1. Unit 5:The Great Big World Artistic Process: Responding Process Component: Communicate/Internalize Anchor Standard: Art Communicates about and helps viewers understand the natural and constructed world. Enduring Understanding: Individual aesthetic and empathetic awareness developed through engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of the natural and constructed world. Essential Questions: How do people engage in the visual arts throughout their lives? How does learning in the arts help us build relationships with others? How do your choices in life and engagement with the world evolve as you grow in your knowledge and interaction with the visual arts? Objectives Kindergarten: Recognize the uses of art within their environment. First Grade: Analyze aesthetic characteristics of their natural world and constructed world. Second Grade: Recognize and compare multiple design solutions for Functional works of art.

2. There are seven continents in our world. How can artwork communicate our natural and constructed world? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy7e_KAUz7s Continent Songs

3. Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-1943. Piet Mondrian 1872-1944 What do you see that makes it look like a city? Does this place look slow or fast? How did the artist make it look slow or fast?

4. Compare the work of Mondrian with this artist, Emily Kam Kngwarray. How are these paintings similar? How are they different? Each shows a place, but are the places the same? Earth’s Creation, 1994 SL.K.1; SL.K.3; SL.K.4

5. Today you will begin to think about your favorite place for your landscape. A Landscape shows a picture of land. There are different types of subject matter in art: Portrait Landscape Still Life You will be drawing your favorite place that you have visited, imagined or even seen in a movie.

6. John Constable 1776-1837 The Hay Wain, 1821. John Constable

7. Stabe vor dem Gebirge Sainte-Victoire, 1898-1902 Paul Cezanne. Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906 -painted what he saw in nature. -really understood space, color and mass.

8. 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road, 1855. Ando Hiroshige 1797-1858 -began drawing at the age of 15, but really loved art from infancy. -wood cut prints

9. Find the people or structures/buildings in these three works of art. 1.How does the size of the person compare to the landscape? 2. How does the person’s size compare to the building? 3. If you could write a new title for these works of art, then what would you name them? W.K.1; W.K.2

10. How can you break up the element of space to show your favorite place landscape? You must have a horizon line. Background Middle ground _________________________________._______________________________________ Horizon Line Foreground

11. Trees in the Woodlands Landscape, J.H. Pierneef. South Africa (Date unknown) J.H. Pierneef 1886-1957 -stylized trees -idealized trees -shows tranqulity

12. Valley of the Yosemite, 1864. Albert Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902 Born in Solingen, Germany Moved to America when he was 2. Lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts Known for GRAND landscapes of the open west with lots of light!

13. Early Spring, 1072, Guo Xi Guo Xi 1020-1090 -his work promotes harmony -used ink instead of paint -known for the way he painted trees Clearing Autumn Skies Over Mountains and Valleys, 1072