Tuesday, January 28, 2014

art lessons about andy warhol


Campbell's Soup I (1968)
      Andrew Warhola, Jr. (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included Bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.

Art Lessons About Andy Warhol:
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art lessons about pablo picasso

1916, L'anis del mono (Bottle of Anis del Mono)
 oil on canvas, 46 x 54.6 cm, Detroit Institute of Arts.
      Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso ; (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his life in France. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. 
       Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence; during the first decade of the 20th century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th century art.

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art education at the nelson-atkins art museum


Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Art Museum
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its neo-classical architecture and extensive collection of Asian art. The museum was built on the grounds of Oak Hall, the home of Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson. When he died in 1915, his will provided that upon the deaths of his wife and daughter, the proceeds of his entire estate would go to purchasing artwork for public enjoyment. This bequest was augmented by additional funds from the estates of Nelson's daughter, son-in-law and attorney.
   In 1911, former schoolteacher Mary Atkins (widow of real estate speculator James Burris Atkins) bequeathed $300,000 to establish an art museum. Through the management of the estate, this amount grew to $700,000 by 1927. Original plans called for two art museums based on the separate bequests (with the Atkins Museum to be located in Penn Valley Park). However, trustees of the two estates decided to combine the two bequests along with smaller bequests from others to make a single major art institution.
   The building was designed by prominent Kansas City architects Wight and Wight, who also designed the approaches to the Liberty Memorial and the Kansas governor's mansion, Cedar Crest. Ground was broken in July 1930, and the museum opened December 11, 1933. The building's classical Beaux-Arts architecture style was modeled on the Cleveland Museum of Art Thomas Wight, the brother who did most of the design work for the building said:
"We are building the museum on classic principles because they have been proved by the centuries. A distinctly American principle appropriate for such a building may be developed, but, so far, everything of that kind is experimental. One doesn’t experiment with two-and-a-half million dollars."
   When the original building opened its final cost was $2.75 million. The dimensions of the six-story structure were 390 feet (120 m) long by 175 feet (53 m) wide making it larger than the Cleveland Museum of Art.
   The museum, which was locally referred to as the Nelson Art Gallery or simply the Nelson Gallery, was actually two museums until 1983 when it was formally named the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Previously the east wing was called the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, while the west wing and lobby was called the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art.
   On the exterior of the building Charles Keck created 23 limestone panels depicting the march of civilization from east to west including wagon trains heading west from Westport Landing. Grill work in the doors depict oak leaf motifs in memory of Oak Hall. A recreation of the Oak Hall library containing the original wood paneling, floors, rugs, furniture, pictures and books, is on an upper floor. The south facade of the museum is an iconic structure in Kansas City that looms over a series of terraces onto Brush Creek.
   About the same time as the construction of the museum, Howard Vanderslice donated 8 acres to the west of the museum, across Oak Street, for the Kansas City Art Institute, which moved from the Deardorf Building at 11th and Main streets in downtown Kansas City.
   As William Nelson, the major contributor, donated money rather than a personal art collection, the curators were able to assemble a collection from scratch. At the height of the Great Depression, the worldwide art market was flooded with pieces for sale, but there were very few buyers. As such, the museum's buyers found a vast market open to them. The acquisitions grew quickly and within a short time, the Nelson-Atkins had one of the largest art collections in the country.
   One-third of the building on the first and second floors of the west wing were left unfinished when the building opened to allow for future expansion. Part was completed in 1941 to house Chinese painting and the remainder of the building was completed after World War II.
   Annually, from 1954 through 2000, the Jewel Ball, Kansas City's debutante ball, took place every June in the main hall to benefit both the museum and the Kansas City Symphony. The ball was moved temporarily to accommodate the expansion project at the museum and returned in 2008.
   In 1993, the museum began to consider the first expansion plans since the completion of the unfinished areas in the 1940s. Plans called for a 55 percent increase in space and were finalized in 1999.
   Architect Steven Holl won an international competition in 1999 for the design of the addition. Holl's concept was to build five glass towers to the east of the original building which he calls lenses. The lenses they top a 165,000-square-foot underground building known as the Bloch Building. It is named for H&R Block co-founder Henry W. Bloch. The Bloch building houses the museum's contemporary, African, photography, and special exhibitions galleries as well a new cafe, the museum's reference library, and the Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Court (visit his museum). The addition cost approximately $95 million and opened June 9, 2007. It was part of $200 million in renovations to the museum that included the Ford Learning Center which is home to classes, workshops, and resources for students and educators and opened in fall of 2005.
      In the competition to design the addition, all the entrants except Holl proposed creating a modern addition on the north side of the museum which would have drastically altered or obscured the north facade which served as the main entrance to the museum. However Holl proposed placing the addition on the east side perpendicular to the main building. Holl's lenses now march down the east perimeter of the grounds.
   Admission to the Museum is free every day and visitors may use any of seven entrances to access building. The main visitor's desk is in the Bloch Building. On the north side of the museum, A reflecting pool now occupies part of the J.C. Nichols Plaza on the north facade and contains 34 occuli to provide natural light into the parking garage below. The casting of The Thinker which occupied this space prior to the renovations has been relocated south of the museum.

