1st Grade

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1st Grade

• Core Knowledge Visual Art Component

• Art from Long Ago, Elements of Art,
• Kinds of Pictures Portrait, Still Life, Mural

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Visual Art as a Core Knowledge Subject

• Art from Long Ago
• Elements of Art
• Color
• Line
• Shape
• Texture
• Kinds of Pictures
• Portrait
• Still Life
• Mural

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• your child will come to understand that, while
  art is doing, it is also seeing and thinking.
• By looking closely at art, and talking about it,
  your child will begin to develop a love of art
  and a habit of enjoying it in thoughtful, active
  ways.
• -E.D. Hirsh Jr. from What a First Grader Needs to
  Know

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Media Cast New videos that will help 1st Grade
this year include but are not limited to

• Who is the Artist?
• Cezanne
• Van Gogh
• Seurat
• Who is the Artist?
• Degas
• Renoir
• Cassatt
• Who is the Artist?
• Benton
• Hopper
• Wood

Art in the Classroom Gyotaku The Walch Art
Series The Art of the Near East and Ancient
Egypt Masks from Many Cultures Linnea in
Monets Garden
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School Wide Art Show 2008-2009

• The winners of the individual school art shows
  will be framed and displayed downtown at the
  Center for the Arts May 2.

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Think Outside the Box

• Stay in the Circle

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• Sit Up
• Lean Forward
• Activate Your Mind
• Nod Your Head
• Track your Teacher.

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Safety First
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Always come to school in clothes you are ready
to learn in. - Mrs. Cliburn 2nd Grade Teacher
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• The law of the echo.

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• For the first grader, art should mostly take the
  form of doing drawing, painting, cutting and
  pasting, working with clay and other materials.
• Beyond looking at art and talking about art do
  try to provide your child with materials and
  opportunities to be a practicing artist!
• - E.D. Hirsh Jr. from What a First Grader Needs
  to Know

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Portfolio

• Fold in half
• Write your name, grade level school
• in big block letters with the big markers
• Fill the Space Be Creative

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My Portfolio
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My 1st Grade Student Portfolio
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Quarter 1
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Looking Good Portraits

• Have you had your picture taken at school?
• Is there a picture of you on a wall or shelf at
  home?
• Then thats your portrait.
• Thats what we call a picture of a person.

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Leonardo da Vinci

• Portraits can be
• Taken with a camera
• They can be drawn
• They can be painted.
• Perhaps the most famous portrait in the world is
  the Mona Lisa.
• It was painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da
  Vinci dah VIN-chee about five hundred years
  ago.

Mona Lisa
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Mona Lisa

• Look at the expression on Mona Lisas face.
• For hundreds of years, people have been
  fascinated by her expression.
• Is she happy?
• Is she looking at you or at something else?
• What do you think she might be thinking?

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• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than
  mastery of oneself.
• Leonardo da Vinci

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Self-Portraits Take a Good Look at Yourself

• Sometimes an artist paints a portrait of himself.
  
• This is called a self-portrait.
• A self-portrait doesnt have to look like a
  photograph.
• You can paint yourself in many different ways and
  each way will say something different
• About the way you fell about yourself
• The way you want other people to see you.

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Vincent van Gogh

• The Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh van GOH
  painted many self-portraits.
• This one shows him when he was thirty-six years
  old.

Self-Portrait
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• How does van Gogh look to you?
• Does he seem calm or worried?
• Are you surprised by the color he used to paint
  the shadows under his eyes?
• The patches of green contrast with the red of his
  hair and beard.

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• The only time I feel alive is
• when Im painting.
• Vincent van Gogh

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• Look back for a minute at the Mona Lisa.
• Do you see what is behind her?
• There's a landscape with mountains and a river.
• Now look at what van Gogh painted in the
  background of his picture swirling lines of
  blue and green.
• Where else can you find curving blue lines in van
  Goghs painting?

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Color Mixing

• Red, Yellow, and Blue
• Are called the primary colors.
• You cannot make them by mixing any other colors
  together.
• You can make other colors when you mix them
  together

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Color Mixing

• Red Yellow Orange

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Color Mixing

• Yellow Blue Green

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Color Mixing

• Red Blue Violet

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Color Mixing

• Red Blue Yellow Black

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• Not all paintings are filled with bright colors.
  
