Children at the FSA (Farm Security Administration)

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Zoom-In Inquiry
Designed for a Middle School Art Class Students
should have prior knowledge of the Elements and
Principles of Art
Children at the FSA (Farm Security
Administration) Camelback Farms inspect the
photographer's camera, Phoenix, Arizona Library
of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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What Might Primary Sources Tell Us About Art?
Gas ration stamps being printed, Bureau of
Engraving Printing Library of Congress Prints
and Photographs Division.

• Determine what you see and what questions you
  might ask to.
• get the BIG picture

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Do you see a texture? Can you describe it in
words?
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Identify any new Elements of Art that were used
by the artist.
Make a hypothesis about what the complete art
work will look like.
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Do you think your hypothesis is right? If you
said no, why did you change your mind?
What color scheme did the artist use?
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What do you think this woman is doing?
Did the artist use contrast in their work? How?
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What does the white object represents?
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Did the artist use pattern in their work?

• What was repeated?
• Line
• Shape
• color

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Can you see the second object in white? What do
you think it is?
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Was your original hypothesis correct?
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What is the center of interest?
How does the artist use emphasis to draw your eye
first to the center of interest?
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What type of balance has the artist used in their
work?

• asymmetrical
• symmetrical
• radial

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Are the objects in the art work in proper
proportion to one another?
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Was the artist successful in making the art work
have the feeling that everything works together
and looks like it fits.

• What is this principal of art called?
• variety
• pattern
• unity

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Understanding the Big Picture!
What makes a great work of art?

• Elements of Art
• Color
• Form
• Line
• Shape
• Space
• Texture
• Value
• Principles of Art
• Balance
• Contrast
• Emphasis
• Proportion
• Pattern
• Rhythm
• Unity
• Variety

 

• Would this painting be as interesting if any
  of the elements or principles of art we discussed
  were missing?

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Understanding Goal

• Artists often follow the elements and principles
  of art in order to create great works of art.

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Mary Cassatt The fitting 1 print col. dry
point, soft-ground etching and aquatint 37.5 x
25.7 cm. (1891) Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division.
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• Additional information about Mary Cassatt is on
  the following slides.
• Teachers may choose or choose not to incorporate
  it in as part of the Zoom-In Inquiry activity.

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How are these two art works the same? How are the
Elements and Principles of Art similar in both
works?.
Do you think Mary Cassatt was influenced by
Japanese art?
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Based on the clues on this slide were you correct
about the Japanese influence in Cassatts art
work?
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Art Trivia Question
What was Mary Cassatt's favorite subject for her
art work?
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Does this help?
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Women and children were her favorite theme
Maternal caress Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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Art Work by Mary CassattLibrary of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division.
In the omnibus, 1891
Mother's kiss / Mary Cassatt
The bath
Gathering fruit
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• Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) is an artist of
  surprises--mostly small, but often subtle and
  profound. Known to this day as a "painter of
  mothers and children," a sobriquet given in her
  lifetime, she approached this, her favorite
  subject, with the surprisingly unsentimental but
  sympathetic clarity she used to address all her
  subjects. Born into a well-to-do, fairly
  conventional American family, Cassatt became a
  genteel rebel, traveling and living alone,
  partaking of the bohemian life in Paris while
  developing a magnificent painter's eye and
  businesswoman's head. She was the only American
  (and one of only three women) to exhibit with the
  Impressionists in Paris--becoming close friends
  with some of them--but moved very much in her own
  direction after that group splintered, coming to
  draw on such disparate inspirations as Symbolism
  and Japanese prints. Mary Cassatt Modern Woman
  and its accompanying catalogue show the many
  sides of this remarkable woman an artist--and an
  independent artist at that--at a time when no
  "respectable" woman would consider that
  possibility a strong-willed, tough-cored
  businesswoman and influential tastemaker and an
  expatriate who nonetheless always remained
  identified as an American.

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Differentiated Performance Art Assessments

1. Create a one color block print of a mother and
   child. Incorporate the use of at least one
   element and one principle of art
2. Create a one color block print of a mother and
   child based on inspiration from a Japanese print.
   Incorporate the use of at least two elements of
   art and two principles of art.
3. Create a multi-color block print of a mother and
   child based on inspiration from a Japanese print.
   Incorporate the use of at least three elements
   and three principles of art.

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National Standards for Arts Education

• Content Standard 5
• Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics
  and merits of their work and the work of others
• Content Standard 4
• Understanding the visual arts in relation to
  history and cultures

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Elements Principles of Art Other Art Concepts Media Styles
Elements of Art Color Form Line Shape Space Texture Value Principles of Art Balance Contrast Emphasis Proportion Pattern Rhythm Unity Variety   Analogous colors Atmospheric Perspective Color symbolism Color wheel Complementary colors Cool colors Depth Focal point Golden Rectangle Intermediate colors Local color Mood Model Neutral colors Perspective Plein air Portrait Primary colors Secondary colors Shade Symbol Tertiary colors Tint Warm colors Acrylic paint Brush Crayon Fresco Oil Paint Paint Paper Pastel Pen Pencil Photography Pigments Tempera Abstract Baroque Byzantine Cubism Dada Fauvism Futurism Gothic Greek Hudson River School Impressionism Luminist Neoclassism Op Art Pop Art Post-Impressionism Pre-Raphaelites Realism Renaissance Roman Romanesque Romanticism Rococo Surrealism
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Useful Links

• http//www.sanford-artedventures.com/index.html
• http//www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cassatt/
• http//www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/cassatt/cass
  att-main1.html
• http//www.metmuseum.org/explore/cassatt/html/inde
  x.html
• http//www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cassatt.html
• http//www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus1d.htm
• http//www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/marycassa
  tt.html
• http//www.nmwa.org/collection/Profile.asp?LinkID
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