Project: Keith Haring Cityscapes

Grade: 1st

Standards: 3PE: Examine one or more cultural and historical artworks and respond to the visual, expressive features in the work.

5PE: Identify and discuss what an artist does and find examples of works by artists in their schools and communities.

1PR: demonstrate beginning skill and craftsman ship in the use of art materials and tools.

Lesson Objectives:

Students will understand who Keith Haring was and how he made art in public so everyone could see it, and believed everyone could make art.
Students will be able to explain that a painting with city buildings in it is called a cityscape
Students will create a painting of their own KH inspired figure using tempera paints, and glue it on top of city scape they will make with Crayola markers.

Procedures:

Day 1:

Students will listen to the story about Keith Haring “The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing”
Talk to students about how Keith Haring wanted everyone to be able to see his art, and that he thought everyone could make art like him.
Students will follow along with demonstration of how to draw a figure “dancing” like Keith Haring.
Students will outline their figure with black crayon, and paint it in using 1 color of tempera cake.
Put away paintings on the drying rack
Introduce what a city-scape is
Students will follow along with demonstration of how to draw buildings
Students will color in the windows on their buildings yellow, and pick 3 colors to color in their buildings will (3 buildings total) using Crayola markers.

Day 2:

Review key topics as a class
Students will finish coloring in their city-scapes
Students will cut out their KH figure that they painted last time
Students will glue their figures on top of their city-scapes (figure is dancing through the city like the break dancers KH saw in college)

Lesson extension:

Vocabulary:

Keith Haring: Pop artist in the 1980’s who made art for the people in public spaces and cities.

Cityscapes: Paintings or drawings of cities

Abstract: different than painting or drawing something to make it look real.

Materials/Equipment:

Powerpoint For Lesson

Student Work