Our World in Art: Art workshop led by a native speaker.

Today second graders had pleasure to have an art lesson led by a native speaker of English, Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education at Ryerson University in Canada. They made tissue paper butterflies. Their wonderful pictures are on display in the classroom. Have a look! 

Our World in Art: An Adventure in Art - a workshop in the Abbot's Palace in Oliwa.

The Abbot's Palace in Oliwa contains the Department of Modern Art of the Polish National Museum in Gdansk. It displays permanent exhibitions that include the works by Polish artists from 19th and 20th century. Moreover, the department houses "the promotional gallery". These are some temporary exhibitions that present works of art by young artists. Besides exhibitions there are some workshops organized within the walls of the museum. We had a chance to take part in one of those workshops entitled "An Adevnture in Art". Children were devided into two groups. They all gathered in the concert hall to start their "adventure". Their task was to turn into detectives who keep their eyes on the works of art in order to spot some details. Again they proved to be real detectives who solved all the mysteries in no time. In the end the children were asked to make pictures in groups of four. They used spatulas to put paints on sheets of paper, and create desired effects. Below there are their works of abstract art.

National holidays in May: Labour Day, The Polish Flag Day & the Constitution Day.

Last Monday second graders made the use of their abilities and prepared the exhibition in the hall. They decorated one of the boards in the hall with red and white paper flowers they had made at the lesson time. They made an arrangement with twigs, white and red crepe paper in the background that represents the Polish flag. Some students had plenty of ideas. They even made flowers in plasticine, origami crafts or decided to attach other elements to their flowers (like a special pouch to keep things in). I'm proud of them. 

Our World in Art: Chiaroscuro - the art of using strong contrasts between light and dark.

Chiaroscuro (from the Italian words chiaro, meaning “light,” and scuro, meaning “dark”) refers to the art of using strong contrasts between light and shade in a work of art to define three-dimensional objects. The masters of this technique were the Italians, for example Leonardo da Vinci. However, there are  some evidence that ancient Greek and Roman artists also used chiaroscuro effects. Leonardo da Vinci was an artist who brought the technique to its full potential in the late 15th century. Nowadays the term refers to a wide array of lighting effects. Another technique is called chiaroscuro woodprints. It is used in the graphic arts. In this technique the effects of light and shade are achieved by printing each tone from a different wood block. The key block is inked with the darkest tone and printed first. Chiaroscuro woodcuts are printed in only one color—brown, gray, green, and sepia being preferred. The process attempted to imitate wash and watercolor drawings and also became popular as an inexpensive method of reproducing paintings.

 http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-9319482/chiaroscuro

Second graders have done a great job. They tried to use only three colors: red, white and black. And like Robert Delaunay once said, "but what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.
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