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- 1. ART and HISTORY 1 ART and HISTORY HS Art Accomplished VA:PR6.1.IIa By Lillian Andrew Overview VA:Pr6.1.IIa Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social cultural and political history. Prior to this lesson: Students should be able to identify elements and principles in artworks, analyze and interpret meaning. Teacher will present the art term Context. Context describes the circumstances in which an artwork is created. Teacher will provide examples showing connections between artworks and social, cultural, or political themes. Teacher and students will focus on artwork titled Guernica by Pablo Picasso. Teacher will guide students through readings from various sources covering the artworks context. Teacher will guide students through an analysis of Functional Family. Students will analyze Picture of Garbage by Vik Muiz. Students will select and analyze 3 artworks or artists that connect to social, cultural, and political history. Students will create descriptions for each work explaining the artist/works role in history. Each student will consider alternative perspectives in planning their presentation. Students will present their selections to the class. Students and teacher will evaluate each student presentation and pose questions to prompt students to justify selections. Following this lesson: Students can identify a theme of contemporary society, culture, or politics to inspire an artwork. Students will use various news sources including Newspapers, Internet, TV, and Podcasts. Students will research current events that connect to contemporary social issues, cultural norms or changes, and political news. Students will identify an issue or article to inspire a still life. Students will select 3-4 objects to symbolize their issue or event. Students will arrange still life and use pencils to create a drawing. Objectives Students will be able to § Analyze artworks and identify contextual influences. § Analyze and select 3 artworks that connect to social, cultural, and political history. § Create descriptions for each selection justifying connections between artists or artwork and history. Activities 1. Teacher will introduce Contexts, the circumstances that surround an artwork. Art isn’t made in a vacuum. Artists are inspired by the world Materials Guernica, Pablo Picasso 3rd of May, Francisco Goya Las Meninas, Diego Velasquez The Green Heart, Ellen Lanyon Functional Family, M. Louise Stanly Picture of Garbage, Vik Muniz Other Resources Guernica is painting created by Pablo Picasso for the 1937 worlds fair. The work expresses Picasso’s disgust for the violence in Spain caused by the Spanish Civil War. The artwork Guernica is titled after a small village in Spain with the same name. The village was bombed by German troops lead by Adolf Hitler, in support of the leader of Spain, Francisco Franco. There was no strategic purpose to the bombing. Over a thousand people were killed or injured. Water by Charles Sheeler, is a work created in 1945 around the boom of the Industrial Revolution in America. His work shows a pristine structure that glorifies human ingenuity. The Green Heart by Ellen Lanyon depicts a surreal or fantastical setting featuring a mechanical structure and heart connecting to plant like forms. The work presents ideas about man’s connection with nature.
- 2. ART and HISTORY 2 Resources https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/early-abstraction/cubism/a/picasso-guernica http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/guernica_nav/main_guerfrm.html http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/49.128 around them. Art can have social, political, and cultural themes. 2. Teacher will provide examples for artworks that connect to social, political, or cultural history. Teacher will prompt students to analyze each work identifying dominant elements, principles, subject and mood. Students will consider the artist’s perspective and possible agenda. Students will practice analyzing and identifying contexts that are evident in an artwork. 3. Group Analysis Artworks: 3rd of May by Francisco Goya, Water by Charles Sheeler, The Green Heart by Ellen Lanyon. 4. Teacher and students will read and analyze Guernica by Pablo Picasso. Teacher will use questioning throughout readings to check for understanding. 5. Checks for Understanding Questions: Where was Guernica first presented? What inspired Picasso to create it? What was happening in Spain at the time the artwork was created? 6. Teacher will facilitate an analysis; lead my students, of Functional Family by M. Louis Stanley. 7. Students will independently analyze Picture of Garbage by Vik Muniz. 8. Students will utilize online resources or art books provided, to analyze and select 3 artworks that represent events or ideas from social, political, or cultural history. Students must have one work for each context. Adaptations Advanced students: Select 1 work for each context as well as 1 work that demonstrate ideas from multiple contexts. Students will create an introduction to the collection describing art’s ability to record and illustrate political, cultural and social histories. Beginning students: Will choose form a selection of works and identify which work fits best describing political, social, and cultural histories. Evaluation Students will be assessed by a rubric aligned to the standard. Students must have 3 works selected that reflect social, cultural, and political histories. Students’ selections must be accompanied by a detailed description justifying their selection. Picture of Garbage by Vik Muniz is a work from a series titled Wasteland. Muniz has created a few series of works inspiring social awareness and change. Wasteland is a project Muniz took on after seeing the poverty in a community near a landfill. The community was filled with workers from the landfill. Muniz created portraits of the workers with trash from the landfill and then auctioned the works off donating all of the profit to the community.