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Art
Students have an hour of art class every other week with Mrs. Lustgarten.

MAY

Around the World in Art

Our imaginary world travels in art have landed us here in the United States!

4th, 5th & 6th grade have viewed videos & looked at work by Pop artist Andy Warhol who used ”pop”ular items in his artwork-like soup cans & movie stars. They then tried their hand at applying the Warhol effect to their school photo in the computer lab using the program Paint.net. Paint.net is a free application that can be downloaded on any PC computer and you can easily apply the Warhol style to any photograph. 6th Grade will be using one of these Warhol photos in their art exiting project-a project that stays here permanently at the school.

Another Pop artist, Wayne Thiebaud, has inspired almost the whole school with his favorite subject matter-sweets, treats, cakes, pies & ice cream! Students learned how to properly use a new medium, chalk pastel, and created a towering ice cream cone. Students learned how to turn shapes into solid forms (like circles into spheres and triangles into cones) through the use of light and shadow. Another connection between math and art!

An American artist, Georgia O’Keeffe gave us a new perspective on flowers by painting them up close and oversized. Kindergarten-3rd grade “grew” flowers in oil pastels on their art focusing on warm and cool colors in patterns.

Two American icons-the space shuttle and the Statue of Liberty inspired projects in Kindergarten, 1st grade & 3rd grade.

Artist Vincent Van Gogh and his Starry Night painting inspired 1st & 2nd grade to create starry nights for their Seattle Skyline with shaving cream and liquid watercolors.

We end the year with some art projects that tie-in closely with classroom learning-dinosaur plaster fossils in 1st grade and totem poles in 3rd grade.

Every student will get an Art Passport to remind them where they have been in the world and what artist and art forms inspired them this year!

 

 

 

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 Ten Lessons the Arts Teach

 

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
5. The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

Elliott Eisner, in Beyond Creating: The Place for Art in America's Schools. Getty Center for Education in the Arts. 1985 p. 69.
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