Top Notch 2 Unit 8 Enjoying the arts
Unit Goals Recommend a museum Describe an object Talk about how art fits in your life Discuss your favorite artists
Art is for doing, seeing and thinking. What is art? Art is for doing, seeing and thinking. Art activities creating art
Art Appreciation: 1. Colors Warm Colors: yellow, orange, red Cool Colors: blue, green, violet
Art Appreciation: 1. Colors Warm Colors: yellow, orange, red fun, loving, happy, jump forward Cool Colors: blue, green, violet
Art Appreciation: 1. Colors Warm Colors: yellow, orange, red fun, loving, happy, jump forward Cool Colors: blue, green, violet serious, dark, sad, solemn, depressing, calm, farther away
A Field of Tulips in Holland
A Field of Tulips in Holland, 1886 by Claude Monet
Whistler’s Mother*, 1971 by James McNeill Whistler
Arrangement in Gray and Black: The Artist’s Mother, 1871 by James McNeill Whistler
2. Lines
Le Cygne(The Swan), 1931 by Henry Matisse
Shell No. 1, 1928 by Georgia O’Keeffe
3. When lines join together shapes Something moving? Rest in one place? A rocket moving towards the sky?
Stone City, Iowa, 1930 by Grant Wood
Parade, 1940s by Jacob Lawrence
La Piñata, 1944 by Diego Rivera Find the colors, lines and shapes
Arts in Your Life
Saint-Saëns Le Cygne Performed by Marcel J Saint-Saëns Le Cygne Performed by Marcel J. Kits 10, in Liezen, Austria April, 2006