Kindergarten:  Joan Miro Paintings

11/20/2013

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Joan Miro was a Spanish surrealist painter whose dreamlike imagery is easily deciphered by young children. Dots and Lines are the foundations for all drawing. Miro adeptly combines these expressive features and children identify stars, faces, and various creatures and forms. Primary colors play center stage in these fantastical compositions.
Kindergarteners identified and practiced the symbols Joan Miro used. Then they practiced using and mixing tempera paints to create some awesome artwork!

Joan Miro's paintings:
Kindergartener's paintings:
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Third Grade "Geodesic Domes"

11/19/2013

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...and Bucky Fuller

Third graders discovered the genius of R. Buckminster Fuller through this short video clip: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0_DKeFfObI
We noticed all the shapes he used in his infamous geodesic domes. Parallelograms, trapezoids, hexagons...you can't make any without triangles!
Bucky Fuller used triangles as the basis for his designs because they are the strongest of all the shapes, as we soon found out when we started constructing our sculptures. 
The best thing about our "geodesic" sculptures: architecture, design, science, and math all come together to make some awesome ART!
Please visit our online gallery to see this amazing sculptures:
http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=712078
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Fifth Grade Jungles

11/19/2013

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Self Portrait
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"Exotic Landscape" 1910
Fifth graders have been working hard on paintings to display at their production of "Jungle Book Kids!" 
We got inspired by the work of the self-taught, Post-Impressionist French painter Henri Rousseau. We noticed that he showed space through overlapping and was skilled at creating a variety of shades of green, so that's what we aimed for in our own paintings. Fifth graders learned and practiced new painting techniques including watercolor wash for the background and mixing tempera to create multiple shades of one color. 
Here is a link to a video introducing a new children's book about Rousseau: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9VHjJvRcFw

And check out the 5th graders paintings in our online gallery!!
http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=721986
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