3 Styles of Art (2024)

Realistic, Stylized & Abstract Art

What is abstract art? Why would you want to abstract something when you can just look at an object and draw it realistically?

Usually when we talk about types of art, we put it into one of 3 categories: (a) realistic, (b) stylized, (c) abstract.

This project is all about taking something recognizable like letters and making a drawing in 3 different styles. The point is to change the way your brain thinks about the same idea each time.

We will (1) build a paper model of a positive word, (2) use values to draw realistically, (3) flatten everything into shapes and color to draw a stylized version, and (4) overlap and rearrange all the parts to make an abstract cubist-style piece at the end.

Who was Pablo Picasso? What is abstract art? What is the point of cubism? Abstract art is based on something real like a person, place, or series of objects, but it has been changed into a new version. Look at the artworks below by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Can you decide what the original subject matter was?

Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso 1921

Georges Braque, 1914, Man With a Guitar, oil on canvas, 130 x 73 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Sketchbook: 3 Styles of Art

Make a Model & Create a Realistic Drawing

Stylized Drawing

Realistic & Stylized Versions of the Same Word

abstract your Word

analogous colors

After abstracting your word, draw and label a color wheel in your sketchbook.

Next, show you understand analogous colors on the page to the right. Practice mixing the colors you need with oil pastels.

adding color to the final drawing

Don't think about the overall letters in your drawing- only look at the shapes.
Choose one analogous color group to start.
Each shape needs a blend of colors from one of the 2 groups.
Change directions of your blends as you move around the page.
Each section should show a blend of colors, not bars stacked beside each other.
Work through the whole page until each shape is filled.
If a space is the size of 1 fingertip, you may use 1 color; if you can fit 2 fingertips, use a 2 color blend, and if you can fit 3, show a change in 3 colors.

student work- can you find the letters?

Objectives & Assessment

Standards

VA6MC1c. Explores essential questions, big ideas, or themes in personally relevant ways.
VA6MC2d. Explores and invents artistic conventions (styles, techniques) to connect and express visual ideas.
VA6MC3a. Discusses common themes found in a variety of art works of past and/or present artists.
VA6MC3b. Compares and contrasts how factors of time and place influence the development of and meaning in works of art.
VA6PR1a. Produces original two-dimensional artworks using a variety of media (e.g., pencils, markers, pastels, water-based paint, printmaking materials, collage material, photographic materials, and electronic media).
VA6PR1b. Develops a variety of drawing skills (e.g., observational, illusion of form, tonal rendering, perspective) to convey meaning and idea.
VA6PR1e. Produces works of art that demonstrate knowledge of various styles of art (e.g., realism, formalism, abstraction).
VA6PR2b. Creates artwork reflecting a range of concepts, ideas, and subject matter by incorporating specific elements or principles.
VA6PR4c.Practices techniques using a variety of media and tools.
VA6PR4d.Composes preliminary sketches and drafts.
VA6AR2e. Explains how selected principles of design and elements are used in an artwork to convey meaning and how they affect personal response to that artwork.