1. 1st Grade Core Knowledge Visual Art Component
Art from Long Ago, Elements of Art,
Kinds of Pictures: Portrait, Still Life, Mural

2. Visual Art as a Core Knowledge Subject
Art from Long Ago
Elements of Art
Color
Line
Shape
Texture
Kinds of Pictures
Portrait
Still Life
Mural

3. “…your child will come to understand that, while art is doing, it is also seeing and thinking.
By looking closely at art, and talking about it, your child will begin to develop a love of art and a habit of enjoying it in thoughtful, active ways.”
-E.D. Hirsh Jr. from What a First Grader Needs to Know

4. Media Cast New videos that will help 1st Grade this year include but are not limited to:
Who is the Artist?
Cezanne
Van Gogh
Seurat
Degas
Renoir
Cassatt
Benton
Hopper
Wood
Art in the Classroom
Gyotaku
The Walch Art Series
The Art of the Near East and Ancient Egypt
Masks from Many Cultures
Linnea in Monet’s Garden

5. School Wide Art Show
The winners of the individual school art shows will be framed and displayed downtown at the Center for the Arts May 2.

6. Think Outside the Box
Stay in the Circle

7. Sit Up
Lean Forward
Activate Your Mind
Nod Your Head
Track your Teacher.

8. Safety First

9. “Always come to school in clothes you are ready to learn in. ” - Mrs
“Always come to school in clothes you are ready to learn in.” - Mrs. Cliburn 2nd Grade Teacher

10. The law of the echo.

11. “For the first grader, art should mostly take the form of doing: drawing, painting, cutting and pasting, working with clay and other materials.
Beyond looking at art and talking about [art] do try to provide your child with materials and opportunities to be a practicing artist!”
- E.D. Hirsh Jr. from What a First Grader Needs to Know

12. Portfolio Fold in half Write your name, grade level & school
in big block letters with the big markers
Fill the Space – Be Creative

13. My Portfolio

14. My 1st Grade Student Portfolio

15. Quarter 1

16. Looking Good: Portraits
Have you had your picture taken at school?
Is there a picture of you on a wall or shelf at home?
Then that’s your portrait.
That’s what we call a picture of a person.

17. Leonardo da Vinci Portraits can be
Taken with a camera
They can be drawn
They can be painted.
Perhaps the most famous portrait in the world is the Mona Lisa.
It was painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci [dah VIN-chee] about five hundred years ago.
“Mona Lisa”

18. Mona Lisa Look at the expression on Mona Lisa’s face.
For hundreds of years, people have been fascinated by her expression.
Is she happy?
Is she looking at you or at something else?
What do you think she might be thinking?

19. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

20. Self-Portraits: Take a Good Look at Yourself
Sometimes an artist paints a portrait of himself.
This is called a self-portrait.
A self-portrait doesn’t have to look like a photograph.
You can paint yourself in many different ways and each way will say something different
About the way you fell about yourself
The way you want other people to see you.

21. Vincent van Gogh
The Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh [van GOH] painted many self-portraits.
This one shows him when he was thirty-six years old.
“Self-Portrait”

22. How does van Gogh look to you?
Does he seem calm or worried?
Are you surprised by the color he used to paint the shadows under his eyes?
The patches of green contrast with the red of his hair and beard.

23. “The only time I feel alive is
when I’m painting.”
– Vincent van Gogh

24. Look back for a minute at the Mona Lisa.
Do you see what is behind her?
There's a landscape with mountains and a river.
Now look at what van Gogh painted in the background of his picture – swirling lines of blue and green.
Where else can you find curving blue lines in van Gogh’s painting?

