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TITLE of Gr 5 Project: What I Believe your beliefs? What would it be like to inside your belief artwork – what would it feel like? MEDIUM: Watercolor, Marker Spend quality time asking the questions and BIG IDEA: I believe in allowing the students to respond. This will inspire their own vision for their artwork. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Can artwork show others OBJECTIVES: The student Will Be Able To (TSWBAT): what I believe in and care about? 1. express personal belief visually 2. express with shapes, lines, and color MATERIALS: 90 lb white cardstock 8.5X11” 3. understand that art has significance paper; pencils; markers; watercolors; crayons; 4. understand and use art vocabulary & concepts bits of objects; scissors; glue (stick or white) STUDIO PROCEDURES: 1. Look at the PPt about RELATED HISTORIC . 2. Have the discussion using the key ARTWORK: El Greco PPt questions. All of the UIL artworks being considered by 5th graders has to do with belief so and Child with the discussion questions should cause self- Saint Martina and Saint reflection for the students and lead to visual Agnes by El Greco, 1597- representation. Do not hinder their expression of 99, Oil paint on Canvas their beliefs. You might send a letter home that explains what you will be doing with the 5th grade art projects and make sure they are OK with it. 3. Students will lightly write their names on the back of their vertical cardstock paper. 4. Have students build a background using any TEKS: Grade 5. 1. a. b. c. (communicate ideas; media available (even gluing things on) with elements & principles of art; discuss elements & principles) imagery that supports their belief(s). They should 2. a. b. c. (integrate ideas from life experiences; leave their focal point area blank or plan to composition; artwork with different media) create their focal point on another piece of 3. a. b. c. d. (artwork from times & places; cardstock to cut out and glue on top of their historical & cultural art; art careers; art in other background. 5. Students will draw the focal point disciplines) of their belief artwork; either in the space they 4. a. b. c. (evaluate art; artist statements; left or on a separate piece of cardstock to glue compile work in portfolio) on. Encourage students to write into their

SAMPLE OF ARTWORK: artwork if they want to. The writing should enhance the artwork. 6. This artwork should be Sample Artwork by truly self-expressive and everyone’s should look Katherine Maghini, from different. Encourage this self-expression. 7. Have Pinterest a writing assignment where students talk about their friend. RELATES TO OTHER CONTENT AREAS: Math: measuring & geometric shapes Science: light & color ELA: writing DISCUSSION: Does the painting by El Greco VOCABULARY: represent something he believes in? Do you Vertical: up and down. believe in something so strongly that you want to Shape: areas of enclosed space that are two- share it with others? Think of what you truly dimensional. Shapes are flat. believe in most strongly. Can your belief be seen Line: a long, narrow mark or band visually? What lines, shapes, or colors represent Expression: process of making known one’s thoughts or feelings Belief: trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something

ART HISTORY

El Greco 1541-1614 Late Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and Saint Agnes

By El Greco (Spanish), Late Renaissance 1597-99 Oil on Canvas of Art, Washington, DC

This is a Religious artwork. Why? Do you believe in something so strongly you could make artwork about it? El Greco was a Cretan-born painter, sculptor, and architect who settled in and is regarded as the first great genius of the Spanish School. He was known as El Greco (the Greek), but his real name was Domenikos Theotokopoulos. Little is known of his youth. By 1577 he was at Toledo, where he remained until his death, and it was there that he matured his characteristic style in which figures elongated into flame-like forms and usually painted in cold, eerie, bluish colours express intense religious feeling. He conveyed the awesomeness of great spiritual events with a sense of mystic rapture, and in his late work El Greco went even further in freeing his figures from earth-bound restrictions. El Greco designed complete compositions, working as architect and sculptor as well as painter. He had a proud temperament, conceiving of himself as an artist-philosopher rather than a craftsman, and had a lavish lifestyle, although he had little success in securing the royal patronage he desired and seems to have had some financial difficulties near the end of his life. The strangeness of his art has inspired various theories, for example that he was mad or suffered from astigmatism, but his rapturous paintings make complete sense as an expression of the religious fervor of his adopted country. El Greco (from Art Smart Study Guide) (This info is directly from the 2019-21 UIL Art Smart Study Guide – share this in a simple way for Grade 2) This is our first work painted with oil on canvas. Its image of the Madonna and Child is much more dramatic than the others we have seen. Their figures seem to float on clouds above the saints. The Madonna and the angels on either side of her all have their attention fully focused on the holy baby. Saint Martina, identified by the lion under her hand, is also looking toward him. The lamb in Saint Agnes's lap is the symbol which tells viewers who she is. Active, twisting poses create a strong sense of movement in the painting. The warm colors of the saints' robes make them seem a little closer to us than the clouds and the holy figures painted in cooler colors. But we don't get a strong impression of depth in the image. El Greco was more interested in creating a vision of heavenly space than recreating the physical world. The intense colors he used serve to increase the emotional impact of the painting. Notice the heavy, dark outlines around the Child's legs, the Madonna's hands, the saints' fingers. He often used such outlines to add drama to his images. He slightly stretched the figures, especially in their hands and necks, to give them a spiritual or "other worldly" look. That unnatural lengthening of figures is a strong characteristic of his personal style. El Greco (meaning "the Greek") was born and first worked on the Greek island of . El Greco (from Art Smart Study Guide) (This info is directly from the 2019-21 UIL Art Smart Study Guide – share this in a simple way for Grade 2) He studied in , where Venetian painters inspired the dramatic uses of contrast, color, and light and the strong sense of movement seen in his distinctive personal style. But he lived most of his life in Spain where his most important work was done. Most of his paintings are of religious subjects. They are more concerned with expressing ideas and emotion than with showing realistic images. He was famous and respected during his lifetime, but his work fell out of fashion afterward. More than 300 years passed before his talent was again widely recognized and admired. Later Romantic artists praised his emphasis on imagination and emotion. His use of strong colors and his distortions of form and space influenced 20th century artists who developed several new styles of painting. The Concert of the Angels

“Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God’s careless splatters.” El Greco Christ Carrying the Cross The Adoration of the Shepherds