• Some artists express themselves by leaving bright
  color out of their paintings.
• Look at this painting by the American painter
  James McNeil Whistler.
• Many people know this painting by its popular
  nickname, Whistlers Mother.

Whistlers Mother
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Whistlers Mother

• When you look at the painting, what kind of
  person do you think Whistlers mother was?
• Does she look like a happy, fun-loving person,
  ready to get up and dance around the room?
• Do you see how the white of her
• Cap
• Cuffs
• Handkerchief
• The white attracts your attention to her face and
  hands?
• How would you describe the expression on her
  face?

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Arrangement in Gray and Black

• Though many people call this painting Whistler's
  Mother.
• Whistler himself gave it a different title.
• Does Whistler use any bright colors in this
  picture?
• Whistler called this painting Arrangement in
  Gray and Black.

Arrangement in Gray and Black
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• An artists career always begins tomorrow.
• - James McNeill Whistler

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Hans Holbein

• Some portraits can tell a lot about a person and
  the times in which he lived.
• Look at the portrait called Edward VI as a Child
  by Hans Holbein HOLE-bine, the Younger.
• Edwards father was a king, King Henry VIII of
  England (who lived more than four hundred years
  ago).
• The writing at the bottom of the painting (in an
  old language called Latin) tells Edward to grow
  up to be like his father.

Edward VI as a Child
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Edward VI as a Child

• In this portrait, Edward is a little over one
  year old.
• Is this how most one-year-old children look?
• Whats the first thing you notice about this
  child?
• Some people notice his fine red and gold clothing
  his fancy hat with an ostrich feather.
• Do you see the rattle he holds in his left hand?
  
• Its made of gold!

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• Where does young Edward seem to be looking?
• Notice how still and straight he sits.
• How imagine how long it would take to paint a
  portrait like this.
• Do you think the real baby Edward sat still in
  this poise for as long as it took the painter to
  finish the painting?

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Francisco Goya

• Unlike the portrait of Edward VI, this portrait
  show the boys whole body.
• You might think at first that hes a girl,
  because of his
• Long hair
• Red lips
• Fancy costume
• Little boys in wealthy families sometimes dressed
  like this a couple of hundred years ago.
• This little boys name is Manuel, and his
  portrait was painted by the Spanish artist
  Francisco Goya GOI-yuh.

Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga
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Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga

• How does Goya draw your attention to the boy?
• Look at his clothes
• They are bright red
• A shiny sash is around this waist.
• Look at the light that seems to be shining around
  his head.

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• But there is more to this portrait than the boy.
  
• Don Manuel is holding a string.
• Where does it go?
• Can you follow it down and see how its tied to
  the leg of the boy's pet bird?
• Whats that sitting in the darkness behind the
  bird?

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• Cats!
• How many cats can you find?
• You can see two pretty clearly and if you look
  very carefully
• You can see the eyes of a third cat glowing dimly
  just a little above the other cats heads.
• What are the cats looking at?
• Cats like to pounce on birds, but does Don Manuel
  seem to know this?

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• Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces
  impossible monsters united with it, she is the
  mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
• - Francisco Goya

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Norman Rockwell

• You get a very different feeling from a
  self-portrait painted by an American artist,
  Norman Rockwell.
• In this painting, called Triple Self-Portrait,
  Rockwell has fun with the idea of painting a
  picture of himself.
• How many time does Norman Rockwell show himself
  here?

Triple Self-Portrait
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Triple Self-Portrait

• He paints a picture of himself looking in a
  mirror to paint a picture of himself!
• Do you see how in the mirror, his eyes are hidden
  by his glasses, but shown clearly in the painting
  he is working on?
• In this picture, Rockwell had copies of other
  famous self-portraits tacked to the upper right
  of his canvas.
• Can you find a self-portrait of van Gogh among
  Rockwells collection?

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• I paint life as I would like it to be.
• - Norman Rockwell

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Texture Oh, What a Feeling!

• Imagine that youre holding a rabbit.
• How do you think it would feel?
• Did you think of a word like soft or furry?
• Now imagine that you're holding a frog that has
  just jumped out of a swamp.
• How do you think it would feel?
• Did you think of a word like slimy or bumpy?

