Perkins Elementary Lesson Plan

Henri Matisse Beasts of the Sea (1869-1954)

Your Name: Subject: Art Lesson Title: Henri Matisse (On-ree Mah-tees) Paper Cut Out Collages Materials Needed: 12 x 18 construction paper, glue, scissors, paper scraps, various colored construction paper (precut into 6 x 9 squares), crayons, pastels Prerequisite Skills: Cutting, gluing (dots close to the edge but not right on the edge not in the middle), layering, positive and negative space, Standard(s): 1. Content Standard: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes Achievement Standard: Students a. know the differences between materials, techniques, and processes b. describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different responses 3. Content Standard: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas Achievement Standard: Students a. explore and understand prospective content for works of art b. select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning Sarah Skidmore Grade Level: 3rd Grade

Lesson Objective(s): 1) Create a positive/negative abstract collage. 2) Demonstrate knowledge of color and composition by creating an arrangement of color paper cutouts without a definitive sketch or drawing. 3) Understand the terms Post Impressionism, Collage, Pattern, Abstract, Fauvism wild beasts, no order or control, Positive Space, and Negative Space

1. Provide objectives: (What are students going to learn?) 1) Students will learn to identify between complimentary and cool/warm colors by incorporating all of them in the piece and being able to describe where they are 2) Students will use the positive and negative images they are cut to complete their collage Time: 5 minutes 2. Demonstrate knowledge or skill: (Input/Modeling by the teacher) Demonstrate holding one piece of the 6 x9 colored paper vertically for a vertical picture, horizontally for a horizontal picture. Starting at the bottom of the piece, demonstrate how to cut an interesting abstract shape, eventually returning to the bottom of the piece. DO NOT CUT THROUGH PAPER until you return to beginning of where you started. Be sure to end with only 2 pieces of paper. This should result in a cutout or positive shape, and also a leftover or negative shape, both of which are in on piece. Show students how to reposition the positive shape within the negative shape (fit it together like a puzzle) then FLIP the positive shape down beneath the negative one and glue it into place, creating a mirror image affect. Ask them to do the same. Repeat with another colored piece of construction paper. Time: 10 minutes 3. Provide guided practice: (Guided practice with the teacher) Have students complete the above cutting procedure with the teachers assistance on manila paper. Time: 5 minutes 4. Check for understanding and provide student feedback: (How will you know students understand the skill or concept? How will they know they get it?) We will have a class discussion about what positive and negative shapes are and how to create them. Time: 5 5: Provide extended practice and transfer: (Independent practice of the skill) After students have demonstrated their understanding of positive and negative abstract shapes through the first guided practice on scrap/manila paper, they will be able to complete the rest of their shapes individually on colored construction paper. Students will glue one of their negative shapes in a top corner of their background paper, lining up the edges neatly (as demonstrated). Be sure to mention that they need to line up

the background paper in the same direction that they cut their smaller papers first. Example: Cut vertically, have your background vertical, so the cutouts fit onto the background. Time: 20 6. Assessment / Closure: (How do you evaluate student progress or provide closure to this lesson?) We will continue to work on this for the next few days, going back and adding more shapes and lines. Adding more shapes can help pull the picture together or unify it. Matisse sometimes used small repeating shapes to create a pathway for our eyes; point these out within his pictures and demonstrate similar ways of using repeating shapes to create unity and interest. Mention that they may want to create small positive/negative shapes to glue onto their artwork.

Henri Matisse Sorrow of the Kings (1952)

2 years before he passed away Time: 5