Second Grade
Dia De Los Muertos
The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, in particular the Central and South regions, and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere.
Project 1 : Model magic Calavera
We will be creating calavera SCULPTURES out of Model Magic. CALAVERA means sugar skill in English. The element of art that is most important when creating sculptures is form. FORM means the object looks like or is 3D!
Texture
in art refers to the look and feel of the artwork.
Texture is an ELEMENT OF ART!
Arpillera
Arpilleras are brightly colored patchwork pictures made by groups of women (also known as arpilleristas) in Chile. Constructed from simple materials such as burlap and scraps of cloth.The production of arpilleras provided a vital source of income for the arpilleristas.
Art can provide a way for a person to tell about their experiences even when they are afraid to speak out. Art can provide a voice for change, even when one's voice has been silenced. In Santiago, Chile, in the 1970s, a group of impoverished women gathered in secret to create dimensional, appliquéd tapestries using whatever fabric scraps they could find. Their country was in turmoil, and their families torn apart, so they met to share their sorrows and express their stories through the communal art of sewing.
Project 2: Collaged Arpilleras
Using textured fibers we will be collaging arpilleras. A COLLAGE is an artwork created by glueing objects to a surface to create an image.
Weaving
Weaving is a method of textile (fabric) making in which two yarns or threads are interlaced to form a fabric or cloth using the over under method. Other methods of making textiles (fabric) are knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The vertical threads are called the warp and the horizontal threads are the weft or filling with color.
Kente Cloth
(kenten means “basket”) is a hand-woven cloth originally from the Ashanti Kingdom, in Ghana, West Africa.
Project 3 : Plate Weaving
In this art project students will use a painted paper plate to create a weaving using yarn. A weaving is a fabric that is created by passing horizontal WEFT threads over and under vertical WARP threads.
Book for reference: The Spider Weaver (featured below)
Diwali
a Hindu festival of lights, held in the period October to November. It is particularly associated with Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity, and marks the beginning of the fiscal year in India.
The word Diwali means 'rows of lighted lamps'.
Diwali is known as the 'festival of lights' because houses, shops and public places are decorated with small oil lamps called 'diyas'
Mendhi
or henna is a form of body art from India, and many parts of the Middle East in which decorative designs are created on a person's body, using a paste, created from the powdered dry leaves of the henna plant.
Mendhi:henna.mp4
Thali
means plate in Hindi, and refers to the round steel tray used to carry little bowls of rice, vegetables such as cauliflower, potatoes, okra, garbanzos, bread such as roti or papad, yogurt, a bit of chutney, and maybe a sweet dish. The plates are normally decorative with designs and colors.
We will be creating backgrounds of MANDALA's inspired by the decorative designs on Thali plates, using the app Amaziograph. Mandalas are intricate geometric shapes that originated as a Hindu ritual symbol. While they still have a significant connection to religion and spirituality, mandalas now also influence art and are one of the most popular designs for coloring books today.
Project 4: Diwali Mendhi hands
Using the painted skin tone paper, students will collage images of hands on a mandala background inspired by thali plates. Using a brown sharpie to imitate brown henna ink, students will add henna designs onto their painted hands.
Jasper Johns:
Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related topics.
Project 5: The Color of Me Self Portrait
Students will use tempera paint to mix the color of their skin tone. Using the painted paper students will collage a self portrait.
A tessellation is...
when a flat surface, like a floor or a piece of paper, is covered with repeating geometric shapes. The shapes must fit together so that there are no gaps. ... Tiles used to cover a floor create tessellations because the entire surface is covered with tiles that fit exactly together.
M. C. Escher,
was a Dutch graphic artist born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture and tessellations
Project 6: Tessellations
Students will create a tessellation shape that perfectly fits together and repeats. Inside the tessellations students will choose to create patterns that are perfect or that have variety.
Flowers - Georgia O'Keefe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".
