2nd Grade Cityscape Reflections

 

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1st Grade Mondrian

 

 

 

 

 

 

5th Grade Aboriginal Sculptures

Aboriginal art originates from Australia over 30,000 years ago.  Aborigines began painting on rocks and inside caves with earth tone or neutral colors.  Students learned that back then they couldn’t go to the store to buy paint; they had to find things in nature to make their own paint.  Today Aboriginal Art has three main characteristics, dots, symbols and/or animals.  Aborigines filled their space and did not leave any negative (empty space) in their art.  The Aborigines used symbols in their art to document their travels and experiences.  Students learned that different countries/cultures have different meanings for different symbols.   Students were also introduced to REPITION and UNITY and how to create/find that in a piece of art.  The 5^th grade students review the difference between 2-D and 3-D art.  We also talked about Abstract Art and what it means.  Students were able to create sculpture using a hanger, nylon and block of wood.  Students could choose any colors of their choice but had to fill their sculpture with dots and symbols to represent Aboriginal Art.

4th Grade Aboriginal Animals

Aboriginal art originates from Australia over 30,000 years ago.  Aborigines began painting on rocks and inside caves with earth tone or neutral colors.  Students learned that back then they couldn’t go to the store to buy paint; they had to find things in nature to make their own paint.  Today Aboriginal Art has three main characteristics, dots, symbols and/or animals.  Aborigines filled their space and did not leave any negative (empty space) in their art.  The Aborigines used symbols in their art to document their travels and experiences.  Students learned that different countries/cultures have different meanings for different symbols.   Students were also introduced to REPITION and UNITY and how to create/find that in a piece of art.

The 4^th grade students had to choose an animal native to Australia to have as the focal point of their art.  Students create various aboriginal symbols throughout their animal and background using dots.  Students had to fill their background space with dots and patterns.

3rd Grade Aboriginal Handprints

The 3^rd  grade students were able to combine the old and modern Aboriginal Art into one piece of Art.  Students were able to add their handprint (which originates from the cave art of Australia) and then fill their space with dots/symbols (which is from Modern Australian Art).  Students also learned about the warm/cool colors and had to choose one color group for their art.  Aboriginal art originates from Australia over 30,000 years ago.  Aborigines began painting on rocks and inside caves with earth tone or neutral colors.  Students learned that back then they couldn’t go to the store to buy paint; they had to find things in nature to make their own paint.  Today Aboriginal Art has three main characteristics, dots, symbols and/or animals.  Aborigines filled their space and did not leave any negative (empty space) in their art.  The Aborigines used symbols in their art to document their travels and experiences.  Students learned that different countries/cultures have different meanings for different symbols.   Students were also introduced to REPITION and UNITY and how to create/find that in a piece of art.

2nd Grade Aboriginal Portraits

Aboriginal art originates from Australia over 30,000 years ago.  Aborigines began painting on rocks and inside caves with earth tone or neutral colors.  Students learned that back then they couldn’t go to the store to buy paint; they had to find things in nature to make their own paint.  Today Aboriginal Art has three main characteristics, dots, symbols and/or animals.  Aborigines filled their space and did not leave any negative (empty space) in their art.  The Aborigines used symbols in their art to document their travels and experiences.  Students learned that different countries/cultures have different meanings for different symbols.   Students were also introduced to REPITION and UNITY and how to create/find that in a piece of art.

The 2^nd grade students were able to learn what a portrait is, and they each created their own Aboriginal Portrait using various lines, colors and dots.  Students also learned what symmetry is and created symmetry in their portrait.

1st Grade Rainsticks

Aboriginal art originates from Australia over 30,000 years ago.  Aborigines began painting on rocks and inside caves with earth tone or neutral colors.  Students learned that back then they couldn’t go to the store to buy paint; they had to find things in nature to make their own paint.  Today Aboriginal Art has three main characteristics, dots, symbols and/or animals.  Aborigines filled their space and did not leave any negative (empty space) in their art.  The Aborigines used symbols in their art to document their travels and experiences.  Students learned that different countries/cultures have different meanings for different symbols.   Students were also introduced to REPITION and UNITY and how to create/find that in a piece of art. The 1^st grade students learned about rain sticks and what they were used for.  Each student was able to create their own rain stick, painting it with Aboriginal dots and symbols.

Chihuly School Wide Collaboration Project

Each year I like to kick off the school year with school wide collaboration project so showcase teamwork and a piece of art on a large scale.  This year students studied and learned about glass artist Dale Chihuly.  We saw various examples of his work, a video on his process and also learned about what a "macchia" is.  Each student created their own individual macchia and they were attached together to create a large sculpture.  The 5th grade students were able to make the connection on their annual field trip to UWGB and got to see an actual Chihuly Chandiler hanging in the Weidner Center.  They were all pretty amazed at how cool an actual Chihuly Sculpture looks in person.

Klee Self Portraits

The 5^th grade students watched a video showing many different examples of Paul Klee’s art work.  Students had to write at least five descriptive words that came to their mind when view Klee’s work.  Here are some of the words they wrote: colorful, shapes, lines, weird, crazy, people, creative, imaginative, and pattern.  After seeing the video students were able to learn about the proportions of the face and had to draw their own self portrait.  We overlapped many different shapes and colors to make it look like the style of Paul Klee’s work.  Finally students had to write an acrostic name poem in the boarder of their self-portrait.