25. Color Mixing Red, Yellow, and Blue Are called the primary colors.
You cannot make them by mixing any other colors together.
You can make other colors when you mix them together

26. Color Mixing
Red + Yellow = Orange

27. Color Mixing
Yellow + Blue = Green

28. Color Mixing
Red + Blue = Violet

29. Color Mixing
Red + Blue + Yellow = Black

30. Not all paintings are filled with bright colors.
Some artists express themselves by leaving bright color out of their paintings.
Look at this painting by the American painter James McNeil Whistler.
Many people know this painting by its popular nickname, “Whistler’s Mother”.
“Whistler’s Mother”

31. Whistler’s Mother
When you look at the painting, what kind of person do you think Whistler’s mother was?
Does she look like a happy, fun-loving person, ready to get up and dance around the room?
Do you see how the white of her
Cap
Cuffs
Handkerchief
The white attracts your attention to her face and hands?
How would you describe the expression on her face?

32. Arrangement in Gray and Black
Though many people call this painting Whistler's Mother.
Whistler himself gave it a different title.
Does Whistler use any bright colors in this picture?
Whistler called this painting “Arrangement in Gray and Black”.
“Arrangement in Gray and Black”

33. “An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.” - James McNeill Whistler

34. Hans Holbein
Some portraits can tell a lot about a person and the times in which he lived.
Look at the portrait called Edward VI as a Child by Hans Holbein [HOLE-bine], the Younger.
Edwards father was a king, King Henry VIII of England (who lived more than four hundred years ago).
The writing at the bottom of the painting (in an old language called Latin) tells Edward to grow up to be like his father.
“Edward VI as a Child”

35. Edward VI as a Child
In this portrait, Edward is a little over one year old.
Is this how most one-year-old children look?
What’s the first thing you notice about this child?
Some people notice his fine red and gold clothing his fancy hat with an ostrich feather.
Do you see the rattle he holds in his left hand?
It’s made of gold!

36. Where does young Edward seem to be looking?
Notice how still and straight he sits.
How imagine how long it would take to paint a portrait like this.
Do you think the real baby Edward sat still in this poise for as long as it took the painter to finish the painting?

37. Francisco Goya
Unlike the portrait of Edward VI, this portrait show the boy’s whole body.
You might think at first that he’s a girl, because of his
Long hair
Red lips
Fancy costume
Little boys in wealthy families sometimes dressed like this a couple of hundred years ago.
This little boy’s name is Manuel, and his portrait was painted by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya [GOI-yuh].
“Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga”

38. Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga
How does Goya draw your attention to the boy?
Look at his clothes:
They are bright red
A shiny sash is around this waist.
Look at the light that seems to be shining around his head.

39. But there is more to this portrait than the boy.
Don Manuel is holding a string.
Where does it go?
Can you follow it down and see how it’s tied to the leg of the boy's pet bird?
What’s that sitting in the darkness behind the bird?

40. How many cats can you find?
You can see two pretty clearly and if you look very carefully
You can see the eyes of a third cat glowing dimly just a little above the other cats’ heads.
What are the cats looking at?
Cats like to pounce on birds, but does Don Manuel seem to know this?

41. “Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”
- Francisco Goya

42. Norman Rockwell
You get a very different feeling from a self-portrait painted by an American artist, Norman Rockwell.
In this painting, called “Triple Self-Portrait”, Rockwell has fun with the idea of painting a picture of himself.
How many time does Norman Rockwell show himself here?
“Triple Self-Portrait”

43. Triple Self-Portrait
He paints a picture of himself looking in a mirror to paint a picture of himself!
Do you see how in the mirror, his eyes are hidden by his glasses, but shown clearly in the painting he is working on?
In this picture, Rockwell had copies of other famous self-portraits tacked to the upper right of his canvas.
Can you find a self-portrait of van Gogh among Rockwell’s collection?

44. “I paint life as I would like it to be.”
- Norman Rockwell

45. Quarter 2

46. Texture: Oh, What a Feeling!
Imagine that you’re holding a rabbit.
How do you think it would feel?
Did you think of a word like “soft” or “furry”?
Now imagine that you're holding a frog that has just jumped out of a swamp.
Did you think of a word like “slimy” or “bumpy”?

