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Still Life Photography: Daily Life

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Title:

Still Life Photography: Daily Life

URL:

http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/classroom_resources/curricula/arts_lang_arts/a_la_lesson34.html

Content Source:

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The J. Paul Getty Museum

Type:

Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will analyze a still-life photograph. They will gather objects with a variety of shapes and textures to produce a still-life piece. They will arrange the objects for balance and experiment with light sources. They will sketch their design and then photograph the items. They will compose a descriptive poem about their still-life photograph.

Content Standard(s):

Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 3 Visual Arts	2) Demonstrate skills using available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process. Examples: Choose from a variety of resources and materials to create a work of art. Use books Imagine That by Joyce Raymond or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland. 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: Creativity Criteria Critique Design Media Mixed media Monochromatic Principles of design Rhythm Technology Visual image Skill Examples: Use a variety of materials to create a three-dimensional mask showing a student's personality. Use torn paper scraps to create rhythm in a landscape. Plan a community/city; then, build a model of it with recyclable materials, such as cardboard, boxes, containers, and tubes. Collaborate with a group to demonstrate how to care for tools used in class (such as paintbrushes). After looking at Vincent van Gogh's painting, Bedroom, create a narrative painting depicting a memory of a student's personal bedroom. Use appropriate visual art vocabulary during the art-making process of two-and-three-dimensional artworks. Collaborate with others to create a work of art that addresses an interdisciplinary theme. Read and explore books like Imagine That by Joyce Raimondo or Dinner at Magritte's by Michael Garland and then create a Surrealistic style artwork. Recognize and identify choices that give meaning to a personal work of art. Create a drawing using monochromatic colors (paint, oil pastels, etc.). Explore individual creativity using a variety of media. Understand what effects different media can have in a work of art.
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 4 Visual Arts	3) Generate ideas and employ a variety of strategies and techniques to create a work of art/design. Unpacked Content Artistic Process: Creating Anchor Standards: Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Process Components: Investigate, Plan, Make Essential Questions: EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches. EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error? Concepts & Vocabulary: Constructed environment Cultural traditions Digital format Engagement Tertiary color Preservation Proportion Principles of design Unity Shade Style Tints & shades Skill Examples: Create a list of multiple ideas, sketches, or thumbnail-sketches before beginning the final version of an artwork. Identify, select, and vary art materials, tools and processes to achieve desired results in their artwork. Brainstorm (alone or with others) potential art styles for a given piece of art, such as Monet's Water Lilies. Create an artwork from direct observation (still-life, self-portrait, figure drawing, etc.). Design a two-dimensional drawings of a futuristic art room, town, or planet Use wood, found objects, wire, paper, or clay-based materials to construct a three-dimensional form. Locate business logos in the community and explore the visual arts skills and materials that were used to create these works. Engage in group critiques of one's work and the work of others. Experiment with art materials by using them in unusual and creative ways to express ideas and convey meaning. Use and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others. Mix equal parts of a primary and a secondary color located beside each other on the color wheel to create a tertiary color. Use the design principles of repetition and alignment to add visual unity to an artwork. Create a painting using a monochromatic color scheme by using one color (red) adding white to create a tint (a lighter value--pink) and adding black to the color (red) to create a shade (darker value).
Arts Education ARTS (2017) Grade: 5 Visual Arts	2) Demonstrate the methods of the art-making process, including brainstorming, sketching, reflecting, and refining, to create a work of art/design. 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: Cultural context Formal & conceptual vocabulary Genre Linear perspective Preserve Principles of design Movement Emphasis Relief Vanishing point Skill Examples: Use a variety of materials (wood, found objects, wire, paper, clay, etc.) to construct a three-dimensional work of art. Have students keep journals to reflect on and combine ideas for their works of art. Draw a still life of students' favorite objects, while adding color with a variety of media (paint, pastels, collage, etc.). Draw an object or other images (landscapes, hallways, etc.) in linear one-point perspective. Create tessellations in connection with interdisciplinary subjects such as mathematics. Write a short story and illustrate the story with original drawings. Draw and transform two-dimensional shapes into three-dimensional forms. (squares to cubes, circles to spheres, triangles to pyramids and cones) Write a personal artist statement to accompany an original work of art. Draw a landscape including foreground, middle ground, and background. Create an artwork integrating observational and technical skills to solve a problem or address contemporary social issues. Create a bas-relief by carving into a clay slab.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	33. Write personal or fictional narratives with a logical plot (sequence of events), characters, transitions, and a sense of closure. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 33. Personal narrative Fictional narrative Logical plot Sequence of events Characters Transitions Closure Knowledge: 33. Students know: A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story. A personal narrative tells about an event that was personally experienced by the author, while a fictional narrative tells a made up story. A narrative story describes a sequence of events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end) and provides a sense of closure as an ending. A narrative story describes the actions, thoughts, and feelings of the characters. Narrative transitions indicate when and where the story is occurring. Skills: 33. Students are able to: Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or a fictional narrative with a made-up story. Write a narrative with a logical sequence of events and details that describe how the characters feels, acts, and thinks. Use appropriate transitions in narrative writing. Write a narrative that ends with a sense of closure. Understanding: 33. Students understand that: Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and an ending that provides the reader with a sense of closure. Because narrative writing describes a chronological sequence of events, it includes transitions that indicate the time and place in which the story is occurring. Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 4	35. Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical plot, transitional words and phrases, sensory details, and dialogue, and providing a sense of closure. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 35. Personal narratives Fictional narratives Logical plot Transitional words and phrases Sensory details Dialogue Closure Knowledge: 35. Students know: A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story. A personal narrative tells about an event that was personally experienced by the author, while a fictional narrative tells a made up story. A narrative story describes a sequence of events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end) and provides a sense of closure as an ending. Narrative transitions indicate when and where the story is occurring. Sensory details use descriptions of the five senses. Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people. Skills: 35. Students are able to: Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or a fictional narrative with a made-up story. Write a narrative with a logical sequence of events and sensory details. Use appropriate transitional words and phrases in narrative writing. Include dialogue in narrative writing. Write a narrative that ends with a sense of closure. Understanding: 35. Students understand that: Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and an ending that provides the reader with a sense of closure. Because narrative writing describes a chronological sequence of events, it includes transitions that indicate the time and place in which the story is occurring. Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 5	34. Write personal or fictional narratives incorporating literary elements (characters, plot, setting, conflict), dialogue, strong voice, and clear event sequences. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 34. Personal narratives Fictional narratives Literary elements Characters Plot Setting Conflict Dialogue Voice Event sequences Knowledge: 34. Students know: A narrative is a piece of writing that tells a story. A personal narrative tells about an event that was personally experienced by the author, while a fictional narrative tells a made-up story. A narrative story describes a sequence of plot events in a logical order (beginning, middle, end). Narrative writing includes text elements, like characters, setting, and conflict. Dialogue is a conversation between two or more characters in a text. Skills: 34. Students are able to: Write a personal narrative that recalls a personal experience or a fictional narrative with a made-up story. Write a narrative with a logical sequence of plot events. Incorporate literary elements into their narrative writing, like characters, setting, and conflict. Include dialogue in narrative writing. Use a strong voice in writing by developing a personal writing style. Understanding: 34. Students understand that: Narrative writing includes predictable elements, like a logical sequence of events and characters, setting, and conflict. Incorporating dialogue between the characters can add details to their narrative writing. Narrative writing can be used to tell about something that happened to them personally or it can tell a story they made up.

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photograph, poetry, sketch, still life

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Tiffani Stricklin

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Still Life Photography: Daily Life