Visual Arts Grades 3-8 Content Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes Students will learn how to make an abstract portrait of a person by making half of the face in a front view and half in a profile. Students will learn about Pablo Picasso and create an abstract portrait of a person. Acrylic Mediums, Varnish, Glaze and Gesso.Sculpt-It! TM Air – Hardening Sculpting Material.Colored Pencils, Graphite Pencils, Erasers, & Sharpeners.Watercolor Magic® Washable Liquid Watercolors.An intricately detailed, vibrant painting will affect you differently than a calm, cool Malevich. Notice how the various elements like shape, color and form affect you. Examine the colors, forms, materials, surface, and how they interact with each other. Let your eyes relax and travel around the piece without expectation. See what emotions, sensations or memories emerge. Rather than trying to figure out what the painting looks like, just allow yourself to be taken in by the painting. Let your eyes play with the painting, slipping around corners, following the twirls, twists and turns, dipping in and out of the surface. Let your eyes wander over the painting the way the notes of a symphony wash over your soul. When you listen to music, you don't try to hold on to the notes - you let them wash over you. Look at abstract art in the same way that you would listen to a symphony. Don't try to pinpoint an exact meaning for an image. Essentially, you must:Īccept that it is what it is. You have to 'understand' abstract art with a different part of you, one that you may not normally use or be familiar with. You must let go of your need to put things into words, and let the artwork take you somewhere. Art can't be explained adequately in words, because it's influence on people is so personal and speaks to the nonverbal parts of our existence. How do you begin understanding abstract art? Meaning is derived from how these formal qualities are used to create a visual (and/or visceral, cerebral, emotional, etc) experience. Abstract art is an exploration of these formal qualities. These are the formal qualities of artwork, because they describe what the art looks like and how it is created. At its basis, it is about form, color, line, texture, pattern, composition and process. The truth is, abstract art is not "about nothing". This can be very confusing, even threatening, to some who are not used to assigning their own meaning to what they see before them. Abstract art doesn't contain recognizeable objects, so there is nothing to grasp or hold onto. Or they assume that because it doesn't look like anything, then it is not "about" anything. Instead they choose to express their creativity by creating a visual experience that is more free and unencumbered by the weight of objects.Ībstract art can also make people uneasy because they don't automatically know what the art is "about" just by a cursory glance. Most abstract artists have the ability to draw a perfectly rendered rose or a realistic portrait, but they choose not to. It is the kind of art that makes some people scratch their heads and say, "My 5-year old could do that." What people don't realize is that the best abstract artists have excellent drawing skills, a finely honed sense of composition, and a deep understanding of the workings of color. Understanding abstract art does not come naturally for everyone. This intensely personal process enriches a viewer's experience of an artwork. Abstract art gives you the freedom to explore the artwork and assign your own meaning to the piece. Abstract art doesn't jump out and declare "THIS is what I'm all about." Instead, abstract art requires you to have an open, inquiring mind you must enter the painting and see where it takes you. Abstract art is open to interpretation, and that is one of the beautiful things about it. There is no right or wrong answer to this question. or maybe you see pure energy and cosmic flow? The path of a flowing river cutting through fields of lush vegetation. Swirling shapes, an array of colorful patterns.
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