47. When you describe the texture of an object, you might use a word like
When you talk about the way something feels, you’re talking about its texture.
When you describe the texture of an object, you might use a word like
“rough”
“scratchy”
“prickly”
“bumpy”
“crinkly”

48. Gather some everyday items with different textures, for example:
Leaves
Marbles
Nuts and bolts
Cereal
Sponge
Blanket
Cotton balls
Wood
Aluminum foil
Shells
Feel each object and then try to think of a word to describe its texture.

49. Native American Masks Look at this Native American mask.
This mask was made for a member of the Iroquois Husk Face Society.
The Iroquois Indians wore these mask in special ceremonies in which they asked the harvest spirits they believed in to help the crops grow.
Can you tell what the mask is make of?

50. Native American Masks
Do you see how the artist has braided strands of corn husks to create the pattern of a face?
The artist left other husks look so they look like flowing hair.
What words can you think of to describe its texture?

51. Hold Still!
You’ve learned about one kind of painting, called a portrait.
Now let’s look at another kind, called a still life.
It’s called a still life because the objects in the painting don’t move.
Are people ever included in a still life?
No, because after a while they would move!

52. Still Life Still life’s often include
Flowers
Fruit
Books
China
Silverware
Furniture
Other small objects
To paint a still life, an artist first has to decide what objects to paint.

53. Once the artist knows what to paint, he or she has to decide how to arrange the objects.
What shapes and colors will go next to one another?
Where will the light fall?
Will the still life include objects with several different textures?

54. Paul Cezanne
The other still life, called Apples and Oranges, is by a French artist , Paul Cezanne [say-ZAHN].
What shapes do you see in this painting?
Do you see how Cezanne outlined the apples and oranges in dark tones, which makes it easy to see their circular shapes?
“Apples and Oranges”

55. in which we learn to read.”
“The Louvre is the book
in which we learn to read.”
- Paul Cezanne

56. Edgar Degas
Sometimes artists use texture to make their art look very real.
Look at this sculpture, made over a hundred years ago by a French artist named Edgar Degas [day-GAH].
The body of the dancer is cast out of a hard substance, but Degas has added other materials.
The dancer has a shiny satin ribbon in her hair.
She wears a tutu of a soft material called muslin.

57. When people in France first saw this sculpture, they were shocked.
They were used to seeing statues made out of hard substances like stone.
They were surprised to see a statue dressed in materials that a real person might wear!
“The Little Dancer of Fourteen Years”

58. but what you make others see.”
“Art is not what you see,
but what you make others see.”
- Edgar Degas

59. Jacob Lawrence
Let’s look at shapes in another painting, called “Parade”.
It’s by the African American artist Jacob Lawrence.
Look at the people in the bottom left corner of the painting.
Now look at the band members marching in the parade.
If you could march in this parade, which costume would you like to wear?
“The Library”
“Parade”

60. Shapes in Paintings You see more than just shapes.
What else do you notice in the paintings?
Can you see shapes in the way the artist has painted their bodies?
What shapes does Lawrence use to paint their bodies?
Their heads are circles
From their shoulders down they form boxes like rectangles.
Can you find other rectangles in the painting?
The windows
The door
The pattern on the wall
What do you think you would hear around you?

61. “When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.”
- Jacob Lawrence

62. Quarter 3

63. Get in Line! Take a pencil and make a dot on a sheet of paper.
Now put your pencil on the dot and let it wander away from it.
Now you have a line.
A line starts with a dot and then goes somewhere.
Lines come in all types:
Straight
Curved
Zigzag
Wavy
Spiral
Lines can be
fat or skinny
rough or fine
It depends on how the line is made.
Use a sharp pencil and you can make a fine line.
With a big piece of chalk you can make a rough line.

64. Henri Matisse’s Line Drawing
“Florilege des Amours de Ronsard”
Here is a picture made only from lines.
Can you name the animal?
This drawing, called “Florilege des Amours de Ronsard” is by the French artist Henri Matisse [on-REE ma-TEECE].
What type of lines does Matisse use for the necks of the doves?
Curved lines can seem graceful.
Look for some of the other curved lines in the drawing.

