Art Lesson Plan
NeoPopRealist ink pen pattern drawing
"Say "NO!" to Nazism" and say "YES" to NeoPopRealist 10 canons for happier life! NeoPopRealism ink & pen pattern drawing, inspired by NeoPopRealism, Nadia Russ, and current politics *"Never before since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our American civilization been in such danger as now.... [The Nazis] have made it clear that not only do they intend to dominate all life and thought in their own country, but also to enslave the whole of Europe, and then to use the resources of Europe to dominate the rest of the world. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt **"So that's who you are. Nazis! Well, that explains everything.Your arrogance, your stupidity, your bad manners." ~ Emeric Pressburger ***"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." ~ Winston Churchill
NeoPopRealism ink pen pattern drawing - "Say "NO!" to Nazism" GRADES: 9-12, adapt. 3-5 and 6-8 Developed by NeoPopRealism Press (www.neopoprealism.org) TIME: Two 45-minute class periods CONNECTIONS: Visual Arts, History & Politics, NeoPopRealism, Nazism Key terms: NeoPopRealism, Libertarian, liberties, freedom, Nazism, war 1
Drawing “Say “NO!” to Nazis”, ink/ paper, Neopoprealism, 2014
OBJECTIVES: Students will: - Examine the NeoPopRealism creator's Nadia Russ ink & pen pattern drawings - use posters and internet - and learn about the NeoPopRealism art style and its drawing concept, created in 1989 (if students are not familiar with this style yet). See for more information http://neopoprealismblackwhiteink.blogspot.com/. Mention that in 2014, NeoPopRealism celebrates its 25th anniversary. - Focus on the NeoPopRealist 10 canons for happier life (see them on the bottom of this page), created by Nadia Russ in 2004, and discuss them with students. - Discuss the German Nazism and WWII, when Nazis wanted dominate the world and establish their regime (see Lesson Plan - Background and Historical Information). Show and explain students the Nazis symbol. - Discuss the current situation in the Eastern Ukraine and the Ukrainian Nazism (see Lesson Plan 2
Background and Historical Information). Show students a video that shocked the world in February 2014. It contains the licked phone conversation between two top nationalistic Ukrainian leaders - Nestor Shufrych and Yulia Tymoshenko, who is the former PM of Ukraine and former presidential candidate. She said in this video: [it is] "time to grab guns and kill damn Russians..." And much more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RxSzSWbcxo - Create a drawing Say "NO!" to Nazism in the NeoPopRealist ink and pen pattern drawing manner. MATERIALS: - Nadia Russ' work - posters - Computer to see images of Nadia Russ' Neopoprealist work - Two sheets of white paper 8.5" x 11" - Ink pen black 0.7 mm Day 1. - Instruct students about NeoPopRealism ink & pen pattern drawing and Nadia Russ, who created this style in 1989 - http://neopoprealismblackwhiteink.blogspot.com/. Discuss 25th anniversary of NeoPopRealism and possible participation in the NeoPopRealist art contest. You can email the images of your students NeoPopRealist art works to neopoprealism@mail.com (www.neopoprealism.org). Your school might get an Award - Nadia Russ' signed print, if you win. Deadline: December 25, 2014. - Have students investigate Nadia Russ' NeoPopRealist drawings concept: a line creates shape, then this shape is divided into sections. Then, the sections filled with different imaginative repetitive patterns, some sections left blank. Eraser never used because if a 'mistake' made it visually disappears after the new patterns balance the whole composition (see Background and historical information and http://neopoprealismblackwhiteink.blogspot.com/). Compare NeoPopRealist art with the drawings of realists artists, such as Rembrandt and others. - Discuss the WWII and Nazism, show the Nazis' mascot. Discuss the quotations about Nazis by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Emeric Pressburger, and Winston Churchill (see above). - Have student explore and discuss the NeoPopRealism 10 canons for happier life (see below). Ask students about the differences between NeoPopRealist ideas and Nazism. - Explain students that today they'll draw artwork "Say "NO!" to Nazism" in the NeoPopRealist manner, using black ink pen. - Focus on repetitive patterns. It can be stars, whirls, paralleled lines, strips, circles, zigzags, etc., their combination. Ask students to use their imagination when they draw patterns, suggest to enter the subconscious state of mind. Read how to do it in any of Nadia Russ' NeoPopRealism instructional book (strongly recommended, other way students can end up with doodling instead of creating NeoPopRealist ARTWORK). Day 2. Start 2nd day with a brief discussion of NeoPopRealisT 10 canons for happier life and the differences between NeoPopRealism and Nazism. Remind students the NeoPopRealism drawing concept. 3
See information about NeoPopRealism and Nazism in a section Background and historical information.. Students create a drawing "Say "NO!" to Nazism" using ink pen 0.7 mm on white paper 8�x11�. After work is done, have them describe their artworks using knowledge of the NeoPopRealism 10 canons for happier life and the dark and full of drama history of Nazism they have learned. ASSESSMENT: To evaluate the NeoPopRealism-style artwork "Say "NO!" to Nazism," ask: - Did the student use the line and repetitive patterns in their art works? - Write the five words on the back of sheet of paper with a drawing "Say "NO!" to Nazism," explaining what their artworks represent.
