Objectives:
Can you create your own imaginary one-point perspective landscape using a word, a dream or a story that is meaningful to you? What symbols would you use to illustrate your ideas? What emotions or thoughts would you try to evoke in your audience? Salvador Dali felt it was very important that each of his paintings retain a sense of mystery so that each viewer could come up with a personal interpretation. What mysterious images would you include in your own surrealistic landscape?
Students have the choice to finish final in color or graphite to best express the meaning of their piece.
Students are aware that I will grade them slightly harder, with a higher expectation of the given standards, than I do previously graded summative assignments.
Students understanding higher level thinking and understanding of the message artworks convey and their compositional purposes.
Students have the choice to finish final in color or graphite to best express the meaning of their piece.
Students are aware that I will grade them slightly harder, with a higher expectation of the given standards, than I do previously graded summative assignments.
Students understanding higher level thinking and understanding of the message artworks convey and their compositional purposes.
Materials:
- Photo references
- Drawing Paper
- Ruler
- Pencils
- Coloring supplies
- Drawing Paper
- Ruler
- Pencils
- Coloring supplies
Arts Integration: History
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Activities:
- Brainstorm list of 20 places, narrow list down to top 5. Pick favorite 2 to sketch and create deeper meaning/connection to artist. Due beginning of class on Friday.
- “I See” writing WKST on the Renaissance Patience by Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1557. (Part of the image is cropped for students). Artwork appears to be surrealism from 1920’s but is actually created during the Renaissance.
- K-W-L Worksheet
- “I See” writing WKST on the Renaissance Patience by Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1557. (Part of the image is cropped for students). Artwork appears to be surrealism from 1920’s but is actually created during the Renaissance.
- K-W-L Worksheet
Artist Connection: Renaissance Artists and Surrealism
- Renaissance man, Brunelleschi, discovered one point perspective
- School of the Greats: By the 1500s, many artists had mastered the new system of using perspective. When a young artist named Raphael was hired to paint a fresco on a wall of the library at St. Peter’s Church in Rome, he was excited to show off this technique.
- Raphael used one-point perspective to compose this work. The lines on the floor tiles and the pillars converge at a single vanishing point on the horizon line.
- School of Athens is considered one of the best examples of linear perspective. For more than 500 years, artists have continued to use the techniques developed during the Renaissance. Today artists like Richard Estes play with these techniques to create even more realistic scenes than thought possible in Raphael’s time.
- Surrealism is a cultural movement that started in 1917, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes, sometimes with photographic precision, creating strange creatures from everyday objects, and developing painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. Its aim was, according to Breton, to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality", or surreality
- Works of surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement.
- Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.
Arts Integration: Math
Renaissance artists experimented with ways to create the illusion of deep space on a flat surface. They figured out that in real life, parallel lines (for example, a road) appear to converge, or meet, as they recede into the horizon. Additionally, objects that are close appear to be larger and in better focus than those farther away. By applying these concepts to their canvases, artists could mimic the way we see the world. This mathematical system of using lines to create realistic-looking depth is called linear perspective.
Vocabulary:
Pop Culture Connection:
Share Article and Perspective Paintings from Star Wars
Matte paintings are fake sets that—most of the times—used to be made with plexiglass and oil paint. The artists used oversized panels to create the necessary detail that the camera needed to fool the audiences when the film was projected over the large surface of the theater screen. The paintings were combined with live action filmed to match the perspective of the painting. If done well, the public would totally buy into the shot.
Replaced by digital matte paintings and 3D imagery, nowadays films don’t use oil paint matte paintings anymore.
Matte paintings are fake sets that—most of the times—used to be made with plexiglass and oil paint. The artists used oversized panels to create the necessary detail that the camera needed to fool the audiences when the film was projected over the large surface of the theater screen. The paintings were combined with live action filmed to match the perspective of the painting. If done well, the public would totally buy into the shot.
Replaced by digital matte paintings and 3D imagery, nowadays films don’t use oil paint matte paintings anymore.
