Square 1 Art – Cubism 2019-2020
What is Square 1 Art?
Why is it so important?
Square
1 Art is a program that replicates student art on a variety of keepsakes to
raise funds for schools. It engages students in creating art that they can
share with others. It nurtures each student's creativity, provides them with a
sense of pride, engages parents and children, creates long-lasting memories,
and helps sustain visual arts in the school.
Every
year, an art project is selected to help guide our students’ artmaking. This
year, "Cubism" has been selected as an art form for students to
replicate.
You,
the Art Reps, play a very important role in facilitating this program. You will
provide hands-on help to students throughout this process. You will be the cheerleader,
organizer, and administrator of the program in the class. In short, the success
of the program in each class depends on your effort and dedication. So, in
advance, we say thank you!
Not only is it a favorite project of our kids
every year, it raises funds in the process. This is our single and most
important fundraiser for the Arts at VW program and the money raised is
earmarked specifically to go directly back to the arts curriculum. Our goal
is 100% participation.
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| 8 - 2 Inch square stickers & 1 2.5 Inch square sticker |
There are multiple
products to choose from and order. Parents can ORDER great gifts of
their child’s work to gift to their grandparents, family members and friends,
delivered right in time for Christmas.
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| *See more products at https://shop.square1art.com |
Our goal is to ensure 100% participation in every class. We also need to complete all the work in time so that parents can place and receive their orders by Christmas. We will go over the details of the programs and schedules during orientation.
We sincerely thank you for your help and dedication!
Script
Introduction to Cubism (Time 10 to 12 minutes)
- Cubism was an innovative art movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1907-08.
- With Cubism, artists began to look at subjects in new ways in an effort to depict three dimensions on a flat canvas.
- They would break up the subject into many different shapes and then repaint the shapes from different angles.
- Cubism is a movement in art that began in France and is characterized by the use of geometric planes and shapes.
Meet the Innovators of Cubism
· In around 1907 two artists living in Paris called Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed a revolutionary new style of painting which transformed everyday objects, landscapes, and people into geometric shapes.
· In 1908 art critic Louis Vauxcelles, saw some by Georges Braque in an exhibition in Paris, and described them as ‘bizarreries cubiques’ which translates as ‘cubist oddities’ – and the term cubism was coined.
· Let’s compare still life with an cubist art
· Both paintings are of musical instruments. The first is by Edward Collier and was painted in the seventeenth century. The second is by cubist Georges Braque.
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Edward Collier
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| Georges Braque |
- QUESTIONS: Compare the way the instruments are painted in the paintings,
- which looks the most real?
- How are the paintings shaded?
- Color Usages/Tones?
- How is the perspective different?
- ANSWERS:
- Since the Renaissance in the fifteenth century, European artists had aimed to create the illusion of three-dimensional space in their drawings and paintings.
- They wanted the experience of looking at a painting to be like looking through a window onto a real landscape, interior, person or object.
- How do you make things look three-dimensional on a two-dimensional surface? Techniques such as linear perspective and tonal gradation are used.
- Perspective involves making things look bigger and clearer when they are close up, and smaller and less clear when they are further away. By doing this you can create the illusion of space.
- Artists also use tones (shadows) to create the illusion of three-dimensional objects. By gradually changing the darkness of a shadow, you can make something look solid.
A New Reality
The cubists however, felt that this type of illusion is trickery and does not give a real experience of the object.
- Their aim was to show things as they really are, not just to show what they look like.
- They felt that they could give the viewer a more accurate understanding of an object, landscape or person by showing it from different angles or viewpoints, so they used flat geometric shapes to represent the different sides and angles of the objects.
- By doing this, they could suggest three-dimensional qualities and structure without using techniques such as perspective and shading.
Some of Braque’s works
(Looks at the Tones & Perspective on Braque’s work – Discuss, let children speak)
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| The Glass on the Table Houses at Estaque |
Some of Picasso's works
(Looks at the Tones & Perspective on Braque’s work – Discuss, let children speak)
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| Pablo Picasso – Weeping Woman - 1937 |
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| Mediterranean Landscape, 1953 by Pablo Picasso |
Lesson Plan (1 to 1 ½
hr.)
Let’s get started!
- On your Square 1 paper fill in your Name, Last Name, Grade, Teacher, School Name neatly
- The Art Reps: For TK and Kindergarten, you need to fill these out before distributing the Square 1 paper to the children
- Grade 1 to Grade 6: Art Reps. Are welcome to write the names of the children too, it makes it more legible – we will leave the decision to you.
