7th Grade: Being Your Own Super Hero - 2-14-11

Being your own Super Hero - Self Portrait Figure Drawings using Oil Pastel

Artists of the week Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh

WARM UP:

Write in paragraph form:

If you had to become a super hero who would you be? What powers would you have? Would you create your own or become someone you already admire?

Vocab:

Aerial Perspective
Background
Bird’s Eye View
Canon

Reading : 

p. 188 - 189

Artists of the Week:

Vincent Van Gogh:

Vincent Van Gogh was a french born artist who lived a very tragic life. He only sold one painting during his entire lifetime and tried very many different ways. Van Gogh was supported by his brother Theo, who cared very much him, but Vincent’s troubles with his health ultimately cost him his life. It was not long though after his death his paintings, in the style known as impressionism, became very famous and ended up causing record selling sales in the last 20 years. Most recently Van Gogh and his art work were featured in the British SciFi show Doctor WHO where the characters were integrated into his art work and life.

Frida Kahlo:

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican born artist who lived a strong and courageous life after surviving polio as a child and a nearly fatal bus accident at the age of 18. Her art career began as she was recuperating from her bus accident because of her inability to move from her bed due to a giant cast that covered her entire torso. Not long after having the cast removed and her freedom regained Kahlo approached the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera, who would later become her husband, about her art. It from there on forward after many more surgeries from her accident, traveling to the United States and Europe, Kahlo’s fame took off to become one of Mexico’s most famous female artists.

GLE:

The students will be creating a self portrait in oil pastel, using line, shape, and form, reinterpreted as a super hero. Frida Kahlo, and Vincent Van Gogh will be looked at for their use of self portraiture.

Today’s Mission:

We will begin to sketch our super hero self portraits. Make sure to pay attention to the examples below of how to create a portrait to adequately cover the entire paper. Also use the example board on your left for ideas how to how create the face, eyes, nose, and mouth.