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. 

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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.