Hide and Seek
Students will look closely at Cole’s painting Dream of Arcadia and talk about what they see. They will then use their imaginations to play a game of Hide-and-Seek in the painting.
Students will look closely at Cole’s painting Dream of Arcadia and talk about what they see. They will then use their imaginations to play a game of Hide-and-Seek in the painting.
Students will use the painting Childhood Idyll to explore flute music, body language, and posture.
Students will explore the use of cool colors in Bouguereau’s painting Childhood Idyll; experiment with cool, warm, and complementary colors; and create a self-portrait using one of these color schemes.
Students will explore Arcimboldo’s Summer by touching and examining the real fruits and vegetables that he included in his painting. As a class, students will then arrange the food into a profile sculpture.
By viewing the Egyptian Mummy Case, students will learn how repeated shapes, lines, and colors form patterns. They will then form patterns of their own using different types of colored, uncooked pasta noodles and glue their patterns onto a poster board collar.
In this lesson students will become familiar with several Egyptian symbols and compare them to symbols in contemporary culture. Students will then design symbols that represent something important in their lives and create a clay or stone tile tablet communicating that information.
Students will learn how the ancient Egyptians used symbols to express their beliefs, values, and culture on the Mummy Case. They will research information about the ancient Egyptians and explore how their findings are visually represented on the DAM’s case. Students will then design a mummy case that reflects their personal values and beliefs.
Students will learn about the x-rays taken of Zenale’s painting Madonna and Child with Saints, and how they show several changes he made during the creative process. Students will discuss the importance of trial and error methods, and the willingness to make changes to get things “just right.”
After listening to the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, students will point out things in the painting that represent the story as well as places where Castiglione used primary colors.
After reading the Greek myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha, students will analyze Castiglione’s painting and select one of their favorite stories to tell through art.
Students will closely examine Oosterwyck’s painting Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase and talk about what they think the flowers would feel like. They will then have the opportunity to touch real flowers, and compare the textures of the real flowers to their observations of those in the painting.
Students will play matching games about the seasons of the year, take a nature walk, and create a class painting of trees using Pissarro’s painting as inspiration.