Time Period: 4-5, 30-minute class periods
Standards:
Standard 1: Creating, performing and participating in the arts
Standard 2: Knowing and using arts materials and resources
Standard 3: Responding to and analyzing works of art
Standard 4: Understanding the cultural dimension and contributions of the art
Materials:
Construction paper, scissors, glue stick, pencil
Instructional Objective:
The students will demonstrate movement in art by creating gesture figures and will create an entire scene using simple color and cut paper.
Motivation:
The students will be read a story about dancers with illustrations of movement. They will also view artwork by Henri Matisse.
Artists:
Henri Matisse
Vocabulary:
Decoupage, Collage, Organic Shapes, Geometric Shapes
Delivery of Instruction:
Step 1:
· The lesson prior was on gesture drawings, where the students will have taken turns posing in different action poses and drawing coil-like figures in those poses.
· Introduce the artist, Henri Matisse. We discussed him previously in a project, but in this we will be discussing his use of painted cut paper, otherwise known as decoupage, and how he was able to step into a new phase of his artwork.
· Matisse went from painting and sculpting to eventually using cut paper to create the same free forms, new patterns and eye-catching designs. Show the students some of Matisse’s early images and compare them to some of his later images. What are some similarities and differences?
Step 2:
· While looking at these images, begin to focus on his cut paper images, specifically “Jazz” and “The Knife Thrower”. Matisse was simplifying his images to just organic shapes and color, but the same intensity of color and pattern, as well as the same movement of a person was still being portrayed even in its simplicity. Discuss this.
· Point out some of the repeated organic shapes. Have large examples of these to either draw or show on the board. Also discuss the colors used. Are there a lot of colors or few? Warn the students to not go crazy with using all the colors possible, but to be careful in choosing their colors. Discourage them from just only choosing pink because it is their favorite color or everyone else has chosen it.
Step 3:
· The students will be creating a decoupage image using cut paper of geometric and organic shapes. This will create their background. On top of the background, the students will cut out a dancing person to also glue onto the image.
· Give the students stencils of typical Matisse shapes that are used to help the students start out. The students are more than welcome to create their own shapes though.
· Each student will have an envelope to keep his or her un-pasted shapes in. Allow the students time to play around with their shapes before committing to how they will paste it on in the end.
Closure:
Mount the student’s work on a black paper to give it a completed look. Discuss the students’ work as a class. Is there a lot of movement shown in these images? What are the main colors we see? What do they think of the simplified colors? What stands out to them amongst all of the images? Why? What would be a good title for your artwork?
Extended Practice:
Review the last two projects about movement that the students worked on. What have the students learned? Where can they apply this knowledge in the future?
Wall Text:
Henri Matisse went from painting and sculpting to eventually using cut paper to create the same free forms, new patterns and eye-catching designs seen in his work. The students viewed a variety of Matisse’s worked but focused on two specifically, Jazz and The Knife Thrower which breaks down the world into simple geometric and organic shapes, simplified colors and movement. After learning how to draw gesture figures, which are figures meant to quickly sketch motion, the students created their own Matisse-like decoupage (cut and glued paper) image.
Standards:
Standard 1: Creating, performing and participating in the arts
Standard 2: Knowing and using arts materials and resources
Standard 3: Responding to and analyzing works of art
Standard 4: Understanding the cultural dimension and contributions of the art
Materials:
Construction paper, scissors, glue stick, pencil
Instructional Objective:
The students will demonstrate movement in art by creating gesture figures and will create an entire scene using simple color and cut paper.
Motivation:
The students will be read a story about dancers with illustrations of movement. They will also view artwork by Henri Matisse.
Artists:
Henri Matisse
Vocabulary:
Decoupage, Collage, Organic Shapes, Geometric Shapes
Delivery of Instruction:
Step 1:
· The lesson prior was on gesture drawings, where the students will have taken turns posing in different action poses and drawing coil-like figures in those poses.
· Introduce the artist, Henri Matisse. We discussed him previously in a project, but in this we will be discussing his use of painted cut paper, otherwise known as decoupage, and how he was able to step into a new phase of his artwork.
· Matisse went from painting and sculpting to eventually using cut paper to create the same free forms, new patterns and eye-catching designs. Show the students some of Matisse’s early images and compare them to some of his later images. What are some similarities and differences?
Step 2:
· While looking at these images, begin to focus on his cut paper images, specifically “Jazz” and “The Knife Thrower”. Matisse was simplifying his images to just organic shapes and color, but the same intensity of color and pattern, as well as the same movement of a person was still being portrayed even in its simplicity. Discuss this.
· Point out some of the repeated organic shapes. Have large examples of these to either draw or show on the board. Also discuss the colors used. Are there a lot of colors or few? Warn the students to not go crazy with using all the colors possible, but to be careful in choosing their colors. Discourage them from just only choosing pink because it is their favorite color or everyone else has chosen it.
Step 3:
· The students will be creating a decoupage image using cut paper of geometric and organic shapes. This will create their background. On top of the background, the students will cut out a dancing person to also glue onto the image.
· Give the students stencils of typical Matisse shapes that are used to help the students start out. The students are more than welcome to create their own shapes though.
· Each student will have an envelope to keep his or her un-pasted shapes in. Allow the students time to play around with their shapes before committing to how they will paste it on in the end.
Closure:
Mount the student’s work on a black paper to give it a completed look. Discuss the students’ work as a class. Is there a lot of movement shown in these images? What are the main colors we see? What do they think of the simplified colors? What stands out to them amongst all of the images? Why? What would be a good title for your artwork?
Extended Practice:
Review the last two projects about movement that the students worked on. What have the students learned? Where can they apply this knowledge in the future?
Wall Text:
Henri Matisse went from painting and sculpting to eventually using cut paper to create the same free forms, new patterns and eye-catching designs seen in his work. The students viewed a variety of Matisse’s worked but focused on two specifically, Jazz and The Knife Thrower which breaks down the world into simple geometric and organic shapes, simplified colors and movement. After learning how to draw gesture figures, which are figures meant to quickly sketch motion, the students created their own Matisse-like decoupage (cut and glued paper) image.