Natural clay comes from the earth. It is made up of fine-grained particles of rock that are broken down over many years and then mixed with water. Clay can be different colors ranging from grey to red-orange, to brown.
The color of the clay depends on the rocks and minerals that it is made of.
Can you think of things made from clay? Flower pots, plates, cups, bowls, sculptures and bricks are all made from clay.
You can make a pinch pot with clay by making a ball, pressing your thumb into the clay and squeezing it between your finger and your thumb.
The only art tool we will need to make our pinch pots is our hands!
Identify uses of art within one's personal environment
Do you have any art in your home or in your bedroom? Do you have a lamp that is shaped like a dinosaur or a unicorn? A designer made that.
We spent several weeks exploring buildings in art class. But everything so far has been about the outside. Today let's explore the inside of houses. The inside is certainly just as important!
Interpret art by identifying and describing subject matter.
Interpret art by identifying subject matter and describing details. Why do you think that the artist uses expressive colors? How would you feel if you lived in this town?
Expressionists were a group of artists that wanted to show their feelings about the things they painted, not just to make a copy of the things they saw in real life.
Franz Marc painted this picture of two blue horses. Are horses blue? No, but Franz Marc painted them blue to show the world how he felt about horses. He felt that they were special, almost magical creatures.
Wasilly Kandinsky painted these houses using vibrant colors, a lot like the paintings we looked at last week by Enest Kirchner. Do you see in the foreground of the painting the rocks colored purple, green and blue? And notice the beautiful sky in the background, i see pink, red, blue, green and yellow. Almost a rainbow sky. He must have loved painting skies very much.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff painted this portrait of a woman sitting in a chair. When he painted this over 100 years ago, many people did not like it. They found it shocking that he used so many colors, and said, that's not what a person looks like. They didn’t appreciate his imagination and creativity. He didn’t listen to them and kept painting, and now his artwork hangs in museums all over the world and is loved by many.
When we paint our houses, we are going to use expressionist colors.