Modern new additions to the museum
    The collections consist of artworks from Africa, America, China, Europe, Japan, and South Asia. Art educators may sign up for the museum's free newsletter and visit the research library located at Ford Learning Center. Current exhibitions are posted online and articles exploring the collection in depth may be accessed through the Nelson-Atkins blog.
   The museum's grounds are home to the Kansas City Sculpture Park. The park consists of 22 acres designed by Dan Kiley and Jaquelin Robertson. Among the thirty sculptures on display in the park are important works created by the late Henry Spencer Moore.
    I will include lesson plans below that I have specifically written for those teachers who wish to utilize both the collections at the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum and the web database generated by the museum's staff.


important art education links

This is my no-nonsense linking page for art educators and I do keep it current, I do not however, have time to give a description for every link! If you are an art educator and would like to be listed here you may write our little staff at pickandprintgallery@yahoo.com
Art Museums Of Missouri: Nelson Atkins Museum * St. Louis Art Museum * Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art * Albrecht-Kemper in St. Joseph * Museum of Art and Archaeology in Columbia
Education In The State of MissouriSuccesslink * School Closings in St. Louis * MOREAP
Arts In The State of Missouri: Missouri Alliance for Arts Education * Missouri Citizens for The Arts  * Saint Louis Watercolor Society * Craft Alliance * Greater St. Louis Art Association * Art Zipper * My SLART * Regional Arts Commission * Gateway Pastel Artists * St. Louis Gallery Openings * StlArtists * Best Of Missouri Hands * Art St. Louis * St. Louis Artist Guild * Ability Arts * Shakespeare St. Louis
Organizations Useful To Art Educators: Arts Education Partnership * Americans For The Arts * ArtsEdge * NAEA * National Archives Blogs *
Large Collections of Art Lesson Plans On The Web: ArtLex * The Getty * KinderArt * Crayola * HotChalk * Incredible Art Dept. * Artsonia * ArtGraphicA Tutorials  * Blick Lesson Plans * Utah Education Network * The Ontario Curriculum * Art To Remember * Arty Factory * Creative Spotlite * The Virtual Instructor * U.K. National Curriculum *   SketchStacks and Digital Art Education * AMACO * Kodak photo lesson plans * Triarco Craft Lessons Page * Video Art Lessons Free! * Tips and Instructions From Utrecht * Video from Michaels * Get ideas from JOANN community *Marvin Bartel * Huntsville City Schools * CARE *
Listings to Art Lessons and Art History About A Particular Artist: Pablo Picasso * Andy Warhol * Jackson Pollock * M. C. Escher * Wayne Theibaud * Georgia O'Keeffe * Henri MatisseClaude Monet 
Related to Art History and Articles About Art: Color Matters * Art Cyclopedia * Art a GoGo * Art Tutorials Wiki!
Links To Fine Arts Database: Art Images for College Teaching * Harden's Artchive * ArtServe * ARTstor * Collage * Digital Library for The Decorative Arts * Graphische Sammlung Stift Gottweig * The ImageBase * Metropolitan Museum of Art * Museum of Modern Art * National Gallery of Art * Oxford Art Online * Paul R. Jones * SILS Art Image Browser * Treasures of the Louvre * Visual Arts Data Service *
Links To Photography Database: AP Images * Africa Photos * Charles W. Cushman * Cover Search * Daguerreotypes at Harvard * I Photo Central * Matheson * Nomand's Land * Panama-California Exposition * Photography Collections * Picturing The Century * Photography from Library of Congress * Russell Lee * Stereocard Collection
Art Education Sits by Universities, Libraries and Media Research Laboratories: artjunction is by the Art Education Program of the University of Florida * artful citizenship by Wolfsonian-Florida International * collected visions * global collage *
Global Community Art Projects: planetfesto * Paint The World With Light * Smiling Face Film by Yoko Ono * FantasyDesign in Community * The First People's Project * why do you do what you do?Beaded Prayers Project * The Big Draw * Bridges to Understanding * Cross Cultural Collaborative * Global Art Project for Peace * Imagem * Rotoball 2009 * SketchCrawl * Synergy * Women beyond borders * 1000 journals * Everyday Art Assignments * The Sketch Book Project *