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• When you talk about the way something feels,
  youre talking about its texture.
• When you describe the texture of an object, you
  might use a word like
• rough
• scratchy
• prickly
• bumpy
• crinkly

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• Gather some everyday items with different
  textures, for example
• Leaves
• Marbles
• Nuts and bolts
• Cereal
• Sponge
• Blanket
• Cotton balls
• Wood
• Aluminum foil
• Shells

• Feel each object and then try to think of a word
  to describe its texture.

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Native American Masks

• Look at this Native American mask.
• This mask was made for a member of the Iroquois
  Husk Face Society.
• The Iroquois Indians wore these mask in special
  ceremonies in which they asked the harvest
  spirits they believed in to help the crops grow.
  
• Can you tell what the mask is make of?

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Native AmericanMasks

• Do you see how the artist has braided strands of
  corn husks to create the pattern of a face?
• The artist left other husks look so they look
  like flowing hair.
• What words can you think of to describe its
  texture?

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Hold Still!

• Youve learned about one kind of painting, called
  a portrait.
• Now lets look at another kind, called a still
  life.
• Its called a still life because the objects in
  the painting dont move.
• Are people ever included in a still life?
• No, because after a while they would move!

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Still Life

• Still lifes often include
• Flowers
• Fruit
• Books
• China
• Silverware
• Furniture
• Other small objects

• To paint a still life, an artist first has to
  decide what objects to paint.

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• Once the artist knows what to paint, he or she
  has to decide how to arrange the objects.
• What shapes and colors will go next to one
  another?

• Where will the light fall?
• Will the still life include objects with several
  different textures?

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Paul Cezanne

• The other still life, called Apples and Oranges,
  is by a French artist , Paul Cezanne say-ZAHN.
  
• What shapes do you see in this painting?
• Do you see how Cezanne outlined the apples and
  oranges in dark tones, which makes it easy to see
  their circular shapes?

Apples and Oranges
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• The Louvre is the book
• in which we learn to read.
• - Paul Cezanne

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Edgar Degas

• Sometimes artists use texture to make their art
  look very real.
• Look at this sculpture, made over a hundred years
  ago by a French artist named Edgar Degas
  day-GAH.
• The body of the dancer is cast out of a hard
  substance, but Degas has added other materials.
• The dancer has a shiny satin ribbon in her hair.
• She wears a tutu of a soft material called
  muslin.

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• When people in France first saw this sculpture,
  they were shocked.
• They were used to seeing statues made out of hard
  substances like stone.
• They were surprised to see a statue dressed in
  materials that a real person might wear!

The Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
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• Art is not what you see,
• but what you make others see.
• - Edgar Degas

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Jacob Lawrence

• Lets look at shapes in another painting, called
  Parade.
• Its by the African American artist Jacob
  Lawrence.
• Look at the people in the bottom left corner of
  the painting.
• Now look at the band members marching in the
  parade.
• If you could march in this parade, which costume
  would you like to wear?

The Library
Parade
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Shapes in Paintings

• You see more than just shapes.
• What else do you notice in the paintings?
• Can you see shapes in the way the artist has
  painted their bodies?
• What shapes does Lawrence use to paint their
  bodies?
• Their heads are circles
• From their shoulders down they form boxes like
  rectangles.
• Can you find other rectangles in the painting?
• The windows
• The door
• The pattern on the wall
• What do you think you would hear around you?

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• When the subject is strong,
• simplicity is the only way to treat it.
• - Jacob Lawrence

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Get in Line!

• Take a pencil and make a dot on a sheet of paper.
  
• Now put your pencil on the dot and let it wander
  away from it.
• Now you have a line.
• A line starts with a dot and then goes somewhere.
  

• Lines come in all types
• Straight
• Curved
• Zigzag
• Wavy
• Spiral
• Lines can be
• fat or skinny
• rough or fine
• It depends on how the line is made.
• Use a sharp pencil and you can make a fine line.
• With a big piece of chalk you can make a rough
  line.

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Henri Matisses Line Drawing
Florilege des Amours de Ronsard

• Here is a picture made only from lines.
• Can you name the animal?
• This drawing, called Florilege des Amours de
  Ronsard is by the French artist Henri Matisse
  on-REE ma-TEECE.

• What type of lines does Matisse use for the necks
  of the doves?
• Curved lines can seem graceful.
• Look for some of the other curved lines in the
  drawing.

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• Creativity takes courage.
• - Henri Matisse

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Get in Shape!

