Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Learn How to Critique


Week 14-Learn How to Critique-Visual Art CDE

Week 14

Thursday-7th Grade Standard 3.  Invent and Discover to Create

1.  Plan the creation of a work of art

A.  Use planning tools to create works of art (DOK 1-2)

Objective:  Students will use graphic organizers to critique artwork in order to expand their abilities as artists.

Warmup 
"The luscious watercolor illustrations in War of the Blink(Locarno Press, 2017_, Michael Nicoll Yahgulannaas's new graphic novel, convey a story that was told bu the Haida people "long before there was a Canada or a United States."   Using his signature Haida manga style, a fusion of indigenous visual traditions from the Pacific Northwest and the graphic format of Japanese comics, Yahgulannaas translates oral history into a fluid, nonlinear reading experience, highlighting themes that feel surprisingly relevant to today's geopolitical standoffs."

  
Directions:  Follow the presentation and complete the provided graphic organizer.


Warmup

Week 13
Monday:  Class Dojo-Escaping the Maze
Tuesday:  Scholastic Art-Kraken for the Caribbean
Wednesday:  Vocabulary

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Week 13-How to Brainstorm-Technology and Design-ISTE

Week 13
 
Thursday-Standard IV. Innovative Designer-Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions

A.  Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts, or solving authentic problems.

Objective: Part 1-Students will identify multiple techniques for brainstorming.

Warmup 

Directions:  Brainstorming is the first step in the design process.  On a piece of scratch paper, list three techniques for brainstorming.  This will be your ticket out.

Warmup

Week 13
Monday:  Class Dojo-Mojo Discovers the Maze
Tuesday:  Scholastic Art-Cell Hookup
Wednesday:  Vocabulary

Monday, November 6, 2017

Week 13- Klaus Kemp "The Diatomist"-Visual Art-CDE

Week 13

Thursday-7th Grade Standard 2.  Envision and Critique to Reflect

2.  Concepts, issues, and themes in the visual arts can be used to communicate ideas in various other disciplines

C.  Create works of art by incorporating themes taht represent and interpret ideas from visual narratives and other fiels of knowledge

Objective:  Students will create all over patterns inspired by the artwork of Klaus Kemp, the Diatomist.

Warmup 
"Perhaps you've never done much thinking about the beauty of algae, but the Victorians did.  Microscopists of the era used to arrange diatom -- single-cell organisms encased in jewel-like glass shells that likely date to the Jurassic Period __ into stunningly beautiful mosaics that resemble stained glass in miniature.  The last surviving diatomist is an Englishman named Klaus Kemp, who became fascinated with the practice as a teenager.  Because the Victorians left no records behind, Kemp had to figure it out for himself.  He's still at it today, supporting himself by selling his creations to a small but avid group of collectors." -NY Times

  
Directions:  Watch the provided video as a class.  Using a piece of thumbnal sketch paper, create an all over pattern inspired by the work of Klaus Kemp.  Remember that a thumbnail sketch should take 5 minutes or less.  This will be your ticket out.


Warmup

Week 13
Monday:  Class Dojo-Mojo Discovers the Maze
Tuesday:  Scholastic Art-Brick By Brick
Wednesday:  Vocabulary

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Week 12 Cy Twombly-Classical Themes-Visual Art-CDE

Week 12-Thursday

Standard 1. Observe and Learn to Comprehend

3.  Knowledge of art vocabulary is important when critically analyzing works of arts

B.  Use domain-specific vocabulary relating to symbolism, genre, and performance technique in all art areas (DOK 1-2)

Objective: Students will identify classical themes in all art areas and explain a theme used in CY Twombly's artwork.

Warmup 

"Twombly's representations of the four seasons are typical to his production of the late 1980s and 1990s in which light has become a principal theme.  His prominent use of white echoes that of French Impressionists such as Claude Monet (1840-1926) for whom it was an important ingredient in the depiction of light.  A series of nine paintings, Untitled 1988 (Cy Twombly Gallery, Houston), portraying the green reflective surgaces of a watery pool recalls Monet's celebrated paintings of his water garden at Giverny, France created between 1899 and 1926.  Plant life and the sea also recur in Twombly's imagery of this period.  A ginle work is frequently made up of several parts, as in Quattro Stagioni which is subtitled A Painting in Four Parts.  The four seasons as symbols of the natural cycles of birth and death are a classical theme in poetry, music and painting.  In Twombly's Quattro Stagioni strong colours evoking the brilliance of the Mediterranean light are combined with scrawled poetic fragments from several sources.  After pre-priming the canvases with cream-coloured gesso, the artist pinned them to the wall and applied individual colours, allowing the paint to dribble down in long, vertical lines.  Autunno, or autumn, represents the third season of the year.  The idea for the cycle began with this season, inspired by the wine harvest in Bassano in Teverina."

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/twombly-quattro-stagioni-autunno-t07889

Warmup
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16X4XH1ohyhy7nX8oprFMLg2Nmp4Rt-qEdWj6AQV1mNk/edit?usp=sharing

Week 12
Monday:  Class Dojo
Tuesday:  Scholastic Art
Wednesday:  Vocabulary