Ja fa tres anys que a l'Escola Rocaprevera vam iniciar el Projecte Arts. Els alumnes de 3r, 4t, 5è i 6è de primària reben les classes d'Educació Visual i Plàstica en llengua anglesa. Engrescats pels bons resultats obtinguts, aquest curs l'hem començat a introduir a l'ESO. Aquest bloc pretén ser un recull dels treballs més significatius realitzats pels alumnes, des de 1r de Primària fins a 4t d'ESO.
El nom del nostre bloc és un petit homenatge al gran pintor Vincent Van Gogh i a la seva extraordinària obra. Com podeu observar, el fons també està inspirat en les creacions de Gustav Klimt.
Firstly, we cut a slab of clay for every pupil. Secondly, they pressed down the clay during two or three minutes and they shaped it into a ball shape. In case the clay was not soft enough, they wet the hands in order to work the clay properly.
Then, with a rolling pin, the clay was rolled and patted into a regular mass. With both hands, it was squeezed and pressed out slowly until they got a hand form.
The students only used their fingers and some clay tools to mark the fine lines and the visible veins as well as the finger nails and skin creases.
Once the hand was dried, they varnished it to make the hand brighter.
The students of 4t drew a still life painting.
To do it, they took some real objects from home: jars, vases, flower pots,
glasses...
Then, we arranged them in four different compositions and the
students drew the one which contained the object they had taken. They used
pencil to draw the figures and carbon pencil for the shadows.
Children
experimented with light and shade: they looked at the object and studied their
shape and the shadows the objects made in relation to other objects.
The students of 4t of primària made a typical penguin ice winter landscape.
First of all, they painted a card with a white wax crayon. Afterwards, they crumpled it up as if it was a ball. They pressed the paper very hard for a few minutes and then they unfolded it again. The second step was to paint the entirely card with blue paint and, just immediately, clean the paint under the tap. The blue paint remained mainly on the paper creases.
The card appearance was like the Antarctica, full of ice shelves. The students used some blue wax crayons to distinguish the lines that separate the sea, the sky and the ice.
Finally, they made some origami penguins with bright color paper. They used different sizes to create a penguin family.
The students of 6è
made blow paintings by using watercolours and straws. A Straw-Blown painting is
an interesting painting activity. Rather than using a brush to apply their
paint, they used the air in their lungs.
Firstly, they
painted some test tubes by mixing watercolours and then they blew them with straws to get a scientific effect.
In this activity,
the students used their imagination and their scientific abilities. They were
able to create designs that would be hard to do with a typical paintbrush. So
take a deep breath an go for it!
Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art
developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It was the first style
of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in
response to a world that was changing very quickly.
Cubist Artists tried to change conventional forms of representation, such as perspective. Their aim was to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern age.
The Cubists introduced collage into painting, and they were influenced by art from other cultures, specially African Masks.
Pablo Picasso - Horta de Sant Joan (oil on canvas, 1909)
Georges Braque - Landscape in l'Estaque (oil on canvas, 1908)
Juan Gris - Le Canigou (oil on canvas, 1921)
Try to learn more about Cubism in Artyfactory.com
You can also test your knowledges about Cubism here.
COLLAGE
Collage is an art technique where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Collage can include different materials as newspapers, coloured papers, photographs, texts, and also fabric or any kind of object, all them glued to a piece of paper or canvas.
The word "collage" means "to glue" ("coller" in French means "glue"), and was invented by George Braques and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th Century. It became an important part of Modern Art.
I'm sure you've done a lot of collage artworks at school, haven't you?
Ok, we can start our work watching the next video (in Spanish):
And we can practise online collage using these multimedia aplications:
It's time to talk about one of the most important artist in Art History. He was a Spanish painter, he was born in Malaga in 1881 and his name was Pablo Ruiz Picasso.
As you've read above, he was one of the first Cubists, and he also developed collage techniques.
His Artwork includes different Art Periods:
Picasso - The Pan Pipes (1923)
Early times (before 1901)
Blue Period
Rose Period
African-influenced Period
Cubism
Classicism and Surrealism
Later works
Can you find an example of any Period in the Internet? Paste the pictures into a powerpoint . It should show the next information:
1st slide: Tittle: Picasso's Art Periods. Autor (your name)
2nd slide: Tittle: Early times. Image: a picture from Picasso's early times artwork. Under the picture, write the name of the artwork.
3rd slide: Tittle: Blue Period. Image: a picture from Picasso's Blue Period artwork. Under the picture, write the name of the artwork.
Students of 3r of primària created a "Pop Art" artwork of the American artist Andy Warhol. They used different colour combinations - feltip pens- to colour their own four portraits. Students noticed Warhol’s vibrant use of colour in his images, and they used bright markers for their pictures.
Us deixo un vídeo fet per en Fede de 4t d'ESO en el qual mostra tot el procés de disseny de la samarreta que cada any els de 4t venen per finançar el seu viatge de fi d'estudis.
Enhorabona, Fede!
