Expressive Houses-Day 2

 Expressionist Houses

Responding

8. Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

A. Interpret

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.

Tempera Paint using expressive color

alternate painting lesson tempera block

My Blue is Happy: A Book About Expressive Colors

Explore Buildings and Communities: Expressive Houses

 Expressive Houses

Create	2. Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
		C. Creating Interactions with Art	Create art that represents natural and constructed environments

Have you ever seen a beautiful house or tall skyscraper and thought "I would like to paint a picture of that"

Or maybe you have made up a dream house in your mind, and would like to share your idea with others.

Many artists show houses in their work. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner liked to paint houses uses very expressive colors. That means not real life colors, but joyful, interesting and exciting colors.

What colors do you see. Can you use beautiful colors to design a an imaginary or realistic house?

Can you add details like you drew last week? 

Windows     Door     Roof     Chimney     Doorknobs     Shutters     Fence     Flowers     Garage

"The Green House"

"Houses in Dresden"

"The Big Orange Splot"

Art lesson