Learning About Art: Seeing, Thinking, Imagining

This year you will learn many new things about art.

here are some important things to remember:

Use your eyes.

Art begins with things you see and remember. Look around your classroom. How many kinds of blue do you see? Look for light and dark blues. Find blue-greens and blue-violets. Look for reds, yellows and other colors.

Do some colors match the examples in picture below?

 

Color Study: Squares with Concentric Circles. Wassily Kandinsky.
Original Title: Farbstudie: Quadrate mit konzentrischen Ringen. Date: c.1913

Use your imagination.

Stuart Davis, an American artist, created the painting shown below. He enjoyed jazz music. He also liked the bright colors and shapes of signs that are crowded together in big cities.

Stuart Davis combined these ideas to create a painting filled with “jazzy” shapes and colors.

Something on the Eight Ball. Stuart Davis. Date: 1954

What other parts of the painting show that the artist used his imagination?

Think about things you see.

In art, questions often have more than one correct answer! You can try this experiment with the picture below.

Fishing. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Date: 1981

what feeling you get when you look at the photograph?

On a slip of paper, write one word that describes this feeling.

DO people describe similar or very different feelings?

 

Study the art in your environment.

An artist designed the record cover in the picture below.

Album cover image from Thirty Seconds Over Winterland by the musical group Jefferson Airplane, released in 1973. Art by Bruce Steinberg.

What elements of art do you see in the cover design?

What else did the artist want you to see and think about?

 

Project : Learning About Art: Seeing, Thinking, Imagining

Ideas for artwork can come from imagination, observation or memory. Today you will draw a picture from memory.

1. Draw the front of your house or apartment.

2. Try to remember and draw it just as it looks in real life.

3. SKETCH OUT YOUR IDEA ON PAPER OR IPAD.

4. ADD DETAILS AND COLOR TO YOUR DRAWING.

5. WHEN YOU ARE DONE, UPLOAD YOUR IMAGE TO ARTSONIA.

CLICK HERE TO SEE DESIGNS FROM LAST YEAR’S STUDENTS.

Extensions

Draw your house in 3-D!

Watch this video to learn how to draw in 2-point perspective.

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