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| Lesson
Title: Georgia O’Keeffe’s floral paintings
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of Art: Poppy, Georgia O’Keeffe
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| Curriculum
Connections(s): Visual Arts, Earth Science, Geography
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| Audience: Grades 4 & 5 |
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Lesson
ID: edu288
Date Lesson Entered: 07/03/2005 |
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| Main
Idea: |
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Students will discuss the differences between realistic and abstract art by focusing on Georgia O’Keeffe’s work. |
| Objectives:
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Students will:
1. Discuss realism vs. abstract art.
2. Learn how to create abstract art.
3. Appreciate how a simple composition can become a complex image.
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| Hooks
(a question or object used to interest and focus the audience):
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Supply a large surprise box and let students pull items to be drawn (flowers, bones, hood ornaments) from it. |
| Getting
Ready Activity: |
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Talk about Georgia O’Keeffe and her works of art |
| Exploring
the Work(s) of Art: |
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Questions–
1. How is abstract art different from realism?
2. How is her work related to photography?
3. Can you site exaggerated art in your environment?
Activities–
1. Draw an image such as a flower, skull, ect. that can be blown up into abstract art.
2. Trace this image onto a transparency.
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| Follow-up
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Trace transparency drawing onto overhead projector (try to have a least 2 or 3 projectors in your room). Have students in pairs. Assist each other in drawing this on a large paper that has been taped onto the wall. Paint or color this enlarged image |
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Group critique. What did they learn and what did they like about the assignment? Were they successful? Compare and contrast to Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings. |
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Students can do the same idea on Styrofoam or use other mediums. They can do a black and white study in values. |
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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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