Overview: Students will investigate abstract and nonobjective art through the artist Tomory Dodge. He uses both styles to communicate meaning and emotions through the use of lines and colors. Students will create a nonobjective collage that uses primary colors, secondary colors, complementary colors, or tertiary colors.  They will then practice drawing in one-point perspective and create a 3d looking form out of shapes. 

Goals: 1PE Describe how art and design elements and principles are used in artworks to produce certain visual effects and create meaning

2PR Experiment with a variety of techniques and working methods when creating an original work of art.

4RE Defend artistic decisions using appropriate visual art vocabulary.

Objectives: Perceiving/ Knowing: Students will investigate abstract and nonobjective art through the artist Tomory Dodge who uses both styles to communicate meaning and emotions through the use of lines and colors. 

Producing/ Performing: Students will create a nonobjective collage that uses a primary color, secondary color, and a tertiary color and that is based on the artist Tomory Dodge.

Responding/ Reflecting: Students will either defend why Tomory Dodge’s art would be considered art using appropriate visual vocabulary. 

Questions:  What are primary, secondary, and tertiary colors? How do you use line to create one point perspective? 

Language: primary, secondary, tertiary colors, one point perspective