Here is the last Artist we will talk about this school year (2018-2019)! Thank you for the hard work from teachers and from the Volunteers! Children had such a wonderful year and we thank our Art Literacy directors!
Templeton Elementary School Art
Literacy Program
Paul Cezanne Bio Presentation
(Note: as exhibits, use the double page of Cezanne’s
work on the docucam, and show his self portrait.)
Paul Cezanne (pronounced say-ZON) was a French painter who lived from 1839 to
1906. He is well known for being an
artist whose work bridges the gap between the style of art called
“Impressionist” with a more modern art
style called “Cubism”.
Impressionists painted scenes from life, trying to
show the light in bold brushstrokes of vivid colors. Cubists tried to paint an object as if you
were seeing all sides of it at once, the pieces broken up and stuck together.
Look at these landscape paintings by Cezanne. They show us a number of important things
about his work:
·
He painted from life. That means he sat outside and painted the
landscape that he saw.
·
He took what he saw and tried to make it
into a series of shapes. He looked at
the landscape and saw cylinders and spheres, cones and cubes.
·
He didn’t blend his colors together very
much, but used bold strokes of color next to each other instead. You can clearly see his brushstrokes.
·
He often used black to outline certain
things in his pictures to make them stand out from other things.
Who plays Minecraft?
Everything in the Minecraft world is broken up into pixels, little
blocks of color. Can you see how
Cezanne’s paintings are a bit like that?
Self Portrait~Cezanne
Landscape Paintings by Paul Cezanne
(for Docucam)
Mont
Saint-Victoire seen from Bibemus Quarry
L’Estaque
The
Bay of Marseilles, view from L’Estaque
Jas
de Bouffan
Mont
Sainte-Victoire
The
house with the cracked walls
Maison
Maria on the way to the Chateau Noir
Mont
Sainte-Victoire
Templeton Elementary
School Art Literacy Program
Cezanne Oil Pastel Landscape Drawing
Getting
ready
Presenters, first thing, please sign
onto the Art Lit cart sign-out sheet on the wall. That way we know where the art carts are at
any time. Next, please check the Art Lit
cart for the supplies you will need. The
presentation folders and the tools should all be kept on the carts. You will need to take a stack of white paper
from the counter. These are the supplies
you will need:
Presentation folder
Desk protector sheets (30)
White paper (30 sheets)
Bag of pencils (30 or so)
6 stacked plastic boxes of pastels
Baby wipes
Landscape photos in plastic sleeves (40)
In the classroom, set up the kids’
places for them. Each student starts out
with a desk cover sheet, a sheet of white paper, and a pencil. Each table group gets one large plastic box
of pastels to share. (I put them in the
large bins so it will be easier to find the colors kids want.) It’s
possible someone may need to switch seats to be close to pastels. Distribute the landscape photos however works
for you. There are more than enough for the
class, and they are double-sided, so everyone should be able to find a picture
they can enjoy drawing.
The
Project
(Things
you might want to say to the kids are in purple.) Try to think of questions to ask the kids as you go
along. Present the artist to the kids
and show his work. Then show them the
samples of our project. Keep the Cezanne
landscape painting examples up on the docucam during the project so the kids
will be reminded of his style and technique.
Have the
kids start by writing their names AND their teacher’s name in pencil on the
back of their paper. Please tell the
kids not to share pastels from one table to another. Each container has a certain selection of
colors, and if they are moved around, the kids in the next class will not have
the colors they need.
Introduction
/ Technique
Today
we are going to do oil pastel drawings landscapes in the style of Paul
Cezanne. Choose a landscape photo you would
like to draw. Please don’t take the
photos out of the plastic – we want them to stay clean.
Think
about your picture before you start using the pastels. Think about what colors you want to use. It might be easiest to lightly sketch the
picture in with pencil before you start drawing
with pastel. You don’t have to use
the colors that are in the picture you are working from, and you don’t have to
fill it all in unless you want to. It’s
important to remember, when you draw with oil pastel, you can’t go back over it
with another color very easily. You may
be able to make it darker, but once you put in a dark color, you can’t make it
light again. SO, think about where you
want to keep the drawing white or light colored, and make sure you don’t put in
too much color in those places.
If
you want to blend your oil pastel lines, you can rub them with a finger. If you want to mix colors, you can do that by
drawing lightly with one color, then going over it lightly with another
color.
Think
about the way Cezanne made his pictures.
When he painted a rock, it would be made up of little chunks of
different shades of brown and gray. He
didn’t blend colors together very much, but put strokes of them side by
side. And he used black outlines to make
elements in his picture stand out.
Afterwards
Please try
to make sure the pastels go back into the same containers, and stack them with
the one lid on top. Please count the pictures
in plastic sleeves and the pencils before you leave the room, and ask kids to
look for missing items. After kids clean up the supplies, they will
probably need to wash hands. Use baby wipes as a last resort, but try to
send them to the classroom sinks or bathrooms to wash hands. PLEASE SAVE ALL UNUSED PAPERS FOR
RE-USE. Put them into the box in the
library. Take all projects back to the
Art Lit area and put them into a folder with your teacher’s name on it. Folders will be on the counter.
Thank you! May 2019
