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Nonrepresentational Shapes

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

Nonrepresentational Shapes

URL:

http://artsedwashington.org/curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Sixth-Grade-Lesson-1.pdf

Content Source:

Other
ArtsEd Washington

Type:

Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will analyze shapes in art. They will use colored pencils to practice their composition. They will use tape masking and glazing techniques with watercolor paints to create artwork based on the preliminary drawing. Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.

Content Standard(s):

Arts Education
ARTS (2017)
Grade: 6
Visual Arts

2) Formulate an artistic investigation and discovery of relevant content for creating art.

Example: Make, share, and revise a list of ideas and preliminary sketches.

Unpacked Content

Artistic Process: Creating

Anchor Standards:

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make

Essential Questions:

EU: Artists and designers shape artistic investigations, following or breaking with traditions in pursuit of creative artmaking goals.
EQ: How does knowing the contexts, histories, and traditions of art forms help create works of art and design? Why do artists follow or break from established traditions? How do artists determine what resources and criteria are needed to formulate artistic investigations?

Concepts & Vocabulary:

Artistic ideas and work
Formal and conceptual vocabulary
Innovation
Investigation
Two-dimensional
Three-dimensional
Experimentation
Conservation
Craftsmanship
Linear perspective
Environmental responsibility
Prior knowledge
Museum
Gallery
Curator
Digital
Horizon Line
Brainstorming
Research

Skill Examples:

Make, share and revise a list of ideas and preliminary sketches.
Use introductory skills, techniques, and elements of art to create a composition
Demonstrate drawing techniques, such as hatching, cross-hatching, shading, and stippling.
Create a group project about a current or world event.
Examine careers and identify and role - play various jobs of artists.
Research a subject or idea that has personal meaning to create a work of art.
Use the elements of visual arts to create an artwork that depicts emotions.
Use a variety of media and techniques in two and three dimensions to create imagery from experience, observation and imagination.
Demonstrate proper clean-up and/or disposal of equipment and materials.
Demonstrate art room safety and procedures.
Design an environmentally area for the school such as a library or other multi-use learning area.
Engage for the purpose of personal reflection and ongoing revision, in group critiques.
Reflect through journal writing artist intent.

Tags:

analyze, colored pencils, glazing, paint, shapes, tape masking, watercolor

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Author:

Tiffani Stricklin

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Nonrepresentational Shapes