fame 4.1 • William Harnett My Gems • Edward MacDowell To a Wild Rose (Put materials on desks before beginning the lesson. Place paintings/posters facing backwards on whiteboard.) Welcome to the first of six FAME art program lessons we will bring you this year. ( Introduce yourself and other volunteers). If you’re a returning FAME student can you tell me about one of the artists we studied last year? Would anyone like to share their favorite part project? Allow for a few answers or share some highlights (3.1 Cassatt/Debussy/Color Wheel; 3.2 van Eyck/Bach/salt birch trees; 3.3 Matisse/Gershwin/patterned pastel still life; 3.4 Gainsborough/Mozart/tin foil shadow sculptures; 3.5 Rembrandt/Bizet/ opera fans; 3.6 Dali/Liszt/surreal faces). We’re looking forward to another exciting year of FAME and when we do FAME we make sure we are ARTSY! Use ARTSY poster in portfolio. Introduce to younger students and have older students share rules as a reminder. The artist for today’s lesson is American painter William Harnett. He lived from 1849-1892 and had a short life but completed over 250 paintings in his career. He mastered the still life and worked very hard to make the objects look exactly like they do in real life. Can anyone recall what this style of painting is called? Realism. Last year, we looked at a wedding portrait by Jan van Eyck and a portrait of the Militia Men of Amsterdam by Rembrandt (you can share these paintings if you like) which were also Realist paintings. But Harnett’s paintings were not only realistic, they were so real that they fooled the eye into thinking they were real! This technique is called Trompe L’Oeil. See Text box and samples in binder. OBJECTIVE: Introduce still life paintings of William Harnett and concepts of realism and trompe l’oeil. Review art elements that make a COMPOSITION. Listen for MELODY in “To a Wild Rose.” Have students create drawing inspired by My Gems. “A painting has been added to the Art Gallery, which has created a furor....” “Visitors will need no guide post, they will find it by following the crowd.” — Cincinnati newspapers, 1886 on the Installation of William Harnett’s The Old Violin INTRODUCTION: Introduce FAME Highlights from FAME 3 ARTSY Rules ARTIST: American Painter William Harnett (1849-1892) Completed 250 Paintings in career Master of Still Life Used Realism o Jan van Eyck o Rembrandt Master of Trompe L’Oeil: “fooling the eye” into thinking something is real VOCABULARY: TROMPE L’OEIL SOUNDS LIKE: TROMP LOY FRENCH FOR: “To Fool or Trick the Eye” DEFINITION: Art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. FUN FACTS: Harnett painted pegs on a wall so real that people tried to hang their hats on! Many of his paintings hung in saloons where people would make bets as to what was real and what was fake! In galleries his paintings would have to be roped off so that patrons wouldn’t try to grab the objects. He was even arrested on a felony charge for making counterfeit money!
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fame 4.1 • William Harnett My Gems • Edward MacDowell To a Wild Rose
(Put materials on desks before beginning the lesson. Place paintings/posters facing backwards on whiteboard.)
Welcome to the first of six FAME art program lessons we will bring you this year. (Introduce yourself and other
volunteers). If you’re a returning FAME student can you tell me about one of the artists we studied last year?
Would anyone like to share their favorite part project? Allow for a few answers or share some highlights (3.1
Cassatt/Debussy/Color Wheel; 3.2 van Eyck/Bach/salt birch trees; 3.3 Matisse/Gershwin/patterned pastel still life;