Annotated Bibliography

EDU 551-50

Annotated Bibliography

April 23, 2012

Artist                                                  Book

Jazz by Henri Matisse                         The Cay by Theodore Taylor

           

Unit:     Collage: Matisse Inspired Cut-Outs – Grade 7

In this unit students will demonstrate their ability to describe art elements and design principles observed in artworks by Matisse and organize a composition to communicate an idea. They will collaboratively create cut-out images in the style of Matisse to illustrate a scene from The Cay by Theodore Taylor. Students will also demonstrate their ability to apply criteria for making and supporting aesthetic judgments.

·        Students will be able to analyze the works of Henri Matisse to identify characteristics of his work and the processes and techniques used to create his abstract cut-out images.

·        Students will identify the characters, setting, and mood of a selected scene from The Cay to develop in an illustration using Matisse’s cut-out techniques.

·        Students will abstract identified images from the selected scene by changing, simplifying and distorting shapes.

·        Students will identify appropriate compositional arrangements that support the mood and color choices for the selected scene by experimenting with materials and compositional arrangements.

·        Students will apply their knowledge and study of Matisse’s work by completing a collaboratively composed balanced composition using materials in a manner that reflects Matisse’s style.

·        Students will apply criteria for determining preferences in style by comparing Matisse’s style of work to that of another artist.

1.     

http://www.amazon.com/Degas-Basic-Art-Bernd-Growe/
dp/382281136X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329266506&sr=1-1-fkmr0

Growe, Bernd. (2001). Degas (Basic Art). Tashen.

The book about Edgar Degas, the reluctant impressionist explains why he detested painting out-of-doors. His subjects were limited: racetracks, circuses, and opera, and café scenes, women at work, nudes bathing, and ballerinas. Degas emphasis on linear drawing and composition as well as three dimensional depths set him apart from the Impressionists as did his preference for artificial light. Degas did however share an interest in scenes that appeared unplanned and spontaneous like his fellow artists, Monet, Manet and Renoir.

I feel that this book will help students compare Matisse’s artwork with another well known artist like Degas. Matisse was influenced by Edgar Degas’ picture Combing the Hair, which Matisse characterized in the background by strong red coloring in The Dinner Table. This book gives visual pictures and explicit explanations of his work. Degas’s work is broken down into sections and easily describes his artistic process not only with what he viewed as an artist but also what types of techniques he used to describe the mood of his subjects. Degas’s style uses offbeat angles with figures cropped at edge of canvas, asymmetrical composition with void at center. Degas uses gaudy hues side by side for vibrancy; early: soft pastel: late: broad smears of acid-colored pastels. Degas gives some advice, “Even when working from nature, one has to compose.”

2.

http://www.amazon.com/Monet-Impressionists-Kids-Their Activities/
dp/1556523971/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329266715&sr=1-1-fkmr0

      Sabbeth, Carol. (2002). Monet and the Impressionists for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 
           Activities. Chicago Review Press.

This book is about Claude Monet and other Impressionists talking about their lives and ideas. Monet’s subject matter was mostly landscapes, waterfront scenes, series on field of poppies, cliffs, haystacks, poplars, Rouen cathedral; late work: near-abstract water lilies. His signature style was a dissolved form of subject into light and atmosphere, soft edges, classic Impressionist look. Also, mentioned in this book are Cezanne and Gauguin how Matisse and other young artists were influenced by how they reduced nature into simple geometric shapes and how they used bold colors.

I feel that students will understand how the bright colors of the Impressionists were the starting point for Henri Matisse and others who created a style called Fauvism that used bright colors and less realistic forms and shapes in their artwork. In Matisse’s book Jazz, the vivid colors, flowing shapes, and rhythmic feel evoke the qualities of that musical form. Students will be able to compare Matisse and other artists in this book

3. 

 http://www.amazon.com/Van-Gogh-Impressionists-Kids-Their-Activities

       Sabbeth, Carol. (2011). Van Gogh and the Post-Impressionist for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 
            Activities. Chicago Review Press.

This book is about Van Gogh and the Post-Impressionists their lives and ideas. Van Gogh’s subject matter were self-portraits, flowers, landscapes and still lifes. His signature technique in painting was his agitated, swirling brush-strokes. Another impressionist artist featured in this book is Paul Signac. He was very good friends with Henri Matisse and influenced Matisse in experimenting with dabbling with dots, pointillism. This led Matisse to expressive himself through fauvism.

I feel this book will help students see how Henri Matisse studied with other impressionist artist and was influenced by their techniques which he incorporated into his work. This book will identify other artists that Matisse would be compared to such as Paul Cezanne, and Paul Gaughin.  Matisse looked to Cezanne for color and structure; and to Vincent Van Gogh for expressive power in oil paint and for draftsmanship. These painters treatment of space and color was inspiring to Matisse which led him into designing the book Jazz. He began working with geometric and abstract shapes cut out of colored paper, silhouetting these against multihued backgrounds.

Websites

 





Henri Matisse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://metmuseum

I would use this website in my instruction so the students could retrieve information about certain artists that we would be studying at the time as well as artistic techniques used in creating specific art. This is a great website to also obtain new ideas for projects that the students might be working on. The students could use this website at school or at home.

By viewing this website one can explore the life, times, and works of Henri Matisse. Take a journey to France, London and Spain learn why these places were so special to Henri Matisse and explore the paintings he created there. Play interactive games and send e-postcards, Matisse style. One of Matisse’s many portraits of Amelie (his wife) was The Women with the Hat, which critics found scandalously unrealistic and insulting to women. An American bought the painting.

 



Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/

I would use this website in my instruction so the students could retrieve information about Henri Matisse and other artists that we would be studying at the time as well as artistic techniques used in creating specific art. This is a great website to also obtain new ideas for projects that the students might be working on. The students could use this website at school or at home.

On this website one can take an on-line tour of the museum’s special exhibition of Henri Matisse in the 20^th century. Learn about the life and art of Henri Matisse. The students can also locate other French Impressionists. You can view one of Matisse’s most famous paintings, Dance II, which portrays a peasant dance he remembered from his childhood village, the tune of which he whistled as he painted. The painting had such vibrant colors he thought it would frightened the viewers.