Jillian Keyes

Seven Deadly Sins Iconography

 

Grade/s: High school Level 1

Time Required: 10 periods of 45 minutes

Enduring Idea: Food

Unit Title: Seven Deadly Sins Iconography

Key Concept: Gluttony

Unit Designer: Jillian Keyes

Essential Question: How do you interpret each of the Seven Deadly Sins?

 

Unit Description: During this lesson, the students will create a series of seven drawings that depict their interpretation of each deadly sin through objects and symbols. The students will present their drawings in a creative way of their choosing; for example: a book, on a box, matted on a poster, etc.

 

Outline of Class Meetings:

Day 1: Introduction with visual exemplars, student research

Day 2: Student research, preliminary sketches

Day 3: Studio, preliminary sketches

Day 4: Studio

Day 5: Studio

Day 6: Studio

Day 7: Studio

Day 8: Studio

Day 9: Studio, construct presentation

Day 10: Presentation of drawing series, review

 

NCCAS Art:

• VAH1-1.4 The students will apply materials, techniques, and processes with skill, confidence, and sensitivity sufficient to make his or her intentions observable in the artwork that he or she creates.

• VAH1-2.2 The students will create works of visual art that use the elements and principles of design and other compositional strategies.

• VAH1-3.3 The students will select and effectively use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning through his or her artworks.

 

Learning Outcomes:

1. The students will create a series of seven small consistent drawings in the medium of their choosing depicting their interpretation of each of the seven deadly sins through symbols and/or objects.

2. The students will plan out the composition of their drawings by creating preliminary sketches or thumbnails for each drawing.

3. The students will devise a presentation strategy for their series of drawings. (No free-floating drawings)

 

Artists: The artists I have chosen for this key concept are Andy Warhol and Lucian Freud. Andy Warhol is a contemporary American painter, filmmaker, and illustrator, born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Warhol is known for many things, but mostly for his iconic commercialized pop art pieces depicting objects and subjects in popular culture. The artworks I chose from Warhol are Brillo Boxes, Campbell’s Soup Cans, and the Velvet Underground record cover. I chose Warhol’s artwork to be visual exemplars in this lesson for a couple reasons. Warhol took ordinary objects and made them into iconic pieces of art. His work is also commercially sold and overproduced, which relates back to the concept of greed and going past the point of need. The second artist for this lesson is Lucian Freud, a British painter born in 1922 in Berlin, Germany. Freud is most known for his portrait and nude paintings with very stylized brush strokes, later to be known as impasto. The artwork I chose from Lucian Freud for this lesson is Fat Sue, a portrait of a very gluttonous-looking woman lying on a couch. I chose this portrait because I wanted to have an example of what one might characterize as an image for gluttony, for example.

 

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