Making Friends Designed by Lourdes Fuller Integrated Inquiry Based Visual Arts Curriculum Kindergarten – Lesson 1 Bass Museum of Art Instructional Resource Teacher Guide

Title: Making Friends Need: It is good to learn how to express our feelings. Challenge: Draw a picture that shows how you feel when you play with a dog Objectives: The students will I.Interprets personal ideas, feelings, and experiences. (VA.A.1.1.1) II.(VA.B.1.1.2)develop a beginning descriptive vocabulary to respond to visual qualities in art and in the environment (CBC I.6; VA.D.1.1.1) III.The student can produce a minimum of twelve works of original art through the: 1.manipulation of a variety of media (VA.A. 1 w 1.2) 2. use of line, color, texture, shapes, and space (VA.A ) I.share own art with classmates and the art teacher (CBC I.7, VA.D.1.1.1) Recommended Instructional Time: One (1) 40 minute session Vocabulary: colors, feelings, emotions

Curricular Connections: Reading and Language Arts LA.K The student will relate new vocabulary to prior knowledge. LA.K The student will ask questions and recognize the library media specialist or teacher as an information source. Math MA.K.G.2.1-The student will describe objects using a variety of attributes such as size, shape, and position. Social Science SS.K.E.1.1-The student will describe different kinds of jobs that people do and the tools or equipment used. Key Artist: Richard Lindner

Materials/Set-Up: Richard Lindner’s visuals NOTE: Print visuals in color and as large as possible or print several copies for the students to view up close. Explain to the students that these are reproductions and not the original work of art. Green Option: Project images on an LCD projector), crayons, 12”x18” white drawing paper, crayons, markers or colored pencils.

Teacher will introduce vocabulary and display visuals of Richard Lindner’s artwork. Session 1: The teacher will introduce a unit on friendship. Explain that everybody needs friends but making friends takes time and effort. The teacher will start a discussion by asking the students How do you make friends? How do you choose your friends? Are your friends just like you or are they different? How do you feel when you are with your friends? Are friends forever? What do you do to keep a friend? The teacher will introduce Man’s Best Friend by Richard Lindner. The class will look at the artwork and discuss: Why would a dog be someone’s best friend? Do you think the dog is the man’s pet? Why do you think the artist painted the dog pink? Is this the real color of a dog? How do you think this artist feels about dogs? The teacher will explain that artist use colors to help show feelings. The teacher will ask? How do you feel about animals or pets? What are our responsibilities to pets or animals? The teacher will pass out paper. The students will draw themselves taking care of a pet or helping an animal. The picture should show the student’s feelings towards animals or pets. Using a crayons and markers the students will color the drawings to show how they feel. The teacher will display the artwork and point out how colors were used to express different feelings. Assessment: Discussion and understanding of friendship

Richard Lindner Man’s Best Friend Color Lithograph 28 x 211/2 inches Bass Museum of Art Gift of Norman C. Liebman

Richard Lindner Lindner was a German-born painter who became an American citizen in He was born in Hamburg, into a Jewish family, and grew up in Nuremberg, where he studied piano. He then moved to Munich, where he studied art at the Academy. In 1933 he fled Germany because of the rise of Nazism and moved to New York in At first he worked very successfully as an illustrator for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue His most characteristic works take their imagery from New York life, and are often painted with harsh colors and hard outlines: ‘ Lindner's cast of characters—mainly women, precocious children, and men who are “strangers”, voyeurs, or fantasizing bourgeois—are often posed while engaged in such daily activities as receiving a visitor. But the intensity of hard-edged color areas, exaggerated body parts with fierce sexual implications, and ambiguous space all transform normal situations into personal, obsessive inner visions’ The effects he created owed something to Expressionist exaggeration, Surrealist fantasy, and Cubist manipulations of form, but his style is vivid and distinctive and anticipates aspects of Pop art.

Blue Dog by George Rodrigue

Yellow Dogs!

Red Dogs!

Color Colors are everywhere. You can add color to your work with crayons, markers, colored pencils and paint. Artist use colors to help show feelings.

This Color Wheel is used to train artists and designers

Let’s be friends!

Let’s Play !