65. “Creativity takes courage.”
- Henri Matisse

66. Get in Shape! When lines join together, they make shapes.
You are creating shapes anytime you
Cut something out
Draw on paper
Here is the shape of a person, cut out of construction paper.
The shape of a real person can change as the person moves.
But other shapes remain pretty much the same.

67. Can you name these shapes?

68. Which one make you think of something moving?
Different shapes can sometimes make you feel and think different things.
Look again at
The circle
The square.
Which one make you think of something moving?

69. Circle
Circles roll
Think of
Wheels
Marbles
Balls

70. Squares and Rectangle Squares and rectangle seem to rest in one place.
Think of a big rectangular object, like a refrigerator.

71. Triangle Triangles have points.
The points can make you think of something moving in a certain direction.
It looks like a rocket rising into the sky.

72. Grant Wood Let’s try something:
We’re going to look at a picture
Try to focus our eyes just on the shapes in it.
Try not to notice all the colors and patterns, but instead look at the way the painter uses basic shapes in his painting.
Look at the painting called “Stone City, Iowa”, by American artist Grant Wood.
“Stone City, Iowa”

73. Grant Wood
Have you ever been up so high that when you looked down everything seemed to look like little shapes?
Can you tell that we are looking down in this picture?
Look at the houses: they look like rectangles with triangle roofs.
What shape does Wood use for the treetops?
“Stone City, Iowa”

74. “In making these paintings, as you may have guesses,
I had in mind something which
I hope to convey to
a fairly wide audience in America –
the picture of a country rich
in the arts of peace;
a homely loveable nation.”
– Grant Wood

75. A World of Color Do you have a favorite color?
Let’s look at color in a painting by the French artist Claude Monet [moe-NAY].
Monet loved light and color.
He liked to go outside and set up his easel and paint the bright sunlight.

76. A World of Color
What is the first color you notice in Monet’s painting called “Tulips in Holland”?
Do you see how Monet was not worried about giving each object a sharp outline?
For example, look at the windmill:
It looks a little blurred.
Monet was more interested in creating the impression of a field of brightly colored tulips.
“Tulips in Holland”

77. Do you remember from Kindergarten how some colors seem “warm”, such as
Yellow
Orange
Red

78. While other seem, “cool”, such as
Blue
Green
Violet

79. Do you see how Monet has balanced the cool colors of the sky with the warm colors of the flowers?
Which color seems to stand out more?
(Warm colors like red seem to jump forward, while cool colors like blue seem to be farther away.)

80. “Color is my day-long obsession.”
- Claude Monet

81. Another still life is called “Irises”.
If you look at the way it’s painted with energetic brush strokes, you may be reminded of an artist you met not long ago when you saw his self-portrait.

82. Van Gogh liked to paint still lifes of flowers, such as
It’s Vincent van Gogh.
Van Gogh liked to paint still lifes of flowers, such as
Irises
Sunflowers
Do you find mostly curved or straight lines on this painting?

83. Georgia O’Keefe
Here is a painting by the American artist Georgia O’Keefe.
In this painting, called “Shell No 1”, do you see one type of line that stands out more than the other?
Do you see the spiral line?
A spiral line is a line that keeps curving inside itself.
Put your finger at the center of the shell and follow the spiral.

84. Lines in Nature Georgia O’Keefe loved things of nature like
Flowers
Bones
Shells.
Georgia O’Keefe
Painted them very carefully
Often made them much bigger than they really were so that people could not miss them!
For example, the little shell O’Keefe painted was
Only an inch or two from side to side in real life.
The size of a beach ball in the painting.
“Shell No 1”

85. “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.”
- Georgia O’Keefe

86. Quarter 4

87. People Have Been Making Art for a Very Long Time
Pretend that you’re exploring a mountainside.
You come upon a big, dark hole in the rock: it’s a cave!
You take out a flashlight and use it to light your way as you go inside. It’s cool, damp, and dark.
The ground is rough and slippery.
You almost fall!
As you throw out your hands to steady yourself, the flashlight shines on the wall of the cave, and that’s when you notice something.
It’s a picture – a small drawing.

