Inspired by the Mexican pottery this "sun" is made from a slab of clay leaned on an upturned plate, then cut and shaped. After preparing a project and then finished the first firing, the sun was … [Read more...]
Experiences of Abstract Art
June 11, 2011 by 1 Comment
Some of you asked me how it was possible going so far away from realistic images to create something quite abstract, without figures or references to the real. We experienced this in the Year 9 with … [Read more...]
Theatre: Truffaldino, an unusual Harlequin
May 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
During the workshops we are creating the costumes and masks for the play of the year. In designing the costume for a Harlequin we thought to inspire the decoration of the fabric to Kandinsky's works. … [Read more...]
Collages inspired by Synthetic Cubism
May 6, 2011 by 5 Comments
Inspired by the works of cubist artists such as Braque, Picasso and Gris, with the classes of the 9th year, we have created these paintings with mixed media. Synthetic cubism is the later phase of … [Read more...]
Surrealist rooms
April 30, 2011 by 6 Comments
The study of perspective in the 8th grade was the starting point for the realization of these rooms surreal. The design of a room in central perspective, performed following all the laws of geometry … [Read more...]
Art reinterpreted: the city of Giotto
April 13, 2011 by 2 Comments
The medieval towns, painted around 1300 with axonometric and aerial perspectives drawn intuitively, have been reinterpreted by the pupils of the year 8, that have colored with felt tip pens in a very … [Read more...]
Prints inspired by the Matisse’s drawings
March 28, 2011 by 1 Comment
The graphic work of Matisse, the highest representative of the "Fauve" French, offers a variety of beautiful designs made with very few stylized lines, to which we were inspired to run these small … [Read more...]
“Expressionist” portraits
March 12, 2011 by 2 Comments
After studying the art of the Expressionists with the Year 9 we drew our pictures changing radically the colors and features ... we understood that is not important to recognize through the … [Read more...]
Keith Haring T-shirts
March 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
With some of the students' 8th year we decorated T-shirts with the colors for the fabric. What better inspiration we could choose, if not the unmistakable graffiti of Keith Haring, with its stylized … [Read more...]
The strength of colors: we interpret Van Gogh and Gauguin
February 11, 2011 by 3 Comments
These two extraordinary artists have made us realize how powerful can be the colors, such feelings can tell, what emotions can be expressed. With students of year 9 we studied the artists of the … [Read more...]
