In Kindergarten this year we are jumping into art by looking at and talking about famous artwork. We will be looking at videos that animate the art, so it literally looks like you art in the work!
For our first project we looked at Wassily Kandinsky's abstract art. Kandinsky loved to paint colors, shapes, and lines. He was inspired by music. We created a tissue paper collage, learned about different types of lines, and added shapes in our artwork all while listening to Beethoven and other classical music... something that inspire different music!
We watched this video and jumped into the painting, an animation of Kandinsky's art.
Our artwork came out so bright, bold, and colorful! Here are some student examples!
5th graders studied the famous artwork, The Scream, by Edvard Munch! We talked about the reasoning behind Munch's painting, the emotion one can feel when they want to scream, and reasons why sometimes we might feel the need to scream!
We used watercolors to paint our artwork. Some reasons students feel like screaming is for ice cream, aliens, bees, pizza, or even Tom Brady!Here are some examples of the student artwork:
Art work is starting to pop up in the hallways of SJV!
Here is some colorful and bright oil pastel work done by the 1st graders. We were inspired by contemporary artist, Jim Dine. Dine creates paintings and sculptures using hearts as the subject matter. We all agreed that his work was positive, fun, and beautiful! We also separated our background and hearts using warm and cool colors!
If you aren't busy this Friday, October 5th you should check out Illuminate AK, an awesome night of 3D video projection-art at Buffalo's own, Albright-Knox Art Gallery! It's the 150th anniversary of the Albright-Knox! It's a free event at the art gallery starting at 6pm! (Every first Friday of the month is a free M&T First Friday event at the Gallery.
A video will be projected on the entire back side of the art gallery that overlooks Hoyt Lake, in Delaware Park. The video will show a history of the gallery and it's famous collections. There will be two video projections at 7:30 and 8:30pm. This video art will bring movement, color, and life to the old, historic gallery building.
