Back to the drawing board.

1. Back to the drawing board.

2. Core KnowledgeVisual Art Component Lines and Movement, Looking at Art, Animals in Art, Abstract Art, and Architecture: The Art of Designing Buildings 2nd Grade

3. Visual Art as aCore Knowledge Subject • Lines and Movement • Looking at Art • Sculptures • Landscapes • Animals in Art • Real • Imagined • Abstract Art • Architecture: The Art of Designing Buildings • A Building of Curves • A Beautiful Castle • A Modern Museum

4. …you can also help [your student] learn some of the ways that we talk about art and introduce some wonderful works of art. In this way, your child will come to understand that, while art is doing, it is also seeing and thinking. • By looking closely at art, and talking about it, your child will begin to develop a love of art and a habit of enjoying it in thoughtful, active ways. • Although books can hope to provide some basic knowledge about art, nothing can replace: • visiting museums • attending performances • listening to recordings • encouraging children to sing, dance, paint, sculpt, playact for themselves -E.D. Hirsh Jr. from What a Second Grader Needs to Know

5. Dropping in on Romare Bearden Grant Wood Grandma Moses Matisse Rousseau Andy Warhol Picasso Wilton Art Programs Animals in Art Horses Artists Today Art History Two illustrators Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists Mary Cassatt Michelangelo Rembrandt Claude Monet Vincent Van Gogh Leonardo Da Vinci Andy Warhol Who is the Artist Chagall, Klee, Magritte Media CastNew videos that will help 2nd Gradethis year include but are not limited to:

6. School Wide Art Show 2008-2009 • The winners of the individual school art shows will be framed and displayed downtown atthe Center for the Arts May 2.

7. Stay in the Circle Think Outside the Box

8. Sit Up • Lean Forward • Activate Your Mind • Nod Your Head • Track your Teacher.

9. Safety First

10. “Always come to school in clothes you are ready to learn in.”- Mrs. Cliburn 2nd Grade Teacher

11. The law of the echo.

12. “A book alone cannot adequately convey the experience of music or the impact of visual art. For the second grader, art should mostly take the form of doing: drawing, painting, cutting and pasting, working with clay and other materials. …do try to provide your child with materials and opportunities to be a practicing artist!” - E.D. Hirsh Jr. from What a Second Grader Needs to Know

13. Portfolio • Fold in half • Write your name, grade level & school • in big block letters with the big markers • Fill the Space– Be Creative

14. My Portfolio

15. My 2nd Grade Student Portfolio

16. Quarter 1

17. Looking at Landscapes • You have already learned about two kinds of painting: • Portraits • Still Life Picture • Now let’s learn about another special kind of painting called a landscape. • The most important thing in a landscape is the scenery, which includes • The land • The trees • The sky.

18. When you look at a landscape painting, try to notice The weather The season The location The time of day A painter can put people in a landscape, but they are not the main focus of the painting. Looking at Landscapes

19. Looking at Landscapes • This painting by the American artists Thomas Cole has a very long name, but it’s usually called “The Oxbow”. An oxbow is a U-shaped collar placed around the neck of an ox so that is can be hitched to a plow. • Can you find something U-shaped in the scene? • Do you see the bend in the Connecticut River? The Oxbow

20. You could almost divide this painting in two parts. One part shows the landscape close-up. The other shows the landscape far away. Looking at Landscapes

21. Looking at Landscapes • Look at the left side of the painting, which show the close-up part of the landscape. • What is the weather like? • Do you see the broken tree trunk? • What you think might have happened to this tree?

22. Looking at Landscapes • Now look at the faraway landscapes on the right side of the painting. • What is the water like?

23. Looking at Landscapes • This painting shows two very different views of nature. • On the left, close to us, nature is dark and cold. • On the right, nature looks bright and peaceful.

24. Looking at Landscapes View of Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a thunderstorm • Now that you’ve looked carefully at the water in this painting, it’s real name won’t surprise you: • It’s called “View of Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a thunderstorm.”

25. Looking at Landscapes • Did you notice a person in this painting? • It may be hard to find him. • Look near the bottom • A little to the right of the center. • Who is it? • An artist – It must be Thomas Cole painting a landscape! • In this painting, it is easy to tell that the landscape is more important than the person.

