Students then learned about Abstract Art being not realistic. Many things can be abstracted: people, places, things, even ideas can be shown in ways that are different than they would be in the real world.
Now that students understood what Abstract Art was, we moved into our study of Georgia O'Keeffe and her monumental images. We looked through a collection of her paintings, especially highlighting the flowers and bone images she is famous for. Her zoomed in flowers took on an almost abstract look, students did not recognize that the images were indeed flowers.
We then made our viewframes so that we too could zoom in on everyday objects, composing monumental images.
With our viewframes made, we were able to move about and use them to help us compose our drawing.
When we completed our realistic drawings we then began the abstraction process. In this process realistic, natural shapes changed into geometric abstract shapes.
Natural colors did not have to be used either, so students happily chose their own colors for their images.
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