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Title - Argosy - Robert McCall - A lesson in a Floating City
By - Stephanie Slatner
Primary Subject - Art
Secondary Subjects -
Grade Level - 2
2. Concept: Collecting ideas through sketches helps to collect ideas from your imagination before creating a final piece of artwork.
National Content Standard: 2B. Students describe how different expressive features and organizational principles cause different responses.
Art SOL: 2.8. The students will identify and use a variety of sources for art ideas, including nature, people, images, imagination, and resource material.
Cultural Reference: North American Art 1900-1999 Robert McCall - Argosy
Defined Vocabulary:
Environment - The circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded
Fantasy - The free play of imagination
3. Affective Objective - The student will imagine a new world and way of living in outer space.
Cognitive Objective - The student will understand how using your imagination can inspire art.
Psychomotor Objective - The student will experiment with different ways of using colored chalk.
4. Instruction:
Motivation:
Today we are going to learn about a very interesting person named Robert McCall. He has a great imagination too. McCall has done illustrations, which are drawings and designs, for many different reasons. He created artwork for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. He also has done a lot to shape how we think of outer space by making art for NASA.
Presentation of the concept.
A. Can someone read the concept for today? Who will volunteer to change it into their own words to guess what we are going to be learning about today?
B. Show sketches that Robert McCall did for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, just like the ones you will be doing today to sort out your ideas. What do you think could be going on in these scenes?
C. This Picture is called Argosy, which is a city that floats above the earth that McCall thought of with his imagination. He was able to organize his ideas with sketches to come up with such a complicated city. What do you think life would be like in a giant floating city? Would you enjoy being able to change the view from your window? What would you enjoy about living in a floating city? What would you dislike? Why?
Demonstration
A. Show Demonstration model and finish with the children's ideas. Show the different uses of chalk and ask children to experiment with their chalk.
B. Make a list on the board of things that you think you might find in outer space.
Artistic Activity
A. Children will use colored chalks to create an imaginative idea of an outer space environment.
B. Demonstration model is a picture with chalk onto black paper that shows an interpretation of a space environment.
C. Transparencies, Robert McCall - Thumbnail Sketches for 2001: A Space Odyssey and "Argosy"
D. If you are having trouble thinking of new ideas for your outer space environment, how could you change the environment you live in now that to make it look more futuristic.
Closure
A. Who had a really good idea from their imagination that they would like to share?
B. How did the sketches that you did in the beginning of the lesson help you finish your final artwork?
C. Robert McCall would be really proud of all of you and I am sure that NASA would like to have seen your ideas too! You all worked really hard today and we learned a lot about sorting through our ideas in our heads with sketches and how to stretch our imagination. Next week we will use our new sketching expertise to work out our ideas again!
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