Our fantastic 1st graders saw the life and work of one of the greatest, Henri Matisse. We used the book called "When Pigasso met Mootise" one of my favorite books ever. After introducing the artist, seeing some of his work and discussing about shapes, color, balance, etc... Here you can see some of the artwor finished.
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Our Receptions children learned a bit about Mondrian and his artwork, his shapes, his colours, etc... We also found this great video for "introducing" his work a bit more in a different way. After little chat and picture display of Mondrian artwork (they loved his work by the way) we played the video, it was a fun end. So after the video we are all ready and excited to start working on the project! Here you can see the master pieces. Cut and glue skills under control! Paper weaving is a simple technique that can create a magnificent result, also it is great for fine motor skills. On this project Marcus weaved the paper and turned into this beautiful house (yes, those are cementery stones and a bat flying around)
Again the great Eric Carle. We made a painted paper lesson, it is such a fun technique, messy but fun. We first read the story, then we made the background paper and the polar bear paper. We used sponges, it is a very effective and fast technique and students love it so much. We limited the amount of colours to choose for the background to only 2.
Second day we trace the parts of the polar bear (stencils previously made) on the back side of the white painted paper, cut them and glue them to the background. Picture Alex holding his master piece Henri Matisse inspired all of our 3rd Graders to create a fantastic piece of art work. Matisse was a great painter during his entire life but when Henri was old he made cutout pictures. Since he was sick so often he had to spend lots of time in bed. It was easier to cut out pictures than use a paint brush! We used the same collage technique that he used; He liked to create images with organic shape cut-outs, just like we have done! Here you can see Henri's (not the Matisse one) creation. If you scan the QR code you will get a wonderful explanation of what is this piece of art about.
We all love Eric Carle and his wonderful world. This time was the turn of the book "Polar bear, polar bear, what do you hear?" It's such a fun book. We made few stencils so the students trace, cut and glu on previously painted papers. Here's Caroline in action!
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