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...]
The technique of Impressionist painting
January 23, 2011 by 9 Comments
With year 9 pupils we have made copies of paintings by Claude Monet, the great Impressionist painter. We tried to imitate the technique of small brushstrokes put together, spreading pure colors … [Read more...]
The still lifes by Giorgio Morandi
January 19, 2011 by 6 Comments
With pupils of year 8 we studied a great Italian painter of the 1900s, Giorgio Morandi, with his still lifes full of quiet solitude, and with its delicate colors. Starting with a dark background we … [Read more...]
