8th Grade: Art that Goes POP! (2-1-11)

WARM UP:

Describe to me some places where you can art work that is not located in a gallery or museum.

(Remember to write in full paragraph form)

Vocab:

(8th grade your book is the TEAL book - Look these words up in the GLOSSARY) 

 

Cel
Collage
Composition
Contrast 

Reading:
P. 70
P. 116-117

 

GLE:

Students this week you are working on a comic book inspired piece of art work in the style of Roy Lichtenstein using the grid method in marker. 

Artist of the Week:

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop Art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".

Today's Mission:

Students today you will take your pop art image you sketched out yesterday and transfer it to your paper of the week. Remember to take your time in the transfer process so you can begin to add color via marker to your image. 

 

7th grade:City on the River (2-1-11)

WARM UP: 

If you could change something in the Memphis skyline we look at yesterday, what would it be?

VOCAB: 

(USE YOUR BLUE BOOK'S GLOSSARY)

Cityscape
Composition
detail  

facade

Reading:

(7th GRADE YOUR BOOK IS THE BLUE BOOK)

P. 180

GLE:

Students you will study the form of the pyramid using our city's most recognizable landmark - the Pyramid this week. You will create a landscape composition using our shape of the week, the pyramid, in colored pencil to recreate our city's landscape.

Artist of the Week: 

Janet Fish

Crazy Boxes

Janet Fish was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938 and raised in Bermuda. Fish received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Smith College, Northampton MA and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She also studied at the Skowhegan Summer School, Maine and the Art Students League NYC.

Public collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Fish won the 2005 William A. Paton Prize for a watercolor, National Academy of Design,
2001 Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design,
2000 Lyme Academy, Lyme, CT: Honorary Dr. FA, 1994 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the 1993 Outstanding Woman in the Arts, Aspen Art Museum, CO, an Australian Council for the Arts grant to travel and lecture in Australia in 1975; MacDowell Colony Fellowships in 1968, 1969 and 1972 and the Harris Award, Chicago Biennial, 1974.

In 1987, Burton Skira & Co. Ltd. published the book Janet Fish by Gerrit Henry.
In 1997, John Szoke Graphics, Inc., published The Prints of Janet Fish. A Catalogue Raisonné by Linda Konheim Kramer.
!n 2002 Harry N. Abrams Inc. published “Janet Fish paintings ” by Vincent Katz

Janet Fish works in her studios in New York City and Middletown Springs, Vermont and is represented by DC Moore Gallery, New York.

Today's Mission:

Students today we are going to draw our images of Memphis onto our paper for the week! Remember to take your time during the transfer process. Your medium this week is colored pencil, so don't forget to use your forms of shading such as stippling, hatching, and cross hatching.

6th Grade: Its all in the family (2-1-11)

Warm Up: 

Describe to me this still life by Aubrey Flack. What elements of art does it use we have learned about so far? What shapes and forms are being used? 

Remember this needs to be done in paragraph form. 

 

Vocab:

(Use the blue book on your table's glossary to find the definitions for all of these words!)

Still Life
Emphasis
Fine Art 

Focal Point
Horizontal Line
Hatching  

GLE:

Students you are going to create a still life of junk food in marker using the elements of art, shapes, and forms you have learned about in previous lessons. You will look at the art of Aubrey Flack and her still life works to get a better understanding of how to create your junk food still life. 

 

 

Today's Mission: 

Sketch! 

Today you will begin to sketch out your junk food still life that is posted below! Once you are finished go ahead and draw it out on your paper of the week! 

 

 

8th grade - Art that Goes POP! (1-31-11)

WARM UP:

Describe to me the image above. What elements of art are being used that we have learned about so far?

(Remember to write in full paragraph form)

Vocab:

(8th grade your book is the TEAL book - Look these words up in the GLOSSARY)

1. Art media
2. Art Work
3. Balance
4. Caricature 

READING:

P. 244

GLE:

Students this week you are working on a comic book inspired piece of art work in the style of Roy Lichtenstein using the grid method in marker. 

Artist of the Week:

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop Art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".

Today's Mission:

Students today you will be given your comic book panel that you will sketch out first to be turned into a large piece of pop art in the style of Mr. Lichtenstein. You will be shown how to make a grid on both your paper and the image you are given.

7th grade: City on the River (1-31-11)

WARM UP: 

Think of our city, Memphis TN, and describe to me a part of it the best you can.

VOCAB: 

(USE YOUR BLUE BOOK'S GLOSSARY)

1. Aerial Perspective
2. Background
3. Bird’s Eye View 
4.  Canon  
5.  

 Reading:

(7th GRADE YOUR BOOK IS THE BLUE BOOK)

p. 188 - 189 

GLE:

Students you will study the form of the pyramid using our city's most recognizable landmark - the Pyramid this week. You will create a landscape composition using our shape of the week, the pyramid, in colored pencil to recreate our city's landscape.

