Frank Stella Paper Harmony and Emphasis

LESSON TITLE: Frank Stella Paper Harmony and Emphasis

GRADE LEVEL:  5-7

PA. ACADEMIC STANDARDS FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES:

9.1.3. C. Recognize and use fundamental

vocabulary within each of the arts

forms.

H. Handle materials, equipment and tools

safely at work and performance

spaces.

9.2.8 L. Identify, explain and analyze common themes, forms and techniques from works

in the arts.

9.1.8 B Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts.

OBJECTIVES:

KNOWLEDGE: Cognitive. Students learn what a relief is They also learn who Frank Stella is and how he makes sculptures using lines, shape, and texture.

SKILL: Psychomotor. The students learn how to create a paper relief. They learn how to manipulate paper in ways to create a 3D project and depict either harmony or emphasis.

ATTITUDE: Affective. The students become more aware of how paper can be manipulated to create a relief. They become more aware of what art shows emphasis and harmony. 

     PREPARE AHEAD:  Gather visuals of Frank Stella’s work, cut cardboard/matte board into rectangles for the reliefs, gather scrap colored paper

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: What learning has preceded this lesson? Students have learned about composition, they know how to cut and paste and have manipulated paper into different shapes.     

MOTIVATION:  

      QUESTIONS LEADING THE STUDENTS TO DISCOVERY:

What is a relief?
Student reads out loud: Relief is a sculptural technique. The term relief is from the Latin verb levo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background.

Students read: Emphasis – or the "Center of Interest.” Most artists put it a bit off center and balance it with some minor themes to maintain our interest.

(Look at image 1)

What makes this simple image have emphasis?

(Look at image 2)

What is the emphasis in Frank Stella’s piece?

Students Read: Harmony brings together a composition with similar units. (Example: If your artwork is using wavy lines and organic shapes you would stay with those types of lines and not put in just one geometric shape.

(look at image 3) What makes this image have harmony?

Reads Frank Stella bio.

DEMONSTRATION:    Teacher makes a list of different kinds of lines (bent, bold, criss-cross, curved, flowing, heavy, parallel, radiating, scribble, spiral, wavy, zig-zag

She demonstrates how to cut and fold certain kinds of lines and then shows the students how she will glue them down to create a sculpture.

VISUAL AIDS:

REFERENCE TO ART HISTORY: Frank Stella

EXEMPLARS: Teacher’s in progress sculpture

           

 ACTIVITY:

WHAT WILL THE STUDENTS DO?  The students will create a paper sculpture inspired by Frank Stella 

Week 1 –  talk about line and learn about Frank Stella, cut and bend different colored paper and begin gluing them down on foam

Week 2- Finish cutting and gluing sculpture

SUPPLIES:  colored paper, glue sticks, scissors

VOCABULARY: Line, thick, thin, criss-cross, curved, parallel,

CLOSURE: 

PA. ACADEMIC STANDARDS FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES:

9.1.3. C. Recognize and use fundamental

vocabulary within each of the arts

forms.

H. Handle materials, equipment and tools

safely at work and performance

spaces.

9.2.8 L. Identify, explain and analyze common themes, forms and techniques from works

in the arts.

9.1.8 B Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts.

ASSESSMENT STATEGY: What assessment strategy will be used to assure that the Academic Standards have been met?

The students will have a short critique and talk about their artwork. They will have to tell me what kinds of lines they used

CORRELATED LESSONS:

INTERDISCIPLINARY DOMAINS:

ADAPTATIONS FOR SPECIAL LEARNERS:  A step-by-step paper will be made so that special needs students can follow along and remember which process comes next.

REFLECTIONS: What went well?  What areas will I strengthen and how? 

FRANK STELLA BIO: He was born in 1936 in Massachusetts. He attended Princeton University where he studied history. He was also interested in art and he visited museums and painted. After graduation he moved to New York where he still lives. Frank Stella does not mean to portray any subject you would recognize. Stella’s paintings began to take on 3D shapes instead of just paintings. He started attaching pieces of canvas to wood and building his paintings outward using aluminum and fiberglass.

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