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Title: “Action Painting”
Grade Level: 10-12 High School Art

Elegant Problem: Students will be able to create and execute an abstract painting process using acrylic paints and/or watercolor paints that reflects who they are as individuals.

Learning Objectives:

Students will be able to interpret the action paintings created by Jackson Pollack by participating in a group discussion of his work.
Students will be able to design and execute an abstract painting process.
Students will be able to use acrylic paints and various painting techniques to reflect the self-designed abstract painting process.
Students will be able to mix acrylic paints to achieve a desired color.
Students will be able to compare their work to the work of others through a class discussion of finished action painting pieces.
Students will be able to crop and design a display for their work as a group.
Students will be able to brainstorm for an abstract painting process.
Students will be able to write a proposal for abstract painting piece.

Projected Learning for Students:
Students will be able to know, understand, do, and be like…

1. Students will be able to know and understand
(essential concepts, thematic content, subject matter understandings…)

Who Jackson Pollack is
What Action Painting is
What Modern Art is
Compositional balance
How to use a acrylic paints
How to employ various painting techniques
How paints will mix
How to write an art proposal

2. Students will be able to do
(manipulative skills with tools ad media, close looking, composing/designing, creating special effects and illusions…)

Use hand coordination to paint
Use of motion and body to result in paint movement
Mix acrylic paints for desired color.
How to create effects using paints

3. Students will be like
(Address critical skills applied…)

Open-minded
Good listeners
Respectful
Time management
Problem Solving
Creative Thinking
Critical Thinking
Close Observation

Media and Materials Needed:

Canvas
Paint – Watercolor and acrylic
Smocks
Paint brushes in different sizes
Tools that might be used

Multi-Modal Supports:

Projector for slides
Pollack painting examples

Artist and/or Artistic Period Referenced:

Jackson Pollack and Action Painting

Time anticipated for completion

Day 1

Greeting – 5 minutes
Pollack and Visualization – 25 min
Instructions and work time – 45 minutes
Clean-up and closure – 10 min

Day 2

(Greeting) – 5 min
Instructions and work time – 70 minutes
Clean-up and closure – 10 min

Day 3

(Greeting) – 5 min
Instructions and work time (paint) – 70 minutes
Clean-up and closure – 10 min

Day 4

(Greeting) – 5 min
Instructions and work time (paint)– 70 minutes
Clean-up and closure – 10 min

Day 5

(Greeting) – 5 min
Instructions and work time (Paint and Mount)– 70 minutes
Clean-up and closure – 10 min

Day 6

(Greeting) – 5 min
Instructions and work time (Finish) – 70 minutes
Clean-up and closure – 10 min

Day 7

(Greeting) – 5 min
Gallery and Critique – 70 minutes
Clean-up and closure – 10 min

Total time – 7 days of 85 minute blocks of class time

Day 1

Description: The class will look at and discuss whom Jackson Pollack is. We will then introduce the final project in the unit, which is this Response Painting. Class work time will be dedicated towards brainstorming and starting the abstract proposal.

Objectives:

Students will be able to interpret the action paintings created by Jackson Pollack by participating in a group discussion of his work.
Students will be able to brainstorm for an abstract painting process.
Students will be able to write a proposal for abstract painting piece.

Day 2

Description: Before the students can start gathering materials they will need to submit their proposals forapproval. Once the proposal is approved they may start working.

Objectives:

Students will be able to write a proposal for abstract painting piece.
Students will be able to design and execute an abstract painting process.

Day 3

Description: Work day. Stressing on continuing their pieces.

Objectives:

Students will be able to design and execute an abstract painting process.
Students will be able to use acrylic paints and various painting techniques to reflect the self-designed abstract painting process.
Students will be able to mix acrylic paints to achieve a desired color.

Day 4

Description: Work day. Stressing on continuing their pieces.

Objectives:

Students will be able to design and execute an abstract painting process.
Students will be able to use acrylic paints and various painting techniques to reflect the self-designed abstract painting process.
Students will be able to mix acrylic paints to achieve a desired color.

Day 5

Description: Work day. Today I will give the demonstration of how to crop and mount their pieces properly.

Objectives:

Students will be able to design and execute an abstract painting process.
Students will be able to use acrylic paints and various painting techniques to reflect the self-designed abstract painting process.
Students will be able to mix acrylic paints to achieve a desired color.
Students will be able to crop and design a display for their work as a group.

Day 6

Description: This final day will be given to finalize design, display and fill out their packets to hand in after the critique.

Objectives:

Students will be able to design and execute an abstract painting process.
Students will be able to use acrylic paints and various painting techniques to reflect the self-designed abstract painting process.
Students will be able to mix acrylic paints to achieve a desired color.
Students will be able to crop and design a display for their work as a group.

Day 7

Description: Critique day. Silently we will answer the three questions about each piece in the room and hand in our work.

Objectives:

Students will be able to compare their work to the work of others through a class discussion of finished action painting pieces.

Hook into Project and key ideational questions to spark discussion brainstorming and problem solving:

Envision a place that makes you feel the most at peace. How would you communicate that feeling without using communicative symbols.

Interdisciplinary Connections

History (of abstract art & modernist movement in relation to. )

Standards:

Curriculum Standard 1: Apply appropriate media, techniques, and processes.
Curriculum Standard 3: Select and apply a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas.
Curriculum Standard 4: Analyze the visual arts in relation to history and culture.
Curriculum Standard 5: Analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others’ artwork.
Curriculum Standard 6: Students will make connections among the visual arts, other disciplines, and daily life.
Curriculum Standard 7: Understand the range of careers in the field of visual arts and identify careers associated with this field.

Closure questions:

Does your abstract painting generate the feeling you had desired to create in it and why?
How did you decide to show that feeling?
Can you talk about your abstract painting?
What went well?
Was it hard? How did you solve the problem?
What did you discover?

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1. Philosophy of Education
2. Sample Unit Plan
3. Sample Lesson Plan
4. Daily Plan for Course Introduction
5. Assessment Statement
6. Assessment Examples

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