PROCEDURE

1. Students look at the art of Frank Stella, specifically his large-scale sculptures.

2. Students discuss the importance of recycling and realize they will be using scraps of paper saved from their Kandinsky art project.
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3. Students cut strips of painted paper, as well as strips from the recycled paper box.

4. Students manipulate these strips onto a black piece of paper, twisting and turning the art and then gluing the edges to create a raised, three-dimensional effect.

5. Students blend chalk around the border to enhance the final artworks.

6. Students mat their art onto butcher paper, creating a class mural of Stella-inspired art.

ASSESSMENT

Student art is hung together on the pole, giving it a whole new meaning. Ask students to try to “read” the images of their classmates and tell a class story via the art!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Second-grade students will ...
think about the art of Frank Stella.

think about the importance of recycling.

take 2-D pieces of materials and manipulate them to be 3-D.

MATERIALS

12" x 18" black paper
Recycled art paper from the Kandinsky lesson
Scissors
Multicolored construction paper scraps
Glue
Chalk
Stella art prints

PROCEDURE

1. Students look closely at the collaged and printed artworks of Robert Rauschenberg.

2. Students think about how his art tells stories by reading the pictures, as well as looking at the elements of art used.

3. Students begin to look through used magazines, selecting images that reflect who they are and help portray a story about them.

4. Students cut these images out and glue half of them onto their drawing paper.

5. Students glue the remaining images onto their transparency sheets.

6. Students then lightly blend oil pastel over both the paper-collage piece and the transparency-collage piece.

7. Students dry sponge lightly over the collage work on both pieces. It is best for the teacher to model this, as students tend to go too heavy and the key is to go light, representing the look of a transfer or print.

8. Students then use 3D-O’s to attach their transparency onto their paper art, creating a looking-glass effect, such as Rauschenberg’s Overcast III, at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

9. Students mat and hang their art in an installation.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Fourth-grade students will ...
think about the layered art of Robert Rauschenberg.

create art that tells a story using printing and collage techniques.

layer their art.

MATERIALS

9" x 12" white drawing paper
9" x 12" transparency sheets
3D-O’s
Magazines
Scissors
Glue
Oil pastel
Dry sponges
Tempera paint

Grade 5
The Letter V ~ Van Gogh Visualizing

PROCEDURE

1. Students look closely at and critique van Gogh’s Starry Night.

2. Students visualize their neighborhood, specifically the details of their houses and the houses of their neighbors.

3. Students visualize their three favorite places, shops, stores, malls, restaurants, churches, etc.

4. Students begin to draw out their neighborhoods in van Gogh’s style, using their permanent markers and adding lines to represent the wind. They should pay particular attention to the placement of their objects, showing understanding of foreground, middle ground and background.

5. Students color these in with crayons using value. The entire piece is colored in, except for the sky.

6. The sky is then painted using a cool-color watercolor wash.

7. Students mat their art and hang it in a van Gogh–inspired installation.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Fifth-grade students will ...
think about the art of Vincent van Gogh, specifically Starry Night.

think about their neighborhoods and visualize their houses and favorite places.

use crayon and watercolor to create a piece of individual art.

MATERIALS

9" x 12" white Bristol board
Permanent markers
Scissors
Compass
Rulers
Complementary-colored markers
Glue