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Unit: Surrealism

Project: Picture Grid

Featured Artist: Paul Klee

Objectives:
1. Identify examples of Klee’s work.
2. Use colors to distinguish shapes from a background.
3. Evaluate the use of color in artist and student work.

Materials Provided:
Portrait Printed Paper, 9”x12”
Colored Pencils

Vocabulary:
1. Grid: is a two-dimensional structure made up of a series of intersecting vertical and horizontal axes used to structure content.
2. Cubism: characterized in painting as objects that are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form; the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints.

Motivation:
1. Show and discuss works of Paul Klee.
2. Demonstrate all steps of procedure before students begin.
3. Show students the finished product.

Instruction:
1. Choose a portrait containing grid lines which have separated the entire picture into small squares. Begin coloring within one of the squares that is separated by the gridlines.







2. Color one section within the square that has been closed off by a line. Color the other sections within the same square with different colors. Try using bright colors to distinguish the object. Each section within the square should contain a different color.




3. Move from one block to the next constantly changing colors for each area in each block or use only one color if there are no lines within the block. Try to surround one color with many different ones so the colored squares are distinct from one another.





4. Continue coloring each block until entire grid is filled, revealing your original portrait. The main object should still stand out against the background regardless of the colors used in each square if each section was correctly represented with a different color.







Evaluation:
1. Use color correctly to create cubism effect?
2. Use correct techniques to produce clean borders?
3. Evaluate completed work?



 
 




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