Special Projects by K-12 Educators and Students Of All Ages: Day of the Dead * "Black Self/White Self" * an exquisite corpse * Monster Exchange Project * Outside My Window * Pinwheels for Peace * The PostCard Project *
City Art Projects: The Pittsburgh-Green-Bridge Project * The New Orleans Kid Camera Project *
Art For The Environment Projects: ecoarttech * Shan Shui Environmental Art from China * My 100 Cardboards * Earth Day Groceries Project *
Art To Feed The Hungry: Empty Bowls Project *

Professional Development Credit: The Art of Education or AOE * NaeA listings *
Art Teachers Do Blog: Art Lessons For Kids * The Art Cart * Fun Art * Fugleblog * Elmwood's Art Studio * Art Makes Kids Smart * The Art Classroom * Art @ the Heart * Art at RMS * Art at the Center * Elementary Art Exploration * That Artist Woman * Digital Art Bytes * Teach Kids Art * Ms. Motta's Mixed Media * Ms. Julie's Place * modern art 4 kids * MaryMaking * Learning IT *Brian's Education Blog * ARTopia * ArtTechTivity * For the Love of Art  * DeepSpace Sparkle * artolazzi * Art Projects For Kids * Art Is Messy * Art Class Works * Apples Love Oranges * Department Art * Art Teacher Blog * Art With Mr. E * daisy yellow * The Virtual Classroom * Curator's Corner * Teaching Picasso * Teaching for Artistic Behavior  * Mrs. Jardin's Blog * Oodles of Art * Multimask * Mrs. H's Pride and Art * Lines and Dots and Doodles * Dawn's Brain * Choise-based Art For Students With Disabilities * Middle School Art Teacher Project * Art Workshops * Art Teacher's Guide to The Internet * Art Paper Scissors * Aesthetic Realism: or Why I Love Teaching Art * The AB Art Studio * One Crayola Short * Blogging With Brit * Stephanie Garrison * Mrs. Picassos Art Room * Laugh Paint Create * Manual Escanigo * There's A Dragon In My Art Room! * Vivid Layers * Mrs. Knight's Smartest Artists * Kids Artists * Artful Artsy Amy * Use Your Coloured Pencils * MN Art Gal * Art Class Works * Artolazzi * McWilson's Menagerie * Adventures In Art * Arts Smarts * Chilhuly Art Lessons * Creative Art Lessons * Art Teacher Blog * B An Artist * Fun Art 4 Kids * Art Teacher Adventures * Art For Small Hands * Art Is The Best Part of The Day * My Adventures in Positive Space * Katie Weymouth * Painted Paper in The Art Room * Elementary Art Fun * Kids Art Market *Flamingo Rose Studio * Art Lessons From Belgium * Live Love Teach Art * Stuck In The Mud Pottery * Meggle's Art Room * Beth Macre * St. Helen Artroom * Ms. Banstras Artroom * The Teaching Palette * Learning Is Messy * The Chocolate Muffin Tree * Clare Wilkinson * Mrs. Brown's Art * Art Explorium * Ms. Art Teacher * Livingston Art Room *Jennies Art and Design * Art Babble * Art Class Inspiration * Art Ed 2.0 * Art on the wall * Art Teach Guide To Internet  * Wonder Brooks * From Studio To Classroom * Sarah Cress Art Educator * Sarah's Art Room * Art In Class * Chocolate Muffin Tree * The Art of Education * When Pigs Fly! *

