1. LINE HISTORY AND MYP CONNECTION

2. MYP GLOBAL CONTEXT  Personal and Cultural Expression  What is the nature and purpose of creative expression?

3. Key Objective  Cultural  You will gain an understanding of the beginnings of line contour drawings from examining the ancient cave art of the Paleolithic people in France and Spain.  You will create a variety of images focused on contour and structural line elements.

4. You will be graded upon Criterion A: Knowledge and Understanding  Do you have a thorough understanding of the topic being studied. (Vocabulary and short answers) Criterion B: Application –  Proficiency of your finished piece. Criterion C: Reflection and evaluation  response to what you learned and the quality of your product. Criterion D: Artistic Awareness and Personal Engagement  Did you actively participate, show initiative, enthusiasm, and commitment?

5. Inquiry Questions  How was line used in the ancient caves of France and Spain?  How can I create something of impact?  What is the function and meaning of expression?

6. Vocabulary to define and understand  Paleolithic  Elements of art  Line  Contour lines  Structural lines

7. Elements of Art  Line – A mark with greater length than width. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, straight or curved, thick or thin.  Shape – is a closed line. Shapes can be geometric or organic.  Form – three-dimensional shape.  Space – the area between and around objects. Space can also refer to the feeling of depth – the illusion of space.  Texture – the surface quality that can be seen and felt.  Color – light reflected off of objects. Hue, value, and intensity.

8. Line  In drawing, line, refers to a type of mark that contains both a direction and a length.  Line is an art element.  There are numerous varieties of possible lines, including curved, bent, thick, wide, broken, vertical, horizontal, blurred, or freehand.

9. Lines  There are:  Contour lines – lines on the outside  Structural lines – lines on the inside  The Swiss artist, Paul Klee, defined line as “a dot out for a walk.”

10. Lascaux, France  A cave contains painted animals – cattle, horses, bison, and deer.  They seem to roam across the walls and ceilings.  These images, created in the period known as prehistory, before the development of writing, present many mysteries; specialists are still speculating on their function and meaning.

11. Spain and France

12. Lascaux, France (20,000 years ago)

13. Spanish cave paintings

14. Cave of Altamira near Santander, Spain

15. Red sphere and handprints  Oldest in the world.  Researchers found that one is at least 40,800 years old.  That makes them older than the more famous French caves by thousands of years.

16. Paleolithic Era  The origins of image-making date at least as early as the Paleolithic (35,000 – 8,000 B.C.), a period which is characterized by the use of refined stone tools.  At this time, during the last Ice Age, people probably lived in tents during the warmer months.  As cold weather approached, they sought protection in rock shelters or in mouths of caves.  They were migratory people that were hunter-gatherers.

17. Hunter Gathers  They would follow the migrations of animals herds.  They men would hunt and the women would gather the mainstay of their diet – plants, fruits, nuts, and shellfish.

18. Drawing on wall  Sometimes the Paleolithic artists drew directly onto the wall with chunks of red, yellow, brown, or black minerals or earth.  But more often they created liquid pigments by grinding minerals and mixing them with animal fat, vegetable oil, or bone marrow.  They could apply these paints to the wall using a brush made of animal hair or a frayed stick.  Dots of colors were pressed into the wall by fingers dipped into paint.

19. Contour lines  Contour lines are the outside lines that define the edges of an object.  See how the dark lines help us see the contour lines of the object.  Artist – Jean Dubeffet

20. Contour lines  The artist – Fernand Leger – has defined the contour lines by adding dark lines around the shapes.

21. Contour lines in sculpture  You can see that the artist Alberto Giacometti has used contour lines in this sculpture to define his art piece.

22. Contour lines  Artist Keith Haring has employed contour lines to add emotion to his painting.

23. Structural lines  Structural lines are the lines inside the contour lines.  You can see the artist has contour lines defining large shapes filled with structural lines inside.

24. Structural lines  This is another example of structural lines filling the contour lines.

25. Structural lines define  You can see how the structural lines in this drawing define the object, so we can tell it is a hand.  This is where we are going to start in our exploration of line.