Fifth Grade Art
Curriculum Focus: Critique & Careers
The fifth grade artist is nearly a complete independent thinker, and has fine tuned their motor skills. Fifth graders love to learn about new tools and techniques, and are eager and enthusiastic to learn about different styles and perspectives on art. The fifth grader is able to concentrate for a significantly longer period of time, and interpret art in a much more in depth way, and are therefore able to create more complex art forms, and are exposed to unique, thematic artworks.
The first portion of the fifth grade curriculum focuses on how to apply the 4-step process of evaluating art with a critical eye through describing, analyzing, interpreting, and judging a work of art. The second portion of the year focuses on careers in art such as graphic design, illustration, architecture, and pottery, and benefits and applications of art to any career.
The first portion of the fifth grade curriculum focuses on how to apply the 4-step process of evaluating art with a critical eye through describing, analyzing, interpreting, and judging a work of art. The second portion of the year focuses on careers in art such as graphic design, illustration, architecture, and pottery, and benefits and applications of art to any career.
Welcome to Art Class
Student Activity: On the first day of art, each group of students will receive an art inspired quotation from a famous artist or individual regarding the importance of art. The groups will take a few moments to interpret and discuss the significance of the quote, and will then work as a team to create their own art inspired quotation. Students will create a decorative poster displaying their quote. Each group's quotation will be displayed for a week in the art room throughout the year.
What's in a Name?: Students will create a name tag using solely images that depict their interest using pictures that begin with each of the letters of their names.
What's in a Name?: Students will create a name tag using solely images that depict their interest using pictures that begin with each of the letters of their names.
Project 1: One-Point Perspective Names
Concept: one-point perspective
Artist Highlights: Masolino; Raphael
Techniques: drawing with rulers
Medium: pencil; sharpie; neon tempera
Elements: line, shape, color, form, value, space
Vocabulary: perspective, vanishing point, horizon line
Skills: drawing; painting
Description: Students will create their names as 3D designs using the concept of 1-point perspective.
Artist Highlights: Masolino; Raphael
Techniques: drawing with rulers
Medium: pencil; sharpie; neon tempera
Elements: line, shape, color, form, value, space
Vocabulary: perspective, vanishing point, horizon line
Skills: drawing; painting
Description: Students will create their names as 3D designs using the concept of 1-point perspective.
Project 2: Notan Designs
Techniques: paper cutting
Medium: construction paper
Elements: positive vs negative space
Principles of Design: contrast; balance (symmetry, asymmetry, radial symmetry, approximate symmetry)
Skills: drawing; cutting; designing
Description: Notan, is a Japanese word for the contrast between light and dark. Students will create their own Notan designs by cutting squares of paper and creating contrast and balance.
Medium: construction paper
Elements: positive vs negative space
Principles of Design: contrast; balance (symmetry, asymmetry, radial symmetry, approximate symmetry)
Skills: drawing; cutting; designing
Description: Notan, is a Japanese word for the contrast between light and dark. Students will create their own Notan designs by cutting squares of paper and creating contrast and balance.
Cresskill Environmental Commission Poster Contest
2015 Theme- Plastic: Good, Bad, or Both?
Project 3: Pop Art Food Sculptures
Techniques: clay sculpture
Medium: ceramic kiln clay Artist Spotlight: American pop artist Claes Oldenburg Elements: form Skills: sculpting Description: students will create a 3 dimensional clay model of a popular food item or product in the style of pop artists Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. Click the link below to view one of Oldenburg's exhibitions. |
Claes Oldenburg Food Sculptures Video Clip
Project 4: Modern Mona Conceptual Art EHB
Techniques: digital drawing
Medium: DrawingPad app for ipad Artist Spotlight:Marcel Duchamp Concept: conceptual art Description: Duchamp made controversial history when he added a mustache and goatee to the classic Mona Lisa by Leonard Da Vinci supposedly in his own liking. Since, many artists have played with the image of Mona, creating poignant or silly messages through their recreations. Students will be challenged to create a digital drawing of the Mona Lisa with a modern twist to make the 1400s classic relevant today. |
Project 4: Pop Neon Animals MMS
Concept: pop art trends; psychedelic art
Medium: neon liquid watercolor Artist Spotlight: Andy Warhol Endangered Species Prints Elements: line; form Skills: drawing; painting Description: students will create pop art paintings of trendy tigers, zebras, or any animal of their choice using vibrant neon colors and construction paper cutouts |