Impact Illustration
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Lichtenstein's Okay, Hot Shot and learn about his use of graphic design in the printing process. They describe how Pop Artists show depth and motion with flat areas of color, identify Benday dots and action lines, draw impact words and illustrate their meanings using speech balloons, and create balanced compositions using graphic images with implied movement.

Mixed Media
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Flo Oy Wong's Sue Shee Ran the Corner. They learn about the materials and message of her multimedia artwork, describe its intent and content, identify the use of color, line, and emphasis, and discuss the role of artwork in making a social comment. They arrange balanced compositions that tell personal stories, sew pictures and objects to textile backgrounds, print symbolic words on textile, and combine words, pictures, mementos, and symbolic color in their own artwork to relate personal narratives.

House
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Hopper's House by the Railroad and learn hw Hopper used light and perspective to set mood. They describe the view point and shading of Hopper's house, identify the light source, shadows, and the author's spotlight technique, and describe how his artwork makes a social comment. They draw houses using two-point perspective, paint houses with watercolors, and mix dark hues to paint shadows.

Charcoal Portrait
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Lange's Migrant Mother with Three Children and theorize on the artist's intent in making this artwork. They learn about how Lange's picutres influenced documentary photography and identify varied tones, from dark to light, that create the illusion of form. They describe ways photography can make a social comment or protest social condtiions, draw portrait faces in proportion using shading pencil, and crete black and white portraits that use tones to show shadows and highlights, creating form.

Watercolor Landscape
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze George Caleb Bingham's Fur Traders Descending the Missouri and learn about the implied message. They identify the use of atmospheric perspective, describe the way color sets mood, mix watercolors to create tones and values of color, and draw objects reflected in water. They paint with watercolors, using wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and dry-brush techniques to show reflections.

Clay Pot
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Mimbres pottery and learn about the Mimbres culture and its art. They identify figures and patterns in the bowl's decorations, describe the stylized figures and radial symmetry, and draw figures and patterns to decorate bowls. They sculpt clay coil pots and decorate them in the Mimbres style, using positive and negative designs.

Chalk Pastel Landscape
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Grant Wood's The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and Fall Plowing and learn about his continuous-narrative illustration of Longfellow's poem and his use of bird's-eye view and stylized objects. They identify the way the pictures are organized with radiating symmetry, repeated patterns, and stylized figures and describe the way color sets mood. They draw landscapes showing hills and fields radiating from hidden vanishing points and create patchwork landscapes with stylized landscape features and patterned areas using chalk pastel.

Themed Collage
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Rauschenberg's Retroactive I and learn abou the silk-screen technique he used to make flat "combine" paintings, which merge painting and sculpture. They identify the images and historical period described by Raushcenbeg, describe the way color, line, and brush strokes combine to tell a story, and draw objects that represent periods or themes in American history. They create collages that describe themes and that express personal opinions about social or political issues.

Watercolor Scene with Figure
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Benton's Cotton Pickers and learn about his murals that show American laborers working in different jobs. They identify the movement seen in static and dynamic figures and landscape objects, describe Benton's use of color to create mood, and talk about how art reflects a current world or domestic event. They draw figures in proportion, paint watercolor environments using a variety of watercolor techniques, and mix colors to show mood.

Place Setting Design
Seventh Grade Artist

Students analyze Judy Chichago's The Dinner Paarty and learn about the symbolism used to represent the women honored in it. They identify the elements of line, color, and texture that unify the table. describe the textures used in the installation, and download and photoshop artwork by their favorite artists. They create and design a place setting with plate, cup, and napkin to honor favorite artists in style of Judy Chicago.

Sculpted Door with Foil Figure
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Segal's Girl in Doorway and learn about how he conveys meaning through life-size figure sculptures. They identify the use of line, texture, and positive and negative space to show expression and describe the relationship of the figure to the door and the implied meaning. They draw figures in motion, sculpt maquettes of doors in relief and foil figures in poses that tell stories, and make critical judgments about the social, political, and emotional commentaries in their own work.

Color Study
Eighth Grade Artist

Students analyze Stella's painting Darabjerd III and learn about his use of the Minimalist style. They identify radial symmetry, tertiary colors, and hard-edge shapes and describe Stella's use of balance and variations on a theme. They draw a variety of composition based on the protractor shape and create color studies based on the protractor shape using tempera paint.