Edvard Munch Lesson Plans

1. Edvard Munch: Things That Make us Want to Scream: Art History for Kids Lesson
...Activity _ you might be interested in THINGS THAT MAKE US WANT TO SCREAM Subject: Art History KinderArt Littles - Grade: 6+ Ideas for Preschoolers Age: 12+ Submitted by: Tracy Green, an art teacher at Rogersville City Schools in Rogersville, TN, USA Objectives: Students will: Learn about the artist Edvard Munch and his famous painting "The Scream". Learn about the connection of the explosion of Krakatoa and "The Scream" painting. Create a drawing of the screaming man and draw items that make them want to scream. Edvard Munch, The Scream What You Need: Copies of the Scream for students 8x12 drawing paper Fa...

2. Expressionist Art
EXPRESSIONIST ART LESSON by John Reynier EDTE 228-04: Fine Arts Spring 2002 GRADE LEVEL: Sixth Grade APPROXIMATE TIME: 50 minutes TOPIC: This is a visual arts lesson that will introduce expressionism using the work of Norwegian Artist Edvard Munch, with students composing a picture depicting a specific emotion. RATIONALE: Expressionism developed in the late 19^th and early 20^th century moving art in the direction of expressing feelings and emotions, rather than depicting reality and objectivity. The expressionist artist is not concerned with...

3. What makes you scream?
...NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K?12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina ? and the world. Lesson Plans What makes you scream? Students will study Edvard Munch's painting The Scream. They will then produce their own scream using directional lines as Munch did. Line was used by Munch in a variety of directions?horizontal, vertical and diagonal. This will help the eye travel to the central theme of the composition: the person's fright or what they fear. A le...

4. Expressive Expressionist Faces
...ssionist artist. Additional Students will develop an Learning Objective appreciation of Expressionist art (s): and the artists associated with this era. Approximate Greater than 120 Minutes Duration of the Lesson: Materials and Examples of Expressionist artworks Equipment: including ?The Scream? by Edvard Munch, paint, brushes, matte board, newsprint, scissors, glue Technology Presentation software such as Resources Needed: PowerPoint, Hyperstudio, or similar slideshow software Background/ If the teacher is unfamiliar with Preparation: Expressionism he/she may visit the following site for an overview and e...

5. Sixth Graders Express Themselves - Art History
...d who inspires a mood or feeling. What You Need: 16 x 12 black paper (high quality construction paper works well) White chalk White Elmer's® School Glue Assorted chalk pastels (fluorescence if possible) Introduction: Give students information on artist who were considered Expressionists. (Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Der Blaue Reiter) Use slides and reproductions to demonstrate the use of distortion and color to evoke emotions. What You Do: STEP 1 Assign each student a partner. As one partner makes a face which portrays a certain emotion, the other partner quickly draws him/her with white chalk on b...

6. Nightmares of Hieronymus Bosch
...r lesson 3 hours Materials/resources Prints of the following: By Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights Death and the Miser Christ Carrying the Cross Temptation of St. Anthony (Other Bosch prints can be used to supplement discussion.) By Benvenuto di Giovanni: Christ Carrying the Cross By Edvard Munsch: Der Schrei (The Scream) By Pablo Picasso: Guernica By Kathe Kollwitz: assorted drawings Technology resources Computer with Internet access Pre-activities Although this lesson could be taught in isolation, with a heavy emphasis on Medieval art history, it works best as a component of a unit on Medi...

7. Pranks with Paint
...arning/ teachers/featured_articles/20050325friday.html (one per student) -a selection of color photocopies or printouts of five different paintings that the class has studied previously or are very famous, such as the "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci, "American Gothic" by Grant Wood, "The Scream" by Edvard Munch, "Red Hills and Bones" by Georgia O'Keefe, and "The Dream" by Pablo Picasso, or work from artists previously studied in class (one per student; two or three students will receive copies of the same painting) -resources about these famous paintings (art history textbooks, encyclopedias, computers wit...

8. Looking Back - An Art/English/History Interdisciplinary unit
...heck with your local newspaper distributor for inexpensive paper), English textbook, collage materials, and a 16x20 plywood board. Technology resources Computer(s) with internet access Pre-activities Some of these activities are optional. Art students study the German Expressionist (Kathe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner) and Cubist (Picasso and Braque) styles. Through this study, the students create several projects reflecting these artistic philosophies. English students study these artists and discuss theme, tone, mood, and audience through symbols. Students can do a web search for the...

9. The Community Discovered - Celebrate The Four Seasons
...awing with colored oil pastels. Students will be able to demonstrate an appreciation of self and others by exploring art culture and heritage, and practice visual discrimination and judgment. "Sunlight at Night" focus on "Harbor, Svolvaer, Lofoten" by William H. Johnson and "Ladies on the Jetty" by Edvard Munch. Students examine and use color, proportion, and rhythm in artwork and express themselves by creating a contour drawing of a landscape to be developed into a painting. Students will be able to demonstrate an appreciation of self and others by exploring art culture and heritage, and practice visual d...