1. ABSTRACT ARCHITECTURE
Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

2. Learning Goal Gerald Murphy Watch
Students will be able to create a work of art in the style of Architectural Abstraction.
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3. Architectural Abstraction
Begin to brainstorm Architecture areas that can be drawn.
What can be exaggerated or distorted?
Think about the medium for this project. It is your choice
You will need to choose a warm/cool color scheme or analogous color scheme.
Focus on Texture and layers.
5 full class periods.
PHOTO- try out creating a series of 3-6 works. You can work on these around school. If you don’t want to print them just me them.
SELF ASSESSMENT- Due when final draft is turned in.
What is the focal point?
What are the items that show the strongest contrast?
What color scheme was used?

4. PRECISIONIST MOVEMENT
The artists who came to be known as the Precisionists never formally organized themselves as a group or issued a manifesto; instead, they were associated through their common style and subjects. Around 1920, a number of artists in the United States began experimenting with a highly controlled approach to technique and form. They consistently reduced their compositions to simple shapes and underlying geometrical structures, with clear outlines, minimal detail, and smooth handling of surfaces.
Their paintings, drawings, and prints also showed the influence of recent work by American photographers, such as Paul Strand, who were utilizing sharp focus and lighting, unexpected viewpoints and cropping, and emphasis on the abstract form of the subject.

6. Procedure

9. Amy Shackleton
If you want to research more Abstract Arcitecture she is your artist.
She is awesome!

27. What viewpoint is this work created in?
Bird’s eye
Frog’s eye
Eye level

29. Learning Goal
Students will be able to create a work of art in the style of Architectural Abstraction.