Top Notch 2 Unit 8

ENJOYING THE ARTS

Unit Goals

1. Recommend a museum
2. Describe an object
3. Talk about how art fits in your life
4. Discuss your favorite artists
What is art?

 Art is for doing, seeing

and thinking.

 Art activities creating art

Art Appreciation:
1. Colors

 Warm Colors: yellow, orange, red

 Cool Colors: blue, green, violet

Art Appreciation:
1. Colors

 Warm Colors: yellow, orange, red

fun, loving, happy, jump forward

 Cool Colors: blue, green, violet

Art Appreciation:
1. Colors

 Warm Colors: yellow, orange, red

fun, loving, happy, jump forward

 Cool Colors: blue, green, violet

serious, dark, sad, solemn, depressing, calm,
farther away
A Field of Tulips in Holland
A Field of Tulips in Holland, 1886
by Claude Monet
Whistler’s Mother*, 1971
by James McNeill Whistler
Arrangement in Gray and Black: The Artist’s
Mother, 1871
by James McNeill Whistler
2. Lines
Le Cygne(The Swan), 1931
by Henry Matisse
Shell No. 1, 1928
by Georgia O’Keeffe
3. When lines join together shapes

 Something
moving?
 Rest in one
place?
 A rocket
moving
towards the
sky?
Stone City, Iowa, 1930
by Grant Wood
Parade, 1940s
by Jacob Lawrence
La Piñata, 1944
by Diego Rivera

 Find the colors,

lines and shapes
Arts in Your Life

youtube - picasso.mp4

youtube - picasso.avi
Saint-Saëns Le Cygne
Performed by Marcel J. Kits
10, in Liezen, Austria
April, 2006