Lesson Plan

Name: Brayden Gill

Grade/Subject: Grade 4 Art
Unit: Henri Matisse
Topic: Introduction, Matisse and Fauvism
Length of Lesson: 60 min.
Date: Dec. 8, 2016
Specific Leaning C4.C Images can be portrayed in varying degrees of realism.
Outcomes
C3.E Art is valued for different reasons; e.g.,aesthetic, economic, symbolic, associative
(P.O.S.)
C5.D Objects can be depicted selectively from a broad range of viewpoints.
C6.A Texture can be represented from a range of different studio techniques.
C8.D Limited colors and materials tighten a composition.
P4.A Feelings and moods can be interpreted visually.
C10.5 Continue to paint, using experimental methods including without a brush.
Learning
Students will
Objectives
1.Interpret how different paintings by Matisse influence feeling or mood
2. Demonstrate an understanding of Fauvism by stating the features in several of Matisses works
3. Use cutout technique with scissors to represent Matisse later style
4. Demonstrate their understanding of Fauvism by creating their own with a style like Mattisse
Materials
Smartboard with internet for Prezi
Glue sticks and Scissors X22
Cardstock Paper (Multiple colors)
Two colors of background papers
Organization: set out the paper options so they are easy to grab, set out scrap bin, set out the
two background color options
Procedure
Introduction
Introduction to Claude Monet on Prezi
Assessment
(15 min.)
Methods
Can be accessed at:
http://prezi.com/ke9yxnl7yv-s/?
(formative)
utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
students are
answering questions
on how different
At some of the paintings ask:
paintings by Matisse
influence feeling or
How does this one make you feel?
mood
What is the mood of this one?
How is this piece of art demonstrating
Do you like this piece of art? Why or why not?
Henri Matisse (1869 1954)
Was a French artist, known for both his use of color and his fluid and
original mechanical drawings. However, he is known primarily as a
painter.
Biography
-As a young student, Matisse showed no special interest in art. At
eighteen, he was sent by his father to study law in Paris. He passed the
exams with little enthusiasm and returned home to take a position as a law
clerk. He found the job to be even more boring than studying law.
-At the age of 21, Matisse became very ill and spent a long period in a
hospital recuperating.
-His mother gave him a paint box to pass the time.
-He began painting and soon recognized that he was meant to be an artist.
-Returning to Paris to study painting, he was considered an exceptional
student.
Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the greatest colorist of the twentieth
century and achieved prominence as the leader of the French movement
Fauvism.

Does anyone know what Fauvism is?

Features:
-Color could project a mood and establish a structure within the work
of art without having to be true to the natural world
-Simple forms and saturated colors drew attention to the flatness of
the canvas or paper
-Above all, Fauvism valued individual expression.
"When I put a green," Matisse would say, "it is not grass." When I put a
blue, it is not the sky."
His art made its own reality.
Color was a tool of the painter's expression that did not have to be true to
the natural world
Two art work demonstrations and how they represent this style
A taste of multiple other works
Une seconde vie, a second life
In 1941 Matisse was diagnosed with cancer.
Following surgery, he started using a wheelchair.
Une seconde vie, a second life, was what he called the last fourteen
years of his life.
Following an operation, he found renewed and unexpected energies. Vast
in scale (though not always in size), lush in color, his cutouts are among
the most admired and influential works of Matisse's entire career.
With the aid of assistants, he set about creating cut paper collages,
often on an enormous scale. These were known as gouaches dcoups.
He called it painting with scissors. Moreover, experimentation with
cut-outs offered Matisse many opportunities to make a new, visually
pleasing environment.
Body of Lesson
(5 min.)

Art Project:
A Winter Scene or Christmas Tree in Matisse Style
ONE RULE: NO DRAWING OR COLORING IN art
Matisse style is "painting with scissors"
His art did not have perfectly cut out shapes
There are several ways you can attain the paper that you want:
-Rip the paper into shapes
-Fold and rip paper into shapes
-Use scissors to get the shapes by cutting as you go
Important: Use the edges of the paper (do not cut out shapes in the middle
of the paper)
We will be using glue sticks to place art pieces to the background
paper
-Other glue types are too runny and may soak through the art
After you are done with one of your colored sheets you can place it

(formative)
students are
answering questions
on the traits of
Matisse Artwork

into the scrap paper bin at the front

This way if someone wants that color they can get it without using a
completely new sheet of paper
(However you can throw out scraps of paper smaller than your hand)
Questions/ Summary
-Paint with scissors (no coloring or drawing)
-Check scrap paper bucket for color you want before grabbing a new piece
of paper
-Can rip, fold and rip, or use scissors to get your shapes
-You can make either a Christmas tree scene or an Outdoor winter scene
-Glue sticks for placing only
-Working quietly at desk
Step #1
I will show you two different colors of paper that you will use as your
background (what you will be gluing your pieces to)
Raise your hand for____
While I am passing out your background you can get out a pair of scissors
and a glue stick
Step #2
When I say go...
I will get you to individually grab three pieces of paper to start cutting art
pieces from
Step #3
We're working quietly at our desk to make a Christmas Tree Scene or an
Outdoor Winter Scene

Closure (40 min.)

Finish the assignment

Sponge Activity

Read quietly at your desks

Resources
http://www.henri-matisse.net/cut_outs.html
http://www.artforsmallhands.com/2010/06/in-style-of-henri-matisse.html
http://prezi.com/ke9yxnl7yv-s/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
Reflection

(formative)
students are
demonstrating the
fauvism technique
(formative)
students are creating
their own Matisse
style of art
(formative)
students are creating
their own
impressionist style
of art