Smart with Art- K-2

Take a look at our finished K-3 Romare Bearden Inspired Collages!

Smart with Art Classes - K-6

Dear Parents,

Mrs. K and I have decided to team teach our Monday classes since we have 20 artists.   Your child will have both of us as teachers each and every Monday.  Class is from 3:40-4:40.   Mrs. K and I will also alternate teaching grades 3-6 on  Fridays.   Please scroll down to see the 3-6 grade amazing Warhol cats.

Today we studied about, African-American Artist, Romare Bearden.  Many art historians consider Bearden to be one of America’s most important and inventive artists of the 20^th Century . Bearden loved collage, combining painting, magazine clippings, old paper and fabric together like a jigsaw puzzle.   Bearden was inspired by music, he loved Jazz.

Students  created their own Bearden-esque collages.    We will have a chance to continue to work on these Friday (for the 3-6 grades) and next Monday (for the K-2 grades).   We will also be beginning a new art lesson.

Here are some of our finished  (K-2) pieces and some of our works in progress.  More pictures to come!

Warhol Cats by 3-6 Graders

2nd Grade Modigliani Self Portraits

2nd Graders learned about the art of Amedeo Modigliani and created portraits with his trademark style of long faces and necks.

Smart With Art K-2

These Kindergarteners - 2nd Graders did an amazing job learning about Andy Warhol and painting these adorable cats in the style of Andy Warhol's Red Sam

Smart with Art students will have their artwork displayed in the hallway.  All artwork will go home with students on the last day of class.

Andy Warhol  (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a big influence in the 'Pop Art' movement.  He began as an illustrator for advertisement companies, which greatly influenced his style as he crossed over to doing fine art.  He is probably most widely known for his Campbell Soup silk screen rendering.  He can be credited for the term “15 minutes of fame” as he used this term in an interview and later a book he wrote.  He is a chart-topper in terms of value of his art; one of his paintings, “Eight Elvis’”, sold for over $100 million dollars.

Pop Art – an art movement of the late 1950s that challenged tradition by showing that common or commercial seen in popular culture can be translated into a “fine art” perspective, blurring the lines between the two.

Cats – early in his career, he created several whimsical drawings of cats and created a book titled, “25 cats named Sam”.  We used his love of cats and his drawings as inspiration for creating a watercolor depiction using his love of color and whimsy to give it a setting and unusual hues.  Each artist used pencil to draw their cat, pick their colors, and provide a background – creating their very own one-of-a-kind masterpiece! 

Kindergarten Artists

Mrs. Huston's class paints pumpkin fields in the style of artist Grant Wood

Mr. Gervais and Mrs. Huston's class created their own Mains Aux Fleur, just like Pablo Picasso

 

Third Grade Picasso MoNsTeRs

Collage monsters inspired by Picasso's Portrait of Dora Maar.

 Did you know that Picasso changed art history by gluing a piece of oilcloth to one of his paintings... creating a collage.... and creating a whole new technique to add to his artworks?