Thursday, March 3, 2016

DISCOVERING WOMEN ARTISTS III- FRIDA KAHLO

Fifh graders are going to discover and learn about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo as part of our Women International Day project. There's some information on the interactive image below.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

DISCOVERING WOMEN ARTISTS II- MARGARET KEANE

As part of our International Women Day activities, sixth graders are going to discover the artist Margaret Keane and her story. Below there's an interactive image woth some information about this popular artist.

DISCOVERING WOMEN ARTISTS I- GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Next Tuesday 8th March it's International Women's Day, so we'll be discovering and working on Art inspired by women artists. Third graders are going to meet Georgia O'Keeffe and create some art inspired by hers. Below is a short video about this American artist.

And in the following presentation you can see some examples of Georgia O'Keeffe's work.

Monday, February 29, 2016

LOVELY MONDRIAN

During February, as it's Valentine's Day month, we worked on the feeloing of LOVE. Third graders discovered the Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian and his geometric abstraction style using only primary colours.
Apart from discovering a new artist, we learned to make a heart using symmetry, practised drawing parallel and perpendicular lines, coloring, cutting and pasting.





And we also made a big Mondrian-style painting to display our heart creations.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

DISCOVERING KEITH HARING

Hi there fourth graders!
We're going to discover a new artist. His name's Keith Haring, and I hope you like his art as much as I do. It's going to be fun! Be ready for different Keith haring tasks. Let's start moving!
To start with, an interesting presentation:

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

PICASSO MONSTERS

Last October-November, while working on the feeling of FEAR and Halloween, we discovered Picasso and his cubist figures. 
We watched the video of the story Picasso's trousers to discover this wonderful artist.


We practiced our cutting skills, drawing shapes, symmetry, colour combination, ...



And we made monsters inspired by Picasso's art. You can see some examples below.

Fift graders made a different version of the same activity, using cardboard and scrap paper to make little sculptures.


 And if you'd like to see some more examples, just click HERE.

Friday, February 5, 2016

FEELINGS SELFIES

Our first Art activity of the year was to draw ourselves at a moment from our summer. We had to choose a moment and draw ourselves according to how we felt at that moment. Below you can see some of our cell-fies.


 If you want to see some other examples, just click HERE.

Friday, January 8, 2016

THIERRY NOIR

Last December, as part of our Art and Emotions school projects, 6th graders, who are studying graffiti as an artistic way to express ideas and emotions, discovered Thierry Noir. He was the first artist who painted on the Berlin Wall. If you want to discover him too, watch the presentation below:



Based on some of his work, we made our own artwork for our 2016 calendar. See some examples below:

For all our paintings, just click HERE.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

SCULPTURE INTRODUCTION

Hi there! We're Our Art creations are back! 

This year, our school project is about Arts and Emotions, so in our Art lessons we'll try to work on different Arts and what they make us feel. 
We've decided October will be dedicated to the emotion of  FEAR, so we've worked on different Art representations of this feeling.
Sixth graders worked on this feeling through the Art of Sculpture. We chose the Swiss artist Giacometti and his tall and thin creations as an introduction to Sculpture and as a representation of fear. 
To learn about the artist, we used this slideshow:


We worked with foil paper to make our creatures.

 

 
 We gave each sculpture a personality and are now making presentation for the rest of the class to choose the best character. These are our final creations.