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Intermediate Level: Grades 4-5 Intermediate Standard: Artistic Creativity, Performance, and Expression
Use arts terminology to describe the visual elements of Billboard, express ideas about the painting and the culture in which it was produced, and identify the characteristics of its style.
Consider how Billboard's composition is balanced through placement of colors, how certain colors are intensified, and how certain colors are de-emphasized.
Explore formulas for color combinations using paints, soft crayons, colored transparent cellophane, or other mixable media. Formulate a hypothesis, conduct experiments, record findings, and draw conclusions based on results. (See Activities, Art.)
Experiment with various color combinations to explore color intensity. (See Activities, Art.)
Experiment with various color combinations to explore color balance. (See Activities, Art.)
To extend study of Billboard's theme and Hartigan's working technique, construct a collage that expresses the mood of the local community, and then use the collage as the model for a painting. (See Activities, Art.)
To enhance understanding of Hartigan's style, draw or paint a common object (e.g., a chair) in an abstract manner by leaving out details, simplifying, exaggerating, and changing various elements. (See Activities, Art.)
Listen to selections of jazz music while looking at Billboard, and then discuss how the various selections influenced personal perceptions of the painting. (See Activities, Music.)
Compare visual elements to musical elements, discussing how they are similar and different. (See Activities, Music.)
While listening to selections of jazz music, "draw" the music and then discuss the visual compositions. (See Activities, Music.)
Listen to the original version of the song "My Favorite Things" and a jazz version of it, and compare and contrast the melodies, tempos, and instruments used. Discuss how the jazz improvisation of the original song abstracts melody just as Hartigan abstracts images to create Billboard. (See Activities, Music.) Create a collage that reflects self or family or that depicts the local community. (See Activities, Social Studies.)
Research facts about a community, county, state, or country and then design a billboard that promotes visiting that area. (See Activities, Social Studies.)
Research facts about a particular place and time (e.g., New York City in the 1950s) and then create a collage that conveys the essence of that place and time. (See Activities, Social Studies.)
To complement study of the bright, bold colors used in Billboard, consider the purpose of color in living organisms (e.g., warning/peacock, attraction/cardinal), and using color as a theme, make a collage from images of different animals and plants. (See Activities, Science.)
Discuss complementary colors found in nature and the purpose of these colors. (See Activities, Science.)
Grow crystals from various formulas, draw the crystals, and discuss the kinds of lines and shapes that are evident. (See Activities, Science.)
In Billboard, find examples of symmetry and asymmetry, geometric shapes, perspective and overlapping, and parallel lines and perpendicular lines; make sketches of the examples. (See Activities, Math.)
Make a drawing of Billboard using only straight lines, circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, and other geometric shapes. Analyze and discuss the effects of repetition and overlapping of shapes. (See Activities, Math.)
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