UNIT 7: Keith Haring Pop Figure Mural

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(s) and MATERIALS:

Essential Questions:

What is shape?
What is the function of shape?
How does Keith Haring use shapes in his work?
How will you use Keith Haring's technique and style as well as the understanding of shape to create your mural design?

Materials:

IPad
Pencil
Eraser
Colored Pencils and Crayons

STANDARDS

STANDARDS:

7th GRADE

Creating:

1.1 Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.

2.1 Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.

2.3 Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.

3.0 Reflect on and explain important information about personal artist statement or another format.

Responding:

7.2 Analyze multiple ways that images influence specific audiences.

8th GRADE

Creating:

1.1 Document early stages of the creative process visually and/or verbally in traditional or contemporary media.

2.1 Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.

2.3 Select, organize and design images and words to make visually clear and compelling presentations.

3.0 Apply relevant criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for a work of art or design in progress.

Responding:

7.2 Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.

OBJECTIVE(S)

PROJECT OBJECTIVE:

To understand better the function of shape, you will be designing a pop figure mural using Keith Haring's technique and style that depicts a themed concept.

KEY TERMS

KEY TERMS:

Shape:
A closed line; flat.

Pop Art:
- Art inspired by or made from consumer goods, mass media, and popular culture.
Theme:
- A central idea, theme, subject matter, or message in a piece of literature or artwork.
Mural:
- A painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall.
Concept:
- An idea or plan; theme
Symbol:
- Usually a solid, recognizable thing—an animal, a plant, an object, etc.—that stands for something.

PROJECT DIRECTIONS

DIRECTIONS:

For this project, you will design a pop figure mural using Keith Haring's technique and style that depicts a themed concept of your choice. Refer to the examples below for ideas. Follow and check off the steps below to ensure that you are completing this project to the best of your ability.
1. Choose a Theme:
  1. Theme: A central idea or subject matter in a piece of literature or artwork.
  2. Choose 1 of the themes I have listed on the class website
2. Circle Map:
  1. You will list out symbols that represent your theme using a BUBBLE MAP. You will complete this bubble map prior to starting the final draft.
  2. You will need a minimum of 5 or more symbols!

Keith Haring Pop Figure Mural Project DUE WEDNESDAY (11/20) on Google Classroom @ 11:59 PM!

EXAMPLES and RESOURCES

THEME IDEAS:

Identity crisis
Power and authority
Justice vs. injustice
Environmental issues
Love vs. hate
Beauty vs. ugliness (What defines these?)
Equality vs. Inequality
Man vs. nature
Women's Rights vs. Men's Rights
Bullying Issues
Defining Art
Corruption
Heroism
Capitalism (effect on the individual)
Change vs. tradition
Chaos vs. order
Dangers of Ignorance (knowledge vs. ignorance)
Evils of racism
Gender roles (stereotypes)
Nationalism (complications)
Oppression (of culture, peoples, etc.)
Power of silence vs. power of voice
Technology in society (good or bad?)
Working class struggles
Poverty
Pride and downfall
Isolationism (hazards)
Power of language
Crime and guilt
The American Dream (does it still exist?)
The problem of Immigrant identity (do say we American and forget where we come from?)
Fairness
Alienation
Inhumanity
Forgiveness
Regret
Opportunity
Education
Stages of Life
The value and purposes of dreams

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