Overview:
Students tend to think that images, painting, and drawings are considered admirable if they look naturalistic.
This unit studies how artists in the early 1900’s wanted to depict more than just one view of an object within a single composition.
The unit therefore steers students towards a complex composition where more than one angle of a subject can be designed on a two dimensional surface. Throughout the unit students are encouraged to be independent thinkers and inquirers by utilizing various researching and planning methods. Students are expected to develop and refine their ideas in sketchbooks or individual planning sheets in order to help them develop compositional ideas into a finished Cubism painting. Planning stages should demonstrate drawing, from both primary and secondary sources, development of compositional studies, fracturing of the picture plane, colour mixing and tonal rendering.
Students also expand their knowledge and understanding of colour theory and paint application.
Students have the opportunity to experiment with creative approaches, to solve problems, experiment with ideas, materials, tools and techniques, and try out alternatives.
In this unit, students will complete:
Formative Tasks-
- Colour theory exercises.
- Construction line drawing techniques.
- Lessons on compositional layout.
- Observational Drawings of musical instruments: Guitars, drums, percussion, violins, flutes, recorders, etc.
- Tonal rendering exercises in lead pencil and coloured pencil and acrylic paint.
- Students research the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and assess their use of figures, compositions, forms and fractured spaces.
- Quiz on Cubism and Colour Theory
- On-going verbal dialogue in lessons between teacher and student critiquing the developmental process.
Summative tasks-
- The Developmental Process found within their Developmental Workbook
- The final presentation of a framed artwork.
- Presentation of their research project.
- Reflection and Evaluation document
Students tend to think that images, painting, and drawings are considered admirable if they look naturalistic.
This unit studies how artists in the early 1900’s wanted to depict more than just one view of an object within a single composition.
The unit therefore steers students towards a complex composition where more than one angle of a subject can be designed on a two dimensional surface. Throughout the unit students are encouraged to be independent thinkers and inquirers by utilizing various researching and planning methods. Students are expected to develop and refine their ideas in sketchbooks or individual planning sheets in order to help them develop compositional ideas into a finished Cubism painting. Planning stages should demonstrate drawing, from both primary and secondary sources, development of compositional studies, fracturing of the picture plane, colour mixing and tonal rendering.
Students also expand their knowledge and understanding of colour theory and paint application.
Students have the opportunity to experiment with creative approaches, to solve problems, experiment with ideas, materials, tools and techniques, and try out alternatives.
In this unit, students will complete:
Formative Tasks-
- Colour theory exercises.
- Construction line drawing techniques.
- Lessons on compositional layout.
- Observational Drawings of musical instruments: Guitars, drums, percussion, violins, flutes, recorders, etc.
- Tonal rendering exercises in lead pencil and coloured pencil and acrylic paint.
- Students research the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and assess their use of figures, compositions, forms and fractured spaces.
- Quiz on Cubism and Colour Theory
- On-going verbal dialogue in lessons between teacher and student critiquing the developmental process.
Summative tasks-
- The Developmental Process found within their Developmental Workbook
- The final presentation of a framed artwork.
- Presentation of their research project.
- Reflection and Evaluation document