88. People Have Been Making Art for a Very Long Time
“Cave Painting”
You shine your light and look closely.
You see the figures of some animals.
Who drew these pictures?
What artist would use the wall of a cave instead of a piece of paper?

89. Well, how about an artist who lived long before paper was invented?
These pictures on a cave wall were drawn by a person thousands of years ago.

90. How do you think these early people drew pictures of animals?
Drawing by the world’s earliest artists have been found on the walls of caves in
France
Spain
United States
How do you think these early people drew pictures of animals?
Were the animals important to these early people?
You can find out more about these people in World History and Geography.

91. Egyptian Art
As the cave paintings show, people have been making art for a very long time.
Long after the cave people, but still thousands of years before you were born, the people in ancient Egypt made works of art that were
Beautiful
Amazing
“The Great Sphinx”

92. Egyptian Art
For the ancient Egyptian, art was an important part of their religion .
“Queen Nefertiti”

93. Egyptian Art
If you have read the World History and Geography section of the book, then you know about some of the wonderful works of the ancient Egyptians, such as
The pyramids
The Great Sphinx
The mummy cases.
“King Tutankhamen mummy case”

94. Texture in Paintings
Some painters use different ways of painting to help you imagine the texture of the objects in the picture.
They can paint a dress that looks smooth or a mountainside that looks tough.
You might not he able to touch the objects, but you can imagine how they feel.
Albrecht Durer

95. Young Hare
Look at this painting called Young Hare but the German artist Albrecht Durer [AL-brekt DUR-er].
“Young Hare”

96. It almost makes you want to reach out and pet it!
He used
Short brushes
Separate brush strokes
Touches of white to imitate the fluffy texture of the rabbits’ fur.
It almost makes you want to reach out and pet it!

97. Look Closely! You’ve looked at different paintings with
“Piñata”
You’ve looked at different paintings with
Colors
Lines
Shapes
Lets’ look at all of them in this painting.
It’s called “Piñata”, by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera [dee-AY-go ree-VAIR-ah].

98. What colors do you see in this painting?
Can you find different
Lines
Shapes
Point to them and name them?
“Piñata”

99. Murals: Painting on Walls
Most of the paintings you’ve been looking at were painted on canvas.
They are the kind of painting that you can put in a frame and hang on a wall.
How about painting the wall itself?

100. Murals
Of course you're looking at only a small photograph of the mural.
The real painting is huge!
Some artists like to paint murals.
A mural is a large painting done on a wall.

101. Diego Rivera He had a mural painted in public places in Mexico City.
It was painted in 1953 by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera.
You looked at his painting called Piñata?

102. “The History of Medicine in Mexico”
One mural is call “The History of Medicine in Mexico”.
It tells the history of Mexican Medicine.
The right side shows the kind of medicine practiced by the ancient Aztec civilization in Mexico.
detail from “The History of Medicine in Mexico”

103. “The History of Medicine in Mexico”
The left side of the mural shows how medicine is practiced in modern times.
In the center, Rivers painted the Aztec goddess who was believed to make things clean by touching them.
Why do you think Rivera chose to put this figure in a mural about medicine?
detail from “The History of Medicine in Mexico”

104. “Every good composition [picture] is above all a work of abstraction.”
- Diego Rivera

105. Story Time

106. Text References Text from
Hirsh, Jr., E.D. (2006). What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know. New York, NY: Bantam Dell Inc.
ArtQuotes.net [Online]. Available:

107. Photo-References
Page 92 Queen Nefertiti picture is taken from Wikipedia under Creative Commons 2.5 license.
Page 91 Great Sphinx and Pyramid picture is taken from Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation license.
Page Color Wheel Pictures is taken from Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation license.
Page Diego Rivera Mural picture is taken from Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation license.
Page Native American Mask picture is taken from Wikipedia under Gnu Free Documentation license.
Page Matisse’s dove picture is taken from Rabley Drawing Centre website located at:
Page Grant Wood’s Stone City Iowa picture is taken from Museum Syndicate website located at: