Art Teach Our Students to Think With no Limitation - Landscaping our Sorroundings

 Landscaping Our Surroundings

Landscaping our Sorroundings

Art Project Lesson Plan 

 6^th, 7th and 8^th Grades

     

Focus Works of Art

The subjects the artists select from their paintings depend on the time and place in which they live.  Students are to discover subjects for their work of art in each real world, people, places and events around them. Students will learn how this process links to an imaginary world of their own.

Each student will experience with their mind the infinite possibilities.

 

Line of Inquiry: 

·       How it is possible to capture the mood around and be able to communicate     through art?

·       How it is possible to search for subject, objects and land-scapes?

·       How to create expressions base in surroundings?

·       How to make ideas into; colors, shapes lines and textures and convey these   to  a layers made to ensemble feelings and communicate an idea? 

Focus Question for Workshops:  

·         What is a landscape?

·         How many different sorts of landscapes we know?

·         Can landscapes have mood?

·         How we can use lines to create that mood?

·         How can we use colors?

·         How many functions a line can have?

·         How is possible to evoke feelings?

·         Can you touch a landscape?

·         Can we have buildings in a landscape?

·         Can a landscape be simple?

·         Can a landscape be one color?

·         Can a landscape be invented?

·         Etc...

Contextual Information:  Research:

 

 John Constable(The haywain)

Eugene Delacroix 

Lyonel Feininger (Sailing boats)

James Stirling & Michael Wilford (Entrance to the Clore)

Philip Johnson & John Burgee (The AT&T Building)

Grand Wood (Spring turning)

George Seurat (The Bridge at Courbevoie)

Paul Cézanne (Mont Saint Victoire)

Jean-François Millet (The gleaners)

Gaspar David Friedrich (Landscape in the Silesian Mountains)

William Turner (Steamer in a snowstorm)

Sir John Soane (Design for a country house) 

Jean Honore Fragonard (The Park of The Villa)

 

Key Ideas and Capacities for Imaginative Learning: 

 

·         Noticing Deeply –Students will identify and see their surroundings

·         Embodying – Students will experience their and others work of art through their emotions.

·         Making Connections – From their research to own work

·         Identifying Patterns – Students are to find relationship among each other’s and their detail work

·         Exhibiting Empathy – Students will learn to respect others experiences and comments

·         Questioning – Students will be encourage to ask openly in order to deep their perception and observation of their experience. As well create a teacher experience as a co-learner with the students’ base of the facts that teachers are part of the public and active spectator.

·         Creating a Meaning – Students will create realistic as well own interpretations

·         Reflecting/Assessing – During presentation; students identify, notice and understand a little more their world

 

Materials and Supplies:   

            Cardboard

1.       Boxes or Cardboard

2.       Paint or Oil pastels

3.       Construction paper in a variety of colors

4.       Glue

5.       Sissors

6.       Rulers

 

Directions

 Students will work on building using layers made out of cardboard and different landscape elements.  Invite students to use rulers for accuracy when needed and to cut cardboard with care, also to glue with care, meaning, and intentions. Students are to concentrate first on the construction of layers that are to be prior planned; sketches and designs need to be studied previously to cutting in order to make corrections or get the assistance needed.  Sensations and feelings are characteristic of their success. Meaningful and expressive forms can create a variety of solutions that are to be applied when working with their ideas on their layers' design.

A.      Students determine work  size  and present idea

  ON A DIFFERENT WHITE PAPER

1.       Students are to cut layers previous presented to teacher or coach

2.       Students nicely need to cut all the layers before painting

3.       Students need to paint before gluing

4.       Each student needs to paint each layer with a neutral color prior to painting  their design

5.       The gluing of layers is to be after each piece is painted and design

B.      Students are to select media (Oil pastels - Acrylics- Color-Pencils- Collage)

1.       Students are to take their time and work with good intentions towards a great outcome.

To take in Consideration

Students have been experimenting, remembering and learning about the many possibilities when working with artistic Medias, tools and design compositions. Students learned during first 2 weeks about:

 

 Memory Lines

 The use of paper

 The Elements of Art

 How to manipulated; Line, Color, Texture and Shapes

 How to use Space

 

Students were exposed to Fine Art in order to incite their minds into critical observations, then critical thinking. Today students should be ready to begging their own creative and imaginary journey through art.

 THE WORK OF ART PROMOTED DEEP PERCEPTION and CRITICAL THINKING

Teaching Artist: Angela M Franco 

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