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THE Curriculum for Creativity TM
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EARLY ELEMENTARY K-3 BOOK THREE
Modern Painting and Sculpture
A Comprehensive Art Program Designed to Involve the Student in the Creative Process While Developing Observational Skills
Brenda Ellis 36 Lessons with Projects Art Instruction PLUS Master Works Featuring Modern Art Newly Expanded and Revised
Contents
Page Lesson
Page Lesson
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Materials
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Teaching Art in its Historical Context
Modern Painting and Sculpture
Impressionist Painting and Sculpture (Including Post-Impressionists)
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Fauvism
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21
Cubism
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Art and the Subject
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Assemblage
8
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Lines and Solid Shapes
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23
Futurist View of a Horse
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3
Paris, City of Change
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24
Art: A Reflection of Experiences
12
4
Gouache Paint Techniques
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25
Abstract Art
13
5
Monet Studies Light
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26
Expressionism
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6
Renoir Paints Beautiful People
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27
Mondrian’s Squares
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7
Pissarro Paints Bright Colors
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28
The Object and its Space
22
8
Monet Paints Reflections
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29
Two Reactions to War
24
9
Cassatt Paints Life at Home
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30
Non-Objective Art gets Big
27
10
White Paint with Gouache
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31
Realism
28
11
Degas Makes Art in Public Places
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32
Looking Outward
31
12
Sculpture
81
33
Land Art
33
13
Modeled Sculpture
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34
Clay Modeling Today
35
14
Constructed Sculpture
85
35
Sculpture Today
37
15
Gauguin Carves a Sculpture
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36
Computer Art
39
16
Seurat and the Science of Color
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What Happened to Art After 1960?
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17
Cézanne Makes Impressionism
Solid Solid
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Bibliography and Reading List
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18
Color Layers
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Van Gogh Paints Ribbons of Color
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Materials The materials needed for this book are listed in groups. Each group is color coded. These colors appear on the project pages, along with a specific list of what is needed to complete each project. Having these items on hand will make preparation for each art class simple. * If you’ve worked in K-3 Books One and Two, you might already have some of these items.
Painting Materials
Odds and Ends Wire cutter or pliers
Aluminum foil Masking tape 2- Paper cups
Gouache paint set, cake form, also called opaque watercolors 1 tube white gouache (sometimes provided in the gouache paint set) *Pencil *Watercolor paper pad ½ inch flat watercolor brush ¼ inch flat watercolor brush *#8 round watercolor brush *Oil pastel set, (we suggest: Cray-Pas Junior Artist set of 25 or more) *Construction paper, assorted colors *Tissue paper, assorted colors * Scissors Elmer’s Glue -All
Small foam meat tray
Bar of soap
11 inch cardboard tube
Round Balloon
Ruler
Cotton string
A few rubber bands of different widths
Perlite (found in garden dept.) Any type of camera (Lesson 35) Computer with Windows Paint program (Lesson 36)
scratch sticks
Sculpture Materials
1 package - Plaster Cloth 6 cups (3 lbs.) - Plaster of Paris
Gesso
Chenille stems , assorted colors
2 lbs. modeling clay, assorted colors
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Monet Studies Light
Lesson 5
When you study something, you look at it repeatedly. You look at it in different situations. Claude Monet (moh NAY) wanted to study how light affects the colors of things. He chose one object, like a haystack, and painted it at different times of the day and in many different weather conditions. He even painted it outdoors while it was snowing! He then studied rows of trees and a cathedral in the same way. He made many paintings. Later in his life he purchased land and created a fantastic garden. Monet urged his friends, other famous Impressionists, to get out of their dark studios and study objects directly.
Claude Monet Self-Portrait in his Atelier (Studio) . 1884. Photo Credit: Dover Publication Inc., NY.
Because light changes so quickly with the passing of a cloud or setting of the sun, he had to apply the paint with rapid strokes. Monet no longer mixed colors leisurely, but applied them hastily to the canvas. He could not take the time to paint the careful details that people were familiar with seeing in art. What developed was a loosely arranged tangle of brushstrokes that were so brilliant in color that when one stepped back, a beautiful picture appeared. The Impressionist’s method, largely developed by Monet, was a totally new way to paint!
This self-portrait shows Monet in front of his paintings and canvases. Since it is unfinished you can see how Monet starts his artwork by painting with lines.
What Makes a Monet a Monet?, a book by Richard Muhlberger, features twelve paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
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New Ways of Seeing an Old Cathedral
The Rouen Cathedral is a Gothic cathedral in the city of Rouen, France. It was built in 1202. It was the tallest and one of the oldest buildings in Rouen. Imagine what the people of Rouen thought when they saw the massive gray stone cathedral painted in sparkling orange, pink, yellow, green, and blue slashes! That is how the cathedral looked to Monet as he painted it in the early morning sunlight. He enjoyed the experience of using these bold colors so much that he also painted the cathedral at sunset and mid- day in full sun. He saw new colors reflected on the building and in the sky each time he painted it. Monet chose a familiar object that people had known since their childhoods. He then painted it in a way that no one had imagined. From that point on the people of Rouen would look at their old cathedral in a new way!
Can you find three figures in the painting above?
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral; 1894. Below right: The Façade, Morning Mist , 1894. Below left: Rouen Cathedral, Symphony in Grey and Rose , 1892. Photos Credit: Dover Publications Inc.
When you look at the size of the figures does the entrance to the cathedral seem very big or very small? Describe what colors you see in these three paintings from Monet’s Rouen Cat hedral series.
