Inside Art- help! I got sucked into a painting....

I yawned and rubbed my eyes. I tried to focus on the wall of paintings in front of me. My feet were killing me. I'd rather be anywhere—outside, playing with my friends, even brushing my teeth—anywhere but this art museum. Then I heard a strange sound behind me...

http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/ Great Fun!

Utilitarian Objects- 6th grade clay projects

Utility means useful. You've heard of a utility knife, or a utility shed? These are useful items because of their versitility. Utilitarian means useful as well. Utilitarian art is art that has a useful purpose, such as a box, mug, pot, vase, etc. These art items can be highly decorated, but ultimately they are useful. As we look back through history, we see that even cave artists made their utilitarian items beautiful by carving or painting on them.

Non-Utilitarian art means art that is meant to be looked at aestetically, art that is pretty on the walls or nice to look at as a sculpture. Non-Utilitarian art is decorative. It can move you emotionally or spur you into action through depicting social themes, but it has no physical use other than as something to look at.

Sixth grade students have been working on clay manipulation, learning how to change clay into objects by using pinch, coil and slab for construction methods. They are presently working on a Utilitarian object that is decorated with relief and incised artwork. Some are making mugs, bowls or plates. But all the objects have both a useful purpose and a beautiful design to them.

Expressionism- 7th grade study on styles

Expressionists distort or change an image to express the emotions of the artist.

Throughout history, people have distorted images to show emotions. Medieval artists exaggerated faces to show deep religious feelings. Mesopotamian artists made kings larger and more powerful looking than the rest of the populace. Famous speakers are shown looming above the crowds. But expressing emotions did not become a international style until the early 1900's. Starting in Germany, artists began focusing on their feelings and emotions rather than what the world looked like. They exaggerated, left out, extended, colored and erased parts of their drawings in order to push the emotional response to the image.

Did it work? Do we care about these emotions the artists tried to show? How many of you recognise the emotions in "The Scream" ?

7th grade students are experimenting with showing emotions through their art. How do line, shapes, texture and colors effect emotions?

Splatter Painting

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/


Who doesn't like to splatter paint? This site allows you to experiment in a Jackson Pollock-like way. Have fun splotching, splattering, dripping and spillling your way into art.

Cool Online Drawing/Painting program

http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/

Use a virtual pencil, brush, spraycan, etc. to do your drawings and paintings. Watch a replay of your own drawing skills and hang your work in the gallery. Or watch other artists paint and see how they make those great pictures.

One of the better, simple drawing sites. Lots of fun.

Fun Art Detective Game

http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/

The Case of Grandpa's Painting....

Photo Mosaic: a cousin of pointallism

Robert Silvers invented a form of mosaic that could be called a cousin to pointallism. Each picture consists of hundreds of tiny photographs.

He starts with a picture, breaking it down in tiny pixals. He substitutes each pixal for a full photo which has the same value and color as the original pixal.

When viewed close up, Robert Silvers' pictures look like thousands of images. But when viewed from a distance, we see the images as colors, creating a larger overall picture. Just as Seurat relied on the viewer to blend his dots together with their mind's eye, Robert Silvers asks his viewers to blend the tiny photos together into one large image.