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Lesson #5. Art
has been done by people for many historical periods.
Art
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Ever since man has been on Earth he has been an artist. The early cavemen decorated their tools with patterns and painted pictures of animals to bring them good luck in hunting.
The Great Hall of Bulls, the Cave of Lascaux, France.
What did the caveman paint on? Yes, the walls of the cave where he probably lived. What do you think he used as paint? Some ideas: stones, animal blood, dirt mixed with water, flint or lime soil to make darker and lighter colors.
As man learned how to use different materials, many new arts and ways of doing them developed. Long ago, before there were museums, art works were buried along with other objects of peoples as years went by. As time passed, the art works of different years were kept and saved in museums.
So, we can talk about art work as
having an age, just as you do. For example,
This painting for a
calendar, from Les tres riches heures du duc de
Berry, by the Limbourg Brothers
(from the
Musée Condé, Château de
Chantilly), was made
in 1400, so it is 602 years old! It is called an
illumination because it was made for a book. This painting of A
Woman Reading, by Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot
(from The
Metropolitan Museum of Art),
was painted in 1869, so we
can say it is 133 years old. Then, this painting by
Wassily Kandinsky, Squares with Concentric
Rings , was made
in 1913, so it is only 89 years old.
Sometimes you can tell from the subject matter and the colors
whether a painting is older or younger in age. The newer paintings
tend to use brighter and more colors. The older paintings tend to
paint pictures that look real. Younger paintings may have more shapes
and look more unreal than real.
Try
This!
Look at the
following pictures. Put them in order from older to newer. Choose
from the choices below the picture to tell whether the painting is
the oldest of the three, the newest of the three, or made sometime in
between, or in the middle of, the other two.
Broadway Boogie-Woogie, by Piet
Mondrian, Museum of Modern Art, New
York The Oath of the Horatii, by Louis
David , Musee du Louvre,
Paris The Old King, by Georges Roualt,
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Try
another set of art work:
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Try
a third set of art work:
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for an explanation.
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Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1:
Portrait of the Artist's Mother, by James Abbott McNeill
Whistler, Musée d'Orsay, Paris,
France
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Activity
#5-
Paint a picture that looks modern!
Materials needed:
- Computer paint program such as KidPix or ClarisWorks Paint.
Directions:
- Take another look at the newer or more modern paintings from above:
Squares with Concentric Rings by Wassily Kandinsky
Broadway Boogie-Woogie, by Piet Mondrian
The Old King, by Georges Roualt
Composition, by Jackson Pollock - Use the paintings above to give you some ideas to make a more modern painting. You may make a design with shapes and colors. You may paint something using different kinds of thickness of brushes. You could also make a design that looks like it was splashed on. Try it!
- Use the whole window. Use bright colors, bold shapes, and lines, too.
- Sign your name at the bottom right corner of the painting.
- Save your picture to your desktop or folder. Open a word processing document. Insert or copy/paste your painting onto the word processing document and write your response underneath it.
Response
#5
Be sure to include the activity number, #5, and your name. Write your response to the following:¶ Describe your painting. Tell what is happening in your modern picture. What are you trying to show? Does it show a feeling or a story? Explain why you picked those shapes or colors.
¶ Describe how it felt doing this kind of picture.
Now send the painting and response as an attachment to Mrs. Ogata through e-mail by pressing the "send" button.
If you need directions to attach to e-mail, click here.
Activity #5
Grading Rubric Painting looks modern, not much of it looking realistic.
Uses bold shapes and/or lines. Uses bright colors. Used the
whole window for the picture. Painting looks modern, but parts may look realistic. Uses
bold shapes and/or lines. May not have used bright colors.
Used the whole window for the picture. Painting doesn't look modern. Looks too realistic. No
bold shapes or lines. No bright colors. May not have used
the whole window for the picture. Response answers all questions. Response answers most of the questions. Response answers less than half the questions. Response uses good sentences, spelling, capitalization,
and punctuation. Some sentence, capitalization, and punctuation errors are
in the response, but the reader can still get the
message. Many writing errors do not help get the message across.
Cannot understand what the message is.
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