Sentences in complementary colors
We have created a painting inspired by the works of Paul Klee and Alighiero Boetti using letters of the alphabet as a pretext to create … Read more
Prints inspired by the Matisse’s drawings
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 … Read more
“Expressionist” portraits
After studying the art of the Expressionists with the Year 9 we drew our pictures changing radically the colors and features … we understood that … Read more
The strength of colors: we interpret Van Gogh and Gauguin
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 … Read more
The technique of Impressionist painting
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 … Read more
The still lifes by Giorgio Morandi
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 … Read more
Tribute to Friedrich
We have studied the works of a great artist of the Romantic, Caspar David Friedrich, with students in the 9th grade. They have revised his … Read more
Cèzanne’s still life
From the many paintings by Cézanne dedicated to the “still life” we took some details and copying them with oil pastels, trying to imitate the … Read more