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1ST GRADE We have spent the beginning part of our year working on our name clowns. This week we will be adding his head!  2ND GRADE We are creating lion cages. First we learned to use the elemental tools of drawing: dot, circle, straight line, curving line, and angles. We used these to create our lion family. Now we are working on "sewing" the bars on the cage, then adding wheels and a fancy edged top. They take a while, but they are fun and we learn a lot about how artists draw!
3RD GRADE We are studying the artist Henri Matisse and his Beasts of the Sea collage. We painted our own colors on paper and next week we will begin cutting out our own "sea" shapes to add to our collage.
4TH GRADE Next week we will begin working on our Clown Cars. We practice making patterns to cover our clown's car, then we will create radial patterns on our wheels. Finally, we fill the car with clowns!
5TH GRADE The Doll Collaborative Project is going great guns. We are also creating a journal to travel around with our dolls. The first trade is on Sunday, 9/21! Can't wait to see what other schools have created!
6TH GRADE
ASL (American Sign Language) Names are being worked on. Students are drawing their hands spelling out their names in this sign language of the deaf.
7TH GRADE and 8TH GRADE Our artist this week is GUSTAVE KLIMT (1862-1918), an Austrian Symbolist artist who worked in the style of Art Nouveau. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. The German Nazis confiscated many of Klimt's works during the WWII occupation of Austria and since 1998 have been gradually returned to their rightful owners or on display in the Vienna Secession gallery.
First we found a magazine picture that had a head, neck and arms that we cut out and pasted onto scratch art paper that has gold or silver under the black coating. Next we are scraping out patterns and designs for the clothing and creating a patterned background. The trick is to use different sized patterns so that the clothing "pops" from the tiny patterns used in the background. The results so far have been stunning!
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Week 1 ARTIST: Gustave Klimt BORN/DIED: 1862-1918 COUNTRY: Austria STYLE: Art Nouveau MEDIUM: Painting and drawing
Week 2 ARTIST: Hokusai, The Great Wave BORN/DIED: 1760-1849 COUNTRY: JAPAN STYLE: Japanese Ukiyo-e MEDIUM: WOODBLOCK AND PAINTINGS
FIND THE ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS HERE: http://www.andreas.com/hokusai.html 10 QUESTIONS: (Answers due next class period) 1. How many names did Hokusai work under? 2. What is another name of this painting? 3. Japan sealed itself off from the rest of the world for 600 years. What is this period called? 4. How many different homes did Hokusai live in? 5. How old was Hokusai when he died? 6. Name another work of art by Hokusai. 7. How were Hokusai's artworks different from the typical Japanese artistic works of his time? 8. Instead of shoguns, samurai, and their geishas, which were the common topics of Japanese illustrative art at the time, Hokusai placed _____________ into his woodblocks. 9. Hokusai drew thousands of small sketches in his lifetime. What are these sketches called? 10. What medium did he use on The Great Wave?
WEEK THREE ANDY WARHOL ARTIST: Andy Warhol BORN/DIED: 1928 – 1987 COUNTRY: AMERICAN STYLE: POP ART MEDIUM: SILK SCREEN
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