Teacher: Art teacher
Subject area: Art
Grade level: 6
2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Visual Arts
Students apply artistic processes and skills, using a variety of media to communicate meaning and intent in original works of art.
Communication and Expression through Original Works of Art
2.5 Select specific media and processes to express moods, feelings, themes, or ideas.
Name of Lesson: Expressive self portrait
Overview:
Personality can be expressed through artwork using symbols, color choices, and layout
Objectives:
Students produce a piece of artwork expressing mood, feeling, and theme
Students gain a deeper understanding of themselves
Description:
Students complete an interpretive and expressive self portrait conveying their personality though use of symbols, color choices, and layout
Time needed for lesson:
Three lessons, approximately 50-60 minutes in length
Procedure:
Lesson one
Teacher reads aloud and discusses two books with the students: Fabulous! A Portrait of Andy Warhol by Bonnie Christensen and Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Discussion centers on each man’s life, their artwork, and how they expressed themselves through art.
Lesson two
Teacher leads “I am…” discussion quickly listing 10 things that relate to the life of a 6th grade student. Teacher creates this list of a composite student on the white board as students offer 10 things that might relate to their day-to-day life or dreams.
Students make their own “I am” list of 10 things representing themselves. The list is written on an index card. Students are given two minutes to think before creating the list and three minutes to write the list.
Teacher explains that they are using this list to create a self portrait expressing their personality through symbols, color choices, layout, and media. The self portraits are contained within tracings of the left and right hands, placed next to each other on the page, fingers wide open.
Students help each other trace their hands on 20” x 16” piece of paper (vertically)
Lesson three
Students complete self portraits
Materials:
Books: Fabulous! A Portrait of Andy Warhol by Bonnie Christensen and Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan.
6” x 4” index card for each student
Pencil for each student
Water colors and brushes
Tempra paints and brushes
Colored paper for creating collages, including opaque paper such as construction paper and translucent paper such as tissue paper
Magazines to cut images from
Found objects such as buttons, twigs, string, bottle caps, feathers, etc
Glue
Colored pencils
Scissors
Student evaluation:
Student completed a list of “Ten Things about Me”
Student completed the self portrait
Student was engaged in discussion after presentation of the two books
Student was engaged in the creation of her/his portrait
Lesson evaluation:
Were the students engaged and interested by the lesson?
Was students’ knowledge of art extended by the lesson?
Was the lesson allowed enough time? Too much time? Was more time needed?
Additional resources:
Art from Her Heart: Folk Artist Clementine Hunter by Kathy Whitehead
Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Frieda Kahlo: The Artist Who Painted Herself by Margaret Firth and Tomie dePaola
Extension of lesson:
Present an art show of the work created in this lesson. Invite second grade students to the show. Each artist stands by their self portrait. Second grade students tour the room and discus the art work with the artist.
Create a self portrait after the style of a particular artist; e.g., a self portrait in the style of Monet would have an impressionist form, a self portrait in the style of Salvador Dali would take the form of surrealism
Alternative lesson, create the self portrait using a computer program that facilitates creation of art work and graphics
Field trip to an art museum: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, or Norton Simon Museum
No comments:
Post a Comment