Artwork "Nazis No More!" black ink pen and yellow, green and silver nail polish on paper 4
Lesson Plan - Background and Historical Information:
Nadia RUSS is a Ukrainian-born Russian painter / graphic artist living in the USA. In 1989, she created a style of visual arts NeoPopRealism. In 2014, NeoPopRealism celebrates its 25th anniversary! Instead of careful copying reality - wild life or human figure Nadia RUSS creates her artwork using imagination. As Nadia RUSS experimented and developed her distinctive techniques, her drawings became more symbolic. For her drawings she uses white paper and black ink pen. However, sometimes, she uses blue ink on white paper and gold/silver ink on black paper http://neopoprealismblackwhiteink.blogspot.com/. In some mixed media artworks she even uses the nail polish and lipstick to make the bright accents. How did Nadia RUSS develop her unique and original style NeoPopRealism? Nadia RUSS had studied classical drawing and composition since she was a child, but as she studied she found herself drawn to produce less realistic, more imaginative artwork.
NADIA RUSS, DECEMBER 2013, YORK CITY
Some section should be left blank. If artwork made on canvas using color paints and a brush, then, it would be a combination of sections filled with hot and cold color paint, partly with patterns. In 1990, RUSS exhibited her first ink/ pattern drawings in a group exhibition in Moscow’s famous Manege. Later, she was exhibiting her artwork in art galleries. In 1996, she moved to the Freeport, Bahamas, where her artwork gained special brightness. In 2000, she came to the USA where she lives till present. Nadia Russ create a term “NeoPopRealism” January 4, 2003. Same year, she manifested her new style of visual arts NeoPopRealism internationally. In 2004, she created NeoPopRealism 10 canons for happier life. In 2006-2007, several US and European museums collected Nadia Russ’ paintings and drawings and now, these artworks are in the permanent collections of these museums. In 1989, she created NeoPopRealism art style and ink pattern drawing concept: line creates sections; then, these section filled with different repetitive patterns,
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In 2014, NeoPopRealism is 25. A little bit of history: Watch the Bahamas TV, ZNS Channel 13 featuring of the Nadia Russ' NeoPopRealist Art Exhibition in 1997: http://youtu.be/WNpQ8R51yk0 Watch Nadia Russ drawing "Faces": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8Paut5fIg
Also read what newspapers worldwide have written about Nadia Russ' artwork. Click and scroll down in the following website: http://neopoprealismjournal.wikifoundry.com/page/NeoPopRealism ---------------About Nazism Nazism, Naziism, or National Socialism in full, is the ideology and practice associated with the 20thcentury German Nazi Party and state as well as other related far-right groups today. It was also contemporaneous or promoted in other European countries, particularly those with large ethnic German communities such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. Usually characterized as a form of fascism that incorporates scientific racism and antisemitism, Nazism originally developed from the influences of pan-Germanism, the Vรถlkisch German nationalist movement and the anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture in post-First World War Germany, which many Germans felt had been left humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles. German Nazism subscribed to theories of racial hierarchy and social Darwinism, asserted the superiority of an Aryan master race, and criticised both capitalism and communism for being associated with Jewish materialism. It aimed to overcome social divisions, with all parts of a racially homogenous society cooperating for national unity and regeneration and to secure territorial enlargement at the expense of supposedly inferior neighbouring nations. 6
The Nazi Party was founded as the pan-German nationalist and antisemitic German Workers' Party in January 1919. By the early 1920s, Adolf Hitler had become its leader and assumed control of the organisation, now renamed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) in a bid to broaden its appeal. The National Socialist Program, adopted in 1920, called for a united Greater Germany that would deny citizenship to Jews or those of Jewish descent, while also supporting land reform and the nationalization of some industries. In Mein Kampf, written in 1924, Hitler outlined the virulent antisemitism and anti-communism that lay at the heart of his political philosophy, as well as his disdain for parliamentary democracy and his belief in Germany’s right to territorial expansion. In 1933, with the support of more traditional right-wing conservatives, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and the Nazis gradually established a one-party totalitarian state, under which Jews, political opponents and other "undesirable" elements were marginalised, harassed and eventually imprisoned and killed. Once in power, Hitler purged the remnants of the party’s more