Gateways to Art Related Topics: Art Navigator * Digital Imaging Project * Art History Sites * Links to Museum of Modern Art * Art Links On The Web * Internet Art Resource * Digital Librarian: Art Page * WWW Virtual Library History * Art History Webmasters * AMICO *
Art Links For Young Students: Architect Studio 3D * Tate Kids, Art Detective * artpad * Toolkit * Getty Games * Haring Kids * Inside Art * Kaleidoscope Painter * kids Art Institute of Chicago * Matisse's Pieces * Renaissance Connection * Mark Kistler's Online Art Lessons * smARTkids * Disney Art Attack * art junction * Art Masterpiece * picassohead * Colour Factory * Famous Paintings * PBS: Africa * Pixar * Portrait Detectives * Kids Corner * Tessellations * Learn About Sculpture * Wacky Kids * The Color Test * NGA Kids * What is a Print? * Leonardo * artsonia * Stop Motion Animation * Create a Glass Sculpture * Paint Like Pollock * Sumo Paint * Arty Factory * Odyssey Online Ancient Americas * Birmingham Museum * ProtoZone * Create a Landscape *
Sometimes it can be difficult to locate web pages of all the school districts in Saint Louis when you are filling out applications for either substitute teaching or permanent employment. The following list of the St. Louis Couny/City School District web pages is included here and kept up-to-date for my colleagues' convenance: Affton 101, Bayless, Brentwood, Clayton, Crystal City 47, Desoto R-VFerguson-Florrissant R-II, Festus R-VI, Fort ZumWalt, Fox C-6, Francis Howell R-III  Grandview R-II, Hancock Place, Hazelwood, Hillsboro R-III, Jefferson County R-III (Festus)  Jennings, Kirkwood R-VII, LadueLindbergh R-VIII, Maplewood-Richmond Heights, Mehlville R-IXNormandy, Northwest R-I (House Springs),   Parkway C-2, Pattonville R-III, Ritenour, Riverview Gardens, Rockwood R-VISt. Charles, St. Louis City, Special School District,  Troy R-III, University CityValley ParkWebster Groves, Wentzville, Windsor C-I
Find teaching jobs across the country today: Although most public teaching positions are advertised on state education web pages, I have found private positions posted on major search engines.  jooble * monster * indeed * snagajob * career builder *
kathy grimm copyright 2011 

an abstract/realistic portrait lesson plan

The teacher's sample of an
abstract/realistic portrait.

