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Unit: Surrealism

Project: “I and the Village”

Featured Artist: Marc Chagall

Objectives:
1. Recognize and discuss Chagall’s works.
2. Use color and objects to communicate ideas through art.
3. Create surreal drawing reflecting student and his or her surroundings.

Materials Provided:
• Paper, 9”x12”
• Two Head Outlines
• Crayons or Markers

Materials Needed:
• Pencil

Vocabulary:
1. Contrast: the difference in color and light between parts of an image.
2. Form: the shape, appearance, or configuration, of an object
3. Surrealism: works that feature the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions

Motivation:
1. Show and discuss Chagall’s work with the idea of Surrealism and his use of intense colors.
2. Demonstrate all steps of procedure before students begin.
3. Show students the finished product.

Instructions:
sur11. Take one piece of 9”x12” piece of paper and turn it vertical (long ways) and place the two faces of opposite sides of the paper facing towards each other. Trace the two faces with a pencil.








sur2 sur32. Draw a house at the bottom of the page. Then turn the paper on its side and draw yourself holding something that you like or that is your favorite activity (a baseball, skateboard or paintbrush).





sur4 3. Turn the paper again and draw a landscape opposite of the house. This can be any type of outdoor scenery such as a forest or a couple trees, flowers or a desert.






pst6 4. Turn the paper to the last blank side and choose the time of day by drawing either a sun or moon in the sky. Make sure to draw a face on the sun or moon.






pst7 5. Add color to each of the elements that were drawn (the house, yourself, the landscape and sun or moon). Also add color to the two faces on the sides of the paper. Try to use intense color just as Chagall did in his work.









post9 6. Finish coloring the rest of the paper incorporating color into the scenes, objects and faces.












Evaluation:
1. Use line and color to create a design or image in the drawing?
2. Use correct techniques to produce clean borders and Surrealism design?
3. Evaluate completed work?


  
 




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