26. “Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature’s unrealized ends.”– Aristotle

27. Looking at Landscapes • Look at a landscape by the Spanish artist called El Greco. • This picture “View of Toledo”, shows us the city of Toledo in Spain where the artist lived four hundred years ago. View of Toledo

28. Looking at Landscapes • Can you point out • A river? • A bridge? • Many buildings? • What the weather is like? • What time of the day the artist is showing?

29. Looking at Landscapes • It might be daytime with the sky darkened • By a thunderstorm • Or maybe it’s nighttime with moonlight breaking through storms clouds • Either way, the sky casts a spooky light over the whole scene. • What kind of mood or feeling do you have when you see this painting?

30. “Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.”– El Greco

31. Looking at Landscapes • Landscapes don’t have to be of real places. • They can also be a places you imagine. • The French artist Henri Rousseau [on-REE roo-SO] never visited a tropical jungle, but he did many paintings like this one.

32. Looking at Landscapes • Rousseau learned about jungle plants and animals like monkeys and lions from • Encyclopedias • Science books • Visits to the zoos Henri Rousseau

33. Looking at Landscapes • He did not try to copy them in a lifelike way. • Look at the plants. Rousseau • Painted many plants • Made them very big. • Does this landscape look like a place you would want to visit?

34. Looking at Landscapes • Before you answer, did you notice the animals? • Rousseau’s jungle is • Colorful • Dreamlike • Beautiful • Dangerous

35. “When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself “Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!”– Henri Rousseau

36. The Starry Night • Look at the painting called “The Starry Night”. • Painted by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh [van GO]. The Starry Night

37. The Starry Night • What do you notice • First in the painting? • In the top half? • In the bottom half of the painting?

38. The Starry Night • Van Gogh’s sky is full of circles. • Use your fingers to follow some of the curving lines that Van Gogh painted in the sky. • The sky seems to be moving and swirling around, awhile the town below is calm and still.

39. The Starry Night • Van Gogh applied the paint in bold, thick strokes. • Even though this is just a picture of the painting, you can almost feel its rough texture.

40. “…sometimes the [painted] strokes come with a sequence and a coherence like words in a speech or a letter...”– Vincent van Gogh

41. Quarter 2

42. Abstract Art • We call realistic art like • Durer’s Young Hare • Audubon’s bird pictures • Realistic art looks very • Real • Lifelike • There’s a different name for art like • Picasso’s Bull Head • Matisse’s The Snail. • We call such artabstract art.

43. Abstract Art • Abstract art • Does not look exactly like the real thing. • Reminds you of things you've seen. • Makes you see something in a new way. • Does not show you every little detail. • Draws your attention to the basic lines and shapes.

44. Abstract Art • Have you ever had a dream full of crazy things happening? • Some people think this painting looks like something from a dream. • Look at this abstract painting by the Russian painter Marc Chagall [sha-GALL]. Marc Chagall

45. Abstract Art • What do you see in this other painting by Chagall? • You can recognize some of the things in this painting, such as • A woman milking a cow. • A man and a woman walking near a group of buildings. • But how are the things in this painting arranged? • Some of them are upside down • Some are much bigger than others. • Some like the woman milking the cow, are in very strange places. • And what about the colors? • What colors seem unusual to you?

46. Abstract Art • Chagall called this painting I and the Village. • He painted it just after he left the small village in Russia where he grew up and moved far way to Paris, France. • Do you think he missed home? I and the Village

47. Abstract Sculpture • Sculpture can be abstract too. • Look at this sculpture by Constantin Brancusi [bran-KOO-zee], an artist from Romania. • What does it look like to you? • The title may help you see what the artist was thinking. • Brancusi also did many sculptures of birds. • The first ones he did still looked somewhat like birds. • Later ones did not look much like a bird at all. The Endless Column

48. Abstract Sculpture • Brancusi made it • Tall • Thin • Pointed • Gently curving shape that seems to soar. • With a shiny metal surface reflects the light and seems almost weightless. • Like “The Endless Column” his bird sculptures did not show you the image of a bird with a beak and feathers, it does • Show you something about a bird in flight. • Gives the feeling of rising into the air in one quick swoosh! Constantin Brancusi

49. “…what they call ‘abstract’ is in fact the purest realism, the reality of which is not represented by external form but by the idea behind it,the essence of the work.”– Constantin Brancusi

50. Quarter 3