A student asked this week, "What makes a painting famous?"
I thought about it for a minute and said, when it becomes popular enough to be recognizable. One way you can tell that a piece of art is famous is because it found its way to the popular culture as a spoof.
How would you answer this?
My fourth graders are preparing to create a spoof of Grant Wood's American Gothic.
I thought about it for a minute and said, when it becomes popular enough to be recognizable. One way you can tell that a piece of art is famous is because it found its way to the popular culture as a spoof.
How would you answer this?
My fourth graders are preparing to create a spoof of Grant Wood's American Gothic.
Update: I packaged up the drawing guide
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We are going to look at my interactive lesson on the American Gothic to interact with the painting a bit first. This mimo lesson teaches about the composition, the community (rural, urban, suburban), the models for the painting, the hidden motifs, and introduces the idea of creating a spoof. You can download the lesson here. You can view my tutorial slide by slide too.
On November 10th, Saturday Night Live did a skit based on the American Gothic. Above are stills from the video. I edited the skit a bit so I could show it to my students.
View it here or below.
View it here or below.
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Have you seenthis sculpture by Seward Johnson? This was installed for a while by the river in Chicago for almost a year before it traveled to its next destination.
I saw later in Dubuque, Iowa outside the art museum that housed many of Grant Wood's original painting. Seward Johnson has a sculpture garden in New Jersey that features many sculptural interpretations of paintings. It's a great place to visit (like Disney World for art fans.) P.S. Seward Johnson also made the Marilyn Monroe Sculpture that was installed temporarily in Chicago too. View my Sculpture Garden video below. |
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