Topic: An abstract and realistic portrait
Topic: introducing the differences between abstract and realistic portraiture.
Goals & Objectives:
  • I will expect that 80% of my students will demonstrate proficiency at the GLE level for the completion of this portrait assignment. 
  • Art GLEs are 5th grade level benchmarks for the Fine Arts Content Standards in the Show-Me Standards for Missouri Public Schools. Pupils are expected to refine their skills and increase their control of each media they use to complete art projects.   
  • At each grade level, students are to demonstrate their knowledge from previous years as well as those specified for their current grade level.
GLEs:
Strand I: Product/Performance for Subject Matter: Fine Art
A.3. Communicate ideas about subject matter and themes in artworks created for various purposes
Grade 4 - Portrait: Create facial features in correct proportion, Exaggerate, distort, or simplify features to create an abstract portrait, Still Life: Exaggerate, distort, or simplify observed objects to create an abstract still life, Landscape: Create an original seascape
Grade 5 - Portrait: Create a portrait from observation, Still Life: Create a still life from observation that shows the illusion of form, Landscape: Create an original outdoor scene to show the illusion of space
Strand II: Elements and Principles – Proportion
F. 2. Select and use principles of art for their effect in communicating ideas through artwork.
Grade 4 - Identify realistic facial proportions
Grade 5 - Identify and use relative size (realistic scale)
Grade: 5th -6th
Length of Class Period: 55 min.
Frequency of Class Period: once a week
Time Needed: two class periods
Facility & Equipment Requirements:
  • One computer lap top
  • Room with good lighting
  • Large tables, approximately ten, each seating four students
  • Two sinks
  • Dry erase board
  • Drying racks
  • Cabinets for storage
  • Projector for viewing computer video, CDs and DVDs
Resources needed: Visual aids such as: books, slides, web pages, reproductions and sample art works.
Materials per student:
Students should collect or be provided with the following materials:
  • white drawing paper
  • crayons, markers, and colored pencils
  • a large photograph of a person torn from a magazine or a photograph they may cut in half of a person
  • scissors
Step-by-step studio activity specifics:
Phase 1: Introduction: Clarify goals and establish set: The goal of this lesson is to teach students the difference between an abstract portrait and a realistic portrait and to also teach them how to create an original artwork that includes both perspectives.
  • The first objective is to teach students a clear understanding of the differences between realistic portraits and abstract portraits. Each child should be able to either write or explain out loud what these differences are by the end of the unit using the common vocabulary attributed to the characteristics of both portrait types.
  • The second objective is to train the eyes and hands of students as they process through the lesson plan. Every child in the classroom should turn in a completed art assignment by the end of the unit.
Teacher's sample Venn Diagram with answers.
Phase 2: Provide examples and non-example pairs: 
  • In this case I will either introduce the lesson with a slide show, with an actual display of artwork or with a book display in which the pairs of abstract and realistic portraits will be shown side by side during this concept lesson. The resources that are available will determine which of these introductions I use. 
  • We will then most likely have a lively discussion about the differences between abstraction and realistic portraiture, during which I will expect students too participate in filling out a graphic organizer (Venn Diagram, just left) that I will both draw on the board and hand out work sheets for them to take notes on. The lesson should take approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes or two and a half class periods. 
  • After class discussions, I will hand out the art project materials and review the instructions. I have attached a sample graphic organizer to this lesson plan. I have filled out the answers in red, so that a substitute will understand the anticipated responses from the class. Below is a list of teacher generated focus questions that may be used during the presentation as well.
      I’ve also included a vocabulary list just below that students will need to hear the instructor use in reference to the slide presentation and will be included in the quiz they are to be given after completing the portrait art project.
Vocabulary list:
  1.  portrait - A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.
  2. profile - an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)
  3. frontal view - a head-on view of the sitter, when the sitter directly faces the viewer
  4. side view - a view from the side of something
  5. representational portrait - representational is another word for realistic when someone is discussing art (used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen; "representational art"; "representational images"
  6. abstract portrait - In the case of a portrait, a person's face is represented by strategically simplifying all types of information associated with their appearance.
