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Title: Bigger Flowers
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of Art: Poppy, 1927, Georgia O’Keeffe
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| Curriculum
Connections(s): Art, science and reading
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| Audience: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade |
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Lesson
ID: edu287
Date Lesson Entered: 07/03/2005 |
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| Main
Idea: |
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Observe and compare real flowers and artists’ paintings of flowers. |
| Objectives:
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1. Discuss a flower and its parts.
2. Discuss color (color wheel).
3. Introduce vocabulary.
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| Hooks
(a question or object used to interest and focus the audience):
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Stuffed bee, real and artificial flowers- discussing those things- what, where, how and why. |
| Getting
Ready Activity: |
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Use flower books from media center in classroom and discuss favorite flowers. Focus on the poppy and ask what students know about plants. Vocabulary- Petal, Stem, Stamen, Pollen, Leaves, Roots, and flower names. |
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the Work(s) of Art: |
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Questions–
1. What colors do you see?
2. What shades?
3. What shapes?
4. Size? Are we able to see this much of the flower with the naked eye?
5. What is the background of the painting?
Activities–
1. Look and compare with a magnifying glass- real and painted flower- record observations.
2. Draw, color, or paint a large flower using real flowers as examples.
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| Follow-up
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Grade 1- Write a short paragraph about their flower.
Grades 2 & 3- Write 2 paragraphs about a flower using books provided and their pictures. |
| Assessment
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1. Label a flower picture- re: vocabulary words.
2. Label and color a color wheel.
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| Comments:
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Discuss Georgia O’Keeffe- show other works by her and books about her. |
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| Overview
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Goergia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887. She was a painter and draftsman. She decided to be an artist at the age of 12.
When she was 18, she attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and then two years later went to New York to study oil, pastel and watercolor painting at the Art Students League and worked with William Merritt Chase.
Between the ages of 21 and 23, O’Keeffe worked as a freelance commercial artist, drawing lace and embroidery advertisements in Chicago. She returned to New York and became increasingly aware of works by Picasso, Braque and Picabia. She began making large charcoal abstractions of things in her mind. These abstractions: ovoid, ellipse, vertical stalk, spiral, seedpod, tendril and arabesque would later be the basic shapes in her paintings.
O’Keeffe had her first one-woman show, at the age of 30, at photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery “291.” They married and he exhibited her work yearly in New York until his death. During their relationship, O’Keeffe knew many famous photographers such as Edward J. Steichen and Paul Strand.
She started to use details and close-ups to create her abstract and expressive paintings. At 42, she began spending many of her summers in New Mexico, reinvigorating her art with the colors, forms and themes of the Southwest. Twenty years later, she permanently moved to Abiquiu, New Mexico and lived there until her death in 1986. |
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