- For TK & K you can also make the lines for the children – suggest not more than one line vertically or horizontally.
Supplies
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TK, K, Grade 1
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Grade 2 to 3
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Grade 4 to 6
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Pencils – (use their own)
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Pencils – (use their own)
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Pencils – (use their own)
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Erasers – (use their own)
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Erasers – (use their own)
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Erasers – (use their own)
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Black Crayon
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Black Crayon
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Black Marker
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Rulers (use their own)
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Rulers (use their own)
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Rulers (use their own)
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Shapes – Circle , Rectangles
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Crayons
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Colored Pencils
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Colored Pencils
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Black Sharpies ( Name sign-offs)
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Black Sharpies (Name sign-offs)
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Black Sharpies (Name sign-offs)
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Square 1 paper
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Square 1 paper
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Square 1 paper
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Methodology
1. Place your hand flat on the paper. Spread your fingers.
Trace it all around with a pencil. Do not move your hand while
tracing it with your working hand. We are only drawing the outside lines
of the hand, which are called the “contour” lines.- Recommended: Children may need help tracing their hands at the back. You can ask them to work in pairs for this step and ask them to trace each other’s hand.
- VERY IMPORTANT: Lines drawn all the way to the edges of the paper may be cut off from the final products. Keep your HAND about 1 inch away from the edges so Square1 does not cut off your drawing when they scan and use your art. Remember to draw big and in the center of the paper. Think of your drawing as a zoomed-in photo, or a portrait of a HAND.
- TK to Grade 1: Use Crayon
- Grade 2 to Grade 6: Use Marker
- For TK and K: To draw 1 line vertically and 1 horizontally
- For Grade 1: To draw 1 line vertically and 2 lines horizontally or to draw 2 lines vertically and 1 horizontally
- For Grades 2 - 3: To draw 2 lines vertically and 3 lines horizontally or to draw 3 lines vertically and 2 horizontally
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| Grade TK to K 1st need to add one more vertical or horizontal line |
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| Grade 2nd to 3rd |
- For Grades 4 - 6:
- To draw 2 lines vertically and 3 lines horizontally or to draw 3 lines vertically and 2 horizontally.
- In addition to lines, you can pick shapes you like and trace them randomly all over your paper. (see 1st picture below).
- You can also do a combination of lines and shapes.
- You could also draw your lines across the page free-hand like (see 2nd picture below).
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| Grade 4 to 6 |
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| Grade 4 to 6 |
4. Pick 6 to 8 colors. 3 to 4 for your hand or foreground. 3 to 4 (blues
and greens) for your background. Make your hand bright and colorful – red,
orange, pink, yellow, purple. Save the blue and green colors for the background
- For TK and K: Use Crayons
- For Grades 1-3: Use Colored Pencils
- For Grades 4-6: Use Colored Pencils & Markers
- Note: This will make the hand stand out clearly against the background
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Try not to use the
same colors next to each other
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5. Color the hand
(foreground) first with one set of colors – with the bright colors
6. Color the background with the next set of colors
7. Ask the children to write their names and year close to their hand with a
black sharpie. Applies to all grades TK to Grade 6.
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| Write their names, grade, and month/year |
8. Your Square 1 project is ready to go :)
Photographs/Display of Art/Instantgram
- Afterward, you can review what the students have learned or have an impromptu gallery showing where students get up and walk around the room to view other students' work.
- Please avoid taking children’s faces – only hands and
artwork, to be respectful to parents who do not like their children’s
pictures to be posted on social media.
- Please email the pictures to us at Inditwist@gmail.com
- We are starting on our Instagram page & would love to have your contributions
- You are free to post on FB Verdugo Woodlands page directly to share your class’s work
Wrap-Up for the Art Reps
- Place all supplies back in their place, so
they are ready for the next Art Rep.
- If you have any issues, email me so we can address them for the next Art Rep. Remember, these are parent-led activities – we try to be perfect, but all humans are subject to error.
- Please email Surabhi D. Saxena, at inditwist@gmail.com once the project is completed.
- Leave the completed Artwork in the classroom for Nune/Shawn, our wonderful Co-chairs.
Thank you once again
for volunteering your time. It means a lot to us!
PROJECT DEADLINE: SEP 26th, 2019