Art Lesson Plans for 1st Quarter- 20th Century Artists

Our Tuesday art afternoons are usually spent reading and then creating, but art happens pretty much every day here, so we may not finish every project in a day. Our weeks will be broken down like this:

Matisse
vocabulary: collage
read: Dropping in on Matisse
make: Combine this collage by Modern Art 4 Kids with this window collage from Filth Wizardry
extension: Talk about temporary art. Look at the works of Christo.

Frida Kahlo
vocabulary: self-portrait, still life, foreground, background
read: Adventures in Art bio or Getting to Know bio
make: Idea #1 from ART with Mrs. Smith
extension: Abstract self-portraits from Deep Space Sparkle

Surrealism and Dada (2 weeks)
Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte
read: Dinner at Magritte's, Dali and the Path of Dreams, Joan Miro Sticker Art Shapes
make: Miro Idea #1 from ART with Mrs. Smith, Miro Idea #2 from Deep Space Sparkle, An Eye for Magritte from Art Projects for Kids
extension: Read the BFG by Dahl. Talk about how the giant kept his dreams in a bottle. Make a dream bottle as described here.

Mondrian
vocabulary: De Stijl
watch: This movie from Netflix
make: Idea #1 from TeachKidsArt or Idea #2 from ART with Mrs. Smith
extension: Play Pac-Mondrian, include math lessons on graphing in the coordinate plane and area, make this cake , look at the Partridge Family's bus (I've always been drawn to Mondrian. Can you tell? But I'm not the only one.)

Jackson Pollock
vocabulary: abstract expressionism
read: Action Jackson and his Getting to Know bio (one of my favorites)
make: marble painting via Let the Children Play
extension: Create your image at jacksonpollock.org.

Picasso
vocabulary: portraits, cubism
make: faces from Deep Space Sparkle
read: Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail
extension: Create electronic images using Picassohead,

Andy Warhol
vocabulary: pop art
read: Adventures in Art Andy Warhol, Uncle Andy's, Uncle Andy's Cats
make: recreate pop art using corn syrup paint from eighteen25 (I can see the Campbell's Soup image done this way.) Use photoshop to create pop art posters.
extension: Look at the Obama hope poster created by Shepard Fairey and the imitations of it. Use this site to create a similar look.

Frank Lloyd Wright
vocabulary: architecture
watch: Ken Burns documentary on FLW
make: Lego Fallingwater model
extension: not needed. The LEGO model will take long enough.

Replaced with a week devoted to this Eames-inspired house of cards at Charlotte's Fancy.

Dale Chihuly
vocab: sculpture
watch: Chihuly: Gardens and Glass from Netflix
make: Shrinky Dink Sculptures from MaryMaking using recycled plastic as described by Skip to My Lou
extension: View Chihuly's work for the Disney Magic cruise ship. Somewhere there is a TV special about it.