socially and economically radical factions in the Night of the Long Knives and, following the death of President Hindenburg, ultimate authority became increasingly concentrated in his hands, as "Führer", or leader. Following the Holocaust and German defeat in the Second World War, only a few fringe racist groups, usually referred to as neo-Nazis, still describe themselves as following National Socialism. A majority of scholars identify Nazism in practice as a form of far-right politics. Far-right themes in Nazism include the argument that superior people have a right to dominate over other people and purge society of supposed inferior elements. Adolf Hitler and other proponents officially portrayed Nazism as being neither left- nor right-wing, but syncretic. Hitler in Mein Kampf directly attacked both left-wing and right-wing politics in Germany. The Nazis were strongly influenced by the post–World War I far-right in Germany, which held common beliefs such as anti-Marxism, anti-liberalism, and antisemitism, along with nationalism, contempt towards the Treaty of Versailles, and condemnation of the Weimar Republic for signing the armistice in November 1918 that later led to their signing of the Treaty of Versailles. A major inspiration for the Nazis were the far-right nationalist Freikorps, paramilitary organisations that engaged in political violence after World War I. Initially, the post-World War I German far right was dominated by monarchists, but the younger generation, who were associated with Völkisch nationalism, were more radical and did not express any emphasis on the restoration of the German monarchy. This younger generation desired to dismantle the Weimar Republic and create a new radical and strong state based upon a martial ruling ethic that could revive the "Spirit of 1914" that was associated with German national unity (Volksgemeinschaft). German Nazism emphasized German nationalism, including both irredentism and expansionism. Nazism held racial theories based upon the belief of the existence of an Aryan master race that was believed to be superior to all other races. The Nazis emphasized the existence of racial conflict between the Aryan race and others, particularly Jews whom the Nazis viewed as a mixed race that had infiltrated multiple societies, and was responsible for exploitation and repression of the Aryan race About WWII World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming 7
two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, directly involved more than 100 million people, from more than 30 different countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust, the Three Alls Policy, the strategic bombing of enemy industrial and/or population centres, and the first use of nuclear weapons in combat, it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. In WWII, 20,000 000 Russians were killed. In Eastern Europe, from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945, it has been known as the Great Patriotic War. Nazis fortunately lost in this war. About Adolf Hitler Hitler actively sought Lebensraum ("living space") for the German people. His aggressive foreign policy is considered to be the primary cause of the outbreak of World War II in Europe. He directed large-scale rearmament and on 1 September 1939 invaded Poland, resulting in British and French declarations of war on Germany. In June 1941, Hitler ordered an invasion of the Soviet Union. By the end of 1941 German forces and their European allies occupied most of Europe and North Africa. Failure to defeat the Soviets and the entry of the United States into the war forced Germany onto the defensive and it suffered a series of escalating defeats, partly because of Hitler's countless military blunders. In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time lover, Eva Braun. On 30 April 1945, less than two days later, the two committed suicide to avoid capture by the Red Army, and their corpses were burned. Under Hitler's leadership and racially motivated ideology, the regime was responsible for the genocide of at least 5.5 million Jews, and millions of other victims whom he and his followers deemed racially inferior. Ukrainian Nazis Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa began on June 22, 1941, and by September the occupied territory was divided between two German administrative units, the General Government and the Reichskommissariat Ukraine.The military occupation of Ukraine by Nazi Germany, a large number of Ukrainians chose to cooperate with the Nazis. Reasons for this generally included resurgent Ukrainian nationalism and aspirations for independence, however these were coupled with rampant racism towards other ethnic groups (such as Tatars, Roma peoples and Poles) as well as a prevailing sentiment of antisemitism. However, the absence of Ukrainian autonomy under the Nazis, mistreatment by the occupiers, and the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians as slave laborers, soon led to a rapid change in the attitude among the collaborators. See BBC interviews with the Ukrainian nationalists (Feb 2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY Read about Ukrainian Nazis in Workers.com (July 2014): http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/07/11/dissecting-ukraines-democracy-poroshenko-neo-nazis/ Ukraine Today In Ukraine the Euromaidan that supports the Nazis, anti-Russian ideas (literally "Eurosquare") protests 8
