Art Docent Lesson -- Matisse
Grade: Kindergarten
Theme: Shapes, Positive & Negative Images
Artist: Henri Matisse
Main Print: Beasts of the Sea
Support Prints: Other Matisse Prints; Thousand &
One Nights, Icarus from Jazz, Toboggan, etc
Supplies Needed:
Colored
construction paper, white paper for background, glue stick and scissors
Activities
1.
Review Shape names – ties into class lesson
Preparation: Cut paper shapes
2. Positive & Negative Hand Prints
Preparation: Cut 9x12 sheets of colored paper in half for a 9x6
rectangle one for each kid. Can use two main colors.
Activity: Each kid picks 1 half sheet and a full sheet – each
a different color,
Help them trace the hand onto the
smaller sheet and cut out the hand being
careful to save both parts – the hand and the outside image.
Glue the positive hand on one side
of the sheet and glue negative on the other side of the sheet to show
positive and negative shapes as shown above.
3. Make your own Matisse Paper Abstract Art
Preparation: cuts tons of colored construction paper shapes,
positive, negative, lines, spirals, squares, triangles, hearts, circles, etc.
to give each group of kids a stockpile of shapes
Activity: Glue shapes into paper to make their own abstract
art picture
Art Docent: Heidi Bennett,
10/02
