DESCRIPTION: Students explore the concept of color by applying color to a black-and-white photograph of Joep van Lieshout's model of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly sculpture. Students can paint the photograph by selecting any one of the provided colors or by mixing primary colors to make new ones.

OBJECTIVES: To introduce young children to the concept of color and the combination of colors; to learn how to identify colors and the emotions they convey.

PROCEDURE: This is an interactive activity for young children. Students learn about warm and cool colors and how color can express feelings. After exploring the use of color in artwork, students can color a photograph of Joep van Lieshout's cabin and Art Lab on wheels.

To make the activity made more complex, introduce the concept of primary colors to make new colors to use to paint the image.

GO TO THE INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY

MINNESOTA GRADUATION STANDARDS:
(1) Read, View, Listen
(2) Write and Speak
(3) Literature and the Arts

Age level: Appropriate for the youngest visitors.
Artworks used:

• Fritz Glarner, Relational Painting, Tondo #40, 1955-1956
• Adolph Gottlieb, Trio, 1960
• Ellsworth Kelly, Red Green Blue, 1964
• Sol Lewitt, Four Geometric Figures in a Room
• Morris Louis, #28, 1961
• Joep van Lieshout, Model for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, 1997
• George Sugarman, Yellow Top, 1959

• Books: The House of Four Seasons, Roger Duvoisin, L,L & Co., New York, 1959.