With some 7th Grade students who attend the afternoon workshop we made this huge mosaic inspired by the famous Starry Night painted by van Gogh in 1889. This mosaic is made by tiles and colored glass … [Read more...]
Prints inspired by Portuguese Azulejos
June 7, 2018 by 1 Comment
During my last trip to Lisbon I discovered the beauty and the infinite variety of the Azulejos , the traditional ceramic tiles you can find everywhere on the Portoguese architectures. The Azulejo is a … [Read more...]
The color wheel in a big collage
March 6, 2018 by 5 Comments
This group work is simple but really effective. You can create a big color wheel with colored pieces of paper, ripped from magazines and old books. The whole class works to complete all the colors of … [Read more...]
Collaborative project: design a book cover
September 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
In collaboration with literature teachers we have worked on a multidisciplinary project. Students of 7th Grade worked in small groups to create and write a fantasy or crime short story, according to … [Read more...]
Artists Trading Cards 2017 from the world
September 2, 2017 by 2 Comments
Here we are the Artists Trading Cards we received in March 2017 from the global swap. My students were so excited to discover where them were from, which were the schools and the students who create … [Read more...]
An experience of Active Art
May 25, 2017 by 5 Comments
This post is dedicated to the interesting work of the art teacher Giovanni Perdicchia and to his 9th grade students. The classes involved are the 3 B of Presicce-Acquarica Middle School and 3 C of … [Read more...]
Printing Expressionist Houses
May 17, 2017 by 5 Comments
At the beginning of Twentieth Century the art movements of Expressionists in Germany and Fauves in France bring an important news in the field of Modern art: the vision of reality is filtered by the … [Read more...]
The copy as instrument of knowledge
February 23, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Since forever in the history of art, every artist is used to copying the other artists’ work, especially the work of the ancient masters. This practice teaches to us a lot of things about the … [Read more...]
Meeting with the artist: Albino Rossi
November 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Having a meeting with an artist is always a special experience: we are used to appreciating the works of art, but a meeting with an artist makes us able to read his creations in a different way, with … [Read more...]
I-cube: me in numbers
November 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Can we introduce ourselves with numbers? We can do it on the 6 sides of a cube! We called this activity I-cube and we used numbers to explain our hobbies, our special numbers, our relatives and our … [Read more...]
