Lesson Plan Outline for Comparative Study

Grade: Kindergarten
Art #1 (Main) Art #2

Theme: Culture
Art #3 Diego Rivera 1886 1957 Mothers Helper

Artwork Pablo Picasso 1981 1973 Carmen Lomas Garza 1948 Le Gourmet (The Greedy Child) Cuadros de Familia (The Birthday) General Information 36 9/16X26 oil on canvas 1901 National Gallery of Art Theme/Generalization Children around the world help prepare food they eat. Period Facts Beginning of Blue Period, Experimented w styles Moody, expressive Political talk about the workers hardships was beginning Artist Facts Picasso is one of the most famous artists in the world. He was born in Spain and died when your Grandparents were teenagers or so. He tried many different ways to paint pictures. Ill show you some. Lesson Focus Narrative picture: story has beginning, middle and end. Warm/cool colors Strong curving lines Mexican-American (Chicano) Movement started in 1965. United Farm Workers were being organized. Voices of dis-content rose and art with it artists voices. Garza is a woman still living. She learned to paint while her mother painted loteria cards for a game like Bingo. Her picture has a lot more details and bright colors than Picasso.

Some Mexican people were trying to have all people share wealth, so there would be no rich and poor.

Story elements Warm/cool colors Vertical lines

Project/Game Coloring page available

Give Loteria template to kids and have them use orange (warm) and blue (cool) pencils to draw in ways they work to help parents.

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