  7.  patron - The person who pays for an artist to have either his likeness recorded or someone else's.
Teacher Generated Focus Questions: that I will ask the students during the slide show:
  • What characteristics make a realistic portrait look real?
  • Do you think an artist would need a lot of training to create a portrait like this? If so, why?
  • What do you think is the difference between an abstract portrait and a realistic portrait?
  •  What are the words we might use to describe an abstract portrait?
  • What are the techniques an artist might use to create an abstract portrait?
  • What is the difference between a profile and a portrait?
  • What is the difference between a frontal view and a side view?
Primary Art Activity, The Portrait Art Project: Students will learn about portraits through the individual activity of the art project combined with the discussions they hear and by observing both professional artwork and the artwork of their peers. Students may do all of these activities in a relaxed social environment grouped together with their peers at tables. This kind of environment encourages children to interact and learn information from each other. School children learn artistic languages by the constant use of those languages within a peer environment. They may not always be aware of this experience as educational. Artists call this learning activity "modeling" or "simulating." Students also use art projects to learn process and knowledge through "discovery" which will immediately lead them to "inquiry". Both of these methods are constructivist models that have been used in the art classrooms and academies for centuries.
Phase 3: Check student attainment of concepts: After the students have finished their primary art assignment they will be given both a short quiz worth 30 points and a rubric evaluation of their art project worth 70 points. I have included both a sample quiz and a grading rubric with this lesson plan.
Phase 4: Analyze student thinking processes: A copy of "Analyze Your Art!" in this packet. Discussions concerning the student projects will follow the return of quizzes and rubrics. This discussion is similar to a critique but varies slightly in that only the attributes of each project are pointed out. It is not a time for students to discuss their opinions about each other’s talents, but a time to learn “how” to analyze the visual information in front of them.
Modifications for Students With Special Needs:
Modifications for the hard-of-hearing or deaf student:
  • Student will be seated closer to instructor so they will be better equipped to hear instructions or read lips
  • Student will be provided with written instructions so that they read about the discussions and demonstrations
  • The instructor may use a amplification devise provided by the school or student’s parents
Modifications for the student with limited vision or blindness:
  •  will be allowed to observe samples of art projects with their hands and for extended periods of time
  • Students will be provided with safe tools and one-on-one guidance during a demonstration of the project
  • The project may be slightly adjusted to accommodate the student’s limitations or for safety reasons
  •  Student will be given ample time to exist classroom before large crowds gather outside of the classroom.
Modifications for students with mild brain injury:
  • Students will be provided with duplicate instructions for home and school. Student will not need to remember to carry home materials to review.
  • Students will be given ample time to exist classroom with a pre-determined aid or peer before the official end of a class.
  • Instructor will provide for parent e-mail communication concerning the progress and needs of their student.
  • Student may be given special seat assignment in order to enable his participation in class appropriately. Specific peers may be better equipped to articulate projects visually for this student.
Cleanup Time & Strategy: Students will be instructed to put away art materials neatly in their containers, clean off their tables, and recycle their trash two minutes prior to dismissal. Teachers should rinse off the brayers and glass sheets.
Formal Assessment: Short Quiz for Abstract/Realistic Portrait Unit (worth 30 pts.)

All lesson plans and photographs by Grimm copyright 2011

Monday, January 27, 2014

links to graphic organizers

       Graphic organizers are visual representations of knowledge, concepts or ideas. Teachers use them to relieve learner boredom, enhance recall, provide motivation, create interest, clarify information, assist in organizing thought processes and to promote comprehension.
      I've provided links below to online collections of graphic organizers. These options are generic and may be used by homeroom teachers as well as art teachers.
  1. Graphic Organizers From edHelper
  2. Graphic Organizers from Education Place
  3. Graphic Organizers from TeacherVision
  4. freeology has Free Graphic Organizers
  5. Graphic.Org has graphic organizers
  6. Enchanted Learning's graphic organizers for elementary teachers
  7. Education Oasis Collection of Graphic Organizers
  8. WriteDesign Online Graphic Organizers
  9. teAchnology has graphic organizers
  10. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers