Global action: Arts and Crafts 5. Primary (sample)

PRIMARY 5 ArtS and Crafts

What will you learn?

Appreciate your home

Admire all art

Protect animals

LEARNING SITUATION PLAN OF ACTION

CREATE CONSTRUCT AND PAINT

• SDG

Appreciate the adequate housing we enjoy and think of ideas to improve the image, cleanliness, sustainability and inclusion of our neighbourhood.

1.1 Let’s decorate our home space

• Cave paintings

• Modular art

• Symmetry in architecture

• Modernist architecture

1.2 The art of light

• Night lights

• Light and shadow in a still-life

• The play of light in impressionism

• Your handprint

• Modular art

• The Portico of Glory

• A mosaic like Gaudí

• A lighthouse by the sea

• Objects in the light

• A moment in the day

• Create your own style

Build:

• Movement with a zoetrope (Page 65)

• The stained-glass window of a Gothic cathedral (Page 67)

Paint:

• A message for Children’s Day (Page 73)

Sustainable cities and communities

• Art styles: Edward Hopper and Remedios Varo

2.1 Art museums

Appreciate street art and think of ways to promote universal access to art and culture.

Reduced inequalities

• Las Meninas, Velázquez

• The Mona Lisa in the Prado Museum

• An Ancient Egyptian profile

• Modelling with plasticine

2.2 Street Art

• Street art

• Expressive pop art

• A sculpture in the Tuileries Garden in Paris

• Art styles: Banksy and Sara Fratini

• A new look for Las Meninas

• A portrait step-by-step

• An Egyptian-style portrait

• The Infanta Margarita in plasticine

• A landscape using perspective

• A pop art comic with sound

• Hands with volume

• Create your own style

Build:

• An op art box (Page 69)

Paint:

• Alice in Wonderland (Page 75)

Raise awareness of the real threatss to animals and promote action to prevent the extinction of more species.

3.1 Fellow feeling for animals

• Animal skins

• Complementary colours

• Animal skins

• How posters have evolved

3.2 Every shape and colour

• The colour wheel

• How our body talks

• Emotions we wear on our face

• The art of pixels

• Art styles: Takashi Murakami and Hannah Höck

• A yellow cow

• Duelling colours

• Texture with coloured pencils

• A poster promoting solidarity

• A carousel of twelve colours

• Expressive figures

• Gestures that say it all

• Pixel figures

• Create your own style

Build:

• Design a box (Page 71)

Paint:

• The love of family (Page 77)

• Sunlight on seawater (Page 79)

2 Admire all art

For a long time, art was only admired in private. It decorated the walls of castles and palaces.

What do you think?

Street art is designed to decorate public places in cities so that everyone can enjoy art for free.

The facts

Today, most people admire street art and recognise it as a symbol of unity in society.

Plan of action

Appreciate street art and think of ways to promote universal access to art and culture.

Art museums

Las Meninas, Velázquez

Look

Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) was court painter to King Felipe IV. He was a realist painter.

The figure in the centre of Las Meninas is the Infanta Margarita at the age of five. Her ladies-in-waiting are standing around her. On the left, Velázquez has included a self-portrait of himself, painting the picture.

Look at the picture carefully. In the 17th century there were no photographs, so paintings were the only way of knowing what people looked like. Compare the people in the painting with the people you know today. What do you think has changed? What hasn’t changed at all?

Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

for other versions of Las Meninas on the internet.

A new look for Las Meninas

Look at the example. Use collage to complete the clothes that the infanta Margarita, her ladies-in-waiting and Velazquez are wearing. Colour the rest of the picture.

The Mona Lisa in the Prado Museum

The structure of the portrait

Mona Lisa (1507-1516) from the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

A portrait step-by-step

Get a passport photograph of the person you want to draw. Follow the steps to draw their portrait.

1 Draw an oval, then a vertical and horizontal line. Draw the eyes.

2 Divide the upper part of the face into three equal parts. Draw the eyebrows and hair.

3 Divide the lower part into three equal parts and draw the nose, mouth and ears. Draw the neck.

4 Colour.

An Ancient Egyptian profile

Look and learn the steps to draw the profile of a woman from Ancient Egypt.

Nefertari (1290-1224 BC), Valley of the Queens, Luxor, (Egypt).

Look at these photographs. What is the difference between the two eyes? How would you describe Nefertari’s eye?

An Egyptian-style portrait

Now that you know what to do, complete the face of this woman from Ancient Egypt. Then, colour it.

Modelling with plasticine

Modelling with plasticine

Start by spreading out the plasticine on a flat surface. Use your fingers to do this.

To model it into basic shapes, use your fingers, the palms of your hands or moulds and rollers.

Adding texture to the artwork makes it more interesting. You can add realistic details this way.

You can make new colours by mixing different colours together.

Look around you and choose an object. Explain to your classmates how you would model it in plasticine.

The Infanta Margarita in plasticine

Puzzles Look at the Infanta Margarita in Las Meninas on page 28. Then, get an empty pot and some plasticine and follow the steps.

1 For the bottom of the dress, cut the pot like this and cover it with plasticine.

2 Model the white frill and put it on top.

7 Press all the parts of the body together. Add the hair and accessories. Complete the face with the eyes, nose and mouth.

3 Model the top of the dress and the neckline.

4 Model the arms and hands.

5 Model the head and neck. Press them together.

6 Model the hair, accessories, eyes, mouth and nose.

Street art

Look at Julian Beever’s street art and the optical illusion he has created. Look for information on the internet about the artist and his work.

Julian Beever (1959) is a British artist known for the large 3D pavement drawings he creates in public spaces. His works give the street a new look and challenge the perceptions of pedestrians. He uses a technique called trompe l’oeil.

A landscape using perspective

Perspective

Perspective is a drawing technique used to create a sense of depth and distance. You have to draw the horizon line (HL) first, which is where the sky and the earth appear to meet, and the vanishing point (VP), where the parallel lines converge.

Draw and colour as in the example.

Expressive pop art

Onomatopoeia in comics

Onomatopoeia is used a lot in comics. These are words that imitate sounds made by people (laughter), things (the noise of something hitting the floor) or animals (a cat’s meow).

Look at these speech bubbles. Explain what you would use each of them for.

Mural by Roy Lichtenstein (1994-2002) in Times Square underground station, New York (USA).

A pop art comic with sound

Look. Draw pictures in the frames below and include the onomatopoeias of your choice.

Blah, blah, blah… Ha, ha, ha! W A A A A AH!!!

A sculpture in the Tuileries Garden in Paris

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was a French-American painter and sculptor. She explored profound human experiences in her work. She is considered one of the most important figures in contemporary art.

Welcoming Hands (1996), Louise Bourgeois, Tuileries Garden, Paris.

Look at these sequences of dots. Join them up and match them to the types of lines.

Hands with volume

Look at the example. Draw curved parallel lines on the hands to create a sense of volume.

ART STYLES

The street art of Banksy and Sara Fratini

Look for information on the internet about these artists.

Banksy is an anonymous street artist who uses stencils to create graffiti art. He uses his work to condemn social injustice, such as child labour, in this painting.

Think of a social injustice that you could condemn in your work. What message would you like to transmit? How would you do it?

Serpiente de dos cabezas (2019), Sara Fratini, Madrid.

Sara Fratini paints murals of women who look powerful. Her work is characterized by thick black lines and touches of red.

Slave Labour (2012), by Banksy, London (UK).

CREATE YOUR OWN STYLE

Now that you have thought of a topic and style, create your own mural.

PLAN OF ACTION

In this unit you have seen that art only belonged inside of buildings in the past. You have learned that we can now find art in the street, making our surroundings more beautiful.

Using the CAF (consider all the factors) technique, come up with ten commandments to promote an inclusive and equal society, so that everyone in your neighbourhood can access art and culture.

1 Draw faces to show how you felt doing the activities below.

• Following the steps to draw a portrait.

• Using perspective to create a landscape.

• Modelling the Infanta Margarita in plasticine.

• Using curved lines to create volume.

• Creating a mural to condemn an injustice.

• Creating a new look for Las Meninas.

• Identifying types of line.

2 Colour to show how you did the activities below.

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Use my imagination and draw comics with onomatopoeias.

Divide a face into six parts to draw a portrait.

Create volume with parallel curved lines.

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