Learn about famous art and create your own sculpture with this fun lesson about Giacometti.
Keith Haring is one of my favorite all-time artists. Most of his artwork is kid friendly, and students love his kinetic figures. We looked at many of his paintings in art class and talked about his use of movement. We then learned about gesture drawings and proportion, and students drew several quick gesture drawings of me posing in different positions. Students then traced around these gesture drawings to make them look more like a Haring figure. They carefully cut out their best, and then traced that one onto construction paper. The color scheme was complementary colors, and students randomly chose a complementary set. Here students are cutting carefully around the figure to get that black edging. Add caption They turn out so energetic and colorful, and they look amazing all together. Some classes' artwork will be displayed in April for Zilker's School-wide Art Show. We also worked on a bigger group drawing that was displayed on February 6 at Family Night. This is what the two panels looked like:
Starting with an 18" square of aluminum foil we created action figures. They are a busy group.
Our school is building an addition, so I thought projects related to “building” would be fun. Legos are the perfect building blocks! So, we designed our own mini-figures with this template. I originally saw this idea from The Art Teacher’s Closet. We also stamped with Legos (idea via Lego Stamping from Filth Wizardry). Thanks to wonderful bloggers for these two ideas! My students LOVED them! They were so excited about these proejcts. Place your piece of paper on top of … Read more... →
These are original student drawings from the 1911 class of the famous art teacher, George Bridgman. Bridgman, constantly inebriated and chewing on a large black cigar, would rail at his students about the importance of mastering anatomy: "Don't think color's going to do you any good. Or lovely compositions. You can't paint a house until it's built." His students adored him and vied for his approval. Some of the students in this class would grow up to be stars, such as Norman Rockwell, Mclelland Barclay or E.F. Ward. But in 1911 they were still ambitious teenagers dreaming of the future and striving to develop the kind of academic drawing skill that many illustrators today consider irrelevant. The crowded classroom was warmed by the stench of tobacco, charcoal, perspiration and turpentine. Many of the models were girls who had come to the city to work in department stores during a peak holiday season and were laid off after the holidays. Desperate for money, they would apply for modeling work but once in the classroom some couldn't bring themselves to take their clothes off. Sometimes a young woman would attempt to pose in her slip and stockings, but she would be asked to leave. Recalled one of Bridgman's students, "she'd begin to cry and say she needed the money and what was she going to do." These girls and their personal anguish are now just ghosts on crumbling paper. All that remains of them are the images that shamed them. Bridgman was a highly critical taskmaster, teaching as he did before our era of false praise. At the end of each class, he would designate one student's work as number 1. (You can still see Bridgman's notation, "1st" on E.F. Ward's drawing of the man's back, above.) But Norman Rockwell recalled a story that Bridgman would tell the class whenever he sensed that students were getting cocky about their grades: Boys, a queer thing happened to me after I left the class last Tuesday. There was a coal wagon backed up onto the sidewalk on 48th street shooting coal into a cellar. As I passed by a fellow stuck his head, all begrimed with coal, out of the cellar and said "hello Mr. Bridgman." I said, "why hello there who are you?" Oh, the fellow said, don't you remember me? I was number one in your class last year.... The story varied; sometimes it was an iceman or a voice from a manhole.
This Deeper Figure Canvas Wall Art is a fine art canvas print from the Marmont Hill Art Collective. Marmont Hill is a collective of artists - spearheaded by Parvez Taj who acts as the creative director. Together we create original works of art which are printed on a variety of materials such as aluminum, canvas, mirror and reclaimed wood. The collective is inspired by people, places and things. Each limited-edition piece is handcrafted with love and care.
So inspired was filmmaker Gustav Deutsch by Hopper's unique vision of midcentury America that he recreated 13 of the painter's works for the big screen
The rose window is one of the most representative elements of Gothic art and architecture. In this work we analyze fifteen rose windows from fifteen Gothic cathedrals using fractal geometry. Specifically, we examine the texture and roughness of these rose windows focusing on three factors, their designs, glass areas and solid areas. In this investigation we generate parameters which provide a measure of roughness of the rose windows in order to find out if they show a general non-random fractal pattern. The paper concludes that statistically, there is a characteristic fractal pattern in the solid and glass areas of the rose windows of the Gothic style, but not necessarily in their overall design.
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After building a dummy cardboard jointed, students of 8th grade choose a pose, a sport or movement, and drew the outline of the cardboard mannequin on a drawing sheet. After that they painted th…
This is a perfect lesson to get you through the end-of-the-year or even a mid-year slump. 5th graders love the graffiti nature of Keith Haring.
Florine m’a gentiment partagé ses personnages façon Keith Haring autour du sport et des jeux olympiques. Je sais que cette année beaucoup parmi vous travaillez…
How to draw a Keith Haring Figure step-by-step downloadable printout. Use as a visual handout or class poster. ...
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So I figured it was about time I shared some more details on our recent trip to France. You might remember the Madeline post! This ...
Ciao a tutti, altro laboratorio a tema Haring, di questo pittore abbiamo già parlato con le uova da decorare. Altro lavoretto con stampabile!
