Time Period: 8-10, 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 arts
Materials:
Heavy Poster Paper, Pencils, Tempera Paint, Paint Brushes, Scissors, Air Dry Clay, Scrap Paper, Fabric, Glue, Doll Hair, Yarn, Popsicle Stick
Instructional Objective:
The students will discover the pop artist/sculpture, Red Grooms. Grooms mixed sculpture and painting, 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional mediums to create his artwork. The students will each choose a different profession and illustrate it by creating a background painting of the professional space, and a professional. The professional will be created by using air dry clay to make the face, painting it, and adding a doll like body.
Motivation:
The students will choose professions they are interested in, so that they are invested in the project they are creating. This project can also be done with other themes such as famous artists or famous inventors. Still allow the students to choose whom they depict.
Show the students Red Grooms’ artwork. Take the students to the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, where Grooms’ artwork, “The Bookstore” is on display.
Artist(s):
Red Grooms
Vocabulary:
Profession, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, Background, Sculpture, Model, Form
Delivery of Instruction:
Step 1:
· Show the students examples of Red Grooms work.
· Discuss the process he went through to create his works. What different types of media did he use? What do his elaborate works make us think of? (I.e. theater, scenery, carnivals, crowded places.)
Step 2:
· The students will choose a profession to illustrate. Show the students the example of how they will create a background, which will show the professional’s environment (ex: an art room for an art teacher). On top of the background will be a doll-like figure that they create. This figure’s head will be made out of air-dry clay and the body out of paper resting on a Popsicle stick.
Step 3:
· Allow the students to start sketching their background ideas. On the second day of this lesson, demonstrate how they will create the clay head.
· Divide the room in half. Half of the room will work on the figure and head, and half will work on the backgrounds. After 4 classes, the students will switch.
Step 4:
· To make the head, the students will roll the clay into a ball. They will then make one side of the ball flat, making it into a semi-sphere. By either pinching the clay or adding on, the students will create the features on the clay head. Since they will be painting the head, they don’t need to make eyes if they don’t want to; however a nose, ears and lips are necessary.
· When they finished making the head (which will need to be completed in one day) stick a Popsicle in the bottom and put their name on it. The clay will dry within 24 hours and they can then paint it.
· Put the doll and background together using a hot glue gun or mounting tape. Mount the entire picture to complete it.
Closure:
Have the students share their artwork by telling a little about the profession they chose. Discuss the process of making this type of artwork that includes both 2-D and 3-D.
Extended Practice:
Have an activity available for the students that relates to the theme of the project.
Wall Text:
Red Grooms is an American artist known for his vibrant, almost theatrical, creations. He creates many different types of art, most of which include flat, two-dimensional drawing, or sculptures that are three-dimensional, and sometimes both. Currently, at the Hudson River Museum, you can walk through one of his sculptures called, The Bookstore. Using Grooms as our inspiration, the students created a three-dimensional figure that portrays a different profession such as a police officer or a clown. The students were challenged to create not only the figure, but also a background, or scenery, for their figures profession. These are the eclectic results. We hope you enjoy the students’ vibrant creations.
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 arts
Materials:
Heavy Poster Paper, Pencils, Tempera Paint, Paint Brushes, Scissors, Air Dry Clay, Scrap Paper, Fabric, Glue, Doll Hair, Yarn, Popsicle Stick
Instructional Objective:
The students will discover the pop artist/sculpture, Red Grooms. Grooms mixed sculpture and painting, 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional mediums to create his artwork. The students will each choose a different profession and illustrate it by creating a background painting of the professional space, and a professional. The professional will be created by using air dry clay to make the face, painting it, and adding a doll like body.
Motivation:
The students will choose professions they are interested in, so that they are invested in the project they are creating. This project can also be done with other themes such as famous artists or famous inventors. Still allow the students to choose whom they depict.
Show the students Red Grooms’ artwork. Take the students to the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, where Grooms’ artwork, “The Bookstore” is on display.
Artist(s):
Red Grooms
Vocabulary:
Profession, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, Background, Sculpture, Model, Form
Delivery of Instruction:
Step 1:
· Show the students examples of Red Grooms work.
· Discuss the process he went through to create his works. What different types of media did he use? What do his elaborate works make us think of? (I.e. theater, scenery, carnivals, crowded places.)
Step 2:
· The students will choose a profession to illustrate. Show the students the example of how they will create a background, which will show the professional’s environment (ex: an art room for an art teacher). On top of the background will be a doll-like figure that they create. This figure’s head will be made out of air-dry clay and the body out of paper resting on a Popsicle stick.
Step 3:
· Allow the students to start sketching their background ideas. On the second day of this lesson, demonstrate how they will create the clay head.
· Divide the room in half. Half of the room will work on the figure and head, and half will work on the backgrounds. After 4 classes, the students will switch.
Step 4:
· To make the head, the students will roll the clay into a ball. They will then make one side of the ball flat, making it into a semi-sphere. By either pinching the clay or adding on, the students will create the features on the clay head. Since they will be painting the head, they don’t need to make eyes if they don’t want to; however a nose, ears and lips are necessary.
· When they finished making the head (which will need to be completed in one day) stick a Popsicle in the bottom and put their name on it. The clay will dry within 24 hours and they can then paint it.
· Put the doll and background together using a hot glue gun or mounting tape. Mount the entire picture to complete it.
Closure:
Have the students share their artwork by telling a little about the profession they chose. Discuss the process of making this type of artwork that includes both 2-D and 3-D.
Extended Practice:
Have an activity available for the students that relates to the theme of the project.
Wall Text:
Red Grooms is an American artist known for his vibrant, almost theatrical, creations. He creates many different types of art, most of which include flat, two-dimensional drawing, or sculptures that are three-dimensional, and sometimes both. Currently, at the Hudson River Museum, you can walk through one of his sculptures called, The Bookstore. Using Grooms as our inspiration, the students created a three-dimensional figure that portrays a different profession such as a police officer or a clown. The students were challenged to create not only the figure, but also a background, or scenery, for their figures profession. These are the eclectic results. We hope you enjoy the students’ vibrant creations.