Capturing Images Through Words
Students will closely examine an image of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Petunia and Glass Bottle. They will then use words to capture what they see. The teacher will use those words to write a poem about the painting.
Students will closely examine an image of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Petunia and Glass Bottle. They will then use words to capture what they see. The teacher will use those words to write a poem about the painting.
Students will closely examine the colors in Georgia O’Keeffe’s Petunia and Glass Bottle. They will then explore color by adding different amounts of white and black paint to a base color to create different hues of that color.
After imagining themselves in the meadow in Pissarro’s Autumn Poplars, children will call up words the setting evokes. Using these words, the teacher will help the children write a poem that captures their thoughts, feelings, and sensory imaginings.
The children will use their imaginations to pretend they are the swirling mist and fog in Monet’s painting Waterloo Bridge. They will also learn about key details in the painting to help them deepen and expand their imaginative connection to the piece.
Students will use a close reading technique to discover, interpret, and retell the story represented in a work of art.
Children will explore the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of grass and draw on this information to more carefully examine American Grasslands. They will have fun using their imaginations and previous experiences to think about what types of animals live in the different grasses painted.
Students will investigate the nature of clay and the different ways that it can be molded. Students will discover how the malleability of clay can change, and they will create a simple design on a hardened form of clay.
Students will look at Hennings’s painting and play a counting game, then go on a hunt for the many colors found within.
Students will investigate the use of shapes in Breastplate and combine basic shapes to make an interesting picture of their own.
Students will examine the colors, patterns, shape, and purpose of the Large Jug (Aryballo). Students will then draw a simple design on both a flat and curved surface and explain the challenges of drawing on a curved surface.
Students will explore different kinds of textures and learn how artists might have polished sculptures such as the Olmec Seated Figure. Students will also practice a polishing technique using sandpaper, then create a simple design on the smoothed surface.
Students will explore the artistic characteristics and function of the Maya Vessel with Palace Scene, then create their own personal drinking vessel using Styrofoam cups and an assortment of artistic materials!