Summit Hill Elementary
Art EDventures
“Colorful Rotations”
4th Grade
360 Rotations/Perpendicular Lines
Sonia Delaunay-Terk
Brought to you by S.H.E. PTA
Meet Sonia Delaunay-Terk
•Sonia Delaunay-Terk is considered
one of the most famous female
painters in the 2-th Century
(1900’s)
•She didn’t just paint fine portraits –
she had a colorful career with all
types of art forms from costume
designs for the Russian Ballet to
stained glass windows.
•She made fine art fashionable.
The rich and famous of Europe
loved her unique textile designs
(designs for fabrics), custom
clothes and chic fashion boutiques.
Nov. 14, 1885 – Dec. 5, 1979
“We live our lives surrounded by
objects, some hardly noticed. I
design things to be noticed.”
Bittersweet
Fortune
What is a Pictograph?
•She was born Sarah Stern on
Nov. 14, 1855 in the small town of
Gradizhsk, Ukraine. Her dad
worked in a nail factory and they
were very poor.
•When she was five, her wealthy
Uncle Henri and his wife adopted
her and renamed her Sonia Terk.
•Her Uncle (new father) was a
lawyer in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He gave her a worldly education
with trips throughout Europe
where was exposed to art and
culture.
St Petersburg, Russia
Birth of a Style
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She was a star student and
thought a career in math was in
her future. However, when she
was 16, she decided to pursue
art. She studied drawing in
Germany then landed in France to
study painting.
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While in Paris, she met and
married a famous and fellow
painter, Robert Delauney.
Together, they developed a style
of art called Orphism.
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Orphism was exciting, new and
very different. It was colorful,
geometric, and not realistic like
other paintings of that time.
Can you see any math in their art?
Sonia Delaunay
Robert Delaunay
Colors of Russia
• The colors of the Russian peasant costumes
and folk art from her childhood become the
inspiration for much of her work.
How are the Russian dolls and her
paintings alike?
Rotations and Lines
Abstract Composition
The Singer
Eharpe Rythmes
Can you see any perpendicular lines in her art?
What types of mathematical rotations does she use?
Fine Art to Decorative Art
•While Sonia’s husband concentrated
on painting, she applied her fine art
talents to fashion (designing clothes)
and textile design (fabrics).
•Silk, linen and fur became her new
canvas. Her designs were applied to
dresses, accessories, playing cards
and more. She became well known
for marrying fine art with decorative
art.
Delaunay is known as the
“inventor” of the polka dot!
From Canvas to Car!
Even this Buggatti T35 became a
decorative object for Delaunay in the
1930s. Now it’s a pricey collectors
car.
How is her fine art like this car?
Can you find any 360 rotations?
From Canvas to Cotton
She also created many textiles
for famous designers like
Chanel.
Flamed
They loved her “compositions:
Box Crab
or groups of different designs
that work together.
For a textile project she would
need to:
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Understand the use
Create a color pallet
Choose the repeat
Decide on a type of fabric
Understand production
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From Canvas to Cards!
Delaunay started designing
a deck of cards in 1939 but
was interrupted by WWII.Flamed
She took refuge in the Box Crab
French countryside until
the war ended and forgot
about the project.
Nearly 30 years later, the
University of Belefeld hired
her to complete her card
deck designs in the late
1970s.
This was the last project
she finished before she
died at age 85.
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Awards All Around
During her life, Sonia Delaunay
received numerous awards for
her art.
Flamed
One that was dear to her was
Box Crab
the French Legion of Honor.
She received it just before her
death.
This was a special award given
out by the French government
for giving so much wonderful art
to France and the world.
Now it’s time to try a textile
design of your own using your
math skills and the bright colors
of Orphism.
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Textile Talk
In the portfolio, there are several pieces of fabric. One is green and black and
has 360 degree rotations in the design. Show the kids how patterns repeat on
a piece of real fabric that they can touch and feel. The repeating pattern is
marked with blue tape. (It is much smaller than you might think!)
Flamed
Box Crab
There is also a floral repeating pattern you can show the kids as well if you
have time. The repeat on this piece is much larger than
Rightthe geometric print.
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Red
Branching
Sponge
Art EDventures Sample
Colorful Rotations Pillow Case Design
Repeat Example
Colorful Rotations Pillow Case Design
Repeat Pattern
Project Art EDventures
Assignment
The fashion industry has hired you to create a textile design
for a new bedding line called “Colorful Rotations”. You are
to use Sonia Delaunay-Trek’s work for inspiration.