• When lines join together, they make shapes.
• You are creating shapes anytime you
• Cut something out
• Draw on paper
• Here is the shape of a person, cut out of
  construction paper.
• The shape of a real person can change as the
  person moves.
• But other shapes remain pretty much the same.

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• Can you name these shapes?

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• Different shapes can sometimes make you feel and
  think different things.
• Look again at
• The circle
• The square.
• Which one make you think of something moving?

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Circle

• Circles roll
• Think of
• Wheels
• Marbles
• Balls

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Squares and Rectangle

• Squares and rectangle seem to rest in one place.
• Think of a big rectangular object, like a
  refrigerator.

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Triangle

• Triangles have points.
• The points can make you think of something moving
  in a certain direction.
• It looks like a rocket rising into the sky.

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Grant Wood

• Lets try something
• Were going to look at a picture
• Try to focus our eyes just on the shapes in it.
• Try not to notice all the colors and patterns,
  but instead look at the way the painter uses
  basic shapes in his painting.
• Look at the painting called Stone City, Iowa,
  by American artist Grant Wood.

Stone City, Iowa
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Grant Wood

• Have you ever been up so high that when you
  looked down everything seemed to look like little
  shapes?
• Can you tell that we are looking down in this
  picture?
• Look at the houses they look like rectangles
  with triangle roofs.
• What shape does Wood use for the treetops?

Stone City, Iowa
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• In making these paintings,
• as you may have guesses,
• I had in mind something which
• I hope to convey to
• a fairly wide audience in America
• the picture of a country rich
• in the arts of peace
• a homely loveable nation.
• Grant Wood

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A World of Color

• Do you have a favorite color?
• Lets look at color in a painting by the French
  artist Claude Monet moe-NAY.
• Monet loved light and color.
• He liked to go outside and set up his easel and
  paint the bright sunlight.

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A World of Color

• What is the first color you notice in Monets
  painting called Tulips in Holland?
• Do you see how Monet was not worried about giving
  each object a sharp outline?
• For example, look at the windmill
• It looks a little blurred.
• Monet was more interested in creating the
  impression of a field of brightly colored tulips.

Tulips in Holland
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• Do you remember from Kindergarten how some colors
  seem warm, such as
• Yellow
• Orange
• Red

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• While other seem, cool, such as
• Blue
• Green
• Violet

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• Do you see how Monet has balanced the cool colors
  of the sky with the warm colors of the flowers?
• Which color seems to stand out more?
• (Warm colors like red seem to jump forward, while
  cool colors like blue seem to be farther away.)

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• Color is my day-long obsession.
• - Claude Monet

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Irises

• Another still life is called Irises.

• If you look at the way its painted with
  energetic brush strokes, you may be reminded of
  an artist you met not long ago when you saw his
  self-portrait.

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• Its Vincent van Gogh.
• Van Gogh liked to paint still lifes of flowers,
  such as
• Irises
• Sunflowers
• Do you find mostly curved or straight lines on
  this painting?

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Georgia OKeefe

• Here is a painting by the American artist Georgia
  OKeefe.
• In this painting, called Shell No 1, do you see
  one type of line that stands out more than the
  other?
• Do you see the spiral line?
• A spiral line is a line that keeps curving inside
  itself.
• Put your finger at the center of the shell and
  follow the spiral.

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Lines in Nature

• Georgia OKeefe loved things of nature like
• Flowers
• Bones
• Shells.
• Georgia OKeefe
• Painted them very carefully
• Often made them much bigger than they really were
  so that people could not miss them!
• For example, the little shell OKeefe painted was
  
• Only an inch or two from side to side in real
  life.
• The size of a beach ball in the painting.

Shell No 1
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• I found I could say things with color and shapes
  that I couldnt say any other way.
• - Georgia OKeefe

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People Have Been Making Art for a Very Long Time

• Pretend that youre exploring a mountainside.
• You come upon a big, dark hole in the rock its
  a cave!
• You take out a flashlight and use it to light
  your way as you go inside. Its cool, damp, and
  dark.
• The ground is rough and slippery.
• You almost fall!
• As you throw out your hands to steady yourself,
  the flashlight shines on the wall of the cave,
  and thats when you notice something.
• Its a picture a small drawing.

