** Please Note ** Artist s biography can be glued to back of white construction paper ahead of time.

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1 Masterpiece: Three Flags Artist: Jasper Johns Concept: Monoprint Lesson: Tempera Painting on Foil Objectives: To create a flag design in red and blue To learn how to make a monoprint on foil Vocabulary: Color, Texture, Form, Imagination Materials: 9 x 12 White construction paper Aluminum foil Red, white, and blue tempera paint 1 foam brushes or large paintbrushes Plastic plates Masking tape Paper towels. ** Please Note ** Artist s biography can be glued to back of white construction paper ahead of time. ** Troubleshooting Thoughts ** Use one plastic plate of red paint and one of blue paint for each four children. Keep in mind, fewer dishes = less to clean up! Give them a coloring book sheet to color at their desk when they are done painting to keep them busy. Process: 1. Put a piece of foil in front of each child. You may use masking tape to stick it down if needed. 2. Have mark with their index finger a square in the upper right hand corner if they want it to look like the United States Flag. 3. Place the paints and brushes on the tables.

2 4. Have them paint red horizontal line for the U.S. flag, or they may use their own imaginations to create a new design. Make sure they don t paint the square in the area they have selected. 5. Now they can paint the square with blue. 6. When they are finished with the above steps have them raise their hand so you can bring them a piece of 9 x 12 white paper. Frist have them write their name on the back of the paper. 7. Then have them gently press the paper onto the foil and lift evenly to see the red and blue image. 8. If desired, students can add white stars with a small brush and white tempera. 9. Make sure they have their name on their artwork and encourage them to title their art. 10. When they are done painting, place in an area to dry. 11. Give them a coloring book page and have them go back to their desk. 12. Once the artwork is dry, hang outside classroom.

3 1 ST GRADE--PROJECT #7 Artist: Jasper Johns Masterpiece: Three Flags Lesson: Monoprint on Foil, Tempura Project Samples:

4 Art Masterpiece Jasper Johns (1930- ) Three Flags 1958 This month in your child s classroom we discussed American artist Jasper Johns. He is credited with being the bridge between Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalist Art. Johns is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Since his first exhibition in 1955, Johns has become one of America s most famous and wealthiest artists producing goopy paintings of commonplace objects. Your young artist created a red, white and blue flag image by using foil and tempera paint to make a monoprint. Art Masterpiece Jasper Johns (1930- ) Three Flags 1958 This month in your child s classroom we discussed American artist Jasper Johns. He is credited with being the bridge between Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalist Art. Johns is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Since his first exhibition in 1955, Johns has become one of America s most famous and wealthiest artists producing goopy paintings of commonplace objects. Your young artist created a red, white and blue flag image by using foil and tempera paint to make a monoprint.

5 Jasper Johns (1930- ) Jasper Johns was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, and raised in South Carolina. He began drawing as a young child, and from the age of five knew he wanted to be an artist. He attended the University of South Carolina at Columbia, where his art teachers urged him to move to New York, which he did in late After serving two years in the army during the Korean War, he returned to New York in Together with Rauschenberg and several Abstract Expressionist painters of the previous generation, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman, Johns is one of most significant and influential American painters of the twentieth century. He also ranks with Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, Munch, and Picasso as one of the greatest printmakers of any era. Credited as a founding father of Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual art, Jasper Johns was one of the first painters to use everyday objects and commonplace images in his art, thus paving the way for artists like Warhol and Oldenburg. Beginning in the mid-'50s, Johns painted canvases that showed bull's-eye targets, American flags, numerals, and letters. In 1955 he had a dream in which he painted the American flag. That year he destroyed all his old art, and painted his first flag picture. He had his first one-man exhibition in 1958 in New York. Jasper Johns was interested in how we see simple symbols like flags and numbers. He sometimes changed the colors and repeated these images in his paintings to change how these things look, and to make viewers examine them and reconsider their meaning. Jasper Johns art made people ask the questions Is this art?, and What is art? Can a symbol like a number or a flag be art? His art still makes people ask themselves these questions. In the late 1990s, Johns has been working from a restored barn near Sharon Connecticut and pursues a hobby of raising bees.

6 Jasper Johns Word Search S T P F I W Q C Z N G C R M P T J Z Q P L K L Y I S M G Z F V B D C J Z E O I Z R A A K T R T I Y I S Q O Y S K J K C E K M T N I H I Y S Q Z R N P S Q G W P Y X Q N S B X R P I Q Q P N T P E N E U T E R R R M O X M U S J R L M V C F O T P E F A Y T Z P Z R T L H B C F S N U A M A V X E M N R R R L S E A F D Y V J U Z Z L C L A I I T S U A L R A N X S K H Y A M S L L Q G S I D Q I T H A C K N J R N U X L S F A R B Z A V M S H T S R K E A O E G P P A I N T E R G D B C A B T I I R D P W S F E R V C U N Q M Q O I G V P L H O L W B N G R K M M B Z Y P H Q B M E Q I W O Y N A Q X S C E J H S T N U H P A R G O H T I L V R E D A A N P R O L O C P A E G D D R C S R T Y D R C E K U M K M D F R O Q V T H R E E F L A G S R R B U O I E U A U G P Q X Z J W C G J O C A W T P T P A X P J J T X O I Z B P S V S F N M U J D Q L Y E X C O D Z U S T A F B E U C C X A G J C R W B R H M H K R U Q P P P O X K D G A W Q L R O V F S S S N M T O B P R M G C F W G V A X G X X C M B C U S R S Y P C M M W U G Y P U A K X S W K V Q H V V G C V R S C J T U G T C W A C K H X H R J M Q R M Y W I U Q H T S T T O C E Q N O Y K J T K E V J C Q W A S D O Q E D P U G U O P B V D T F W U R X O O D L J C Z X L A C A S N V N K C H N M V H E T M G T V F P R Q I B D Y L Q COLOR IMPERSONAL JASPER JOHNS LINEAR LITHOGRAPH MINIMALIST PAINTER PRINTMAKER REALIST REPETITION SCULPTOR SHAPE SYMMETRY THREEFLAGS

7 Help the artists find his way to the paints! He won t be able to create his next masterpiece without your help!