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1949, Varnished tempera on canvas, 81 cm. x 54.5 cm., Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Photo Credit: Martin Bühler, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel © 2007 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
In this lesson, students will:
- Analyze People and Dog in the Sun and Miró’s use of repeated shapes, lines and colors to express feelings and ideas
- Identify how Miró used organic and geometric shapes to balance the painting
- Discuss Miró’s use of positive and negative spaces and his abstract composition
- Draw a doodle using Miró’s automatic drawing techniques;
- Create abstract works of art, using a digital paint app
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Abstract Color Doodle
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App Tutorials:
- Sketchbook Edu PowerPoint
- Adobe Draw PowerPoint
- Brushes Redux PowerPoint
- Paper 53 PowerPoint
- Sketch Pad PowerPoint
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