Unit 5:The Great Big World
Artistic Process: Responding
Process Component: Communicate/Internalize
Anchor Standard: Art Communicates about and helps viewers understand the natural and
constructed world.
Enduring Understanding: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through
engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of the natural and constructed
world.
Essential Questions: How do people engage in the visual arts throughout their lives?
How does learning in the arts help us build relationships with others?
How do your choices in life and engagement with the world evolve as you grow in your
knowledge and interaction with the visual arts?
Objectives
Kindergarten: Recognize the uses of art within their environment.
First Grade: Analyze aesthetic characteristics of their natural world and
constructed world.
Second Grade: Recognize and compare multiple design solutions for
Functional works of art.
There are seven continents in our world.
How can artwork communicate our natural and constructed world?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy7e_KAUz7s
Continent Songs
Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-1943.
Piet Mondrian
What do you see that makes it look like a city?
Does this place look slow or fast? How did the artist
make it look slow or fast?
Piet Mondrian
1872-1944
Compare the work of Mondrian with this artist,
Emily Kam Kngwarray.
How are these paintings similar?
How are they different?
Each shows a place, but are the places the same?
SL.K.1; SL.K.3; SL.K.4
Earth’s Creation, 1994
Today you will begin to think about your favorite place for your landscape. A Landscape
shows a picture of land. There are different types of subject matter in art:
Portrait
Landscape
Still Life
You will be drawing your favorite place that you have visited, imagined or even seen
in a movie.
The Hay Wain, 1821. John Constable
John Constable
1776-1837
-painted what he saw in nature.
-really understood space, color and mass.
Paul Cezanne,
1839-1906
Stabe vor dem Gebirge Sainte-Victoire, 1898-1902
Paul Cezanne.
Ando Hiroshige
1797-1858
53 Stations of the Tokaido Road, 1855.
-began drawing at the age of 15, but really loved
art from infancy.
-wood cut prints
Find the people or structures/buildings
in these three works of art.
1.How does the size of the person
compare to the landscape?
2. How does the person’s size compare
to the building?
3. If you could write a new title for these
works of art, then what would you name
them?
W.K.1; W.K.2
How can you break up the element of space to show your favorite place landscape?
You must have a horizon line.
Background
Middle ground
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Horizon Line
Foreground
J.H. Pierneef
1886-1957
-stylized trees
-idealized trees
-shows tranqulity
Trees in the Woodlands Landscape, J.H. Pierneef. South Africa
(Date unknown)
Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902
• Born in Solingen, Germany
• Moved to America when he was 2.
• Lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts
• Known for GRAND landscapes of the
open west with lots of light!
Valley of the Yosemite, 1864. Albert Bierstadt
Guo Xi
1020-1090
-his work promotes harmony
-used ink instead of paint
-known for the way he painted trees
Clearing Autumn Skies Over Mountains
and Valleys , 1072
Early Spring, 1072, Guo Xi