Marc Chagall Lesson Plans

1. A Lifetime of Color - Field of Dreams: Marc Chagall: Expressive Color and Space
Home Welcome to the newly designed ArtEdventures website Any comments? Time needed: four to five 45-minute classes Summary In this lesson students will study several of Marc Chagall?s paintings with an emphasis on his use of symbolic color and of space. Students will learn basic techniques for using Prismacolor® Premier colored pencils, Foohy® metallic colored pencils and either Foohy® Double-Ended or Sharpie® metallic markers. Students will create an artwork using these media...

2. The Community Discovered - Happy Birthday To You
...ow to use Netscape. The student will demonstrate the ability to send an email message. The student will learn to scan pictures. The student will demonstrate the ability to receive an email message. Visual Arts Teacher Objectives The teacher will encourage predictions and discussion of a portrait by Marc Chagall. The teacher will collaborate with the faculty art advisor regarding the construction of a sculpture. The teacher, along with the art advisor, will provide sources for students reference. The teacher will encourage students to use their creativity to independently design a mural. Visual Arts Content...

3. Grade 8: New Perspectives
..., time, transportation, war, society, art, etc.) How does that change continue to be felt during our time? (e.g., space travel, technology, rocketry, etc.) Discuss the metaphors associated with the word flight; words such as escape, flee, movement, transition, progression, and transcendence. Artist Marc Chagall used flight often in a dreamlike state in his paintings. Looking at his works, decide what metaphors are connected to these images. Look at the contemporary artists listed below. What types of metaphors come to mind for each of the works? What meanings and ideas might the artists be trying to convey...

4. IUPUI/IMA Community Project > Activities > Instructional Units > Art Exposes
...d trip to the Indianapolis Museum of Art 4. PowerPoint 5. Hispanic Artists: Pablo Picasso, Diego Velazquez, Diego Rivera, Francisco de Goya, Siquieros, Salvador Dali, El Greco, Frida Kahlo, Luzan Tiepolo, Francisco Bayeu, Luis Melendez, Lorenzo Tiepoldo 6. French Artists: Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Francois Boucher, Jean Honore, Fragonard, Henri Matisse, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Honore Daumier, Camille Pissarro Preparation: 1. The purpose of this project is to familiarize French and Spanish students with Hispanic and French Impressionistic art, therefore plan for co...

5. City Life in Europe
...to start is this Web site: http:// www.saint-petersburg.com/. For the "Life in Modern Russia" segment: What does your class know about Russia? Assign student pairs to research terms (such as Moscow, ruble, Kremlin, U.S.S.R., Volga River, Siberia, communism, borscht) or people (such as Leo Tolstoy, Marc Chagall, Vladimir Putin, Josef Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nikita Kruschev, or Mikhail Baryshnikov). On index cards have students write the word on one side and a clue or definition on the other side. Have each pair read their clue to the class. Lead a game of hangman, in which students guess the letters unt...

6. Issues, we've all got them: Language arts/visual arts integration
...erent famous artworks. develop a persuasive essay and create a drawing/painting addressing a social issue of importance to them. critique other students' essays and artworks to determine positive ways to respond to social issues. Teacher planning Time required for lesson 3 weeks Materials/resources Marc Chagall. ?I Am the Village.? Chagall: My Sad and Joyous Village. By Jacqueline Loumaye, (New York: Chelsea, 1994), 21. Diego Rivera. ?Building the Palace of Cortez,? detail from The Conquest of Mexico. The Journey of Diego Rivera. By Ernest Goldstein, (Minneapolis: Lerner, 1996), 48. Pablo Picasso. ?Paul as...

7. Van Gogh-Getters
...s "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" sell for in 1990? How does this reinforce the idea of van Gogh as a tragic artist? 3. On the board, brainstorm a list of famous artists. Some suggestions may include Leonardo DaVinci, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali and Georgia O'Keefe. Have students divide into pairs or groups of three, and have each group select a different artist from the list. Explain to students that they will be researching the lives and works of their chosen artists and then creating pieces of art in their artist's style t...

8. Ambassadors of Art
...s: Claude Monet, August Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot American Artist: Mary Cassatt -Post-Impressionism Artists: Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gaugin -Expressionism Artists: Henri Matisse, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde -Abstraction and Cubism Artists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian -Surrealism Artists: Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Paul Klee -Abstract Expressionism American Artists: Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner -Harlem Renaissance American Artists: Jacob Lawrence, James Van Der Zee, Lois Jones -Pop Art American Artists: Jasper Johns, Roy Li...

9. The Community Discovered - Taking a Stand
..., Claude, "Chrysanthemums" (and others) Monet, Claude, "Across the Meadow (A travers la prairie), 1879, Joslyn Monet, Claude, "Small County Farm at Bonfighera (Un coin de ferme a Bonfighera), 1884, Joslyn Gaugin, Paul, "Still Life with Puppies" Gauguin, Paul, "Still Life with Mandolin" (and others) Chagall, Marc, "Green Violinist" Chagall, Marc, "Vase of Flowers" ( and others) van Gogh, Vincent, "Sunflowers" Jacobshagen, Keith, "Ash Wednesday" (print) (and others) Jacobshagen, Keith, "Crow Call (Near the River)," 1990-91; oil on canvas, 46 1/8 x 80 1/4; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Nebr...

10. The Community Discovered - My Place In Space
..., Claude, "Chrysanthemums" Monet, Claude, "Across the Meadow (A travers la prairie), 1879, Joslyn Monet, Claude, "Small County Farm at Bonfighera (Un coin de ferme a Bonfighera), 1884, Joslyn (and others) Gaugin, Paul, "Still Life with Puppies" Gauguin, Paul, "Still Life with Mandolin" (and others) Chagall, Marc, "Green Violinist" Chagall, Marc, "Vase of Flowers" ( and others) Jacobshagen, Keith, "Ash Wednesday" (print) (and others) Jacobshagen, Keith, "Crow Call (Near the River)," 1990-91; oil on canvas, 46 1/8 x 80 1/4; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Nebraska's 500 Mile Sculpture Garden...