September/October 2008

Op-Art
with 3rd Grade
Black and white pencil compositions using lines.
Checker board designs are simple patterns of squares alternating between two colors.In this project, students used simple geometry tools to make lines and circular shapes, then defined a pattern within the boundaries of the overlapping shapes using the repetition of only black and white.

September 2008

Lines lines everywhere!
Kindergarten and First Grade artist composed pictures with straight lines.

September 2008

 Welcome, Kindergarten

This is Me!
Kinder Self Portrait project using crayons, pencil and colored pencils.


Welcome back to another fun year of art. Last year the art program involved not only materials, techniques and hands-on projects but also discussions regarding aesthetic and art history. I will continue building on that format this year as we as we explore the 7 elements of art. These are key ingredients used to develop and discuss art. Our spotlight artist for the entire year will be Pablo Picasso. Thanks to an increase in the resident arts budget from the PTG this year every student should receive at least 16 art classes. That means that your child will get 4 art history classes and a minimum of 12 studio work shops. We are fortunate here at David Lubin to have a designated art room, 5-D the room with the Mural outside as our central studio for all of these activities.

That’s just a brief outline of what we will be doing in art this year. If you would like more information about the art program please feel free to contact me at the school (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) or leave a message on the blog.

June 2008

A year in review

May 2008

The David Lubin
Art Museum

May 2008

End of School

self-portrait project

May 2008

Chalk-it-Up

April-May 2008

Art in the community

March-April 2008

Pop Art
After School arts academy

During the six weeks (six classes) this after school class explored the exciting world of Pop art through discussion, observation and hands on activities. Students were introduced to a variety of artist such as Andy Warhol, Claus Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Peter Max, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Wayne Thiebaud (to name a few).

Andy Warhol,
Campbell Soup, 1964

March-April 2008

Kindergarten
After school drawing class

March-April 2008

Overview

March-April 2008

Japonism

or Japonisme, the original French term, which is also used in English, is a term for the influence of the art of Japan on those of the West. The word was first used by Jules Claretie in his book L'Art Francais en 1872 published in that year.Works arising from the direct transfer of principles of Japanese art on Western, especially by French artists, are called japonesque.

Artists who were influenced by Japanese art include Manet, Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Mary Cassatt, Degas, Renoir, James McNeill Whistle (Rose and silver: La princesse du pays de porcelaine, 1863-64), Monet, Vincent van Gogh (left Portrait of Pere Tanguy example of ukiyo-e influence in Western art) Camille Pissarro, Paul Gaugin, and Klimt. Some artists, such as Georges Ferdinand Bigot, even moved to Japan because of their fascination with Japanese art.


There were many characteristics of Japanese art that influenced these artists. In the Japonisme stage, they were more interested in the asymmetry and irregularity of Japanese art. Japanese art consisted of off centered arrangements with no perspective, light with no shadows and vibrant colors on plane surfaces. These elements were in direct contrast to Roman-Greco art and were embraced by 19th century artists, who believed they freed the Western artistic mentality from academic conventions.


Japonism also involved the adoption of Japanese elements or style across all the applied arts, from furniture, textiles, jewellery to graphic design.

March-April 2008

Landscapes and still-lifes

Using watercolors and chalk pastels

students created works of art based on nature.

January-February 2008

Overview

January-February 2008

Over sized Ice Cream Cones
3rd grade

January-February 2008

3-D environmental sculpture

January-February

Claes Oldenburg

"I make my work out of my everyday experiences, which I find as perplexing and extraordinary as can be. "

Corridor Pin, Blue, 1999,
by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

In the mid-1960s Claes Oldenburg began to make drawings of monuments based on common objects, such as a clothespin or a pair of scissors, challenging the notion that public monuments must commemorate historical figures or events. The artist's selection of discredited or obsolete objects extends to those remembered from childhood. As a youngster he enjoyed playing in his father's office with a typewriter eraser. In the late 1960s and 1970s he used the eraser as a source for drawings, prints, sculpture, and even a never-realized monument for New York City.

January-February 2008

Rain Rain go away
3-D paper umbrella
influenced by Claes Oldenburg

Kindergarten

January-February 2008

From a plate to a snake

3-D paper art

First grade project

January-February 2008

The human form as a sculpture

wire and foil

4th grade

January February 2008

3-D Line
from paper to wire
6th grade project

January-February 2008

Three Dimensional Art
5th grade take a line for a walk paper sculptures

November-Decmeber 2007

Surrealism Overview

Surrealism is a style in which fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the artwork logically comprehensible.
Founded by Andre Breton in 1924, it was a primarily European movement which attracted many members of the chaotic Dada movement. It was similar in some respects to the late 19th-century Symbolist movement, but deeply influenced by the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Jung.
The Surrealist circle was made up of many of the great artists of the 20th century, including Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Man Ray, Joan Miro, and Rene Magritte.

November-December 2007

Cookie People
First Grade

November/December 2007

First Grade, Hello Magritte...
Apple in the sky

November/December 2007

Kindergarten
Chagall
collage images

November/December 2007

Vase-Face

November/December 2007

Kinder Kats

November-December 2007 Sixth Grade

My Surreal Room.
Students used drawing and collage to create a "surreal" room.

November-December 2007

Surrealism

3rd Grade Sept-Oct 2007

Batty for Bats

3rd grade students create paper

bats using a pattern. Bats are

decorated with patterns and designs

using construction paper crayons.