Your Gifted Learner: February 2022

lJosey’s Art School

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Art with the Masters: Paul Cezanne

Robin Norgren, M.A.

This Lesson:

Basket of Fruit

Discussion

· Because he was drawn naturally to country life, Cézanne disliked Paris. He neither combed his beard nor cared how much paint covered his coat. He was gloomy, awkward, and hot-tempered, and he had few friends.

· Throughout the last 20 years of his life, Cézanne isolated himself from people and devoted himself entirely to his work.

· Cezanne tried to show the geometric forms--cylinders, cones, spheres--that he saw in nature. By using blocks of color, he built up the appearance of solid shapes. To emphasize volume--the roundness of an apple or the thickness of a stone--he changed the actual appearance of objects. This distortion of shapes led directly to the style of painting called cubism.

SOURCE: http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3754353

Materials needed

Pencil (to write the child’s name on the back of the work)

Black pen (optional)

8.5x11 piece of copy paper. If you plan on painting the drawing it would be best to use a heavier grade paper.

This is a lesson that can be adapted in many ways depending on the age and skill level of your classroom.

Optional: markers/crayons/colored pencils/watercolors

Aprons

Length of Time/Duration of project:

30-40 minutes

Prep work:

Gather the materials

Create a sample

This should take no more than about 20 -30 minutes

Instructions

1.Take your piece of paper that you are using as the base for the project and write the child’s name on the back of the paper or let them write their names on their own.

2.This lesson has a directed drawing component to it. Place your paper long side down on the table. Draw a gridline on the page.

3.Use the horizontal gridline to create a slim rectangle in the middle of the page.

4.Draw the sides of the basket.

5.Draw the bottom of the basket usually a similar rectangle.

6.Draw another rectangle in the middle of the basket. Draw vertical lines to represent the slats in a wooden basket.

7.Draw the handles of the basket usually a capital “C”.

8.Create your first piece of fruit to put in the basket.

9.Add another piece of fruit.

10.Continue to add fruit to the basket.

1. Add a horizon line to represent a table or the ground. Add more fruit to that space.

2. Fill with color using crayons/markers/colored pencils/paint.

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