Integrated Art Lessons:A Classroom Resource for Teachers

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Cameron Art Museum3201 South 17th Street

Wilmington, North Carolina 28412

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The A+ Schools ProgramThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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Funded by a grant from the Corning Foundation Author: Martha Burdette

Lesson Eleven

Integrated Concepts• Language Arts: descriptive language, main idea

and detail, compare and contrast• Visual Art: line, shape, color, space, artist’s purpose• Science: attributes, species

Many artists choose to make art about animals.Often, they depict (show) the main idea of the animal but leave out some of the details. For example they might show the shape, but leave out the texture; or show the outline andleave out the color or pattern. What can you see that these artists chose to show?

What did they choose to leave out?

In this painting the artist used intense colors and complicated shapes to create an image that is energetic and exciting.

Can you figure out how the artist has made it seemthat the fish are actually swimming around in the water?

Do you think the artist’s purpose is to show a particularspecies of fish?

Do you know of any fish that actually look like these fish?

Sometimes the artist is not interested in showing an animal’sactual appearance, but instead wants to use some attributesof the animal to create an interesting artwork.

What kind of animal do you think it is?

What attributes can youpoint out that helps youidentify the animal?

What attributes are missing that would helpidentify the animal?

Can you imagine howthis artist created thisanimal?

Can you tell what material the artist used?

This kind of art is called sculpture.

Sculpture is three dimensional. That meansit can be measured threeways. It has height, widthand depth.

In this sculpture, the artisthas used line, shape and space in interesting ways.

What do you notice aboutspace this work?

Can you find space bothinside and outside of the animal’s shape?

Can you explain how the line is different than a line drawn with a pen or pencil?

Let’s compare and contrast these two artworks?

Can you describe some ways they are alike? Can you explain some ways they are different?

Which of these ways of making art would you choose? Why?

Information about the art and the artists

Title: “Orange Fish”

Artist/Dates: Clyde Jones, American,

Born 1931

Medium: house paint on plywood

Size: 24” x 60”

Date: 1998

Title: “Giraffe”

Artist/Dates: Michael van Hout, American, born 1953

Medium: steel tie wire

Size: 22” x 8” 3”

Date: 1993

What else would you like to know about the art or the artists?How can you find out?