This is the second time I have used Keith Haring and the other project I did with kindergarten can be found HERE. For this project, transitional primary studied mural artist Keith Haring and made these large scale paintings in response to his work. First, we learned how during Haring's childhood, he loved to watch his dad draw cartoons. Once he got older, he moved to New York City to study art, and started showing up in subway stations drawing cartoon like characters on the empty
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Keith Haring
Keith Haring
We discussed why someone would want to make art outside or in public areas versus for a Museum. Students concluded that it cost money to go to a Museum and art that was public could be enjoyed by EVERYONE, rich or poor. Additionally, we dissected the message behind many of his murals to be world peace and for people to love everyone regardless of their differences.
To create our own Haring inspired art, we first played freeze dance and for each time we stopped the music, our students would come up with a pose and then have their body traced. For the next class, we practiced using the primary colors to paint secondary colors inside of our bodies. After our bodies were filled with primary and secondary hues, we added white to create tints. The last day was spent creating a variety of lines in our bodies from spiral, curvy, wavy and loopy to zigzag and pointed. This project wraps up our unit on line and color.
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