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People Have Been Making Art for a Very Long Time
Cave Painting

• You shine your light and look closely.
• You see the figures of some animals.
• Who drew these pictures?
• What artist would use the wall of a cave instead
  of a piece of paper?

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• Well, how about an artist who lived long before
  paper was invented?
• These pictures on a cave wall were drawn by a
  person thousands of years ago.

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• Drawing by the worlds earliest artists have been
  found on the walls of caves in
• France
• Spain
• United States
• How do you think these early people drew pictures
  of animals?
• Were the animals important to these early people?
  
• You can find out more about these people in World
  History and Geography.

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Egyptian Art

• As the cave paintings show, people have been
  making art for a very long time.

• Long after the cave people, but still thousands
  of years before you were born, the people in
  ancient Egypt made works of art that were
• Beautiful
• Amazing

The Great Sphinx
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Egyptian Art

• For the ancient Egyptian, art was an important
  part of their religion
• .

Queen Nefertiti
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Egyptian Art

• If you have read the World History and Geography
  section of the book, then you know about some of
  the wonderful works of the ancient Egyptians,
  such as
• The pyramids
• The Great Sphinx
• The mummy cases.

King Tutankhamen mummy case
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Texture in Paintings

• Some painters use different ways of painting to
  help you imagine the texture of the objects in
  the picture.
• They can paint a dress that looks smooth or a
  mountainside that looks tough.
• You might not he able to touch the objects, but
  you can imagine how they feel.

Albrecht Durer
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Young Hare

• Look at this painting called Young Hare but the
  German artist Albrecht Durer AL-brekt DUR-er.

Young Hare
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• He used
• Short brushes
• Separate brush strokes
• Touches of white to imitate the fluffy texture of
  the rabbits fur.
• It almost makes you want to reach out and pet it!

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Look Closely!
Piñata

• Youve looked at different paintings with
• Colors
• Lines
• Shapes
• Lets look at all of them in this painting.
• Its called Piñata, by the Mexican artist Diego
  Rivera dee-AY-go ree-VAIR-ah.

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• What colors do you see in this painting?
• Can you find different
• Lines
• Shapes
• Point to them and name them?

Piñata
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Murals Painting on Walls

• Most of the paintings youve been looking at were
  painted on canvas.
• They are the kind of painting that you can put in
  a frame and hang on a wall.
• How about painting the wall itself?

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Murals

• Of course you're looking at only a small
  photograph of the mural.
• The real painting is huge!

• Some artists like to paint murals.
• A mural is a large painting done on a wall.

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Diego Rivera

• He had a mural painted in public places in Mexico
  City.
• It was painted in 1953 by the Mexican artist
  Diego Rivera.
• You looked at his painting called Piñata?

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The History of Medicine in Mexico

• One mural is call The History of Medicine in
  Mexico.
• It tells the history of Mexican Medicine.
• The right side shows the kind of medicine
  practiced by the ancient Aztec civilization in
  Mexico.

detail from The History of Medicine in Mexico
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The History of Medicine in Mexico

• The left side of the mural shows how medicine is
  practiced in modern times.
• In the center, Rivers painted the Aztec goddess
  who was believed to make things clean by touching
  them.
• Why do you think Rivera chose to put this figure
  in a mural about medicine?

detail from The History of Medicine in Mexico
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• Every good composition picture is above all a
  work of abstraction.
• - Diego Rivera

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Story Time
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Text References

• Text from
• Hirsh, Jr., E.D. (2006). What Your 1st Grader
  Needs to Know. New York, NY Bantam Dell Inc.
• ArtQuotes.net Online. Available
  http//www.artquotes.net.

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Photo-References

• Page 92 Queen Nefertiti picture is taken from
  Wikipedia under Creative Commons 2.5 license.
• Page 91 Great Sphinx and Pyramid picture is taken
  from Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation
  license.
• Page 25-29 Color Wheel Pictures is taken from
  Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation license.
• Page 99-101 Diego Rivera Mural picture is taken
  from Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation
  license.
• Page 49-50 Native American Mask picture is taken
  from Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation
  license.
• Page 63-64 Matisses dove picture is taken from
  Rabley Drawing Centre website located at
  http//www.rableydrawingcentre.com/drawingsandprin
  ts/past_exhibitions.html
• Page 72-73 Grant Woods Stone City Iowa picture
  is taken from Museum Syndicate website located
  at http//www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item5
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