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Project- You Make a Series of Paintings!
STUDENT GALLERY
Materials: gouache paint, watercolor paper, palette, water containers, round brush, paper towel, and colored poster board.
You can paint an outdoor object at different seasons or in different kinds of weather just like Monet did. Choose a simple object to look at while you paint. Try to paint it as it looks, using the method shown on this page. You can paint an object in different seasons and then hang them together. Paint by looking at a real tree or a photograph of a tree.
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Colleen (age 9) painted a series of trees in summer, fall, and winter.
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Because gouache is opaque, a light color can cover a dark color. To do this, paint dark colors first. 1. Here, the colors of the tree are painted. 2. A sky- blue mixture (blue and white) is dabbed into the tree and onto the branches to show the sky behind the tree. 3. For a winter tree, the brown and gray branches are painted solid (shown on the left side of the tree). Then the blue color of a sky is dabbed through the branches. Finished branches are shown on the right side of the tree. 4. This seasonal series is finished as the new spring growth is shown using a mixture of yellow and green. Use the same technique as shown in examples 1 and 2.
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Van Gogh Paints Ribbons of Color
Lesson 19
Vincent Van Gogh’s (van GOH) greatest works were created within a ten year period. In these paintings he applied thick, bright colors to the canvas. His strokes look like ribbons of color winding around and through the picture. His landscapes are some of the most beautiful paintings ever created. In letters to
his brother Theo, Van Gogh talks about the colors that he thinks will properly show the inner beauty he sees in nature. Van Gogh was a religious man. He painted the beauty of nature with an understanding that it was a created world. His paintings show both his sensitivity to beauty, in the way he used color, and his wild emotions, in the way he applied the paint to the canvas. He is described as a humble man with a “ sense of mission” (Gombrich 423). This means that he felt there was a purpose to life and art that went beyond his own self- interests. Van Gogh was not a revolutionary who was out to break the rules. He was inspired by the Impressionists. He was self-taught by using a popular traditional
Vincent van Gogh. Self-Portrait as a Painter ; 1888. Photo Credit: Dover Publications Inc.
drawing course of his time. He looked for new ways of using color on canvas, to express what he felt for nature. His works have inspired all generations since his death in the summer of 1890.
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The Starry Night is a very famous painting. Van Gogh used bold swirling lines in this painting of a night filled with stars over a quiet village. The lines follow the motion of the land, trees, and clouds in the sky. The yellows and blues are bright. The colors express what Van Gogh felt about this glorious night, not what he actually saw with his eyes. His works changed the purposes for making art from realistic representation to a way of showing the feelings, thoughts, or the personality of the artist.
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night ; 1889. Photo Credit: Dover Publications Inc.
Can you find the moon? How many stars are in this starry night scene?
Where does Van Gogh use swirls and curves in the picture?
What color are the lights from the village? What color are the hills behind the village?
Van Gogh said that he wanted to paint Cypress trees “as I feel them”. These and other qu otes from his writings are found in What Makes a Van Gogh a Van Gogh? by Richard Muhlberger. I especially like the close up views of the paintings allowing us to see the texture and thick paint, which are a unique part of his technique.
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Project - You Paint Ribbons of Color!
Van Gogh used paint much more thickly than most painters before him. His brushstrokes form ribbons of bright color as they flow from a flat brush. Make a landscape painting showing ribbons of color. Draw a scene onto the paper with pencil. Place water into each color to soften them. 1. Mix colors with white tube paint to make lighter colors. 2. To make a ribbon of color, dip the flat brush into a color and place it on the paper, then pull the brush. 3. Fill up all the white spaces of the picture. MATERIALS: gouache paint set, white gouache in a tube, watercolor paper, ¼ inch flat brush only, water container, paper towel, palette, and pencil. You can substitute white gouache paint in a tube with white tempera or gesso.
STUDENT GALLERY
Zach (age 8) paints an outdoor scene with large strokes in the picture above. Ezra (age 8) paints a different scene below using ribbons of color.
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ART/EDUCATION
Art History Projects Encouraging Creativity
Artistic Pursuits, Early Elementary K-3, Book Three, Modern Painting and Sculpture, THIRD EDITION explores ideas that help students understand why modern art looks so different from earlier works. Focus is given to those artworks and ideas that had great influence on our culture and to artists who give positive, creative messages in their art, making this a tasteful introduction to modern art, perfect for young students. 36 lessons complete a one year course that will encourage creativity and imagination in your child. “We are really happy with your books. They are great!! My three children want to do art everyday!” Homeschool Parent - Becky Pliego / Mexico City “I am a homeschool mom who is not gifted with artistic abilities. I have AP books One, Two, and Three. My kids and I LOVE them. Very easy to use and follow… With this program I can open the book that day and skim what is needed and BAM we are ready to go!” Homeschool Parent - D. Bleakley / Colorado “I love the artwork that has resulted from using this book! I think that is the best way to judge an art curriculum. If the kids are having a blast creating and the creations are trea- sures that I want to store for years…well it‛s a good thing…This is not baby stuff. (I‛m) proud to display everything they create while studying art with ARTistic Pursuits.” Homeschool Parent – Heather Randall / Oklahoma “This book does a phenomenal job of combining art appreciation, artist study, art explora- tion, and history, all in an easy to understand and teach way. The lessons are short and to the point, but pack a punch and we love them!” Homeschool Parent - Tiffany Manley / Alabama
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