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Lesson - Allowance

q       Prints

o         Prep - 5 Minutes

q       Goal

o         Discussion - 10 Minutes

Lessons were originally designed for 60 - 90 minutes period.  You may have to omit some questions to condense to a 10 minute discussion. 

q       Craft

o         Project - 30 Minutes

q       Materials

o         Cleanup - 5 Minutes 

 

 

Lesson 1 Bingham and Monet

q     Prints

1.      Fur Traders Descending the Missouri     

2.       Red Boat at Argenteuil

q      Goal

o         Identify lines: horizontal, vertical

o         Analyze positioning of light can make object look more interesting

o         Learn to describe, analyze, interpret, and judge art

q       Activity

o         Boats

or

o         Chalk Drawings

q       Materials

o         See Lesson Activity Section for Activity Selected

 

 

Lesson 2 Theodore Robinson

q      Prints

1.       The Girl with Dog

2.       Girl with Dog

q      Goal

o         Identify warm and cool color qualities, lines: curved, straight, wavy and zigzag and styles of paintings: impressionism

q      Activity

o         Portraits

q       Materials

o         See Lesson Activity Section for Activity Selected

 

 

Lesson 3 Henry Francois Farny

q       Prints

1.       The Ford

q      Goal

o         Identifies between realistic and unrealistic colors

o         Finds geometric shapes in pictures

o         Recognizes some artists paint quickly and some paint slowly

o         Explains meanings and feelings in art

q       Activity

o         Scent Bottles

o         Watercolors

q      Materials

o         Scent Bottles located in Art closet.  Must clean and refill.

o         Watercolors

o         Crayons or Poster Paint

 

Lesson 4 Grant Wood

q      Prints

1.       DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTION        

2.       AMERICAN GOTHIC

q       Goal

o         Regionalism an idiosyncratic style or point of view. These American Scene painters had a  humble, anti-modernist style and a desire to depict everyday life. 

o         Recognize art can tell about feelings, expresses personal thoughts and ideas.  

o         Identify light and dark colors, likeness and differences, visual texture and actual texture.

q     Activity

o         Pictures with American Gothic Background  and/or

o         Craft Ideas Listed In Lesson Activity Section

q       Materials

o         See Lesson Activity Section for Activity Selected

 

 

All Lessons and Activities can be found on the Art Awareness Web Site www.sjpto.org/ArtAwareness.