Freedom From Want: A Narrative Illustration

1. Aim: What is narrative illustration? Do Now: List five observations about the scene depicted in this painting. Then, enumerate your list of details in order of importance of how they help depict a particular holiday. HW: Bring in a source photo of a memory, due tomorrow. Email me the photo before 7th period at gvedder@sewanhakaschools.orgif you need help printing or save to your iPad. Freedom From Want

2. Narrative Illustration Mr. Vedder

3. Traditional – Conventional Artwork Narrative Illustration: representing stories or events pictorially or sculpturally. Narrative illustrators may base their work on memories, cultural experiences, or specific passages from text. Narrative illustrations can be created using just about any medium. Norman Rockwell used oil paints for his illustrations, but illustrators can also use colored pencils, collage, watercolors, acrylic paint….just to name a few! Examine the image above to create a caption for this illustration. A Scout is Helpful

4. Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Norman Perceval Rockwell, The Saturday Evening Post’s most famous and prolific illustrator, is considered by many to be the greatest American artist of all time. He was a master storyteller via canvas and paint, and his works, capturing the triumphs and foibles of the common man, are as popular today as they were in decades past. Portrait of Norman Rockwell Painting the Soda Jerk “Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.”—Norman Rockwell

5. Many of Rockwell’s illustrations depicted scenes from everyday life in American culture. However, Rockwell spent the last 10 years of his career painting about civil rights, poverty, and space exploration for Look magazine. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor, in 1977 for “vivid and affectionate portraits of our country.” Rosie the Riveter

6. The Problems We Live With Examine this image closely. What story was Rockwell trying to tell? How do you think this little girl is feeling? What makes her situation extraordinary to the point where Rockwell felt it important to illustrate?

7. Source Photo (reference photo): A photo that is used by artists as a basis for a painting, drawing, or sculpture. What similarities and differences can you find between the illustration Runaway (above right) and the source photo from which it was based? Study: a drawing, sketch or painting done in preparation for a finished piece. Studies are often used to understand the problems involved in rendering a subject.

9. Analyze this image to answer the following question. How does Norman Rockwell use gestures and facial expressions to help tell this story? Gesture: a movement of your body (especially of your hands and arms) that shows or emphasizes an idea or a feeling. Facts of Life

10. Examine The Tattooist by Norman Rockwell to describe how he used pattern to help create a setting. Is this approach more or less effective than painting the actual tattoo shop? Explain your answer.

11. A few other notable narrative artists: Edward Hopper

12. Edward Hopper

13. Edward Hopper

14. Andrew Wyeth

15. Mary Cassat

16. OBJECTIVES:- Communicate a story through a work of art.- Render an illustration based on an impactful, nostalgic memory of your life using a source photo.- Successful use of color, space, unity, balance and light through acrylic painting.

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20. Who was Norman Rockwell? Define narrative art. Describe one scene that Norman Rockwell illustrated. Explain when artists will use a source photo. Artist In Front of a Blank Canvas (Deadline)