enjoying the arts

ENJOYING THE ARTSTop Notch 2 Unit 8

Unit Goals

1. Recommend a museum2. Describe an object3. Talk about how art fits in your life4. Discuss your favorite artists

What is art?

Art is for doing, seeing and thinking.

Art activities creating art

Art Appreciation:1. Colors

Warm Colors: yellow, orange, red

Cool Colors: blue, green, violet

Art Appreciation:1. Colors

Warm Colors: yellow, orange, red

fun, loving, happy, jump forward

Cool Colors: blue, green, violet

Art Appreciation:1. Colors

Warm Colors: yellow, orange, red

fun, loving, happy, jump forward

Cool Colors: blue, green, violetserious, dark, sad, solemn, depressing,

calm, farther away

A Field of Tulips in Holland

A Field of Tulips in Holland, 1886 by Claude Monet

Whistler’s Mother*, 1971 by James McNeill Whistler

Arrangement in Gray and Black: The Artist’s Mother, 1871by James McNeill Whistler

2. Lines

Le Cygne(The Swan), 1931by Henry Matisse

Shell No. 1, 1928by Georgia O’Keeffe

3. When lines join together

shapes Something

moving? Rest in one

place? A rocket

moving towards the sky?

Stone City, Iowa, 1930by Grant Wood

Parade, 1940sby Jacob Lawrence

La Piñata, 1944by Diego Rivera

Find the colors,lines and shapes

Arts in Your Life

youtube - picasso.mp4

youtube - picasso.avi

Saint-Saëns Le Cygne Performed by Marcel J. Kits 10, in Liezen, Austria April, 2006