Artist of the Week: 

Janet Fish

Crazy Boxes

Janet Fish was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938 and raised in Bermuda. Fish received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Smith College, Northampton MA and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She also studied at the Skowhegan Summer School, Maine and the Art Students League NYC.

Public collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Fish won the 2005 William A. Paton Prize for a watercolor, National Academy of Design,
2001 Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design,
2000 Lyme Academy, Lyme, CT: Honorary Dr. FA, 1994 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the 1993 Outstanding Woman in the Arts, Aspen Art Museum, CO, an Australian Council for the Arts grant to travel and lecture in Australia in 1975; MacDowell Colony Fellowships in 1968, 1969 and 1972 and the Harris Award, Chicago Biennial, 1974.

In 1987, Burton Skira & Co. Ltd. published the book Janet Fish by Gerrit Henry.
In 1997, John Szoke Graphics, Inc., published The Prints of Janet Fish. A Catalogue Raisonné by Linda Konheim Kramer.
!n 2002 Harry N. Abrams Inc. published “Janet Fish paintings ” by Vincent Katz

Janet Fish works in her studios in New York City and Middletown Springs, Vermont and is represented by DC Moore Gallery, New York.

Today's Mission:

Students today we are going to practice our pyramid forms by looking at a picture of downtown Memphis TN as our guide. We will then practice our image of Memphis using our shape of the week. 

1-28-11 - FRIDAY! Critiques, quizzes, and art - oh my!

WARM UP:

Students, today is Friday and that means writing your self critique. Using complete sentences, in a full paragraph, write about what you do and do not like about your piece art work, as well as what you would change about it.

QUIZ: 

Students get ready for your quiz! 

Stanfrord Math Students: 

Using your vocabulary terms from Monday, write me 10 complete sentences using the vocab you should have written down.

Missing Work? 

All Art Work that did not have a name on it has been laid out for you on the edge of my desk. 

PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR ART WORK or RISK MAKING A ZERO ON YOUR WORK!

ALL PAPERS ARE ALREADY GRADED!!!

DO NOT SCRATCH OUT THE GRADE GIVEN TO YOU ON YOUR PAPER OR RISK MAKING A LOWER GRADE. 

If you have not completed an assigned piece of art work for the last 4 weeks, this is the time to make it up! 

Warm ups/Sketch Journals:

Turn in your warm ups and Sketch Journals today at the end of the period. If they are on separate pieces of paper a stapler will be provided to you.

6th grade: Breaking it down like downtown - 1-27-11

WARM UP: 

Write me the last part of your story about this cup of... (insert the drink of your choice here)? 

 

Today's mission: 

Today is the last day to finish your image! Make sure you completely color in the picture!

8th grade: Emphasizing Who You Are - 1-27-11

Warm UP:

Describe to me a place where you have seen graffiti in the past? Was in it located on the side of the building or underneath a bridge? Was the graffiti rolling by on the side of a train car? 

Today's Mission: 

 

Students! Today is your last day to finish your 2 point perspective graffiti style pieces! Make sure you have the image completely colored in and make good use of your time! 

This piece will be turned in at the end of the period.

REMEMBER! Tomorrow is Friday and that means a quiz! 

 

The vocab for the last three weeks will be included in this week's quiz!

7th grade: I Don't Know Who You are Space Man! - 1-27-11

Warm Up: 

On your journey through space in your satellite or rocket, tell me where are you going on your journey? What is the purpose of your trip? 

Today's Mission: 

 Students we are finishing up our pieces! 

Make sure you use at least two layers of oil pastels on each area of your piece! 

This piece will be turned in at the end of the period.

REMEMBER! Tomorrow is Friday and that means a quiz! 

 

The vocab for the last three weeks will be included in this week's quiz!

8th grade: Emphasizing Who You Are - 1-26-11

Warm UP:

Tell me how someone would create a piece of graffiti art work. 

Today's Mission: 

Students today we will jump head on into finishing up our graffiti pieces of art work today. We will review how to make cubic letters and how to create harmony and variety to make it look like it could work on an actual wall.

If you remember from last week we worked on one point perspective of our hallways.  This week we will be even trickier when we add another dimension we can see which makes this week's demo even more important. 

7th grade: I Don't Know Who You are Space Man! - 1-26-11

Warm Up: 

On your journey through space in your satellite or rocket, tell me who created your rocket, what planet does it or you come from? 