Practice Makes Perfect
First you will need the following tools: Protractor, compass,
pencil, ruler and box of crayons from “class kit”.
Your Art Edventures Leader(s) will also give you a piece of
paper. Please place it on your desk in the “landscape”
position.
Get out your compass. Set it to “2”. Now practice making 2
small circles with your compass so you get the feel using a
new tool. Now set the compass to “5” and practice making
one big circle. It’s ok if your circles are not perfect!
Now pick up your protractor, your ruler and a pencil. Try
making perpendicular lines with this tool. Use your
protractor to check and see if you got your lines in a 90
degree angle.
Write your name and “draw the paw” and flip your paper
over to the blank side. Now you are ready to begin your
Protractor/Perpendicular Lines
Using your ruler, protractor and pencil,
make a perpendicular line anywhere on
the page. Make sure that your lines go off
the edge.
Compass / 360 degree rotations
Get your compass. Anywhere on your
page make three small circles (setting like
2 or 3) making complete 360 degree
rotations. Try to keep all the small circles
on the page. Make some overlap your
lines.
Now set your compass to “5” and repeat
these steps but only make two rotations.
Project Art EDventures
Now you choose any compass setting you want
for the last rotation. If you go off the page, just
continue your circle when you reach the paper
again!
Orange Slices = 180 Degree Rotations
Now switch back to your protractor. Trace
around the inside or outside to make 3 half
circles or “orange slices”. You may overlap your
other shapes.
Choose a Pallet
Look in your crayon box and choose four
colors to be your pallet for your design.
New Shapes
Look at all the new shapes you have
created with your overlapping lines! Use
your color pallet to color in your new
shapes. Where the shapes overlap, use
another color from your pallet. No touching
shape should be the same color. (If you
need to, you can add a fifh color).
Let others know this is a PTA Art
Edventures creation by adding a paw print.
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Supply List
Class kit should include:
• 25+ pieces of wet/dry media paper (one per student).
• Crayons or colored pencils (one box for each student). (Option – you can
use fabric crayons as well and then transfer the design onto a pillow case
with an iron.)
• Compasses – There are two types – “safety tip” and “regular tip”. The
regular tip kind is very SHARP and stored covered with an eraser top on
each compass. These are great because they don’t slip around like the
safety tip kind. If you choose to use these please give the kids a safety
lesson before distributing.
• Protractors
• Rulers
• Pencils (pre-sharpened with eraser tops).
G.P.S. Ties
M4G1 Students will define and identify the characteristics of
geometric figures through examination and construction.
a) Examine and compare angles in order to classify and identify triangles
by their angles.
b) Describe paralle and perpendicular lines in plane geometric figures.
c) Examine and classify quadrilaterals (including parallelograms, squares,
rectangles, trapezoids and rhombi).
d) Compare and contrast the relationships among quadrilaterals.
M4M2 Students will understand the concept of angle and how to
measure angles.
a) Use tools, such as a protractor or angle ruler, and other methods, such
as paper folding or drawing a diagonal in a square, to measure angles.
b) Understand the meaning and measure of a half rotation (180 degrees)
and a full rotation (360 degrees). *Art Edventures introduces the
compass as tool for making full rotations.
Art EDventures
Art EDventures
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Dear Mom, Dad or Caretaker,
Dear Mom, Dad or Caretaker,
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I went on a fun Art Edventure today and learned
about a famous artist named Sonia Delaunay-Terk.
She had a colorful career painting and designing all
kinds of things from clothes to fancy Italian cars.
It was cool looking at her art and trying to find
math in it – like geometric shapes and rotations.
WE also learned about her textile compositions.
Then we used protractors and compasses to create
a textile design inspired by her art. We included
360 and 180 degree rotations and perpendicular
lines.
Ask me about my “Colorful Rotations” creation!
Sonia Delaunay-Terk
Rhyme Couleur II
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I went on a fun Art Edventure today and learned
about a famous artist named Sonia Delaunay-Terk.
She had a colorful career painting and designing all
kinds of things from clothes to fancy Italian cars.
It was cool looking at her art and trying to find
math in it – like geometric shapes and rotations.
WE also learned about her textile compositions.
Then we used protractors and compasses to create
a textile design inspired by her art. We included
360 and 180 degree rotations and perpendicular
lines.
Ask me about my “Colorful Rotations” creation!
Sonia Delaunay-Terk
Rhyme Couleur II