Tiger Team 4 Lesson

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Creatures Under the Sea Big idea: Exploring a simplification of reality though abstraction. Key Concepts: Simplification is a method of abstraction in which ideas are reduced to their simplest and most basic forms. We will learn how to “draw with scissors” into the colored paper like Matisse.

Lets talk about words Vocab to know for this project: Simplification Abstraction

What are we going to talk about Essential Questions: How and why do artists abstract reality in their art? How might using “scissors to draw” into color help to abstract sea creatures from realistic ones? How can abstract art hold meaning for the artist and the viewer?

What are we going to take away Objectives: By using simplification we will be able to abstract forms from reality. In assembling cut out shapes, students will create an interesting composition on their banners that affectively builds on their prior knowledge of design.

Teacher Example

Matisse The Beasts of the Sea x 154 cm. gouache on paper, cut and pasted 1950 Inspiration was always poetry. That poetry was like oxygen: "just as when you leap out of bed you fill your lungs with fresh air.“ The images are characterized by brilliant colors, swirling lines and arabesques form series of jewel-like shapes, in themes which range from the circus to female forms amongst the sea. Matisse made his images from colored stencils based on paper cut-outs. With the aid of assistants he set about creating cut paper collages, often on a large scale. By maneuvering scissors through prepared sheets of paper, he inaugurated a new phase of his career. The cut-out was not an abdication from painting and sculpting: he called it “painting with scissors.” Matisse said, "Only what I created after the illness constitutes my real self: free, liberated.” Moreover, experimentation with cut-outs offered Matisse innumerable opportunities to fashion a new, aesthetically pleasing environment: "You see as I am obliged to remain often in bed because of the state of my health, I have made a little garden all around me where I can walk... “

Matisse example HENRI MATISSE (French, 1869–1954) The Lagoon (Le Lagon) 1944 Maquette for plate XVII from the illustrated book Jazz (1947) Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, mounted on canvas 17 5/16 x 26 1/8" (44 x 66.3 cm)

Matisse example HENRI MATISSE (French, 1869–1954) Snow Flowers (Fleurs de neige) 1951 Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, on paper, mounted on canvas 68 1/2 x 31 3/4" (174 x 80.6 cm)

Matisse example HENRI MATISSE (French, 1869– 1954) Pale Blue Window (Vitrail bleu pâle) November January 1949 Second maquette for apse window for the Chapel of the Rosary, Vence Two-part panel: gouache on paper, cut and pasted, on kraft paper mounted on canvas /16 x 99 5/16" (509.8 x cm)

What is it Abstraction: What do we think abstraction is Do we have anything prior thoughts about abstraction

What does it mean Abstraction: the act of considering something as a general quality or characteristic, apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances. of or pertaining to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms, etc., especially with reference to their relationship to one another. pertaining to the nonrepresentational art styles of the 20th century.

Materials of mass creation!

Our resources Web images Pint outs Image dictionary books

Meaningful Making Creatures Under the Sea Banners

Hang the art!

Clean up

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