started in November 2013, after the president Viktor Yanukovych decided to establish closer ties with Russia, instead of EU. Euromaidan organized a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, the scope of which evolved to include calls for the resignation of legally elected President Yanukovych and his government. Riots left 98 dead with approximately 15,000 injured and 100 considered missing from 18–20 February. The legally elected Ukrainian President Yanukovych was overthrown and the illegal nationalistic temporary government was installed. A new presidential election was 25 May, 2014 and the new president of Ukraine was elected. It was Petro Poroshenko, who was running on a pro-European Union platform. His closest election's rival Tymoshenko during the election, was only able to garner less number of votes. Upon his election, Poroshenko announced that his immediate priorities would be to take action in the civil unrest in Eastern Ukraine and mend ties with Russia. However, his first day after election as a president was a day when the Ukrainian Army began more aggressive attacks in East Ukraine and many civilians were dead as a result of it. Poroshenko was inaugurated as president on 7 June 2014 in a low-key ceremony without a celebration on Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti square (the center of the Euromaidan protests) for the ceremony. However, something went wrong. There are only four ways according to the Ukrainian Constitution for a previous President Yanukovych to leave his President's position, and no one of them was used. He was overthrown, it is illegal, and according to the Ukrainian laws, now, Yanukovych is still the acting president of Ukraine. To avoid this confusing situation, before electing Poroshenko, Ukrainians should have the Referendum and should change the Ukrainian Constitution. And only then, they should elect their new president. Today, Petro Poroshenko doesn't seem like a legitimate President of Ukraine, Yanukovych still is. However, how different Yanukovich and Poroshenko are? Euromandan's supporters claimed that Yanukovich is corrupt. Let's make some research and find out more about Petro Poroshenko. Poroshenko is a billionaire, who made his money on chocolate candies. However, these candies contain a potentially carcinogenic additive called benzopyrene. Said, it increases the candies' shelf life. Benzopyrenes intercalate into DNA, interfering with transcription and are considered Pollutants and Carcinogen. Carcinogens is an agent directly involved in causing cancer. See about Carcinogen in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogen. Especially the mechanism of action of benzopyrene-related DNA modification is well investigated and relates to the activity of cytochrome P450 subclass 1A1 (CYP1A1). Isn’t shame to make money on spreading cancer? Also, he said that he doesn't eat his own product, those chocolate candies. In a super poor country as Ukraine, Poroshenko had built a house for his family that looks like the White House in Washington. See an image of his house: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/the-chocolate-king-whowould-be-president-106998.html#.U9Z8ZuNdXng/. Let's make also some research to find out, why and how P.Poroshenko won the election in Ukraine and what is so special about this man. Before election, the promotional photographs of all presidential candidates were featured all over in the Ukrainian media. However, the Poroshenko's photos were kind of different. His photographs were in a company of the top US's officials. Some of them were made during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel February 2014, in Germany. In these photographs, Poroshenko was shaking the US Secretary of State and other top officials hands. Images just went viral in the poor and broke Ukraine, carrying a false message that Poroshenko is better than other candidates because he is "well-connected" and both America and West will help them to survive their massive economic and political mess. 9
