Core Understandings

• Color Theory - Color is one of the most expressive elements in art because it’s use and relationship immediately affects our emotions.

• In representational art, color serves to identify objects and to create the illusion of form and space.

• Artist use several techniques involving color to achieve the illusion of depth and distance. Learning to identify them in art is key to understanding the artistic process.

• This knowledge can then be applied to your own work.

Learning Objectives

• You will be able to search museum websites and find examples of paintings that demonstrate different color relationships used by artists to create different emotions and responses by the viewer.

• You will then save your chosen sample artwork to a PowerPoint presentation. You will then add text along with style and navigation formatting. Each group of students will present their findings to the class.
• You will learn to critique a painting identifying the techniques and color relationships the artist has used in creating their art.
• You will then begin to apply these techniques to your own work.