Art 7 Newsletter Unit 4

ART 7 CHRONICLE

UNIT 4 NEWSLETTER

This is Portrait Painting

ART MATERIALS

RESOURCES

UNIT OVERVIEW

ARTIST HIGHLIGHTS

STAR ARTISTS

ART ACTIVITIES

ART MATERIALS

Comet's Closet

provided by CCA

• colored pencils • drawing pencils • pencil sharpener • sketchbook • soap eraser • white drawing paper • construction paper • glue stick • liquid glue • scissors • acrylic paints • canvas boards • paint brushes • black marker • colored markers

MATERIALS PROVIDED

For this class, you should have received an art kit in the mail. This kit should have arrived with the rest of your school supplies. If you are missing your art supplies please log in to Comet's Closet and request for them to be sent to you. They can be found under Curriculum Packing Lists.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

RESOURCES

(570) 323-1182 ext 16140lconklin@ccaeducate.me book time with me

Post-Impressionism

An example of the Post-Impressionist Portrait painting project created in the style of Vincent van Gogh!

During this unit we will learn about Post-Impressionism and the key artists of the movement! For our project we will be creating a self-portrait painting in the style of one of the five key artists! Some painting styles we will learn about will include impasto and pointillism. Students will learn about facial proportions and the teacher will guide them through the step by step process of drawing a face.

Unit Padlet

Here are links for each step of the Post-Impressionist Portrait

Timelapse of Unit 4 Project

Step 1: Draw a Face

UNIT 4

Step 2: Painting Portrait

Additional Project Videos

this is portrait painting

ARTIST HIGHTLIGHTS

Paul Gauguin

georges Seurat

Post-Impressionist Artists

vincent van gogh

Henri de Toulouse-lautrec

Paul Cezanne

“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.”

Vincent van Gogh

STAR ARTISTS

featured artworks

Let's celebrate your peers on their excellent work on the Unit 3 Mixed Media Message Artwork!

Auto DrawAI Drawing

Van Gogh Beat the Clock Challenge

COLORING BOOKS

Vincent van Gogh, Roses

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Paul Cezanne

PAUL CEZANNE, DISH OF APPLES

PAUL GAUGUIN, THE SIESTA

Zoom into Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night'

EXTRA CREDIT

There are a bunch of different opportunities to earn extra credit throughout the semester. See the extra credit board for more details!

ART ACTIVITIES

These videos break down each step more thouroughly. If that is something you would prefer start at step 1 and expand each video so you can see each detail.

MORE DETAILED VIDEOS

STEP THREE

STEP ONE

STEP FIVE

STEP FOUR

STEP TWO

Paul Cezanne

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He intensely studied whatever he was painting and brought it back to the simplest geometric form it could be reduced to. He used natural, neutral colors in a bit darker shades than the other post-impressionist artists.

Paul Cézanne. Self Portrait with Beret. 1899. Oil on canvas. 25.3 x 21 in. Museum of Fine Art Boston.​

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

• Nightlife was his favorite subject and he would often paint scenes from the cabaret. Toulouse-Lautrec experimented with color, sometimes using unnatural colors to express the mood and atmosphere, and his brushstrokes were loose and sketchy.

• He later established himself as a poster artist and was hired to create lithographic posters that advertised famous performers of the time.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. These Ladies in the Refectory. 1893-94. Oil on cardboard. 28.7 x 31.7 in. Szépmuvészeti Museum, Budapest

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Babylone d'Allemagne. 1894. Lithograph. 74.8 x 45.9 in. MoMa

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Georges Seurat

• Seurat's experimental style became known as pointillism. Seurat used tiny dots of color as his brushstrokes, painted carefully next to each other in a painstakingly deliberate way so the viewer would see the colors as blended together.
• His painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (above left) is one of his most famous works and is thought to be iconic of the nineteenth century.

Georges Seurat. The River Seine at La Grande-Jatte. 1888. Oil on canvas. 25.6 x 32.3 in. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.​

Georges Seurat. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. 1884-86. Oil on canvas. 82 x 121 in. Art Institute of Chicago.​

Vincent van Gogh

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• The most famous of the post-impressionists is Vincent van Gogh. Though he is renowned as an artist today, he was not well respected in his time and sold only one painting during his short life.
• He began to experiment with bright colors and loose, swirling brushstrokes.
• He would often paint very thickly in a style known as impasto. This is a painting technique in which the paint is applied to the canvas very thickly, sometimes with a palette knife. It gives the painting actual texture when dry.

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Artworks

• From an early age, Paul Gauguin was influenced by South American art. Much of the culture inspired him in his painting, and his work took on more symbolic meaning.
• Gauguin’s style began to evolve into painting with built-up flat layers of simplified colors and solid, clearly defined forms, often with bold outlines.​

Paul Guaguin. Tahitian Women on the Beach. 1891. 27.2 x 35.8 in. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.​

Paul Gauguin

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