were colored with non realistic colors to make them stand out as the positive space in the piece.
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5-6th Grade Balloon AnimalsOur Balloon Animal drawings were inspired by Jeff Koons' Balloon sculptures. We talked about the different values created in his work due to the metallic colors used and 3D shapes that created shadows. Students tried to recreate this dimensional look by shading their balloon animals with several values of one color.
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7-8th Grade Surreal Sideshow Posters7-8th grade students had alot of fun creating their very own Sideshow characters. The paintings and posters from Coney Island's Circus Sideshow gave us many ideas and helped us create theatrical compositions. I would love to see these characters perform in real life!
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3-5th POPular TechnologyWe started our lesson talking about the meaning of the word POPular and then took a vote on the most popular current electronics. Soon, students learned that POP Art was a style of art where artists made imagery about popular culture. We used complimentary colors or contrasting colors to make our electronics POP!
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1-2nd POPular ToysWhat is old has become new again! We discussed how old toys, games, and television shows have made a comeback. We talked about which toys were POPular long ago and still POPular today. Students were able to create their own Potato Head. We printed our background benday dots with bubble wrap. Printmaking was a technique the Pop Artists used frequently to repeat their popular culture imagery. Students were allowed to choose either warm colors or cool colors for their backgrounds. Each Potato Head ended up very unique and I think Hasbro should take on some of these designs!
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3rd-5th Grade Surrealism Still Lifes with LifeSalvadore Dali's "Living Still Life" inspired our Still Life's with Life. We talked about how classic still lifes included objects that do not move. We then looked at surreal works of art, and discussed how we would make surreal still lifes. Students decided that by adding facial expressions to their inanimate objects, they would become surreal. The results were funny, strange, and definitely not still lifes you could see in real life.
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3-5th Grade Impressionism CityscapesAfter looking at Van Gogh's Impressionist The Starry Night, we each made our own version of a cityscape. Students were able to decide which city silhouette they would like to use and what time of day or weather would be represented in their skies. We talked about line and how movement with line can help move your eyes through a work of art. The repetition of line created unity and rhythm in our art.
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3-5th Grade Realism Candy StoreRealism is art that looks so real you want to touch it. We made realistic clay sculptures of desserts for this project. Whether it was an ice cream sandwich, donut, or cupcake, attention to detail helped us create sweets that looked so real you could eat them! We talked about creating realistic textures and students tried to recreate the dessert textures with clay. Our sweets were placed in public places and we watched to see if anyone was tricked into eating our realistic treats! We talked about the power and impact of public art, and how our sweets affected the public at our school.
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3-5th Grade Art Noveau Tiffany LampsWe critiqued several examples of decorative lamps from the Art Noveau period, known as Tiffany lamps. Several of the lamps repeated similar shapes and imagery to creative beautiful patterns. We talked about how artists designed these pieces to decorate homes and so they must be pleasing to the eye and something the customer would like to buy. Then watched how Tiffany lamps were made, with tiny fitting pieces cut apart and held together with soldered copper. We knew that our designs had to fit together like a puzzle. We drew our designs on, added color, hung them, and put them up for customers to see!
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1-2nd Grade Art Noveau JewelryFor our decorative jewelry project, we studied broaches, hair clips, and necklaces from the Art Noveau period. We discovered that one way the artists created such beautiful jewelry was to repeat patterns throughout the pieces. We made a list of the several different ways pattern can be made: numbers, shapes, letters, sizes, colors, objects. Then, we designed our own jewelry to include at least three different types of patterning. Our necklace pendants were cut from clay using cookie cutters. Then we painted the clay with our base color and added our patterns with marker. We looked quite flashy once we finished our pieces and could wear them!
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4-5th Grade Pop Art Food TilesEach class voted on which foods were most popular to that particular class. Then they could pick one food item from their classes' list to design their popular food tile after. Critiquing several examples of pop art helped us come to the conclusion that our tiles needed to include bright and solid colors, a background that would make the food item pop, and perhaps some patterning within negative spaces.
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1-3rd Grade Pop Art Pet PortraitsFor our last project, and Ms. Lee's favorite, we ventured into the realm of Pop Art. As a class, we talked about how Pop can be short for popular. We talked about what pets are the most POPular with people and determined that cats and dogs were the winners! Then, we made a list of popular accessories that would be added to our pets. This would be our first time using PRINTMAKING as a medium. The repetitive nature of printmaking makes it a perfect fit for the style pop art (what is popular must distributed among the masses). We will be distributing our Pop Art Pet portraits to a larger audience when we sell them to raise money for the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center!
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3-5th Grade Cubist InstrumentsOur Cubism Instruments were inspired by Picasso's guitar collages. For this lesson, we talked about SHAPE, FORM, SPACE, and COLLAGE. We broke down our instruments into basic shapes (geometric/organic) and forms. It was a challenge not to use shading and lines! We discovered that when adding an additional collaged side to our instruments, it created the illusion of depth. Our collages were mounted on physical forms such as rectangular prisms and cubes.
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1-2nd Grade Cubist AnimalsThe style of art we created our "Farm Animals" for was Cubism. For this lesson, we talked about the difference between SHAPE and FORM. First, we practiced breaking down animals into basic shapes, which made drawing easier for us! Picasso's roosters inspired us to choose our favorite farm animal and create it out of only geometric and organic shapes.
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3-5th Grade Realism SkullsFor this lesson we learned about Georgia O'Keefe and her REALISTIC skulls. We focused on making the value in our skulls look as real as possible but concentrating on the lightness and darkness of our pencil marks. We also created a value scale using colors in our background. Once we had finished, it was a little scary how REAL our skulls actually looked!
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1-2nd Grade Realism Bubblegum MachinesWe just finished working on our "Real Gumballs." For this lesson, we talked about TEXTURE. We discovered that if we practiced drawing detailed texture, it would make our art look more REAL. For the background, we made striped wallpaper with texture rubbings that we had done. We tried to recreate the cold metal texture of the gumball machine, and the bright delicious texture of the gumballs. After, everyone was in the mood for candy because our art looked so real!
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3-5th Grade Impressionism Japanese BridgesAfter Abstract Impressionism we moved onto Impressionism and Monet. For this lesson we talked about color mixing. Students learned that Monet could have made each painting using only red, blue, and yellow. So we decided to take the challenge with our own paintings and mix each color ourselves. For our backgrounds we used tissue paper to create our water. Our lilies were made using blue and yellow chalk pastels blended to make green. We talked about how our water would reflect the trees above, sky, and flowers in the water. Because of this we included several colors in our water. By the end of the lesson we all knew how mix any color we could think of!
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1-2nd Grade Impressionism Water LiliesAfter Abstract Impressionism we moved onto Impressionism and Monet. For this lesson we talked about the primary and secondary colors. Students learned that Monet could have made each painting using only red, blue, and yellow. So we decided to take the challenge with our own paintings and mix each color ourselves. For our backgrounds we used tissue paper to create our water. Our lilies were made using blue and yellow chalk pastels blended to make green. The lilies were mini coffee filters with which we colored with markers. By the end of the lesson we all knew how to mix secondary colors!
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1-5th Grade Abstract ExpressionismLast year we studied art from around the world and this year we are learning about artistic styles. For our first project we learned about Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism. We practiced drawing to slow music and fast music, then compared the differences between our color and line choices. We noticed that our slow drawings had less lines and they were curvier, also our colors were softer and duller. Our fast drawings had many more bright colors, sharper edges, and a larger amount of lines all together. Next, we added our paint layer and kept the things we learned in mind. Lastly, we looked again at Pollocks work and wondered what kind of music he might have been listening to while painting.
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