Term Papers on GEORGES SEURAT AND POINTILLISM

Term Paper Title	GEORGES SEURAT AND POINTILLISM
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GEORGES SEURAT AND POINTILLISM

REVISED LESSON PLAN

Overview: Students learn about Georges Seurat and the importance of pointillism as a technique used by artists.  Students analyze how Seurat created A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and how artistic elements (line, shape, color and texture) are incorporated into this masterpiece.  Students make their own pointillism painting demonstrating their understanding of color, pointillism technique and composition.

Goal:  To introduce the technique of pointillism.  To create form by using color. Introducing color theories.  Create brilliant shimmering colors by not hand mixing  but by placing next to each other.

Unit Objectives:

q       Students will examine Georges Seurat’s, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by using investigational art criticism.  Art is Inquiry.

q       Students will explain George Seurat’s artworks from Paris, the style of his work (pointillism, neo-impressionism or divisionism), major period (post-impressionism) subject matter (impressionistic scene) and symbols (Art in Context)

q       Students will research Georges Seurat and his techniques and write one page on their findings.  Art in Context

q       Students will explain the technique of pointillism and color theory

q       Students will view examples of Seurat’s artworks and explain how these samples exemplify the use of line, shape, color and texture.  Art in Context.

q       Students will create a painting based on the style of Georges Seurat.

q       Students will self-evaluate their own design by description, analysis, interpretation and judgement.

q       Attendance, Participation and work in class.

ART AS INQUIRY ACTIVITY

BE AN ART CRITIC!!!  USING YOUR CREATIVE MINDS, ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ABOUT GEORGES SEURAT’S  ‘A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRANDE JATTE’

1.      Describe the subject matter and the objects in the background.

2.      Analyze how Georges Seurat arranged the painting (composition, form, color)  What are the major shapes he used (circles, squares, triangles, other)?  Are the shapes organic, geometric or both?  What colors did Seurat use in the painting? Complementary (colors that lie opposite each other on the color wheel)?  Analogous (colors next to one another on the wheel)?  Or other?

3.      Technique:  How did he make the painting? (patterns, flat shapes, contrast, color).  What materials did he use?

4.      Interpret:  What is this painting’s meaning or message?  What does this piece symbolize?  What mood do the colors convey?

5.      Judge the painting with the following explanations.  You can choose more than one.

q       The painting experiments with unusual shapes, colors or materials (formalistic)

q       The painting communicates meaning and symbolic qualities (expressive)

q       The painting has different functions (for protection, for praying, for protest, for education, other)

q       The painting is realistic and represents a particular person or thing (representational)

ART CRITICISM ASSESSMENT TOOL (SCORING RUBRIC AND CRITERIA)

Exceptional:  The answers provided clear evidence that the student understood how to describe, analyze, interpret, judge with reference to some art theories.

Competent:  The answers provided good evidence that the student understood how to describe, analyze, interpret, judge with reference to one art theory.

Partial:  The answers provided some evidence that the student understood how to describe, analyze, interpret and judge somewhat.

CREATING ART ACTIVITY

CREATE AN IMPRESSIONISTIC LANDSCAPE SCENE USING POINTILLISM

Procedure:

·        Review the term “pointillism” (technique of portraying the play of light by using tiny brush strokes of contrasting colors.  The eye optically blends the colors together)

·        For subject matter, create an open landscape with a background, middleground and foreground.  Use pictures for...

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