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Title - Landscape Collage
By - Cecilia Elizondo & Rudy Valdez
Primary Subject - Art
Secondary Subjects - Art
Grade Level - 3-6
McAllen-Progreso, TX.
Timeline: open
TLW: create an original collage, using organic forms and shapes in overlapping manner to produce a landscape collage design. TLW also be able to recognize the importance of how art uses these elements in their work to create depth in 2-dimensional space.
Materials/Resources:
Glue
scissors
construction paper
var. landscape prints
optional: baby-wipes (for cleaning messy glue fingers)
visuals
Vocabulary:
space, overlap, depth, landscape, collage
Art Historical/Cultural:
artists Georgia O'Keefe and Fredrick Church
Focus:
Classroom walls were transformed into mural-size landscape by Mr. Valdez and myself using butcher paper.
*Allow students to "take-in'" the art and then
DESCRIBE:
"What things do you see in the picture?"
DECIDE:
"Where have you seen a scene like this before?"
ANALYZE:
discuss elements/principles in the work;
*Introduce landscape and how these design concepts work together to create a landscape.
*Discuss space and introduce overlap.
Have two students as examples, stand one in front and slightly aside of the other to show how part of one form covers part of another
*Introduce landscape work of Georgia O'Keefe and/or Fredrick Church. [Depending on time, you may or may not want to go into some artist background info]
"How have they used overlap?"...etc.
INTERPRET: "What feeling do you get from this work? Why do you think the artist chose to paint this landscape?"...etc.
Independent Activity:
Have students cut and then arrange forms using own ideas or from pics from Texas (or other) Parks & Wildlife magazines
Students work independently arranging and gluing forms to create illusion of space and depth
Close:
Class "positive" critique of peer work
Enrichment:
Students write a creative story about their work
[ex: "Stranded in the Desert" "One Stormy Evening"]
Video on real Landscapes around the world
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