Unit 4:The People, The Preamble, and The Presidents

Discipline: Visual ArtArtistic Process: CreatingProcess Component: Experiment/Imagine/IdentifyAnchor Standard: Students will initiate making works of art and design by experimenting, imagining andidentifying content. Enduring Understanding: Artists’ and designers’ ideas develop out of life experiences and are exploredutilizing inquiry methods including observation, research, and experimentation.Essential Questions: What inspires people to make art? How are artists and designers attuned to their Surroundings? How do artists and designers make and use connections from various sources?

Artistic Process: RespondingProcess Component: Analyze/InterpretAnchor Standard: Students experience, analyze and interpret art and other aspects of the visual world.Enduring Understanding: Visual Imagery throughout one’s culture influences one’s understanding ofand response to the world.Essential Questions: How do images influence our views of the world? Where and how do we encounterImages in our world?

I Can…-identify elements of art that have remained the same within a collection of presidential portraits and sculptures.-use formal and conceptual vocabularies ofart and design to see surroundings in new ways.-compare the art of Shikler, Close, French, Leutze, Stuart and Houdon. -analyze the cultural associations suggested byvisual imagery.

Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851. Emanuel Leutze

On December 25, 1776 George Washington and the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River into New Jersey in a surprise attack on the British. They had a decisive victory that helped turn the war back to the American's favor. Surprise! It was the cold of winter. The wind was blowing and it was snowing. On one sideof the Delaware River, George Washington and the Continental Army camped. On the other side, a British army of Hessian soldiers held the town of Trenton.It was also Christmas and, with an icy and dangerous river between the two armies, it did not look to be a day for fighting. The Hessian soldiers probably thought the lastthing the American Army would do was attack in these terrible conditions.That's what made the attack so brilliant.

Bust of Thomas Jefferson, 1789.Jean-Antoine Houdon

Lincoln Memorial, 1922. Daniel Chester French

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHp7sMqPL0gPreamble from School House Rocks

The Preamble

Oil Portrait of John F. Kennedy, 1970Aaron Shikler

Discuss how the style of depictingthe presidents has changed over time.What elements can you identify in each painting that have remained?SL.3.1, S.L.3.3

Portrait of Bill Clinton, 2005.Chuck Close

Hope Poster, 2008. Shepard Faireytaken from Mannie Garcia’s photograph.

What have modern artists chosen to Omit or add in more recent portraits?

How do these images differ from previous presidential portraits?

SL.3.1, S.L. 3.3

Session II:I Can…-create a caricature portrait of someonethat is a famous artist orperformer.