See a photograph in the Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Post that features Poroshenko and Kerry before election: http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine-abroad/washington-post-interview-with-ukrainianpresidential-candidate-petro-poroshenko-345355.html This is what made Poroshenko a success. Doubtly it was his personal qualities. About CRIMEA After the legally elected President of Ukraine Yanukovych was overthrown by the Ukrainian antiRussian Nationalists and the temporary government was installed in Ukraine, the people of Crimea, who in they majority are Russians, had a referendum and trough voting decided to leave Ukraine, asking Russia to add their land of Crimea to territory of Russia. Russian agreed and annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in March. It provoked sanctions against Russian officials and economy by the U.S. and the EU, who think that free will of Crimea people is illegal and that Crimean Russian ethnic has no right to live without discrimination by Ukrainian Nazis, who took the power in Ukraine. In fact, before 1954, Crimea was the Russian territory. However, on February 27, 1954 the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR had decreed on February 19 the transfer of the Crimea from the RSFSR (Russian Republic) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was Russian gift to Ukraine. Now, Crimeans refused to live under Ukrainian Nazis' regime and decided go back to Russia, together with they land. And this sounds fair. Read about Crimea: http://soviethistory.macalester.edu/index.php?page=subject&SubjectID=1954crimea&Year=1954 RESOURCES: 1. Information on NeoPopRealism ink pen/ pattern drawing, its concept and Nadia Russ biography, who created this style in 1989: http://neopoprealismblackwhiteink.blogspot.com/ 2. Neopoprealist art by Nadia Russ: - http://www.nadiaruss.com - http://www.neopoprealism.net - http://neopoprealism.org 3. If you as ART TEACHER REALLY INTERESTED IN TEACHING NEOPOPREALISM ART (not some kind of dull doodling that many uneducated people relate to NeoPopRealism because both uses same concept and patterns) YOU JUST MUST(!) HAVE at least one of How to Draw NeoPopRealism series' book and the autobiographical book by Nadia Russ "DECA-DaNCE: & how swindlers, coxcombs & sexists failed America and how to break through & be happy", ISBN: 978-0615655680. Other way, you won't able fully and interesting way present students NeoPopRealist style and NeoPopRealist 10 canons for happier life. Ask your library to obtain these book if you are not able to buy them. If librarian will tell you that they only purchase books from the approved distributor, refer them to INGRAM, the world libraries' supplier - http://www.ingrambook.com/ that sells all Nadia Russ' books to libraries and other institutions worldwide. 10
A book "How to Draw NeoPopRealism Ink Images: Basics", ISBN: 978-0615515755 includes a few teaching projects (lesson plans) with step-by-step drawing instructions, more. Read the book' reviews written by art professionals: http://howtodrawneopoprealism.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-series-ofteaching-books-how-to.html
A Book for art teachers: “NeoPopRealism Ink & Pen Pattern Drawing: 15 Most Popular ART LESSON PLANS Adaptable to ALL GRADES,� ISBN: 978-0615754659: 4. Video-conversation between Nestor Shufrych and Fascist Yulia Tymoshenko, who is the former PM of Ukraine and former presidential candidate, who said that it is "time to grab guns and kill damn Russians...": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RxSzSWbcxo 5. History of Crimea: http://soviethistory.macalester.edu/index.php?page=subject&SubjectID=1954crimea&Year=1954 6. Article "Let Eastern Ukraine Go" by Blake Fleetwood in Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-fleetwood/let-eastern-ukrainego_b_5622170.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592 7. Kyiv Port promotes Presidential candidate Poroshenko: http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine-abroad/washington-post-interview-with-ukrainianpresidential-candidate-petro-poroshenko-345355.html
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8. White House of Poroshenko: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/the-chocolate-king-who-would-be-president106998.html#.U9Z8ZuNdXng/. 9. BBC's interview with the Ukrainian Nazis (Feb 2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY 10. Workers.com (July 2014) about Ukraine' nationalists: http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/07/11/dissecting-ukraines-democracy-poroshenko-neo-nazis/ Follow up activities: Discuss NeoPopRealism ink & pen pattern drawing style and NeoPopRealism 10 canons for happier life. Name artists who invented new styles of visual arts: Monet - Impressionism, Dali - Surrealism, Picasso Cubism, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns - Pop Art, Jeff Koons - Neo-Pop, Nadia Russ - NeoPopRealism. Ask students questions about NeoPopRealism history and Nadia Russ who created it. `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` *Fight bullying in school with help of NeoPopRealism 10 canons for happier life - see in www.nadiaruss.com/ or below: 1. Be beautiful; 2. Be creative & productive; never stop studying & learning; 3. Be peace-loving, positive-minded; 4. Do not accept communist or any other totalitarianism's philosophy; 5. Be free-minded, do the best you can to move the world to peace and harmony; 6. Be family oriented, self-disciplined; 7. Be free spirited. Follow your dreams, if they are not destructive, but constructive; 8. Believe in god. God is one, it is harmony and striving for perfection; 9. Be supportive to those who need you, be generous; 10. Create your life as a great adventurous story.
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