You need just a drawing paper, some colored pencils and watercolors to create this still life in the style of CUBISM. Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in … [Read more...]
The magic of Gustav Klimt
February 16, 2021 by Leave a Comment
With 9th Grade students, we made drawings inspired by the works of Gustav Klimt, the great Viennese artist who best interprets the style of Art Nouveau in the early twentieth century.Observing the … [Read more...]
Collage inspired by Carla Accardi
February 6, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This interesting project was realized by the Italian art teacher Paola Riso and the artist Daniela Paola Motta in the Middle School “Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa” of San Giovanni La Punta in Sicily … [Read more...]
Character inspired by Dubuffet
January 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Thanks to the idea of my colleague Luigi Santibacci, we created these imaginative characters inspired by Jean Dubuffet with 6th Grade students. We observed his sculptures, with their unmistakable … [Read more...]
Collage inspired by Degas with video tutorial
January 9, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Inspired by the famous Degas' Dancers these collages are made with brown package paper and magazine paper. To copy the main lines of the dancer we used a photocopy of a Degas' Dancer and copied it on … [Read more...]
Painting inspired by Monet’s Waterlilies with video tutorial
December 17, 2020 by Leave a Comment
To create this mixed media painting inspired by the famous Monet's Waterlilies we need: a drawing sheet (24x33), a ruler, oil pastels, watercolors, a paintbrush, or a water brush. In the video … [Read more...]
Watercolor landscape inspired by Friedrich with Video Tutorial
December 6, 2020 by 1 Comment
With 8th Grade students we studied the Romanticism and its artists. We noticed as Caspar David Friedrich often paints the silhouette of characters who admire the landscapes in front of them, like the … [Read more...]
Depiction of a portrait: Matisse vs Kirchner
September 7, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Observing the Expressionist artworks of the early 20th century, my students and I compared the French Expressionism of Matisse's Fauvism with the German Expressionism of Kirchner. We looked for … [Read more...]
Final exams 2020
June 25, 2020 by 1 Comment
In this unusual year, with the schools closed for Covid-19, with distance learning, with the desire to feel close despite the obligation of the lockdown, with everything we missed from school, we … [Read more...]
Create a Poster for a Surrealist Exhibition
May 18, 2020 by Leave a Comment
I apologize if the activity is in Italian, but you can still guess what this activity consists of. My 8th-grade students created a poster for a surrealist exhibition, working remotely in groups of … [Read more...]