 

Artist of the Week: 

 

Georgia O'Keefe

 

 

Her interest in art was rekindled four years later (1912) when she took a summer course for art teachers at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, taught by Alon Bement of Teachers College, Columbia University. Bement introduced O'Keeffe to the then revolutionary ideas of his colleague at Teachers College, artist and art educator Arthur Wesley Dow.

Dow believed that the goal of art was the expression of the artist's personal ideas and feelings and that such subject matter was best realized through harmonious arrangements of line, color, and notan (the Japanese system of lights and darks). Dow's ideas offered O'Keeffe an alternative to imitative realism, and she experimented with them for two years, while she was either teaching art in the Amarillo, Texas public schools (1912-14) or working summers in Virginia as Bement's assistant.

O'Keeffe was in New York again from fall 1914 to June 1915, taking courses at Teachers College. By the fall of 1915, when she was teaching art at Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina, she decided to put Dow's theories to the test. In an attempt to discover a personal language through which she could express her own feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings that are now recognized as being among the most innovative in all of American art of the period. She mailed some of these drawings to a former Columbia classmate, who showed them to the internationally known photographer and art impresario, Alfred Stieglitz, on January 1, 1916. 

Borrowed from the:

 

 

 

 

Today's Mission: 

 Students we finish translating our sketch onto our final piece of paper today and have a small demo on how to use oil pastels.  Make sure to pay close attention to the demo today for how to create this piece of art work.

6th grade: Breaking it down like downtown - 1-26-11

WARM UP: 

Write me the third half of your story about this cup of... (insert the drink of your choice here)? 

 

Today's mission: 

Begin to add color with your chosen medium to the image. Make sure to use one of our forms of shading to add depth, light and dark, and variety to our image.

 

6th grade: Breaking it down like downtown - 1-25-11

WARM UP: 

Write me the second half of your story about this cup of... (insert the drink of your choice here)?

Artist of the Week:

Paul Cezanne' :

19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic inquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" cannot be easily dismissed.

Today's mission: 

Begin to translate your cup of warm liquid pictured above and make it correlate with our story.

7th grade: I Don't Know Who You are Space Man! - 1-25-11

Warm Up: 

You are on a journey through space, how does the space look from the satellite/rocket you are traveling in? Remember to make this a full paragraph statement.

Vocab: 

Cylinder:  a three-dimensional geometric shape


Unity: Using the same elements of art over and over again 

Bird’s Eye View: A view seen from high above the ground like a bird. 

 

Value: Showing light and dark in a piece of art work.  

 

Georgia O'Keefe: Painted scenes of the New Mexico desert.

 

Artist of the Week: 

 

Georgia O'Keefe

 

 

O'Keeffe pursued studies at the Art Institute of Chicago (1905–1906) and at the Art Students League, New York (1907–1908), where she was quick to master the principles of the approach to art-making that then formed the basis of the curriculum—imitative realism. In 1908, she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Untitled (Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot). Shortly thereafter, however, O'Keeffe quit making art, saying later that she had known then that she could never achieve distinction working within this tradition.

Her interest in art was rekindled four years later (1912) when she took a summer course for art teachers at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, taught by Alon Bement of Teachers College, Columbia University. Bement introduced O'Keeffe to the then revolutionary ideas of his colleague at Teachers College, artist and art educator Arthur Wesley Dow. 

Borrowed from the:

 

 

 

Today's Mission: 

 Students we will review how to make a cylinder and create an outer space composition today! Make sure to pay close attention to the demo today for how to create this piece of art work.

8th grade: Emphasizing Who You Are - 1-25-11

Warm UP:

Describe to me the difference in graffiti art and gang graffiti.

Vocab: 

Contrast : Differences between two or more elements (e.g., value, color, texture) in a composition; juxtaposition of dissimilar elements in a work of art. Also refers the degree of difference between the lightest and darkest areas of an image

Variety : A principle of art concerned with combining one or more elements of art in different ways to create interest.

Shepard Fairey: was sued by the associated press (AP) for using the image they took of President Obama during the 2008 presidential election to create his well known HOPE poster. 

Today's Mission: 

Students today we will jump head on into graffiti art by creating our own names in cubic style form. There will be a larger demo on creating your name in 2 point perspective as well as how to create cubes from all sides today.

If you remember from last week we worked on one point perspective of our hallways.  This week we will be even trickier when we add another dimension we can see which makes this week's demo even more important. 

6th grade: Breaking it down like downtown - 1-24-11

WARM UP: 

Write me a story about this cup of ... (insert the drink of your choice here)?

The Week's Assignment: 

GLE: The students will render an object that uses multiple shapes in pencil while looking at the artist Cezanne as inspiration.

