Showing posts with label cardboard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cardboard. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Monday, December 4, 2017
Colors & Moods Inspired by Mark Rothko
Abstract art by mark rothko for kids from nivaca2
First and second graders learned about Mark Rothko, an abstract expressionist painter. We compared Rothko's "color field" paintings with the landscapes by Wolf Kahn, which we had just studied a couple of weeks ago. Like Kahn, Rothko uses color to capture a feeling or mood of a landscape, rather than focusing on the details of an image.
First and second grade artists created artwork inspired by Mark Rothko. First we used chalk pastel on black paper, with a focus on blending unique colors and capturing a mood. Then we painted many different sizes of cardboard rectangles, which we assembled into colorful collages. Students named their compositions based on the mood that they had captured.
First and second graders learned about Mark Rothko, an abstract expressionist painter. We compared Rothko's "color field" paintings with the landscapes by Wolf Kahn, which we had just studied a couple of weeks ago. Like Kahn, Rothko uses color to capture a feeling or mood of a landscape, rather than focusing on the details of an image.
First and second grade artists created artwork inspired by Mark Rothko. First we used chalk pastel on black paper, with a focus on blending unique colors and capturing a mood. Then we painted many different sizes of cardboard rectangles, which we assembled into colorful collages. Students named their compositions based on the mood that they had captured.
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Paul Klee City Collaborative Mural
First and second graders learned about Paul Klee's painting "Castle and Sun," and created collages inspired by this painting. Click here to see this work! Then we used cardboard scraps to construct this collaborative city mural.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
The Global Cardboard Challenge
The Global Cardboard Challenge is an annual event presented by the Imagination Foundation, which celebrates children’s creativity and the role that communities can play in fostering it. This event was inspired by the short film “Caine’s Arcade,” a story of a young boy’s cardboard creations. This project encourages kids to collaborate, innovate and think outside the box. Click here to learn more about the importance of creativity.
Here's a slideshow of our Waitsfield School Cardboard Challenge!
Here's a slideshow of our Waitsfield School Cardboard Challenge!
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Hundertwasser Architecture Project
Fifth and sixth graders finished their Hundertwasser buildings. They used iPads to take photos of their buildings.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Picasso Face Collages
Picasso Portraits by Grades Three and Four:
Third and fourth grade artists were inspired by Picasso's crazy faces. In the cubist style, Picasso showed multiple views of a face, often showing both a profile and front view in one.
Click here to see how Picasso's portrait painting style developed from this:
to this:
This progression shows that Picasso was a very talented artist who knew the "rules" of art, then chose to "break the rules."
Make your own Picasso Face online at www.mrpicassohead.com
Click here to see some Mr. Picasso Head creations by third and fourth graders
Friday, January 16, 2015
Hundertwasser Architecture
Fifth and sixth grade artists are using cardboard to construct buildings in the style of Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). Click here to see our previous work inspired by Hundertwasser and more examples of his work.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) was an Austrian painter, architect, and sculptor best known for his architecture characterized by colorful, ornamental, and biomorphic shapes. He initially gained acclaim for his paintings, but later became more renowned for his unique architectural styling. In the 1950s, Hundertwasser began designing architectural projects. These designs use irregular forms, and incorporate natural features of the landscape. The Hundertwasserhaus apartment block in Vienna is one famous example. This building has undulating floors, a roof covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows. He took no payment for the design of Hundertwasserhaus, declaring that the investment was worth it to "prevent something ugly from going up in its place".
Hundertwasser was against monotonous architecture, and called for a boycott of architecture with straight lines, and demanded instead creative freedom of building, and the right to create individual structures.
Read more at AmusingPlanet.com
Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Austria
Fifth and sixth graders are using cardboard to make their architectural creations. We watched this video that describes unique ways that cardboard is used for construction.
Here are our in-progress structures:
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