TITLE: Marc Chagall
AUTHOR: Mary Ann Williamson, Barratt, UT
GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECT: 2, art
OVERVIEW: This is an art lesson that provides practice for
thinking skills.
PURPOSE: To introduce students to the artist Marc Chagall
and identify his work.
OBJECTIVES:
1. Students will be able to identify the paintings of Marc
Chagall when presented with ten prints, three of which
Chagall painted.
2. The students will be able to list four of five
characteristics of Marc Chagall's work.
3. Students will paint a Chagall-like picture.
RESOURCES/MATERIALS: art prints (I and the Village,
Feathers in Bloom, Rain, Circus Rider), paper, tempera,
crayons, watercolors
ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
1. Write the name Marc Chagall on the board and tell about
his life.
2. Discuss the prints by Chagall emphasizing the following
characteristics.
a. arbitrary color
b. unusual size relationships
c. bright pure color
d. dream like
e. scenes that were memories of his Russian homeland
3. Brainstorm with class; What would be interesting to you
to paint with arbitrary color? What would you paint of
unusual size?
4. Using the painting, "I and the Village", discuss how he
used size to make things more important.
5. Have the students make a painting as inspired by Marc
Chagall and paint their village or town using the
characteristics of Chagall's paintings.
TYING IT ALL TOGETHER: Students can also write a
composition or story to go with their work. Size
relationships and perspective can be studied.
Helpful hints:
Overhead concentration - Run a concentration board on a
transparency. Run off a paper with skill to be practiced.
This is especially effective for matching answers like words
and definitions or math problems and answers. Cut up the
paper and place it upside down in the numbered squares on
the overhead. Turn the papers over to match. Can be used
with entire class or teams.
Group response - Place three fingers directly under the
chin. Hold up 1,2, or 3 for response to teacher questions.
The rest of the class cannot see how many the student holds
up but the teacher can quickly group check an entire class.
Different way to pair students. Have them line up according
to birth date - bend the line and pair with student across
from you.
Brainstorming - Use Scategories Dice - roll and use the
letter that comes up to brainstorm categories (all mammals
that begin with b) good for parts of speech, etc.
Teaching students to write dialogue - Pass out a picture
with more than one person in it and write dialogue to go
with it. Use a yellow highlighter pen to go over dialogue
in an actual text. Mercer Meyer picture books are good to
have students write dialogue to go with one or two pages.
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