SPI: 6.1.spi.1 6.4.spi.1 6.4.spi.2 6.4.spi.4 6.4.spi.5 6.6.spi.2 6.3.spi.5 6.5.spi.3 6.5.spi.7 6.5.spi.9 6.6.spi.1 6.6.spi.2 6.6.spi.3 6.1.spi.1 6.1.spi.4 6.1.spi.5 6.2.spi.1 6.3.spi.2 6.5.spi.2

Today's mission: 

Begin to sketch our cup of warm liquid pictured above and make it correlate with our story.

7th grade: I Don't Know Who You are Space Man! - 1-24-11

Warm Up: 

Describe the rocket above. What shapes does it use? What does it look like? What colors are being used? Remember to make this a full paragraph statement.

Vocab: 

Cylinder:  a three-dimensional geometric shape


Unity: Using the same elements of art over and over again 

Bird’s Eye View: A view seen from high above the ground like a bird. 

 

Value: Showing light and dark in a piece of art work.  

 

Georgia O'Keefe: Painted scenes of the New Mexico desert.

 

Artist of the Week: 

 

Georgia O'Keefe

 

Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, and grew up on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. As a child she received art lessons at home, and her abilities were quickly recognized and encouraged by teachers throughout her school years. By the time she graduated from high school in 1905, O'Keeffe had determined to make her way as an artist. 

 

Borrowed from the:

 

 

 

 

 

 Our assignment: 

GLE: Students will create  an outer space composition using round cylindrical forms in oil pastel while studying Georgia O'Keefe. 

SPI: 7.1.spi.1 7.4.spi.1 7.4.spi.4 7.6.spi.2 7.3.spi.5 7.3.spi.6 7.4.spi.2 7.4.spi.5 7.5.spi.3 7.5.spi.5
7.5.spi.7 7.5.spi.11 7.6.spi.1 7.6.spi.2 7.6.spi.3 7.1.spi.1 7.1.spi.2 7.1.spi.5 7.1.spi.8 7.2.spi.1 7.2.spi.2 7.2.spi.3 7.2.spi.4 7.2.spi.5 7.3.spi.2 7.6.spi.2 7.6.spi.3

Today's Mission: 

Students we will begin to look at images of cylindrical forms used in space! We will begin to sketch our compositions out onto paper for our space composition!

8th grade: Emphasizing Who You Are - 1-24-11

Warm UP:

Describe to me a piece of graffiti you have seen in the past. Where was it located? What colors did the person use? Was the art gang related?

Vocab: 

Two Point Perspective: two points on a horizon line are perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.

Marker: a dry medium that is designed for making bold, colorful, or indelible marks, as in making signs or identifying objects.

Graffiti: an often illegal form of art that uses bold and colorful cans of colored spray paint to adorn buildings, train cars, or other outside surfaces.   

Gang Graffiti:  an illegal form of art that is often used to signify a gang's territory or to signify a challenge. This form of graffiti art work is often done in a single color and very poorly rendered. 

Shepard Fairey:  The creator of the 2008 Obama HOPE poster. 

Emphasis: Any forcefulness that gives importance or dominance (weight) to some feature or features of an artwork;

Balance: the elements of art are arranged to create a feeling of stability in a work.

Rhythm: regular repetition of elements of art to produce the look and feel of movement. 

Artist of the Week: 

Shepard Fairey

 

You may not know who Shepard Fairey is but everyone over the course of the last three years have seen one of Fairey's Obama HOPE poster at least on clothing, poster, or television. Fairey, who is originally from South Carolina, began his career designing skateboard decks and t-shirts. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design but he is best known for his work as a graffiti artist. It was during one of his travels to an opening for one of his solo shows that Fairey was arrested for a warrant related to graffiti art. Most recently though Fairey's legal troubles have been centered around the image he used to create his Obama HOPE poster. 

Our Week's Assignment: 

GLE: 

The students will create a two point perspective drawing of their using the elements of design such as emphasis, balance, rhythm, with the help of variety and contrast to create a design of their name in marker in the style of graffiti art. 

SPI:

8.1.spi.1 8.4.spi.1 8.4.spi.2 8.4.spi.3 8.4.spi.4
8.4.spi.5 8.4.spi.6 8.6.spi.2 8.3.spi.5 8.5.spi.3 8.5.spi.9 8.1.spi.5 8.1.spi.8 8.1.spi.9 8.2.spi.2 8.2.spi.4 8.2.spi.5
8.2.spi.9 8.3.spi.1 8.3.spi.2 8.5.spi.2 8.6.spi.2

Today's Mission: 

Students today we will learn about the Graffiti Art and how to draw in two point perspective. We will begin to draw in out our names.

If you remember from last week we worked on one point perspective of our hallways.  This week we will be even trickier when we add another dimension we can see which makes this week's demo even more important.