October 10, 2014

Studio in Art:

Today we learned about the life and art of Chuck Close.

Objectives

• Learn about the life and art of Chuck Close.

Essential Question

• What is the biggest obstacle we are facing and how can we overcome it?

Focusing Task

• Students will prep their sketchbook page.

Guided Practice

• Teacher will explain the activity.

Learning Activity

• Students will create an Art History page in their sketchbooks while reading about Chuck Close in Scholastic Arts magazine.
• Students will break into 3 groups and read 1 of the 3 articles in the magazine so that all articles are read.
• Students will take notes and present their findings to the class.
  • Chuck Close
    • Contemporary portrait painter
    • Had many learning disabilities that he had to overcome
      • Dyslexia
      • Facial blindness
      • Neuromuscular condition
  • Earned Master of Fine Arts from Yale
  • Early paintings used a method similar to how a printer prints today by layering colors over one another
  • Was in an accident when he was 48 which left him paralyzed from the chest down
    • Had to teach himself to paint all over again, needs to have brush strapped to his hand
  • Work turned more abstract
    • Looks like a bunch of shapes in squares up close but from far away it looks like a face
    • Each group will determine what the most important information is that we have learned about Chuck Close.
    • That information will be transformed into an art history composition.

Closure

• Clean up.